Monday, November 13: Innovation and Engaging Audiences
1-2pm Cultivating a Culture of Continuous Innovation – Dan Domagala
2-4pm Online Content Creation Made Easy: Three Free Tools to Try – Analisa Burke
Democratizing Environmental Education through Digital Engagement – Kate Reilly
Save the Earth with Your Smart Phone: A Look at Community Science Phone Apps – Erin Mills
The Armchair Botanist Program: An Online Community Science Project to Capture Plant Diversity Information from Historic Museum Specimens – Tiana Rehman
4-5pm Show-and-Tell
Tuesday, November 14
1-4pm – Everything GIS
Our Garden’s Journey to GIS – Laurel Hill
How to Map Irrigation Requests using GIS – Aryn Musgrave, Michael Flores, John Lucotch
Cultivating Excellence: Innovations in Botanical Garden Management through GIS Integration – Katie Chiu
Integrating Plant Collections with GIS and Maps for Public Engagement – Chris Gabris
Ask Me Anything – All panelists
4-5pm – Technology Enabling Collections and Research
Sonic Tomography for Tree Risk Assessment – Manny Nassar
Ecoregions: Why They Matter and How We Find Them – Alyssa Tseng
Visualizing Living Collections – An Example from the Fort Worth Botanic Garden – Jason Best
Wednesday, November 15
1-3pm Collaboration, Buy-in, Workflow, and other Lessons Learned from Tech Implementation
Tips and Tricks for Working Across Departments to Choose and Implement a New Software – Katie Sharrard
Digital Asset Management System Selection and Implementation at Denver Botanic Gardens – Rick Levy
Lessons Learned from Launching Digital Membership Card Program – Sarah Glas
Helpdesk – The Engine of a Botanical Garden – Georgine Muc
3-4pm Perspectives on Plant Records Databases
Transforming Plant Record Systems From Annoying Task to Useful Tool – Jess Brey, Steve Conaway
Moving Mountains (of Data): How to Migrate Your Plant Records – Jessica Wong
4-5pm Public Gardens of the Future: A Technology Forecast – Carissa Dougherty, Jason Best
