Thanks for sharing this, Jonty. Really looking forward to meeting the GIS community at CCI tomorrow. Everyone at CCI with mapping inclinations should be there or be a Peirce quincuncial projection!

The CCI celebrations of GIS day are off to a great start. Fantastic cupcakes and lots of enthusiastic speed networking! 

CCI International GIS Day recap

GIS Day at CCI was a great success! We kept it short to try and maximise engagement and so that everyone could meet each other. Attendees have been sent a follow-up email, but if you've not received this or you want to know more then please message me for details.

It would be a great mini-legacy and a testament to the event if attendees could post a brief introduction / recap on this thread; just stating your occupation and interests, or anything that you took away from the event. Thanks to the organising committee @jonathanknox.ffi (FFI), @Tomswinfield (RSPB) and Andy Arnell (UNEP-WCMC). And thanks for the photos, @StephODonnell !

I'm a software developer with the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), working on online map-based applications for bird surveys (e.g. BirdTrack). My main focus is the databases (Oracle & Postgres, including spatial features) and preparing the GIS data using ArcGIS or QGIS. Our online applications are key to receiving survey data from a large number of volunteers and displaying the survey results back to the volunteers.

I also act as central contact point within the BTO for queries about GIS.