Save The Date! This October (13-15th), WLIA is heading to Madison for the 2025 Fall Conference. Stay tuned to the Events Page as details will be posted as they become available. We hope to see you at the 2025 Fall Conference at The Park Hotel! Rooms are available - Book Now! Events Page Continue Reading
Fall Regional
News and Updates related to the Fall Regional Conference
Thank you to everyone who attended the 2025 WLIA Spring Conference! It was a great success and it wouldn’t have been possible without all of our attendees, speakers, and volunteers. We had a total of 109 attendees over the course of three days, with over 20 educational sessions. We had just... Continue Reading
The 2024 Fall Regional Meeting is next week! There is set to be some great speakers, presentations, and some amazing social events to catch up with your peers. Head on over to the event page or click on the button below to view the full agenda and if you haven't registered yet, there is still... Continue Reading
As the Fall Regional Meeting approaches, we continue to bring you speaker highlights. Here, we introduce the potential speakers at the panel discussion for A Glimpse into the “Un-glaciated” Land Info Experience. Monique Hassman - Vernon County Nathan Machula - Buffalo... Continue Reading
Municipal GIS practitioners, this one's for you. We hope you are attending the WLIA Fall Regional in La Crosse to see Tyler DeBruin present. Discover how the Town of Grand Chute is utilizing ESRI’s Lead Service Line Inventory Solution to conduct a water line utility inventory and monitor... Continue Reading
Join Presenters: Zach Hassler (WI DMA OEC) and Jessica Frye & Rebecca Nordine (GeoComm) to learn more about the current state of GIS for NG911 in Wisconsin. This session will focus on the progress being made in the Wisconsin Next Generation 911 project on the GIS front, the services... Continue Reading
Please join presenters Monique Hassman, Samer Karbush and Amy Oliver, all of Vernon County, to learnabout Vernon County's experience with FEMA Grants. While Vernon County has a long history of extensive flooding along the Mississippi, and other smaller rivers that traverse low-lying areas of the... Continue Reading
Join Mike Rupiper and Janet Silbernagel for a riveting presentation on how the people and landscape of the Black Earth Creek area handle flooding and the associated issues. Janet Silbernagel (MS, PhD Landscape Ecology – Forest Science, Michigan Technological University; BS Landscape... Continue Reading
Organic Valley, based in La Farge, WI, uses GIS across the organization to provide insights and solve problems. They will present their pioneering work in remote sensing and pasture management, as well as how they integrate GIS into daily processes. Philip Marty, the GIS System Administrator,... Continue Reading
Join Kelly Jacobs, from CORRE, Inc., at the WLIA Fall Regional to learn more about her work in the Driftless Area. Every day we plan to use our available resources to accomplish project goals. Just like the Driftless Area, it seems that every project is unique and every one of those available... Continue Reading
Launched in 2023, the Wisconsin Outdoor Recreation Inventory is a visionary project to create a robust, publicly accessible catalog of outdoor recreation sites and activities across the state. Historically, a single inventory of outdoor recreation offerings did not exist. Limited maps and data... Continue Reading
WLIA is proud to present Marcy West, as one of our Keynote Speakers at the Fall Regional Meeting, In La Crosse, this October! Marcy served as the Executive Director for the Kickapoo Reserve Management Board (KRMB) in the formative years of 1996-2021. The writing of "Protecting Paradise in... Continue Reading