Esri

It’s almost time for the Esri User Conference, and we’re excited to head back to San Diego for a week of learning, sharing, and connecting with the GIS community. If your work touches data management in any way—designing geodatabases, managing enterprise systems, editing data, supporting offline workflows, troubleshooting performance, or integrating cloud data—there will be plenty of sessions for you to add to your UC agenda.

Lincoln Park in Washington D.C, one of Casey Trees tree planting locations. This year, America is celebrating its 250th anniversary and while many of us will be celebrating with friends and family, others will be celebrating through planting trees. Casey Trees, an urban forestry nonprofit located in Washington, DC, has worked diligently for the past 25 years to make America’s Capital region greener and healthier through planting, caring for, and protecting the area’s trees.

The Esri UC Plenary is known for electric moments when the crowd reacts with collective “wows” while watching jaw-dropping demos on stage that redefine the boundaries of what ArcGIS can do and the challenges that organizations with enterprise geospatial capabilities can solve. Months in the making, the Plenary session is intentionally designed to showcase innovations and spark ideas that attendees can build on after the conference.

Every year, Esri’s Updated Demographics data is refreshed to reflect the latest population changes, helping you to understand the detailed dynamics of communities across the country. In 2026, one significant change to Updated Demographics is a new School Enrollment dataset that shows where students live and how enrollment patterns vary across neighborhoods—from preschool through graduate school.

Engagement Matters: Practitioner Perspectives Conversations about the power of collaborative communities Episode 3 Mike Gaigg, author of the Esri Press book Designing Map Interfaces and the UX/UI Team Lead within Esri Professional Services shares how thoughtful design helps drive easier collaboration and engagement. Engagement takes many forms, so be sure to explore how all of the organizations featured are engaging their communities.

Over the first half of the year, we’ve expanded analysis capabilities across ArcGIS in ways that continue to equip you with the most powerful methods as well as make it easier to apply, automate, and integrate analysis into enterprise workflows.

ArcGIS Blog If you’ve been following along with this series, you already know how ArcGIS Tapestry data can be used to understand community dynamics and demographics – people’s lifestyles, their spending patterns, and household composition. The Target Group Layer output from the Target Marketing workflow can help you prioritize areas to focus your attention based on the predominant ArcGIS Tapestry segment in a given area. But getting to know who your customers are is only half the challenge.

Have you ever been stuck authoring an Arcade expression? Maybe you just can’t figure out where in the script you’ve gone wrong? We’ve all been there. Before you know it, your script is filled with Console() statements and early returns to try and help you troubleshoot what’s happening. Well, we have some news for you. With the recent update of ArcGIS Online, a built-in debugger experience is now available in the Arcade editor to help save you time (and frustration) when authoring Arcade.

The ArcGIS Business Analyst team is excited to see you July 13-17, 2026, at the San Diego Convention Center for the 2026 Esri User Conference. Esri UC is the world’s largest Geographic Information Systems (GIS) conference, connecting GIS professionals and enthusiasts for the opportunity to share learnings, network, and discover the latest in GIS products and solutions.

ArcGIS Indoors enables organizations to build an indoor GIS and makes the power of indoor mapping, space planning, and navigation available to everyone. Key patterns of use include asset management, space management, safety and security, and occupant and visitor experiences.