Featured Speaker
Frank Winters

We are pleased to welcome plenary speaker Frank Winters!
Author of 10 Little Rules for Sharing Your Story, Frank Winters is committed to helping people and organizations communicate more effectively. As owner of WintersGeo Inc, he conducts public speaking workshops, presentation coaching, and provides geospatial consulting.
Frank has an MS in Geography from the University of Idaho and has been a geospatial professional for 35 years, finishing his time with New York state as the Geographic Information Officer in 2022. He served as the Executive Director of the New York State Geospatial Advisory Council (2014–2022), and Chair of the National Pandemic GIS Task Force Chair (2020–2023) as well as President of the National States Geographic Information Council (2020–2021), and continues to be active on several workgroups and committees. Frank serves on the Board of Directors of the National Geospatial Collaborative and won a State Scoop Magazine 2021 IT Leader of the Year Award.
Frank coaches a youth mountain bike race team, teaches wilderness guiding, and serves on national committees for Scouting creating policies and curriculum for wilderness travel, skiing, and mountain biking.