Registration Open for the 2010 EGUG Conference

Redlands, California — Aug. 11, 2010 — Energy professionals from around the world will gather this October at the Electric & Gas User Group ( EGUG) Conference, hosted by Esri. Attendees will glean new ideas, share proven solutions, and learn more about reliable applications of geographic information system (GIS) technology from Esri. This year's event will delve into solutions for the current challenges facing electric and gas utilities including smart grid, distribution integrity management, cloud computing, renewable energy, and economic development.

The 2010 EGUG Conference will be held October 17–20 at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn, Michigan.

In conference sessions, individual utilities and Esri business partners will present personal success stories related to

• Regulatory requirements and compliance
• GIS in the field
• Leading applications of GIS
• GIS in this time of economic challenges
• Safety and reliability

Technical workshops to be presented at the EGUG Conference will include System Architecture and Productivity Tools for ArcGIS 9.3.1 and ArcGIS 10.

Visit www.esri.com/egugconference.

About Esri

Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, Esri software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at www.esri.com/news.



Contact:

Jessica Wyland,
Esri
Tel.: 909-793-2853, extension 1-3345
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