Top 15 Videos from the FME International User Conference 2014

Just in time for summer, videos and slides from the recent FME International User Conference 2014 were posted earlier this week.

But with 81 videos, sorted into 35 tags, totaling over 34 hours of footage – there’s a LOT of content. So where should you start?

Top 15 Videos from the FME UC

To help plan your viewing, here are the top 15 sessions as voted on by conference attendees:

1. Opening Remarks and Reflections on 20 Years — Don Murray and Dale Lutz, Safe Software (More in the Day 1 recap)
2. FME 2015 and Beyond — Don Murray and Dale Lutz, Safe Software (More in the Day 3 recap)
3. Beyond 49x Transformers: Don’t be afraid of (the) Python! — Tino Miegel, con terra
4. Mapping at Scale: Google Maps Engine and FME — Adam Evans, Google (More in the Day 3 recap)
5. Production of a Midscale Road Reference Network with FME — Bruno De Lat, GIM
6. The Last Mile to the Customer – Building Focused Apps Based on FME Server Functionality — Mark Döring, con terra
7. Process Optimisation at the Ordnance Survey Great Britain — David Eagle, 1Spatial
8. Do Your Learnings — Paul Ramsey, Boundless (More in the Day 1 recap)
9. Illuminating the World: Generating Night Scenes with FME – Joanna Hobbins, CAE
10. CAD Data Validation using FME — George Crowe, Colonial Pipeline Company
11. We Interrupt your Regularly Scheduled Broadcast… Real Time Lightning Alerts From The Weather Network — Mark Ireland, Safe Software (presenting on behalf of Pelmorex)
12. Problem Solving and Product Delivery with FME in a Survey / Engineering company — Tim Albert, Focus Corporation
13. Enabling a Campus-wide, Seamless Geodatabase from CAD Drawings — Steve Grise, Vertex3
14. All your BIM are belong to us – Revit and FME for Enterprise Data Management — Greg Schleusner, HOK
15. Managing Data Synchronization Between ArcSDE and PostGIS using FME — Jerrod Stutzman, Devon Energy

Honourable mentions to Tim Downing, Michael Oberdries, Peter Laulund, Christian Heisig, and Dr. Lutz Ross.

What If I’m Only Interested in 1-2 Topics?

Just because you like watching TV, doesn’t mean you enjoy both CSPAN and ESPN. We get that. So, here are two ways to find what you want:

1. Tags: The videos have been sorted into 35 different tags, ranging from Open Data to ArcGIS Online, and yes Don, even to XML.

2. Search: Use the search bar on the main page to search titles.

What’s Your Favourite Moment?

People have been taking to Twitter to share their favourites.

https://twitter.com/amandahstaub/status/481530496531582976

One of the best parts of #FMEUC was when @donatsafe showed his true #xml passion http://t.co/bne58MzBg6

— Guido Stein (He/Him) (@GuidoS) June 26, 2014

This talk aboug spatial technology and body parts was all the rage at the #fmeuc : http://t.co/N8nwMlHTjl

— Avid Geo (@avidgeo) June 26, 2014

My favourite clip from the videos is the same as Guido’s… Don getting escorted out of his own conference.

So pull up a few chairs, call your friends, and let this weekend’s FME UC video marathon begin.

…And be sure to share your favourite moment, either in the comments below or to #FMEUC.