2025 has been an exciting and impactful year for the GeoMarvel team! Today, we’re proud to share our Year in Review, highlighting the projects we delivered, events we participated in, and the key milestones and achievements that defined our year.
The GeoMarvel Summit 2025, held in February in Alexandria, Virginia, brought the team together for our annual internal conference focused on alignment, collaboration, and continued growth. The event featured a balanced mix of organizational and technical sessions, with team-led presentations designed to strengthen shared practices, expand technical expertise, and reinforce priorities for the year ahead.
The Summit concluded with a memorable team outing aboard the Capital Elite yacht, provided by City Cruises Washington, DC, where the team enjoyed a karaoke cruise along the Potomac River. The experience offered a fun and relaxed way to celebrate our people, strengthen connections, and wrap up an energizing and impactful Summit.
GeoMarvel attended the 2025 Esri Southeast User Conference in Atlanta, where GIS professionals from across the region came together to share ideas, technical expertise, and real-world applications of Esri technology. The event provided a strong forum for learning, with sessions highlighting innovative uses of ArcGIS to address challenges across public and private sectors.
Our team valued the opportunity to connect with Esri staff, partners, and peers, exchange insights, and engage in conversations around emerging geospatial trends and best practices. The conference reinforced the strength of the Southeast GIS community and the importance of collaboration, professional development, and practical, impact-driven spatial solutions.
GeoMarvel was honored to attend Esri’s 45th User Conference in San Diego, where our team actively contributed to the week’s conversations around integration, cloud infrastructure, and the future of GIS. GeoMarvel CEO Jon Nordling delivered a Partner Lightning Talk introducing Spatial.Host, followed by a full Partner Presentation detailing the platform’s features and roadmap for modernizing geospatial deployments. GeoMarvel also partnered with NatureServe during the Nonprofit & Business Forum: Biodiversity Data Insights, supporting a live demo of the InSite Application, a new biodiversity reporting product developed with GeoMarvel, and helping facilitate discussion around emerging spatial data needs for conservation and business use cases.
Beyond the conference sessions, GeoMarvel hosted its first-ever Esri UC Pickleball Social at The Hub – San Diego, bringing attendees together for friendly competition, food, drinks, and offsite networking. The event capped off an impactful week of learning, collaboration, and connection, reinforcing GeoMarvel’s commitment to supporting the geospatial community through innovative solutions, strong partnerships, and a little fun along the way.
GeoMarvel attended the 35th Annual Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference in Duluth, Minnesota as a Bronze Sponsor, where GIS and LIS professionals from across the state gathered to explore emerging technologies and best practices in geospatial innovation. GeoMarvel was represented by CEO Jon Nordling and Associate Director of Services Carolyn Gamble, who led a featured session focused on the evolving needs of modern Enterprise GIS environments.
Our presentation, “Modernizing Enterprise GIS in the Cloud: Patterns, Practices, and Real-World Lessons,” examined the shift from on-premise systems to cloud-based GIS architectures. Through practical examples and real-world case studies, they highlighted common modernization challenges, demonstrated the benefits of cloud adoption, and shared how organizations are using Spatial.Host to streamline deployments, improve performance, and reduce operational overhead. Attendees left with actionable insights to support cloud migration and long-term GIS strategy.
GeoMarvel attended the 2025 Regional Business Community User Meetup in Minneapolis, a community-focused event for Esri Business customers in the commercial space. The meetup provided a great opportunity to connect with peers and discuss how location intelligence is driving real-world business decisions.
Our Associate Director of Services, Carolyn Gamble, presented on select GeoMarvel business partnerships, including work with HEB and SCI. We also shared insights on Spatial.Host, discussing how it supports modern, scalable GIS deployments for commercial organizations.
GeoMarvel was pleased to attend MGT’s Professional Development Week at their Riverside office, joining the Facility and GIS teams for a focused week of learning, collaboration, and professional growth. The event underscored MGT’s strong commitment to investing in their people and building the skills that drive effective, client-centered outcomes.
We valued the opportunity to collaborate with MGT and Esri through engaging discussions and hands-on sessions, sharing practical insights around GIS and facility management. The week reinforced the importance of strong partnerships, continuous learning, and innovation in supporting meaningful client engagement and long-term success.
GeoMarvel’s Jon Nordling and Ryan McGrath traveled to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to meet with our new Esri Partner Manager, Justin Collins. The day began with a look back at GeoMarvel’s journey and the many successful collaborations we’ve shared with Esri over the past decade. From there, the conversation turned toward the future, focusing on opportunities for continued growth together. We also met with the Small Business Account Team to develop clear talking points around positioning and bundling our collective offerings. As GeoMarvel continues to evolve, we’re grateful for the ongoing partnership and support from the Esri team in helping drive our growth.
GeoMarvel’s Nonprofit Program supports mission-driven organizations by providing discounted services and annual professional service grants to help nonprofits leverage GIS, custom applications, and cloud infrastructure for greater impact. In 2025, GeoMarvel awarded up to 250 professional service credits, supporting projects that advance data-informed decision-making, scalable digital tools, and long-term sustainability. As an Esri Nonprofit Specialty Partner, GeoMarvel brings deep technical expertise and a mission-aligned approach to nonprofits across conservation, education, health, and community-focused sectors.
This year’s awardees include Georgia River Network and NatureServe. Georgia River Network used its grant to enhance the Georgia River Guide app, delivering real-time river data, improved trip planning, incident reporting, and stronger infrastructure to promote water safety and stewardship statewide. NatureServe applied its award to the development of the InSite Biodiversity Tool, a scalable platform that integrates ArcGIS, automated workflows, and biodiversity analytics to support land managers and conservationists with actionable insights for protecting natural resources.
GeoMarvel and Fulcrum announced a strategic partnership to deliver more powerful, scalable, and efficient geospatial field operations. By combining Fulcrum’s field-first data collection platform with GeoMarvel’s geospatial expertise and Spatial.Host cloud hosting solution, organizations can seamlessly capture, manage, and analyze real-time field data within robust GIS environments. The integration enables faster deployments, improved data quality, and reliable access to critical geospatial applications.
Built on a shared commitment to client success, the partnership empowers teams across industries to streamline field workflows, enhance decision-making, and scale their GIS capabilities with confidence. Together, GeoMarvel and Fulcrum are unlocking turnkey, end-to-end solutions that connect field operations with enterprise GIS—helping organizations move smarter and faster with their data.
GeoMarvel proudly celebrated its 10-year anniversary, marking a decade of collaboration, innovation, and impact within the geospatial community. We extend our sincere thanks to our clients, partners, and team members whose trust and dedication made this milestone possible as we look ahead to the next chapter of geospatial excellence.
GeoMarvel is proud to support the next generation of STEM leaders by sponsoring three FIRST Tech Challenge teams—The Rogue Cats, The Devil Dogs, and The Phantom Hounds—through 3D Robotics Duluth as part of our Supercharged Visionary–level support. All three teams competed and qualified for State in November, showcasing their talent, teamwork, and innovation.
Through partnerships like this, GeoMarvel is committed to giving back and helping create meaningful pathways into STEM careers. Supporting organizations such as 3D Robotics Duluth empowers students with hands-on experience, confidence, and real-world problem-solving skills that will shape the future of engineering and technology.
GeoMarvel released a video and article walkthrough introducing Spatial.Host, our fully managed geospatial hosting and deployment platform built for secure, scalable, and high-performance GIS environments. The walkthrough provides a clear, step-by-step guide showing how users can quickly provision and manage geospatial applications, databases, and virtual workstations—demonstrating how ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 can be deployed within Spatial.Host in as little as 20 minutes.
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