It’s summertime in Seattle, and you know what that means—interns! The LizardTech team is thrilled to welcome Mika to the marketing team. In the month that she’s been here, she’s done a great job helping out with press kits, organizing our GIS literature, and all in all making our lives just a little bit easier.

Mika is a third-year at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. She’s studying economics and has a special interest in international marketing. She hopes to one day work for an industrial firm that helps provide infrastructure to developing countries.

If that’s not cool enough, Mika has a hobby that puts all of mine to shame. She’s a scuba diver! We’ll have to convince her to scout out the Puget Sound for us and report back.

Welcome to the team Mika!

Hello again San Diego! LizardTech returns to the Esri User Conference this year carrying precious cargo. We’ll be offering a sneak peek at the latest, shiniest version of our image compression and manipulation software, GeoExpress. Now in version 9, GeoExpress offers a serious speed boost and a much simpler workflow.

A Sneak-Peek at GeoExpress 9

Some of the benefits of GeoExpress 9 include the following:

• Speed. GeoExpress is four times faster than before with support for distributing multiple jobs across multiple cores.
• Intelligent Encoding. GeoExpress automatically uses its update and optimization features whenever possible for optimal performance.
• Simple User Interface. You can work with all of your images in the same, simple job list regardless of the image compression or manipulation tasks that you want to perform.
• Secret stuff. That’s right. You’ll have to meet us at Esri to get the full scoop.

If you’re attending the Esri User Conference, swing by booth 1704 for a slick demo. Alternatively, attend the following presentation by our very own director of product management, Jon Skiffington:

What’s New with MrSID and GeoExpress

Wednesday, July 10 at 1:30 p.m.

Imagery Island Exhibit Hall C

Can’t make it to the conference? Don’t feel too broken up about it. You can see the full product description here.

Feeling adventurous? Install the trial version of GeoExpress 9 today!