AssetMapping.Events

Sponsor Prospectus · Prepared for GPRS

One City. One Problem.

Below the Line

What's really under your next project, and what it costs not to know.

Every project starts with the same unanswered question: what's already in the ground?

A three-event, problem-led webinar series for U.S. local government. Each session takes one recognizable city problem, from a busted road budget to a water system nobody mapped, and works it through with independent experts. GPRS brings the field expertise at the moment underground knowledge decides the outcome. No customer has to present for any event to happen.

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Isometric cutaway of a downtown street with known and unknown utility lines below the pavement
What we know vs. What's actually there
120,000+
local-government contacts
3
live problem-solving sessions
3
Post-Event Intelligence Reports
1
series-wrap State of Underground Knowledge report
Change orders◆811 gaps◆As-builts◆Utility conflicts◆Fiber builds◆Right-of-way◆ASCE 38◆Feasibility◆Utility coordination◆Retiring staff◆Records that don't match reality◆Private utilities◆Leak detection◆Sewer laterals◆Field verification◆Change orders◆811 gaps◆As-builts◆Utility conflicts◆Fiber builds◆Right-of-way◆ASCE 38◆Feasibility◆Utility coordination◆Retiring staff◆Records that don't match reality◆Private utilities◆Leak detection◆Sewer laterals◆Field verification◆
Presented by GPRSOrganized by ConnectMii EventsHosted on AssetMapping.EventsLive 11:00 AM–12:30 PM Mountain
02The Problem

Cities make above-ground decisions on below-ground guesses.

Budgets, routes, grant estimates and construction schedules are set long before anyone digs. They rest on records that are incomplete, outdated or missing. 811 marks public utilities; private lines on the property side are often nobody's job to find. Drawings drift from the ground. The people who knew where everything is are retiring. The unknowns that survive into construction show up as change orders, delay claims and line strikes.

The less you know early, the more you pay late.

The cost of finding out

Illustrative
Planning
Design
Procurement
Construction

What the 2026 AssetMapping.Events audience told us

AssetMapping.Events live audience poll, 2026

64%
rely on utility owners for records
43%
encounter utility issues in construction
44%
of attendees were local government

Live poll results from one session; multi-select questions do not total 100%.

GPRS

Why GPRS

GPRS puts 500+ SIM-certified Project Managers in every major U.S. market, finds what's actually in the ground with GPR, EM locating, CCTV pipe inspection and leak detection, and hands the agency a GIS-ready map in SiteMap® that it keeps after the crew leaves. The series topic is the decision GPRS already informs: what's really down there before the money is committed.

Field locating designates what's there. Where a project needs a stamped SUE deliverable at a defined ASCE 38 quality level, that's a separate engineering step. The series says so plainly, and that honesty is what makes the audience trust the sponsor.

03The Format

90 Minutes. One Problem. One Decision.

Not three presentations stitched together. A moderated problem-solving session.

  1. 0110 min

    The Problem

    The moderator sets up the city, the project, the budget, and what records exist. “What would you do?”

  2. 0215 min

    The First Response

    Each expert answers one clearly defined question.

  3. 0310 min

    The Complication

    New information lands mid-session.

  4. 0425 min

    Build the Solution

    Sequence, quality levels, cost, risk, schedule. GPRS's field expertise is most relevant here.

  5. 0515 min

    The Audience Decides

    Live polls, including the Signature Poll.

  6. 0615 min

    The Path Forward

    “If this were our city,” with three practical next actions.

Complications:The records are from 1974.The water system isn't in 811.The bid opens in 30 days.There's a midstream gas line nobody mentioned.The utility coordinator retired last month.

Traditional webinar

Customer → Project → Product → Results

Dependent on one customer being willing to participate.

One City. One Problem.

Problem → Experts → Complication → Decision → Technology in context → Path forward

Dependent only on a problem worth solving.

Customer stories don't disappear — they become optional.

15-minute moderated interview
Recorded cameo
One project lesson
Anonymous case evidence
04The Series

Three problems. Twelve weeks. Everything below the line.

One event every six weeks. The sequence moves from project pain to corridor risk to institutional risk.

Excavator stopped beside an exposed unmarked concrete duct bank in a half-built road
Event 01Capital Projects

The Change Order Nobody Budgeted

What would knowing earlier have been worth?

The city problem“A $14M road reconstruction is three weeks into construction when the crew hits a duct bank nobody's drawings showed. The contractor files a delay claim. Council wants to know how this happened.”
  • Where utility unknowns enter the project budget
  • Records research vs. field verification: what each buys you
  • Locating before design, not after the bid
  • Building utility risk into contingency and fee proposals
Who leans in
City Engineers, Capital Program Managers, Public Works Directors, Finance
GPRS role
Pre-design field locating and existing-conditions mapping delivered in SiteMap
Fiber conduit trench along a downtown curb with orange and yellow paint marks
Event 02Right-of-Way

The Fiber Build That Hits Everything

How do you move fast without breaking what's already there?

The city problem“Three providers want to trench fiber through the same downtown corridor this year. Permit volume has tripled. Last month a contractor struck a gas service line.”

Mid-session twist: the strike after-action review.

  • Right-of-way permitting under deployment pressure
  • Where 811 ends: private lines, abandoned lines and what nobody marks
  • Pre-screening permit routes against verified utilities
  • Damage prevention as a shared city–provider responsibility
Who leans in
ROW Managers, Permitting, Public Works, Broadband Program Leads
GPRS role
Corridor locating and private-utility verification ahead of trenching
Veteran field worker handing a worn map binder to a younger colleague with a tablet
Event 03Institutional Knowledge

The Map That Retired

How do you rebuild what's in one person's head?

The city problem“The utility superintendent who could find any valve in town retires in June. Half of what he knows was never written down, water loss is climbing, and nobody can say where the sewer laterals actually run.”
  • Capturing field knowledge before it walks out the door
  • Finding leaks and pipe defects without digging
  • Turning locates, CCTV and leak surveys into a living utility layer
  • Making underground knowledge an asset, not a person
Who leans in
Public Works Directors, Utility Superintendents, Water & Sewer Managers, GIS Managers, City Managers
GPRS role
Leak detection, CCTV pipe inspection and a SiteMap baseline staff can maintain
  1. 1. Budget
  2. 2. Right-of-Way
  3. 3. Knowledge

Moderator & speakers

Moderator

Greg Babinski, GISP

Founder, GIS Management Academy · URISA Past-President · AGS Ethical GEO Fellow

Practitioners

City Engineer (TBC)

SUE / Utility Engineer (TBC) · Utility Coordinator or 811 Center Leader (TBC)

GPRS

GPRS Project Manager

One per event

We recruit expertise around the problem, not logos around a webinar.

05The Signature Poll

“How confident are you in what's under your next project?”

Asked live at every event. Tracked across all three. By series wrap, it becomes the first recurring measure of how much local governments actually know about their underground — and it gives GPRS a standing data point no competitor has.

Very confident

verified in the field

Fairly confident

good records, a few gaps

Unsure

records exist, but we don’t trust them

Not confident

we expect surprises

We don’t know what we don’t know

Underground Confidence Index

Illustrative

A 0–100 index: the weighted average of responses, where 100 means every respondent is “very confident.” Populated live through the series.

by populationby departmentby project phase where issues appearby how records are collected

Asset Mapping Insights · Series-Wrap Report

The State of Underground Knowledge in Local Government

A series-wrap, evidence-led report built from three events of signature-poll data, cross-tabbed by city size and department, alongside independent research and practitioner interviews. Presented by GPRS. Independent in method.

  • Confidence Index trend across the series
  • Where cities first discover utility problems
  • How records are collected today
  • What separates confident agencies from the rest
  • Practical recommendations by city size
06Audience

Built for the people who decide what gets dug.

120,000+
U.S. local-government contacts
~300
target registrations per session
~150
target live attendees
20–30
additional on-demand viewers
8
weeks of promotion per session

Targets based on typical AssetMapping.Events programs; not guaranteed.

Who should attend

  • Public Works Directors & City Engineers
  • Capital Program & Project Managers
  • Utility Directors, Superintendents & Coordinators
  • ROW, Permitting & Planning
  • GIS & IT
  • City/County Managers, Finance & Grants
  • 37% Public Works & Engineering
  • 31% GIS & IT
  • 12% Utilities
  • 7% Planning & ROW
  • 14% Leadership, Finance & Other

Built for the people who sign the change orders, not just the people who map the lines.

07What GPRS Gets

Presence, leads and content that lasts.

Visibility

  • “Presented by GPRS” on all series branding, pages and registration
  • GPRS logo and positioning on all emails and LinkedIn campaigns
  • Recognition at open and close of each session
  • A GPRS Project Manager in all three sessions

Leads & Insight

  • Full opt-in registrant list per session (name, title, organization, jurisdiction)
  • Signature Poll plus live polls co-designed with GPRS
  • Attendance and engagement reporting
  • Full Q&A transcript
  • Registrant data segmented by department and jurisdiction to support SiteMap and service follow-up

Content That Keeps Working

  • Three Post-Event Intelligence Reports
  • The series-wrap State of Underground Knowledge report
  • Branded recordings on AssetMapping.Events
  • Rights to use reports and recordings in GPRS sales and marketing
  • A series hub that stays live and indexed
08Intelligence Report

Every session becomes a lasting Intelligence Report.

Webinars end. Intelligence reports keep working. After each event, the Asset Mapping Insights team turns the recording into an evidence-led, web-published report with the scenario, the expert positions, the decision path, the audience data, every question answered and a practical field guide. It is independent in tone, credible to buyers, and something GPRS can send to any agency.

Crew reviewing a tablet map beside an exposed pipe

Asset Mapping Insights · Post-Event Intelligence Report

The Change Order Nobody Budgeted

Webinar · [Date TBD] · Event 1 of 3

What's inside each report

  1. 01Overview
  2. 02Key Takeaways
  3. 03The Scenario & The Complication
  4. 04Expert Positions
  5. 05The Decision Path
  6. 06Evidence From the Field
  7. 07Field Guide
  8. 08Audience Polls & Signature Poll
  9. 09Full Q&A
  10. 10Glossary, Speakers, Resources
Open the Sample Report
09Timeline

From commitment to series-wrap report.

Dates TBD — proposed series start [Month] 2027.

  1. Week 0

    Commit

    Agreement, kickoff, confirm GPRS Project Managers

  2. Weeks 1–2

    Build

    Scenarios, speaker briefs, landing pages, Signature Poll design

  3. Week 2

    Launch

    Promotion opens 8 weeks ahead of Event 01

  4. Events 01–03

    Live

    Every 6 weeks, 11:00 AM–12:30 PM Mountain

  5. +10 business days per event

    Report

    Post-Event Intelligence Report published

  6. Series wrap

    Series-Wrap Report

    State of Underground Knowledge published, plus consolidated audience and lead summary

10Investment

Presenting Sponsor — Full Series (3 Events)

Sponsorship fee

To be agreed

  • Presented-by branding across the series
  • A GPRS Project Manager in all three events
  • Full opt-in registrant lists and engagement reporting
  • Co-designed polls plus the Signature Poll
  • Three Post-Event Intelligence Reports
  • Series-wrap State of Underground Knowledge report
  • Branded recordings and a permanent series hub
Book a 20-minute Call

Optional add-ons

  • Regional in-person “Below the Line” workshop with a host city, with a live GPRS locating demo
  • Executive roundtable dinner (WGIC Horizons+ format)
  • Safety Tour of America tie-in: a recorded municipal leg featured in the series hub
  • Single-event partner sponsorship (by GPRS approval)
11Why ConnectMii Events

Programming built from the problem out.

Problem-led programming.

We build from the operational problem out. Sponsors show up as practitioners, which is why audiences stay.

A local-government audience at scale.

120,000+ contacts across public works, utilities, engineering, GIS, finance and leadership.

Intelligence, not just webinars.

Every session becomes an evidence-led report under the Asset Mapping Insights brand.

REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS. REAL INTELLIGENCE. REAL IMPACT.