Version 0.16 July 17, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Beyond the API: Why AI-Era Data Integration Needs Open Standards, Not Just Open Data” by Hal Seki
• “Bringing GIS Data into Digital Twins with 3D Tiles 2.0” by Gen Kukita, Amanda Morgan
• “From Japan Forestry Technology Association: miscellaneous notes on nationwide forest open data.” by Hiroshi SASAKAWA
• “The Great Retooling” by Sajjad Anwar
• “Memory, Technology, and Peace — Rebooting Memories and Geospatial Technology” by Hidenori Watanve
• “3D Digital Twins for Temporary Roads: Leveraging CesiumJS and LandXML on WebGIS” by Shun Murakami
• “From Satellite Data to Actionable Geospatial Applications: Building ArkEdge Insights with Open Source Technologies” by Ryo Suzumoto
• “pipGIS: Cloud‑native Web GIS Platform for Municipal Workflows” by PiP
• “How GeoSolutions supports GeoServer, GeoNode and MapStore” by Andrea Aime, Simone Giannecchini
• “Valuable Data, Open Tools: GeoTechnologies and the Future with FOSS4G” by taiki watanabe
• “Applied Technology Co., Ltd.: An Innovation Company Transforming Challenges into Value” by Kunihiko Hirosawa
• “The Challenge of Resolving Social Issues through the Integration of Real-World Geospatial Data with AI” by Hiroshi Kanasugi
• “Auspatious: A Cloud Native Geospatial Consultancy” by Alex Leith
• “Building Digital Twins with Open-Source mago3DTiler & mago3DTerrainer” by Noh Jaehyuk

We have moved a session around: “Orbitalnet : Enabling Geospatial Intelligence Architecture” by Yuji Kobayashi (Sept. 3, 2026, 11 a.m. → Sept. 3, 2026, 1 p.m.)

Version 0.15 July 14, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

Version 0.14 July 14, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Turning Statistics into Maps with UNICEF’s Open Source Geospatial Solutions” by Jan Burdziej
• “From Open Source to Real-World Impact: Building Sustainable Geospatial Solutions with Maplat” by KOHEI OTSUKA
• “Orbitalnet : Enabling Geospatial Intelligence Architecture” by Yuji Kobayashi

Version 0.13 July 10, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Poster and Demonstration Presentations”
• “High School Student Poster Presentation”
• “Hiring Session”
• “B2B Session”

Version 0.12 July 10, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “The Elements of MIERUNE — Cloud-Native Engineering Meets Open Source Geospatial” by Kanahiro Iguchi.

Version 0.11 July 9, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

• “Leveraging Geospatial Big Data for Smart City Digital Twins: A Framework for 3D Modeling and Solar Energy Assessment” by Muhammed Yahya BIYIK, Muhammed Oguzhan Mete
• “Open-Source Geospatial Workflow for Hydro-Morphological Vulnerability Modelling in Low-Lying Deltaic Systems: Application to the Core Niger Delta, Nigeria” by Dr.Victor N.Sunday

Version 0.10 July 9, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Mapping invasive canopy-smothering vines in the tropical Pacific using SAR and open-source geospatial tools” by Iosefa Percival
• “EIA Scoping Tool and Collaborative Authoring and Review System” by Choi Yeon Ho
• “Open-Source Geospatial Workflow for Hydro-Morphological Vulnerability Modelling in Low-Lying Deltaic Systems: Application to the Core Niger Delta, Nigeria” by Dr.Victor N.Sunday
• “Leveraging Geospatial Big Data for Smart City Digital Twins: A Framework for 3D Modeling and Solar Energy Assessment” by Muhammed Yahya BIYIK, Muhammed Oguzhan Mete

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Text2Transit: From SNS posts to Timetable Aware Multi-stop Train Itineraries with Open Geospatial Tools” by Takuya Kurihana

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Geospatial Data Gateway : Composing Spatial Features Across Databases and APIs” by Athitaya Phankhan (Sept. 2, 2026, 11:30 a.m., Room5 → Sept. 2, 2026, 11 a.m., Himawari)
• “Current status and challenges of FOSS4G's Japanese localization” by Yoichi Kayama (Sept. 1, 2026, 4:30 p.m., Room4 → Sept. 2, 2026, 4 p.m., Room6)
• “Building an AI Map Agent with Self-Hosted Planet-Scale OSM and Tiny LLMs” by Yui Matsumura (Sept. 2, 2026, 11:30 a.m., Room1 → Sept. 2, 2026, 4:30 p.m., Himawari)
• “Every building on Earth” by Danijel Schorlemmer (Room4 → Room2)
• “Bridging the Language Gap: How the QGIS Brazil Community Drives Open Source Adoption in the Global South.” by Narcélio de Sá (Sept. 1, 2026, 4:15 p.m. → Sept. 1, 2026, 1:35 p.m.)
• “Detecting Quarry Pond Remnants on a Japanese Island Heritage Site Using Sentinel-2 Imagery and Open-Source Remote Sensing Tools” by Noboru Otsuka (Sept. 2, 2026, 11 a.m., Room4 → Sept. 2, 2026, 1:30 p.m., Himawari)
• “A Practical Workflow for Reusing Proprietary Stormwater Model Data in Open-Source GIS Using CSV and SWMM Formats with Giswater” by Albert Bofill, Yoshihiro Shibuo (Sept. 2, 2026, 1:30 p.m., Dahlia2 → Sept. 1, 2026, 1 p.m., Room6)
• “Applying OSS “Ouranos GEX”: Lessons from PoC and the Path to Java-Based Development” by Nan Si (Room2 → Room1)
• “Standardizing Geospatial Time Series Access with OGC API EDR and RDF Linked Data Standards” by Benjamin Webb, Colton Loftus (Room5 → Room2)
• “Automated Slope Estimation of Retaining Walls Using Drone Photogrammetry Point Clouds” by hyeonjeong Jo (Sept. 2, 2026, 2:20 p.m. → Sept. 2, 2026, 2:05 p.m.)
• “Building the GDAL Sponsorship Program” by Howard Butler (Himawari → Room6)
• “State of DGGAL (Discrete Global Grid Abstraction Library)” by Jerome St-Louis (Dahlia1 → Room4)
• “DigiAgriApp, 2026 updates” by Luca Delucchi (Dahlia2 → Ran1)
• “GIS-Based Walking Map Isochrones in Measuring Transit Catchment: A Spatial Approach to Urban Accessibility” by Maisarah (Sept. 1, 2026, 4 p.m., Room6 → Sept. 1, 2026, 4:30 p.m., Cosmos2)
• “Maintaining a small research tool: Experiences from the R package seg” by Seong-Yun Hong (Sept. 1, 2026, 4:10 p.m. → Sept. 1, 2026, 2:35 p.m.)
• “Designing a Scalable Open-Source Workflow for Water Network Field Validation: Lessons from Costa Rica” by Albert Bofill (Sept. 1, 2026, 1 p.m., Room6 → Sept. 2, 2026, 1:30 p.m., Dahlia2)
• “QGIS in Your Language” by Keita UEMORI (Sept. 1, 2026, 4:30 p.m., Dahlia2 → Sept. 2, 2026, 5 p.m., Room6)
• “spCF: an R package for coarse-to-fine spatial modeling” by Daisuke Murakami (Sept. 2, 2026, 11 a.m., Room6 → Sept. 2, 2026, 2 p.m., Room5)
• “Testing PLATEAU Pipelines in Re:Earth Flow When Topology Doesn't Survive” by Taosheng Qiu (Sept. 1, 2026, 4 p.m. → Sept. 1, 2026, 2:45 p.m.)
• “A Japanese Company’s Journey in Building the QGIS Community” by Toshiya Kunou (Sept. 1, 2026, 5 p.m., Dahlia2 → Sept. 2, 2026, 3:30 p.m., Room4)
• “Introduction to Point Tiler: A tool for converting large-scale point cloud data into 3D Tiles and its implementation methods” by Satoru Nishio (Sept. 2, 2026, 11:30 a.m., Room3 → Sept. 2, 2026, 4 p.m., Himawari)
• “Women in Open Source Volunteering: From Starting Out to Making a Real Difference” by Dibikshya Shrestha (Sept. 1, 2026, 4:05 p.m. → Sept. 1, 2026, 2:50 p.m.)
• “QGIS "Ask me Anything" session” by Marco Bernasocchi (Sept. 1, 2026, 5:30 p.m., Dahlia2 → Sept. 2, 2026, 5:30 p.m., Room6)
• “State of GeoNode” by Stefano Bovio, Mattia Giupponi (Dahlia1 → Room6)
• “State of libCartoSym / libCSCQL2 / libDE9IM” by Jerome St-Louis (Himawari → Room4)
• “MapConductor: An Interoperability Layer for Mobile Map SDKs” by Masashi Katsumata (Sept. 2, 2026, 11 a.m., Room2 → Sept. 2, 2026, 1:30 p.m., Room3)
• “Mapping Peace: A GIS-Based Storytelling Platform for Global Peace Education from Hiroshima” by Hiroshima Funairi High School (Sept. 2, 2026, 4:30 p.m., Room4 → Sept. 2, 2026, 5 p.m., Phoenix Hall)
• “Developing a QGIS Plugin for Urban Structure Evaluation” by Satoshi Kitashima (Sept. 3, 2026, 11 a.m., Ran1 → Sept. 2, 2026, 1 p.m., Phoenix Hall)
• “Bridging the Geospatial Data Gap in Africa with QGIS and OpenStreetMap” by Ruvimbo Doreen Supiya (Room2 → Ran2)
• “Serverless Watershed Extraction: Benchmarking Zarr vs COG for Large-Scale Flow Direction Data” by Shinsuke Nakamori (Sept. 3, 2026, 1 p.m., Room6 → Sept. 3, 2026, 2:30 p.m., Room1)
• “Capturing park-use behavior patterns using volunteered street view imagery: Does the likelihood increase with the volume of contributions?” by Xinrui Zheng (Sept. 1, 2026, 4:30 p.m., Room6 → Sept. 1, 2026, 5 p.m., Cosmos1)
• “Hearing the Map: Spatial Audio as a New Dimension in Web GIS” by Tomoaki Hoshino (Sept. 1, 2026, 2:50 p.m. → Sept. 2, 2026, 1 p.m.)
• “How Does Walkability for Elderly People Differ between Hilly and Flat Urban Areas? A Case Study of Shin-Yurigaoka Station and Nagareyama-Otakanomori Station” by Hinako Terado (Sept. 1, 2026, 3:30 p.m., Room6 → Sept. 1, 2026, 4:30 p.m., Cosmos1)
• “Iwfgara: Visualizing Numerical Weather Prediction Data in an Open Source Web-based 3D GIS” by Noh Jaehyuk (Sept. 2, 2026, 2:05 p.m. → Sept. 2, 2026, 2 p.m.)
• “Less to Think About: Bridging the Usability Gap in Geospatial Platforms” by Siraya (Sept. 3, 2026, 1:30 p.m., Room6 → Sept. 3, 2026, 2:30 p.m., Room2)
• “High School Students' Journey with Re:Earth: Initiatives for Peace and Education” by Michi Okada, masahiro torii (Room3 → Phoenix Hall)
• “Geoconnex: Standardizing Water Data in the United States through a Unified Graph Database” by Benjamin Webb, Colton Loftus (Room6 → Room1)
• “Application of SUMO in Simulation of Optimized Traffic Light Timing derived using Artificial Neural Network and GIS” by Nabilah Naharudin (Room6 → Cosmos2)
• “The #1 plugin for QGIS” by Maxim Dubinin (Himawari → Room6)
• “What Could Possibly Go Wrong? A Practical Security Review of Popular Open-Source GIS Libraries” by Jared Marcotte, Robert Cheetham (Room3 → Ran1)
• “We still need Raster tiles... then, chiitiler!” by Kanahiro Iguchi (Sept. 1, 2026, 4 p.m., Dahlia1 → Sept. 2, 2026, 3:30 p.m., Room6)
• “State of GRASS” by Alen Mangafić (Dahlia1 → Room6)
• “Tool Selection for Detailed Accessibility Analysis Using GTFS Data: The Case of the Yamagata Urban Area” by Shota Yamamoto (Room6 → Cosmos1)
• “Beyond Metadata Search: STAC, Vector Embeddings, and GeoAI” by Matthew Hanson (Sept. 2, 2026, 11:30 a.m., Room6 → Sept. 2, 2026, 11 a.m., Room1)
• “Digital Transformation in Railway Infrastructure” by Nguyen Van Thien, Hirofumi Hayashi, Tatsuya Naka, Yayoi Oda, Tomohiro SHIMIZU (Sept. 3, 2026, 2 p.m., Room6 → Sept. 3, 2026, 3 p.m., Room2)
• “Architecture design and API development for geospatial backend in Large-Scale forest and land monitoring platforms” by Thana Wannasang (Room6 → Ran1)
• “The Paradox of Convenience: Decoding the Hidden Risks of OGC API and Architecting for Sustainable Control” by Nuttawoot Rungsirirak (Room6 → Ran1)
• “Caring for a Living Park: An Open-Source Geospatial System Inspired by Field Experience (Cerro Kavaju, Paraguay)” by Atahualpa Ayala Gómez (Room1 → Ran1)
• “Re:Earth: Empowering Non-Experts with Open Source WebGIS — Case Studies from Educational Settings” by Arisa Mikumo (Sept. 1, 2026, 5 p.m., Room4 → Sept. 2, 2026, 5:30 p.m., Room3)

Version 0.9 July 8, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

Version 0.8 July 8, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Sustaining Open Source: What We Can Learn from the Cooperative Model” by Hal Seki.

We sadly had to cancel a session: “EIA Scoping Tool and Collaborative Authoring and Review System” by Choi Yeon Ho

Version 0.7 July 7, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Integrating Machine Learning with Open-Source GIS for Reproducible High-Resolution Terrain Classification and Hazard Mapping from UAV LiDAR Data” by Nikola Kranjčić
• “Machine Learning for Terrain Traversability Mapping: Accuracy, Uncertainty, and Data Limitations” by Marek Wyszyński, Krzysztof Pokonieczny
• “Between Sacred Tradition and Urban Form: An OpenStreetMap-Based Analysis of Church Orientation Patterns in Milan” by Hinako Terado, Taichi Furuhashi
• “Implementation and evaluation of geography education using QGIS for Japanese high school students” by Hiroyuki Yamauchi
• “Making OGC IndoorGML 2.0 Web-Ready: API – IndoorFeatures with IndoorJSON” by Dong Gwon, Seongmin Choi
• “FloodA5: An Open-Source Framework for Flood Modelling on an Equal-Area Pentagonal DGGS” by Matthew Wilson
• “MUSUBOU-AR: An Open-Source Geospatial AR Framework for Integrating Public GIS Data, Field Authoring, and Disaster Walking Tours” by Daisuke Yoshida
• “Global contributors, local maps: the story of OpenStreetMap in a small town” by Sterling Quinn
• “From Raw ADS-B Signals to Reproducible Flight Trajectories: An Open Geospatial Workflow for Narita Airport” by Junta Tagusari
• “An open-source GeoAI workflow for mapping historic agricultural terraces” by Filippo Brandolini
• “A Pipeline for Low-Cost Wide-Area 3D Mapping Using LiDAR-Equipped Mobile Devices and Open Data” by Ryosei Ueda
• “Eliminating Temporal Misalignment in SAR Flood Detection with a ConvLSTM-Siamese Approach Using Sentinel-1 Time Series” by 中嶋達也, Narumasa Tsutsumida
• “Comparing uncertainty quantification methods for Random Forest-based digital soil mapping” by Liina Hints
• “Extending GeoNode as a Foundation for Research Data Management Infrastructures in Agricultural Research” by Marcel Wallschläger, Igo Silva de Almeida
• “Towards an open registry of Earth observation instruments” by David Montero Loaiza
• “Open-Source Spatiotemporal Traffic Congestion Analysis at City Scale: A Reproducible Python Pipeline Combining PySAL, OSMnx, and Multilevel Modeling” by Firman Hadi, Fauzan Abdullah
• “Shared Landscapes, Shared Futures: Visual Landscape Evolution Modelling for Community Stewardship” by Vinuri Piyathilake
• “Development of an open-source analytical Digital Twin framework for environmental modelling and management” by Luke Parkinson, Matthew Wilson
• “GIS-Based Walking Map Isochrones in Measuring Transit Catchment: A Spatial Approach to Urban Accessibility” by Maisarah
• “From Ancient Legends to Pixels: Reconstructing Ancient Esna Landscape with GIS and Remote Sensing” by TonyLiu
• “Open-Source QGIS-Based Analysis of Coastal LULC Change and Drivers in the Niger Delta (1986–2026) with 2050 Scenario Projections” by Dr.Victor N.Sunday, Grace Martins-Ateli
• “A Systematic Comparison of RAG Architectures for Geographic POI Question Answering Using OpenStreetMap Data” by Noboru Otsuka
• “Towards a Spatial Knowledge Mesh: A Metamodel for Federated and Interoperable Spatial Knowledge Graphs to Enable Geospatial Awareness, Integrity, Provenance, and Trust in Large Language Models” by Nathan McEachen
• “Synergistic use of PRISMA hyperspectral data and a random forest algorithm to map soil nutrients in sugarcane fields in Northeast Thailand” by Jaturong Som-ard
• “Rectangular vs Hexagonal Grid Tessellation for Spatial Analysis of Invasive Species: A Case Study of Aromia bungii in Saitama, Japan.” by Narumasa Tsutsumida, Irhamillah
• “Evaluating spectral diversity approaches for tree species diversity mapping in hemi-boreal forests using Sentinel-2 and biodivMapR” by Arathi Biju
• “Aitchison-Loss Training with Geospatial Embeddings Sharpens Compositional Land-Cover Maps” by Narumasa Tsutsumida, Ayato Kanno
• “Geographic Visualization of the Kaii-Yokai Folklore Database Using Open-Source GIS and NLP” by Kosuke Shimizu, Hiroki Ichikura
• “An Open Geospatial Framework for Proximity-Based Community Planning:
Integrating Mobility-Based Community Detection, Multimodal Accessibility, and Facility Allocation Optimization” by Junyoung CHOI
• “From CityGML to Game Engine: A Reproducible Open-Source Pipeline for Interactive 3D Urban Environments Using PLATEAU, Blender, and Godot” by Léo Martial
• “Towards Automated Map JSON Style from Spatial Vector Data Using MCP” by Arissara Sompita
• “DINO-EdgeQuery: Edge-First Polygon Decoding for Building Footprint Extraction from Satellite Imagery” by Yuji Kobayashi
• “Comparative Analysis of Multi-Sensor Responses for Maize Yield Estimation” by Esnart Sandikonda
• “Comparative analysis of route and health care facilities for the emergency patients of Pune and Bengaluru” by Adwait Priyadarshan
• “Capturing park-use behavior patterns using volunteered street view imagery: Does the likelihood increase with the volume of contributions?” by Xinrui Zheng
• “Detecting Stable Urban Heat Island Signals in Satellite Land Surface Temperature Time Series: A Case Study of Zagreb, Croatia” by Sanja Šamanović
• “How Does Walkability for Elderly People Differ between Hilly and Flat Urban Areas? A Case Study of Shin-Yurigaoka Station and Nagareyama-Otakanomori Station” by Hinako Terado
• “Data4Land - reproducible open-source tool for enrichment of land-use/land-cover rasters and connectivity maps.” by Lucy Bastin
• “Mapping Nearshore Cladophora in Lake Ontario: An Automated Open-Source Sentinel-2 Workflow and Experimental Index Derivation” by TonyLiu, Shichao Wang
• “Scaling Open 3D City Models: Implementation and Validation of an AI-driven Automated Generation Tool “AI City Model Maker beta version”” by Mayumi Mizobuchi
• “A Comprehensive Disaster Risk Analysis Model with GeoAI” by Muhammed Oguzhan Mete
• “Examining the Relationship Between Tatara Iron Production and Grassland Distribution in Western Japan: An Open Geospatial Approach to Historical Landscape Analysis” by Nobusuke Iwasaki, Ayaka Onohara, Takatora Bito
• “Application of SUMO in Simulation of Optimized Traffic Light Timing derived using Artificial Neural Network and GIS” by Nabilah Naharudin
• “Regional 10-m Mapping of Forest Foliage Height Diversity in Hokkaido, Japan, Using GEDI and Foundation-Model Satellite Embeddings” by Narumasa Tsutsumida, Tetsu Sasaki
• “Learning with Spaceborne LiDAR for Enhancement of Bare-Earth Digital Elevation Models from Global Data” by Xiandong Cai
• “A case use of FOSS4G to promote the Mining Industry: The P3M Platform of the Geological Survey of Brazil.” by Carlos Eduardo Mota
• “Using WRF-UCM as Boundary Forcing for Microscale Models in Data-Scarce Urban Environments” by Jaroslav Hofierka, Tomáš Fedor
• “Feasibility to detect rapid change and disappearance of seagrass: Lessons from nearly 80 years of vegetation change in the Ako, Seto Inland Sea, Japan” by Takehisa Yamakita
• “Linking provider catchment and SaTScan risk clusters for evidence-based public health nursing in Japan” by Ryo Horiike
• “Grid4Earth: An open-source Python ecosystem for geospatial data integration on the ellipsoidal HEALPix DGGS” by Tina Odaka, Alexander Kmoch
• “Tool Selection for Detailed Accessibility Analysis Using GTFS Data: The Case of the Yamagata Urban Area” by Shota Yamamoto
• “Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Regional GIS Data: A Statistical Framework for Analyzing Multidimensional Spatial Interactions” by Saeko Ohta
• “Spatiotemporal Analysis of OpenStreetMap Editing Activities in Japan Using the OSMCha” by Toshikazu Seto

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

• “Cartographic Patterns: Comparing Multimodal Transport Systems in diametrically opposite cities” by Poornima Badrinath
• “Open Disaster Response (OpenDR) 1.0: Real-Time Cloud-Native GeoAI and Multi-Sensor Fusion for Humanitarian Intelligence” by Bayilla Geda
• “A Reproducible Open-Source Workflow for Urban issues in Indonesia (Case study Urban Sprawl)” by Victor Christian
• “From Manual to AI: Building a Custom QGIS Plugin for Automated Tree Counting and Infrastructure Detection” by Bayu Muhammad Nabiil Makarim
• “Open Drone Mapping for Emmpowerment” by Sia Moadeh Kamanda, Gibril Ahmed Lansana
• “Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Open-Source GIS for Climate Resilience in Fiji” by Maloni Vakacavu Siga
• “Mapping the Changing Surface of the World’s Roads: Open-Source Geospatial Intelligence for Humanitarian Logistics and Climate Resilience” by Sukanya Randhawa
• “Turning Statistics into Maps with UNICEF’s Open Source Geospatial Solutions” by Jan Burdziej
• “GeoAI for Social Impact: Open-Source Flood Risk Mapping and Early Warning Systems in Informal Settlements of South Africa” by EMMANUEL
• “GIS-based Crop Monitoring using Satellite and Weather Data: A Case Study of Kolhapur” by Annepu Pavan Kumar
• “DHIS2 to QGIS: Geospatial Analysis of Climate-Associated Health Data in Madagascar” by Miora Harivony RAKOTONDRABE
• “From Street Level to Grid Level: Scaling Urban Resilence through Open Mapping” by Sia Moadeh Kamanda, Gibril Ahmed Lansana
• “Introducing OSM Clubs in Elementary Schools Building Young Mappers for a Better Future” by Aderaw Tsegaye Aniteneh
• “Responding to Rapid AI Innovation and Real-World Environmental Challenges: Teaching Applied Three-Tier GIS Systems for Regenerative Futures” by Qian (Chayn) Sun, Shinjita Das
• “Building Production GeoSpatial Desktop GUIs in Julia at NASA with Dear ImGui and Mirage.jl” by Zach Booth
• “Performance Analysis of Foundation Stereo Image Matching for 3D Terrain Extraction from High-resolution Satellite Stereo Data” by sangwon Son
• “Open Schools Kenya” by Joshua Ogure
• “Building a Spatial Archive of Feminist Activism.” by Selene Yang Rappaccioli
• “QGIS as a Digital Twins platform” by Saber Razmjooei
• “GeoAgent: A QGIS Plugin for Natural Language-Driven Geospatial Analysis” by Tek Bahadur Kshetri, Rabin Ojha
• “"You are here" - but what if I'm not?” by Leo Ghignone
• “Digital Earth Canada: Unlocking the Power of Earth Observation Across Canada and Abroad” by Christopher Rampersad
• “How Open-Source GIS Can Support Large-Scale Linear Infrastructure Projects” by Mike Gresham

Version 0.6 July 1, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Mapping for a Sustainable World: Bridging the Policy Data Nexus with FOSS and Open Science” by Britta Ricker.

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Rendering Custom Flutter Widgets as MapLibre Map Pins Without Static Assets” by Ryutaro Iseki

We have moved a session around: “EIA Scoping Tool and Collaborative Authoring and Review System” by Choi Yeon Ho (Sept. 1, 2026, 1:30 p.m., Himawari → Sept. 1, 2026, 3:30 p.m., Room6).

Version 0.5 June 9, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

Version 0.4 June 9, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

Version 0.3 June 9, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

Version 0.2 June 8, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Data publishing simplified with GeoCat Bridge” by Sander Schaminee, Jeroen Ticheler
• “How Our Community Was Born — Looking Back on More Than 20 Years of History” by Toru Mori, Venkatesh Raghavan, Jeff McKenna, Markus Neteler
• “OSGeo — Looking Ahead” by Toru Mori, Unnamed user

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

• “Building a National Topographic System in QGIS” by Jonathan Ball
• “FBIS Africa: Freshwater biodiversity data from Africa, for Africa.” by Dimas Tri Ciputra

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Reproducibility in geospatial research: a case study.” by Rosa Aguilar (Sept. 2, 2026, 1:30 p.m., Dahlia2 → Sept. 1, 2026, 4 p.m., Room2)
• “Terra Draw - bring drawing feature to all map applications” by Jin Igarashi (Sept. 1, 2026, 4 p.m., Room2 → Sept. 3, 2026, 2:30 p.m., Ran1)
• “A Practical Workflow for Reusing Proprietary Stormwater Model Data in Open-Source GIS Using CSV and SWMM Formats with Giswater” by Albert Bofill, Yoshihiro Shibuo (Sept. 3, 2026, 2:30 p.m., Ran1 → Sept. 2, 2026, 1:30 p.m., Dahlia2)

Version 0.1 May 29, 2026

We released our first schedule!