Akhil Jayant Patil

Data Engineer at DLR-TS,
MS in Geoinformatics, WWU Münster, Germany

  • Use of FOSS4G Technologies in the Management of Railway Infrastructure Data
Akshay Dhonthi
  • Advancing water productivity monitoring: Waplugin for the analysis and validation of FAO WaPOR data in QGIS
Alexander Kmoch

Alex is a Distributed Spatial Systems Researcher with many years of experience in geospatial data management and web- and cloud-based geoprocessing with a particular focus on land use, soils, hydrology, hydrogeology and water quality data. His interests include Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS), OGC standards and web-services for environmental and geo-scientific data sharing, modelling workflows and interactive geo-scientific visualisation.

Alex completed a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow (MSCA) with our Landscape Geoinformatics working group on improving standardised data preparation, parameterization and parallelisation for hydrological and water quality modelling across scales and has now started a 5-year project on spatial modelling of soil properties using machine-learning.

  • XDGGS: A community-developed Xarray package to support planetary DGGS data cube computations
Alexandre Gacon

GeoSpatial architect at camptocamp, I help organizations to use FOSS to fulfill their business requirements and to integrate them in their IT system. I worked with GIS technologies for nearly 20 years, both with vendor locked and open source software. I mostly work with the GeoServer stack but I also work on a regular basis with QGIS, GDAL and GeoNode.

  • Translation Management in FOSS - The Case of GeoServer
  • Manage GeoServer configuration with Terraform
Anastasia Triantafyllou

I am a Geoinformatics Engineer and Project Manager at CONSORTIS GEOSPATIAL, delivering innovative solutions for various fields, such as environmental engineering, geospatial data analysis, photogrammetry and remote sensing.

I am also a PhD candidate at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), where I conduct research on geoinformation and its applications. I have a Master of Science degree in Geoinformatics and a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the same university. I have multiple distinctions in PanHellenic Mathematics Competitions, and I am proficient in various geospatial software and tools.

  • WebGIS for Coastal Resilience: A Use case for developing a coastal erosion Observatory
Andrea Aime

Open source enthusiast with strong experience in Java development and GIS. Personal interest range from high performance software, managing large data volumes, software testing and quality, spatial data analysis algorithms, map rendering.
Full time open source developer on GeoServer and GeoTools, regular presenter at F0SS4G.
Received the Sol Katz's OSGeo award in 2017.

  • Vector Mosaicking with GeoServer
  • State of GeoServer
  • Mastering Security with GeoServer, GeoFence, and OpenID
  • Styling Natural Earth with GeoServer and GeoCSS
  • Serving earth observation data with GeoServer: COG, STAC, OpenSearch and more...
  • Processing and publishing Maritime AIS data with GeoServer and Databricks in Azure
  • Add a "map" tag in HTML: MapML developments and support in GeoServer
  • Demystifing OGC APIs with GeoServer: introduction and status of implementation
  • Publishing INSPIRE and other rich data models in GeoServer made easy with Smart Data Loader and Features Templating
Andrew Valasiuk

I am a geospatial data engineer at Kontur for the last two years. I graduated from Belarusian State University in 2020 with a degree in geography. Prior to joining Kontur, I gained valuable experience working with remote sensing technologies and specializing in forest management and monitoring. My passion for harnessing geospatial data to address environmental challenges drives my work at Kontur, where I contribute to innovative solutions and projects in the field.

  • Geocint: Open Source Geospatial Data Processing Pipeline
Andrius Balciunas

Lecturer of Cartography, Geographic Information Systems and Web Mapping at the Geoscience Institute of Vilnius University. PhD in Physical Science, graduate in Geography at Vilnius University. Founder and GIS Developer at Geografines informacines technologijos.

  • Modernizing the National River and Lakes Cadastre by Transition to FOSS4G
Angelos Tzotsos
  • pygeoapi mid-year update
Antero Komi

Software developer mainly focused on QGIS & PostGIS applications, background in web development.

  • Maintaining topological consistency of simple features with QGIS tools & PostGIS SQL rules
  • Using external dependencies in QGIS plugins
Antonio Cerciello

I’m a GIS developer and data analyst. I’m passionate about open source, data visualization and knowledge sharing. I love when technologies break down barriers.
In my career, I explored domains like e-government, fintech, GIS, and e-learning.
I’m a freelancer, and I work with Byte Road and Geobeyond.
In the past, I contributed mostly to GeoNetwork, but recently I widened my interest to more projects. I’m interested in the evolution of OGC API standards and how they can improve our dear projects.

  • An eMOTIONAL SDI - What makes an SDI user friendly?
ANTONIOS FEKAS

I'm a graduate of the School of Spatial Planning and Development, of the Faculty of Engineering, of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. I hold a Master's Degree in Spatial Planning and Regional Development.

My decision to chose Engineering as a professional career, was highly influenced by my father who himself was a Surveying Engineer. After the completion of my studies, I teamed up with several companies which specialized in the Cadastre Sector. Through these experiences I managed to upgrade my skills in the process of land registration, Photogrammetry and land surveying with GNSS technology and unmanned aircraft systems (UAV).

I joined the family of Consortis in 2020. The company gave me the chance to extensively work on the Geospatial and GIS sector.

  • Q-MOKA: A QGIS-Based Application for Managing and Analyzing Traffic Accidents
Astrid Emde

Astrid Emde is a Geospatial Expert and works in Bonn at WhereGroup since many years. She works as Senior GIS Consultant on WebGIS solutions with FOSSGIS. Astrid Emde is an active member of OSGeo and a Charter Member since 2010. From 2017-2021 she was in the OSGeo Board of Directors and is OSGeo Secretary. She recieved the Sol Katz Award in 2018 at FOSS4G 2018 in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania).

  • Mapbender 4.0 - create applications for your needs with the new version
Athina Trakas

As an Innovation Action and Partnerships Specialist at ECMWF (European Centre of Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) I am co-ordinating Code for Earth, an innovation action run by ECMWF.

I have always been interested in networking and connecting people. I am grateful that, with my work, I can exactly do this, and help foster a culture of continuous learning, mutual support, and shared success.

In the past I presented internationally on geo-information management topics, mainly in the areas of OGC processes, interoperability and standards.

With a diploma in Geography I started working in the field of GIS in 1998. In 2006, I joined OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium), and worked as OGC’s Director for Member Success and Development for Europe, Central Asia and Africa. In December 2022 I joined ECMWF.
Since 2006 I am a member of OSGeo.

  • Bridging Horizons: From Geoinformation to Meteorology and Beyond - A Journey of Cross-Disciplinary Synergy for Global Challenges
  • Code for Earth – and what’s in for you
Ayomide Oraegbu

Ayomide Oraegbu holds a Bachelor’s degree in Remote Sensing and GIS from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. He is a certified 365 Data Scientist, who has worked with various organizations as a Data Scientist. His skills and expertise include machine learning, deep learning, and software development. He has contributed to several projects, one of which involved developing an innovative model for predicting Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) density in space and time. This model was presented at the European Space Agency symposium on Earth Observation for Soil Protection and Restoration. In addition to his professional background, he is passionate about applying his knowledge in data science to solve earth science-related problems. Currently, Ayomide is an MSc student in Geospatial Technologies at the Universitat Jaume I (Spain) and the University of Münster (Germany).

  • Mapping Soil Erosion Classes using Remote Sensing Data and Ensemble Models
Bart Louwers

Bart Louwers is maintainer of MapLibre Native, a vector-tile based map renderer written in C++. He has a passion for FOSS and maps, but he's a definitely still a GIS rookie. In his free time you can occasionally find him on a bike or in a kayak or playing Ark Nova. Bart is Dutch and lives in Germany.

  • Building a New Rendering Backend for MapLibre Native: Industry Collaboration in FOSS
Batuhan Kavlak

Learned everything I know about GIS from the community — the kid of FOSS4G.

  • Where is the free, very high-resolution imagery?
  • Cloud-Native Asset Model with STAC
Ben Kuster
  • Digital Twins: Metropolitan Cooperation Platform and Underground Network
Berit Mohr

Berit is a GIS Consultant within the Digital Innovation Unit at the GFA Consulting Group GmbH in Hamburg. GFA is a company working in the development cooperation sector. Donors are typically governments, development banks etc. Berit has a background in Geology, Environmental Science and GIS and Remote Sensing. She has worked across sectors including Academia, Local government, international government and start-ups. Her passion is in using GIS and EO to make data visible and understandable for everyone. In her spare time Berit loves to be out hiking, in the garden and be part of the natural environment.

  • Geoharmony: A QGIS Plugin Unveiling Satellite Insights for Sustainable Development Synergy and Ecological Rejuvenation
Brandon Liu

Lead developer of Protomaps open source mapping project.

  • Open Source vs. Open Core for the Protomaps Project
Carlo Andrea Biraghi

Carlo Andrea Biraghi was born in Milano, Italy, in 1989. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in architecture in 2011 and 2014 from the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. He's also alumnus of the Alta Scuola Politecnica VIII cycle excellence program. Since 2014 he has been working as freelance architect, artist and computational designer while teaching in several courses at Politecnico di Milano related to urban morphology and mathematics. In 2019, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering Department of Politecnico di Milano. He made a Post-doc at the Geomatics and Earth Observation laboratory (GEOlab) of Politecnico di Milano managing Citizen Science aspects. He’s associate director and responsible for data science of the IMMdesignlab where he focuses on GIS and the development of spatial metrics for characterising urban systems and their performances.

  • CITY TRANSPORT ANALYZER: A POWERFUL QGIS PLUGIN FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT ACCESSIBILITY AND INTERMODALITY ANALYSIS
Chris Nichterlein

Since the begin of 2024, I opened a new chapter as a freelance GIS Specialist in Estonia.
Previously, I was working 5+ years as a Network Planner for fiber cables in Tallinn/EST.
Before moving to Estonia, I worked as a Mapping Specialist in Stuttgart/GER, but also as an intern
doing GIS in Heidelberg/GER... and yes, at some point I studied Cartography in Karlsruhe/GER.

  • QGIS eesti - Creating a community.
  • QGIS as a Tool in Planning Optical Fiber Networks
Dániel Balla

PhD student at Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.

  • Beautiful Thematic Maps in Leaflet with Automatic Data Classification
Daniel Scarpim

I'm a Senior Frontend Engineer with a design background and many years of experience building all sorts of cool things for companies big and small. I've worked on everything from slick online products to offline projects that you can touch. I'm based in Berlin and have been here since 2017, working in Agile teams and developing data-driven responsive applications using React and Typescript. Since 2021 I have worked at UP42, where I started working with map visualizations and learning a lot about geospatial data.

  • Challenges for displaying STAC Items and Assets in the browser
Daniele Strigaro

Researcher in Geomatic at SUPSI

  • An open early-warning system prototype to help in management and study algal blooms on Lake Lugano
David Montero Loaiza

I am a PhD candidate at RSC4Earth, University of Leipzig, engaged in harnessing high-resolution satellite imagery to develop deep learning models using multi-source Earth System Data Cubes (ESDCs). Furthermore, I am a Google Developer Expert for Google Earth Engine (GEE), making contributions in geospatial data processing using GEE, including the development of eemont and spectral. Additionally, I have developed open-source tools for remote sensing applications such as Awesome Spectral Indices, cubo and sen2nbar, aiming to enhance the accessibility and utility of remote sensing data.

  • Facilitating advanced Sentinel-2 analysis through a simplified computation of Nadir BRDF Adjusted Reflectance
David Youssefi

David Youssefi received the Electrical Engineering degree from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Electronique, Informatique, Télécommunications, Mathématique et Mécanique, Bordeaux, France. From 2013 to 2018, he was a Study Engineer at Communications et Systèmes, Toulouse, where he worked on remote sensing image processing especially in 3D processing. He is currently with the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (French Space Agency), Toulouse, as a Ground Segment Software Development Engineer where he is responsible for software development for Pleiades and design for the future Earth Observation mission CO3D from CNES.

  • Geometrically guided and confidence-based denoising
Dimitris Tsagkarlis

I graduated in 2019 from the Rural and Surveying Engineering Department, of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. At the same time, I attended numerous seminars, while I collaborated with various companies on a variety of subjects (such as ground surveying, land use, information management and its utilization in GIS environment, Autocad etc.). Within those years collaborating with Consortis, I was mainly involved with data management, processing and visualization. I am currently attending a Master's Degree in Lund University of Sweden to improve my knowledge on GIS Softwares, as well.

  • WebGIS for Coastal Resilience: A Use case for developing a coastal erosion Observatory
Dirk Stenger

Dirk Stenger is active community member of the OSGeo project deegree and TEAM Engine which is in incubation.

He has expertise in OGC services and SDI solutions based on Open Source software and is technical lead of the OGC Compliance Tools (CITE).

He works at lat/lon GmbH as a software developer and consultant since 2012.

  • State of deegree: A mature server-side software for spatial data infrastructures
Edward Betts

Edward's journey in open-source began in 1998 with Debian, where he now maintains over 70 Python packages. His tenure at the Internet Archive as the first Open Library data librarian reflects his deep commitment to data accessibility. Edward's portfolio includes contributions to BusyBox and the development of tools enhancing Wikipedia, Wikidata, and OpenStreetMap's user experience.

  • Bridging Worlds: Integration of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
Elisa Hanhirova

GIS Specialist in Gispo Ltd

  • Learning paths with FOSS4G
Emanuele Tajariol

Tech lead at GeoSolutions
Projects: GeoFence, GeoNode, GeoNetwork, GeoServer, CKAN

  • Mastering Security with GeoServer, GeoFence, and OpenID
  • GeoNode at work: how do I do this, how do I do that?
  • State of GeoNode
Emil Ehnström

GIS expert at Gispo Oy

  • Exploring the use of 3D tiles in QGIS – case Helsinki
Emmanuel Jolaiya

Earth Observation and Geospatial Software Engineer.

  • Mapping Soil Erosion Classes using Remote Sensing Data and Ensemble Models
Even Rouault

Free and open source geospatial software developer. Involved in GDAL, PROJ, QGIS, MapServer among others.

  • State of GDAL: what's new in 3.8 and 3.9?
Fabian Humberto Fonseca Aponte

AI Software Engineer at BMW, MSc. Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Cum Laude from the Sapienza University of Rome and BSc. in Mechatronic Engineering from the National University of Colombia with experience in software development, project planning, and product development. Recipient of several education grants and author of three patents on AI-based products. My focus is computer vision and natural language processing techniques.

  • Advancing water productivity monitoring: Waplugin for the analysis and validation of FAO WaPOR data in QGIS
Fabian Schindler-Strauss

Involved with Cloud Native EO Data Access and Cloud Native geospatial data formats

  • View Server - Cloud Native EO Data Access
Federica Gaspari

Environmental Engineer, PhD Student @ Politecnico di Milano (Italy) passionate about GIS, photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
OpenStreetMap contributor, OSGeo Charter Member

  • Bridging geomatics theory to real-world applications in alpine surveys through an innovative teaching summer school program
Felix Delattre

Geospatial Software Engineer, who got into FOSS4G mapping bus routes of Nicaragua in OpenStreetMap, worked with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) and moved into rasterland at UP42 GmbH.

  • Tile-based GIS
Florent Gravin

Head of Technology at Camptocamp Geospatial Solutions.
Advocate of free & open source technologies for more than 15 years, Florent Gravin, PSC member of GeoNetork and contributor of many OsGeo softwares, focuses on improving the user experience within data platform administration and management, and pushes forward the merge between the open data world, and the geospatial eco-system.

  • GeoNetwork - State of the Art
  • SDIs to open data platforms, the geOrchestra way
  • Towards better data platforms with semantic metadata
Francesco Bartoli
  • geoserverx - a new CLI and library to interact with GeoServer
Francesco Martinuzzi

I am currently pursuing a PhD in Physics and Earth Sciences at Leipzig University, Germany, and I have been a visiting researcher in Valencia, Spain, as a member of the ELLIS PhD program. My research focuses on the application of machine learning in Earth systems. I am part of the team at the Remote Sensing Center for Earth System Research (RSC4Earth), working under the supervision of Prof. Miguel D. Mahecha and Dr. Karin Mora. My research is kingly funded by the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI).

  • SpectralIndices.jl: Streamlining spectral indices access and computation for Earth system research
Gérald Fenoy

He obtained a Master degree in Computer Science for University of Montpellier II. After graduation, he worked in a private company as a developer for Web-GIS application and PostGIS based system integration. He established his company GeoLabs, in 2006, and have done several projects in France and overseas. He's been actively developing and promoting OSGeo technologies. He is a regular participant and contributor to FOSS4G Conferences. He is working on implementing the ZOO-Project. On top of this processing engine, he works on implementing a user interface to manage web applications and OGC web services, called MapMint.

  • ZOO-Project: from OGC WPS to OGC API - Processes Part 1 and Part 2
Gianmarco Naro

I'm Gianmarco Naro, a Computer Science graduate from Politecnico di Milano. My academic focus on smart cities led to a thesis collaboration with Carlo Andrea Biraghi and Emilia Lenzi, exploring innovative solutions for urban development. Together, we authored an abstract encapsulating our research insights, showcasing our dedication to advancing knowledge in computer science and urban studies.

  • CITY TRANSPORT ANALYZER: A POWERFUL QGIS PLUGIN FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT ACCESSIBILITY AND INTERMODALITY ANALYSIS
Giovanni Allegri

GIS specialist and software architect at GeoSolutions, where I lead the Python team.

I've started my career as a GIS/EO data scientist and Spatial Data Infrastructures specialist, based for the most part on open source technologies and business models. In this context, I've worked as a consultant, developer, and solutions provider for several public institutions and private companies.

I've had the opportunity to contribute to and lead the development of several projects, ranging from mobile apps and web platforms to data infrastructures and distributed data processing pipelines.
Whatever the kind of product it is, I enjoy translating a customer's idea into an effective solution.
My current main technical focus is software design and product management.

Hobbies? Sound design, music technologies, and electronics.

  • GeoNode at work: how do I do this, how do I do that?
  • State of GeoNode
Görkem

Data Engineer @VanOord. Codes in JavaScript and Python.

  • Climate Risk Overview of Coastal Hotspots
Hanno Kuus

Hanno Kuus is a GIS and open data enthusiast. Working as a software developer he got introduced to the world of geospatial data and still haven't lost interest after more than 25 years. Currently working for Estonian Land Board, mostly with Estonian Topographic Database.

  • Why would you need open data from National Mapping Agencies?
Hans van der Kwast

Hans van der Kwast, Associate Professor of Open Science and Digital Innovation at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education has more than 20 years of experience with GIS and Remote Sensing in education and projects, offering consultancy, training and coaching in open source GIS. He is an active member in the QGIS community, a QGIS certified trainer, OSGeo charter member and board member of the Dutch QGIS User Group. Hans established the GIS OpenCourseWare platform for sharing free course materials on QGIS, Python, Google Earth Engine and much more. The PCRaster Tools plugin for QGIS that he’s developed has been downloaded more than 40k times. Hans is also a co-author of the book QGIS for Hydrological Applications and has a YouTube Channel with more than 25k subscribers.

  • QGIS for Hydrological Applications
  • Advancing water productivity monitoring: Waplugin for the analysis and validation of FAO WaPOR data in QGIS
Helene Steiner

GIS expert at Austrian Power Grid, Department of Transmission Lines. Background in spatial databases.

  • Vector Tiles: Spatial Selection with PyQGIS
Henrikki Tenkanen

Assistant professor in Geoinformation Technology at the Department of Built Environment, Aalto University.

  • Threats related to open geospatial data in the current geopolitical environment
Ian Turton

Ian has been involved in open source geospatial development since the 1990s, starting with the development of the GeoTools library and later the GeoServer project. He has been a programmer in academia and industry since 1992. Currently, he is a research software engineer data scientist at the University of Glasgow but they rarely know what he's up to let alone allow him to speak for them.

  • State of GeoServer
  • Your Geoportal F***ing Sucks
Ilie Codrina

Codrina Ilie is a technical geographer, an open source GIS/RS power user, actively working as a project officer to support geospatial data services development at Terrasigna. In her 12 years of activity, Codrina has essentially focused on using open source GIS and RS solutions for data management, processing and visualization.
As an advocate for free and open source software for geospatial, since 2010 she has been a volunteer trainer in the Romanian geospatial community, geo-spatial.org. Since 2013, Codrina has been a Charter Member and today serves the community as an OSGeo Board of Directors member, within her third term.

  • Ideas about OSGeo, a European OSGeo and our conferences
  • Collectively mapping the FOSS geospatial ecosystem to better understand it
  • Crossing the bridge from research to operational. FOSS based geo-knowledge services dedicated to the insurance sector
Ilya Zverev

Long-time contributor to OpenStreetMap, editor of an OSM news blog, manages a few communities inside it. Watched a few crowdmapping projects come and go, participated in some. Looked into various flavours of amateur data collection for OSM: on feet, on bike, behind the wheel of a car. With his experience, created Every Door OSM editor to collect POI and other things at scale, used by thousands of mappers. Considers himself experienced in building a better carthographic user experience.

  • Crowdmapping That Works
Ivan Minčík

Long term free software DevOps engineer with special interest in building things with Nix and NixOS.

  • Using Nix to build and distribute a geospatial software
ivansanchez

Iván has been a web developer and FLOSS advocate since the early 2000s; then he bought a GPS receiver and got involved in OpenStreetMap and OSGeo. He’s worked with nautical charts, indoor positioning, USB microcontrollers, LibreOffice, multispectral rasters, all of it with unhealthy amounts of Javascript.

  • Gleo Feature Frenzy
  • A critic analysis of the CRA
Jaak Laineste

Product Manager for sustainability in Trimble. Previously core product manager in Sixfold (became part of Trimble) and GIS tech provider CARTO. Before that founder of Nutiteq, creator of open source mobile mobile 3D map SDK and CTO and GIS evangelist in Reach-U and Regio. One of the first OpenStreetMappers in Estonia, member of Tartu City Council, father of 4.

  • Removing emissions from freight transportation (with help of GIS and FOSS)
Jaan Liira

Associate professor of ecology, University of Tartu. Multi-topical experience on various subjects.
https://www.etis.ee/CV/Jaan_Liira/eng

  • Public sharing of semi-automatically detected dead trees in remote sensing images
Jachym
  • Web Mapping 101: Getting started using MapTiler SDK!
Jakob Miksch

Geospatial Software developer at siticom in Germany. Working in the field of spatial data infrastructure using various languages and technologies like: OpenLayers, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, PostGIS, GDAL, QGIS (Server), GeoServer, Go, Python. Also interested in OpenStreetMap and Open Data.

  • pg_featureserv - Publication of vector data with OGC API features
  • QGIS Server in an enterprise environment
  • Random Geodata Generator
  • Geospatial Go
  • DuckDB with Geodata
  • OpenLayers and Vue
Jakub Nowosad

I am a computational geographer working at the intersection between geocomputation and the environmental sciences. My research is focused on developing and applying spatial methods to broaden our understanding of processes and patterns in the environment. Vital part of my work is to create, collaborate, and improve geocomputational software. I am an active member of the #rspatial community and a co-author of the Geocomputation with R book.

  • Comparing spatial patterns in raster data using R
  • Spontaneous growth of the 'geocompx' FOSS4G community
James Milner

James lives and works in London. He has been a software developer for over 10 years, and is currently a Staff Developer at Nearform and a Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies. Previously, he has worked at geospatial companies such as Esri, Ordnance Survey and indoor mapping company Hyper.

  • Terra Draw: A web map drawing library for 2024
Jashanpreet Singh

I have been honing my skills in the geospatial domain, gaining diverse experience in Climate tech startups, Agritech solutions, and more.
My experience extends to working with satellite data (including Sentinel and Landsat), geospatial data modeling, and handling large datasets at scale in the cloud using Docker, Python, S3, etc
I am most interested in building a generic spatial-temporal database that can handle a wide variety of data and use cases.

  • Building the modern GIS Web Stack
Javier Jimenez Shaw

Civil engineer and software developer (mainly C++). The last years I'm focused on GIS, contributing to PROJ and GDAL libraries. Member of the PSC of both projects.
Love old and nice maps.

https://github.com/jjimenezshaw/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7227-9173

  • Introduction to Vertical Coordinate Systems
  • WGS 84: I don't know, I don't care.
Jeroen Ticheler

CEO/Owner of GeoCat BV and GeoCat Canada Ltd. – Chair and founder of the GeoNetwork opensource – OSGeo Board of Directors.

GeoCat was founded by Jeroen in 2007. Jeroen studied Tropical Forestry at Wageningen University specialising in GIS and Remote Sensing. Following graduation in 1997, he worked for the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome for nine years. Jeroen held various positions for the FAO in GIS/remote sensing and established the GeoNetwork opensource project. The FAO GeoNetwork is the first implementation based on this software, releasing a large quantity of geospatial data to the public.

Today GeoNetwork opensource is widely used as geospatial catalogue application with implementations from smaller projects to national and international level catalogs including National Geospatial & Open Data Registries and the INSPIRE GeoPortal in the EU.

Jeroen has been promoting the use of international standards and Free and Open Source Software for geographic data and information for over twenty years now. Jeroen is Project Officer for the GeoNetwork opensource project. He currently serves on the OSGeo Board, and did so in 2007 & 2008. He is a Charter member since the early days of OSGeo.

Besides everything geospatial Jeroen loves travel, carpentry, working on his overland truck, study Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology, and walk, work and live outside.

  • Ideas about OSGeo, a European OSGeo and our conferences
  • GeoNetwork - State of the Art
Jin Igarashi

Jin Igarashi is a senior open-source GIS software developer mainly working for the water and sanitation sector in Eastern Africa (Kenya and Rwanda). He holds MSc (Eng) on water, sanitation and health engineering. He is also currently working as a full stack GIS developer at UNDP and developing UNDP GeoHub as an open-source project.

  • Leave no one behind - UNDP GeoHub. Spatial data visualization and analytics for policy making
Joachim Ungar

Joachim Ungar is Lead Cartographer and Geospatial IT Engineer at EOX, an open source software oriented company based in Vienna. He has a MSc degree in Cartography and Geoinformation and specialized in large scale processing of geodata, mainly satellite imagery, using GDAL and Python. He enthusiastically participates and contributes to FOSS4G events since 2011.

  • Scalable geospatial processing using dask and mapchete
Joana Simoes

Joana is a software engineer with more than fifteen years experience and a strong expertise in the field of geospatial tech and analytics.
After acquiring a PhD in GIS, at UCL, her drive to solve real-world problems has led her to SMEs, an international organisation, a research foundation and a start-up. Joana has been very involved with FOSS, in particular in what concerns geospatial. This has led her to become a charter member of OSGeo. Joana is the founder of ByteRoad, a SME in the field of data engineering and geospatial analytics. She is also a reviewer for the European Commission, and has been involved in education, teaching the next generation of full-stack developers and data analysts. As Developer Relations at OGC, Joana is responsible for connecting the OGC standards with the wider developer community, hopefully increasing their adoption and contributing towards making them more developer-friendly.

  • pygeoapi mid-year update
  • An eMOTIONAL SDI - What makes an SDI user friendly?
  • Creating Interoperable Tiled Maps
  • State of OGC APIs
Jonathan Lurie

👋 Hey, I'm Jonathan, I'm a software developer who specializes in computer graphics ✨ for the web but I also develop tools related to web mapping at MapTiler.

One of my missions there is to build MapTiler SDK and an ecosystem of modules that reduce the complexity for map devs to tell stories.

  • Web Mapping 101: Getting started using MapTiler SDK!
Juan Pablo Duque Ordoñez

I'm a PhD student in Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, a Geoinformatics Engineer, and a geospatial developer. I have more than 3 years of experience developing geospatial web tools as a full-stack developer using technologies such as Angular, Django, Vue, OpenLayers, and Node.js. My main interest is to use my knowledge of web technologies to help grow the GIS field and to create meaningful geospatial web tools for the community.

  • A standardised approach for serving environmental monitoring data compliant with OGC APIs
Juho Ervasti

GIS Specialist at Gispo Finland Ltd.

  • Planning for rainy days: optimizing school calendars with precipitation data and QGIS
Jussi Nikander

Senior university lecturer
Aalto University

  • Threats related to open geospatial data in the current geopolitical environment
Just van den Broecke

Just van den Broecke is an independent Open Source geospatial professional working under the
trading name "Just Objects" - https://justobjects.nl. In his daily work
he designs, develops and deploys Open Source geospatial infrastructures, stacks and products.
He is a core contributor to Open Source projects like pygeoapi (also PSC), GeoHealthCheck, Stetl, and NLExtract. He is an OSGeo Charter Member and founder/former-chair of OSGeo.nl, the Dutch Local OSGeo Chapter.

  • pygeoapi mid-year update
Kadri Arrak

Kadri Arrak has long-term experience in communication, marketing and sales. At Positium, her role is to help countries use mobile positioning data to make smart, data-driven decisions. As Head of Operations, she oversees the operational activities of the business, and she is responsible for communication between Positium's project teams and clients and ensuring that work on any mobile data or GIS-based project is on schedule and budget. Kadri has managed the expansion of the public transport network based on mobile data, the mobility frequency analysis of road sections, the pilot project and two continuation projects of Lithuanian foreign tourism statistics, and also leads Positium's longest-running project, the Estonian foreign tourism statistics project.

  • A Processing Pipeline For European Official Statistics: Towards Standardisation Of Mobile Network Operator Data Processing
Kateryna Konieva

Ph.D. in Sustainable Architecture and Design, urban planner, software engineer.

  • Effortless GIS, CAD & BIM data exchange with Speckle
Katre Kasemägi

Currently working at IT and Development Centre at the Estonian Ministry of the Interior (SMIT) as GIS services Product Owner. Most of our services are provided with the help of open source GIS software.

  • GIS services for public safety with open source GIS software
krishna lodha

Hi! I'm Krishna Lodha, founder of http://rottengrapes.tech/ . We are India's one of the leading Open source GIS Companies. We're helping governments and private clients to utilise various open source products such as Geoserver, geonetwork, PostGIS, GeoNode, Tile Creation, etc.

  • geoserverx - a new CLI and library to interact with GeoServer
  • Creating GIS Rest APIS using Geodjango under 30 minutes
Külli Ek

Geoinformatics specialist at CSC - IT center for science (Finland):
* Geoinformatics support for Finnish universities and research institutes to use CSC supercomputers and cloud services
* Develoment of Paituli spatial data download service, inc STAC.

  • LUMI supercomputer for spatial data analysis, especially deep learning
  • Paituli STAC - experiences of setting up and using own STAC catalog
Kurt Menke

In early 2021, Kurt moved from the USA to Denmark and now works for Septima P/S in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has a broad skillset. He is a spatial analyst, cartographer, trainer/teacher and author. In 2022 he published his eighth and ninth books on QGIS: Discover QGIS 3.x - Second Edition and QGIS for Hydrological Applications - Second Edition, both with Locate Press. He is currently working on book #10 Field Data Collection with QGIS and Mergin Maps. In 2015 he became an OsGeo Charter Member. He is also a fellow of the Rewilding Institute and a board member of Wild Arizona.

  • QGIS Feature Frenzy
Lauri Kajan

Lauri Kajan is a software developer who specializes in Geospatial Information. He graduated as a Master of Science in Technology from Aalto University, where he studied geoinformatics, cartography and computer science. He works at Gispo, where he develops geospatial applications for customers from different sectors. His main programming language is Python, which he uses for developing QGIS plugins, among other things. He also designs database solutions, where he uses a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database.

Kajan is motivated by projects that move our society forward, taking into account the environment and sustainable development. He is especially interested in open data and open source projects, where he can use his skills and learn new things.

In his free time, Lauri enjoys alpine ski racing, running, orienteering and scouting. He is always ready to discuss geospatial information and other interesting topics with the conference participants. You can contact him at lauri.kajan@gispo.fi.

  • How to set up a QGIS plugin project and development environment in minutes
Lena Hallin-Pihlatie

Working with metadata, geoportal and INSPIRE stuff at NLS-FI

  • Transition from one INSPIRE metadata standard to another and move from Geonetwork 3.x to 4.x – lessons learnt
Lorenzo Natali

Software Engineer specialized in Front-end and GIS. Technical lead of MapStore project

  • Navigate urban scenarios with MapStore 3D tools
  • MapStore, a year in review
Lorenzo Stucchi

GIS Analyst
PhD at Politecnico di Milano and RSE.
National OpenStreetMap Coordinator for Wikimedia Italia.
OSGeo charter member.
FOSS4G and OpenStreetMap enthusiastic.

  • Analyzing Charging and Petrol Station Distribution with FOSS4G: Implications for Energy Transition Monitoring in European Regions
Lubomir Dolezal

Working at EOX IT Services as a Geospatial IT Engineer dealing with web maps and satellite data
visualisation and processing and really enjoying it!

Keywords: Python, PostGIS, OpenLayers, Vue, GDAL, STAC, OpenSearch,
Docker Swarm management, Optical EO Data, COGs, OGC Web Services

Feels great when a hidden bug gets tracked and fixed. Loves escaping cities on a bike, fantasy books and board/video games. Member of PyLadies Vienna organization team.

  • View Server - Cloud Native EO Data Access
Luís M. de Sousa

Luís Moreira de Sousa completed the Degree on Informatics and Computers
Engineering at the University of Lisbon in 2002, which he complemented with a
Masters on Geographic Information Systems in 2005. In the Department of Civil
Engineering of this university he was a junior researcher from 2002 to 2008,
contributing to applied research projects with Instituto da Água and Estradas
de Portugal. After a year as consultant with SIQuant at the National Laboratory
of Civil Engineering (LNEC), in 2009 he became an independent consultant,
supporting de development of the spatial data infrastructure of the newly
created Administração da Região Hidrográfica do Tejo (ARH-Tejo).

In 2011 he joined the Henri Tudor institute in Luxembourg as Research Engineer,
where he contributed to the development of Spatial Decision Support Systems on
the domains of Energy and Urban Planning. At the time he was already a PhD
candidate on Informatics Engineering at the University of Lisbon, promoted by
Prof. Alberto Silva. In 2016 he concluded this graduation with a thesis on
domain specific languages for the development of spatial simulation programmes.
Still that year he started a post-doc position at EAWAG (Swiss Federal
Institute of Research on the Water Domain) during which he conducted research
on rapid flood modelling and storm water network management. Since 2017 Luís
has been at ISRIC - World Soil Information in The Netherlands where he conducts
research on the geography and ontology of world soils.

Luís has relied on open source software for geospatial since 2001, when he
first interacted with GRASS. Since then he contributed code and documentation
to various projects such as OWSLib, OpenLayers, QGis and others. In 2016 he
became a OSGeo charter member and integrated the first Project Steering
Committee of the PyWPS project. He was one of the founding members of the
European chapter of OSGeo and chaired the Scientific Committee of the
FOSS4G-Europe conference in 2018. Since 2023 Luís shares the role of Chief
Returning Officer at OSGeo.

  • The template for a Semantic SensorThings API with the GloSIS use case
Lukas Nebel

GIS expert at Austrian Power Grid, Department of Transmission Lines. Background in cartograpy and GIS.

  • Vector Tiles: Spatial Selection with PyQGIS
Luke Seelenbinder

Originally, Luke has created high performance products based on open source solutions for startups and companies around the world from his base in Europe. He was introduced to the world of OSS for maps when he founded Stadia Maps in 2017, and has since participated in creating multiple libraries and products for use in the community, including as a founding member of the MapLibre board and many contributions in the Rust geo space.

  • Routing for Golf-Carts and other Low-Speed Vehicles using Valhalla
  • Stadia x Stamen: A New Era for Stamen Map Tiles
Maiju Kähärä

Coordinator at Lounaistieto. Regional open data cooperation, development of Lounaistieto and project management.

  • Lounaistieto – a unique regional GI network and service
Marcin Niemyjski

As a trained surveyor, I have refined my skills in data analysis and interpretation, which I have applied in my transition towards becoming a Junior Data Scientist. Over the past two years, I have delved into GIS, remote sensing, LiDAR, and data processing, which have become my primary areas of interest. My vision for the spatial data industry resembles a puzzle, where open datasets, Python, SQL, and Machine Learning techniques are the pieces that need to interlock. In my view, the future of GIS is anchored in Big Data solutions and cloud computing, and I am fortunate to be cultivating my skills in this direction while working at CloudFerro.

  • Architecture of OGC Services Deployment on Kubernetes Cluster based on CREODIAS Cloud Computing Platform
Marco Bernasocchi

Marco Bernasocchi is an open-source advocate, entrepreneur and full-stack geoninja. He is the creator of QField for QGIS, currently serves as QGIS.org Chair, and is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation board member. In his day job, Marco is the CEO of OPENGIS.ch, which he founded in 2011.

A geographer by trade, Marco lives in a small Romansh-speaking mountain village in Switzerland, where he loves scrambling around the mountains to enjoy the feeling of freedom it gives him. Outgoing, flexible and open-minded, Marco fluently speaks five languages. The best thing is: He not only knows how to say it but also loves sharing his know-how.

  • QField 3 - Fieldwork redefined
Marco Minghini

Dr. Marco Minghini obtained a BSc degree (2008), an MSc degree (2010) and a PhD degree (2014) in Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. From 2014 to 2018 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the GEOlab of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Since 2018 he works as a Scientific Project Officer at the European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, focusing on (geo)data interoperability, sharing and standardisation in support of European data spaces, and contributing to the operation and evolution of the INSPIRE infrastructure. He is an advocate of open source software and open data. OSGeo Charter Member since 2015, active OpenStreetMap contributor and Voting Member of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, Chair of ISPRS ICWG "Openness in Geospatial Science and Remote Sensing". He is a regular participant and presenter at global and local FOSS4G events, Secretary of FOSS4G Europe 2015, Co-chair of the Academic Track at FOSS4G 2022 and 2023 and FOSS4G Europe 2024.

  • Pan-European open building footprints: analysis and comparison in selected countries
  • Semantic annotation and classification of EU tendering data on open geospatial software, standards and data using Large Language Models
Margherita Di Leo

Margherita Di Leo is an engineer with a PhD in Methods and Technologies for Environmental Monitoring. She has been an OSGeo charter member since 2011 and has contributed to GRASS GIS, OSGeoLive, GSoC@OSGeo among others. She works at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Italy as an external consultant.

  • Insights on Earth Observation cloud platforms from a user experience viewpoint
Marko Peterson
  • A Processing Pipeline For European Official Statistics: Towards Standardisation Of Mobile Network Operator Data Processing
Markus Tremmel

Geospatial software developer from germany with focus on 3D maps and cloud native geospatial

  • MapLibre Tiles: Introducing The Next Generation Vector Tiles Format
Martin Dobias
  • QGIS 3D and point clouds enhancements
  • QGIS in your browser - QGIS WASM
Martin Menert

Martin Menert has been leading Estonian delegation to Earth Observation Programme Board of European Space Agency.

Currently he is advising various remote sensing projects in Estonia.

  • SATILADU – AN OPEN WEB MAP FOR ESTONIAN LAND USE AND LAND COVER DATA
Matthias Kuhn
  • QField 3 - Fieldwork redefined
Matthias Mohr

Matthias Mohr is an independant software engineer and consultant. He's been fundamental in defining the openEO API specification for interoperable geoprocessing in the cloud and is developing the front-end UI. Similarly, he's one of the authors of the STAC specification and added a large number of extensions to the ecosystem. He's maintaining STAC Browser and STAC Index.

  • ol-stac: STAC and OpenLayers combined
  • State of STAC
Meeli Roose

I am an enthusiastic and dedicated individual driven by a passion for knowledge and a commitment to making a positive impact. Born and raised in Estonia, I developed an early interest in natural sciences that has shaped the trajectory of my life. I graduated from the University of Tartu in 2008, after which life led me to study geoinformatics MSc at the University of Turku, Finland. Since then I have worked on several GIS-related projects, such as focusing on the development of GIS training capacity in collaborative projects between Finland and Tanzania, as well as engaging in community planning for coastal areas with Estonian partners. My latest project involves an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human history with a focus on the spatiotemporal aspects, which is also part of my doctoral degree studies in geoinformatics.
I am passionate about innovative geospatial solutions and maps.

  • Unlocking Uralic Heritage and Diversity: URHIA's Open Data Journey in Spatial Exploration
Meri Malmari

GIS specialist at Gispo ltd

  • Planning for rainy days: optimizing school calendars with precipitation data and QGIS
  • Exploring the use of 3D tiles in QGIS – case Helsinki
Michael Scholz

Michael Scholz studied geoinformatics in Münster, Germany, and works as a researcher at the Institute of Transportation Systems of the German Aerospace Center since 2012. His daily work involves taming of heterogeneous geodata to be used in applications of driving simulation and autonomous driving, making OpenDRIVE a core component of his personality. He calls himself an Open Geodata and Open Source Evangelist and is keen on bringing the domains of GIS and transportation engineering closer together. Apart from that he likes to be roaming around on boundary-less gravel roads of far and foreign countries.

  • Improving interoperability between OpenDRIVE HD map data and GIS using GDAL
Michael Smith

Mike is a Physical Scientist at the US Army Corps of Engineers and a long time MapServer user and occasional developer. Mike is on the PDAL and MapServer PSC and is a charter member of OSGeo and was first elected to the Board of Directors in 2014. He was reelected in 2016 and 2020. Mike currently serves as the Treasurer (treasurer@osgeo.org) on the OSGeo Board

  • State of PDAL
Michał Bojko

Studying Geoinformatics at Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography of the Warsaw University of Technology. Junior Data Scientist in Cloudferro.

  • Architecture of OGC Services Deployment on Kubernetes Cluster based on CREODIAS Cloud Computing Platform
  • Cloudferro's open source QGIS plugin for discovery of Copernicus data
Miguel Delgado

I come originally from Portugal and live in Berlin since 2007. I worked a long time in academia at GFZ Potsdam and University of Potsdam, building land-surface models for predicting water availability and extreme-events. Since 2022 I joined UP42 and have been involved in leveraging STAC and COGs for revamping our data management and processing platforms.

  • Our journey into an OGC-compliant Processing Engine
Milvari Alieva

Expertised in GIS and data engeneering, I take on the crucial role of overseeing external communication at Kontur. Have a Master Degree in Geomatics domain (BSU, Minsk, Belarus).

  • Empowering Rapid Disaster Response with OpenAerialMap
Miriam Gonzalez

Miriam is passionate about how Geospatial data and Earth Observation technologies can change the world. She is doing Partnerships between Space and Geospatial organizations at UP42, an organization that aims to democratize data accessibility from Space and Geospatial industries and support companies to derive insights to solve challenges on Earth. For the past years, Miriam has been involved in different Geospatial initiatives such as Geochicas where she promotes more women participation and knowledge sharing in the Geospatial spaces. Promoting OpenStreetMap and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOTOSM) in the one she is Voting Member and was President of the Board of Directors 2019-2021. She participates in these initiatives by giving workshops, conferences and coordinating efforts among Open Data key players and most recently is part of the FIRE project (Forum for Innovation and Research in European Earth Observation) as an EO Evangelist in the Energy sector. Currently, she is involved in Earth Observation, Data Analytics and Open Data initiatives.

  • Panel: Changing the mindset of "Open Source is just for those who can't afford to pay licenses"
  • What's up in Space?
Msilikale Msilanga
  • Unlocking Uralic Heritage and Diversity: URHIA's Open Data Journey in Spatial Exploration
Naman

Hello hello, I am a Data Science Engineer at UP42.
Interested in all things geospatial (and non-geospatial too) :)

  • dsm2dtm: Generate DTM from DSM for free!
Natalia Räikkönen

Msc Environmental science
Graduated from University of Turku, Finland in 2008
Geoinformatics studies in University of Helsinki 2017
GIS specialist in Southwest Finland’s regional open data centre, Lounaistieto, since 2017 untill now

  • Open source solutions for managing crowdsourced geospatial data
Nicolas Bozon
  • Vector Tiles Cartography: Elevate your maps with JSON tricks
Nikola Koktavá

My academic journey started with a bachelor's degree in Geoinformatics, a field that continues to captivate me. Building on this foundation, I pursued and successfully attained a master's degree in Applied Geography and Geo-informatics. Currently, I am immersed in the pursuit of a PhD in Geo-informatics advancing my knowledge in the field.

  • Does open data open new horizons in urban planning?
  • Benefits and pitfalls of emotional and mobility web mapping
Nuno Oliveira

Nuno earned his BS and MS in Software Engineering from the University of Minho. He started his career in the telecommunications industry by developing solutions for managing and monitoring telecommunications infrastructures. Currently, he works at GeoSolutions where he develops advanced solutions for GIS challenges using open source software. In the last few years, he focused on distributed systems, big data technologies, maritime data processing, and GIS. He contributes to several open-source projects and is a committer of GeoServer, MapStore, and GeoTools.

  • Publishing INSPIRE and other rich data models in GeoServer made easy with Smart Data Loader and Features Templating
Olivia Guyot

Geospatial developer at Camptocamp, involved into the topic of data platforms and metadata interoperability, and the GeoNetwork project; also a happy contributor of OpenLayers!

  • Towards better data platforms with semantic metadata
Olli Rantanen

I have worked in the National Land Survey of Finland for the past four years and my current role includes working as a product owner and writing feature spesifications for the new topographic data production system.

  • Development of a QGIS based topographic data management system
Pano Voudouris
  • WebGIS for Coastal Resilience: A Use case for developing a coastal erosion Observatory
Patryk Grzybowski

Data Scientist at CloudFerro S.A.

  • Destination Earth Data Lake (DEDL) – discovery, access and process data
Paul van Genuchten

DevOps engineer at ISRIC - World Soil Information. We maintain a range of datasets and catalogues related to global soil property distribution (chemical, physical and biological)

  • pygeoapi mid-year update
  • A fun way to do spatial cataloguing and publishing using pygeometa and mdme
  • SDI maintenance DevOps style
Pekka Sarkola

Mr. Pekka Sarkola is a distinguished expert in geospatial sciences and engineering with more than 25 years of professional experience in the field. He is the founder of Gispo companies in Finland and Sweden. Additionally, Pekka presides over the Finnish association for open source geospatial software (OSGeo Suomi) and serves as an active Charter member for the global counterpart (Open Source Geospatial Foundation).

  • Building Enterprise GIS with FOSS4G
  • Managing airport data with Open Source Software
Peter James Zellner

Using and developing open source software for making big EO data accessible and actionable.

  • MOOC Cubes and Clouds - Cloud Native Open Data Sciences for Earth Observation
Peter Petrik
  • A straightforward approach to field data collection with real world examples
  • Mergin Maps: an open source platform based on QGIS for data collection and collaboration
Peter Rushforth

I am an web map standards practitioner and enthusiast, working in the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation on the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure at Natural Resources Canada. I am the co-leader of the W3C Maps for HTML Community Group, and current editor of the Map Markup Language specification and proposal. I believe that maps should be a standard part of the web, because the web is for everyone.

  • Add a "map" tag in HTML: MapML developments and support in GeoServer
Petra Duriancikova

Cartographer with a GIS background, always keen on exploring new approaches to map design and data visualization. A strong believer in combining graphic design with anything geo-related. At MapTiler, I help to bring their vector tiles maps to the next level.

  • Vector Tiles Cartography: Elevate your maps with JSON tricks
Pieter Kempeneers

Pieter Kempeneers is with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra (Italy). He is an engineer in electronics with a PhD in science. His interest is in remote sensing, image processing, and time series analysis. He also develops and uses open source software. Pieter is leading a team on data analytics services that deals with artificial intelligence, data management, data processing, and data visualization.

  • FOSS4G for policy support in Europe, a case study on water monitoring
Polina Krukovich

I'm a Software Engineer at Kontur, where I specialize in developing Disaster Ninja and other innovative solutions aimed at enhancing disaster management through technology. My work focuses on leveraging open-source software to enable rapid and effective disaster response.

  • Disaster Management GIS in Action: Leveraging Open-Source Software for Rapid Response
Püü Polma

Püü Polma, an Estonian GIS Specialist and Cartographer with over 15 years of experience in the private sector, is currently committed to steering Regio OÜ's core database, production processes, and geospatial products toward FOSS4G.

  • Turning an Old Ship Towards FOSS4G – Why, How and Where To.
Rajat Goel
  • dsm2dtm: Generate DTM from DSM for free!
Rajat Shinde

Hey there! My name is Rajat (meaning shining like Silver in Hindi). I hail from India and currently, I am working as a Computer Scientist with NASA IMPACT / the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). I have a Ph.D. degree in Geo-informatics with a specialization in LiDAR data processing using deep learning algorithms. During my Ph.D., I was a recipient of the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship conferred by the Government of India to selected doctoral candidates. Before diving into the spatial dimension, I used to be an Electronics and Communication Engineer.

My journey with open-source (and OSGeo) started in 2017 when I got to attend and present at the FOSS4G Asia 2017. In the same year, I had an amazing experience in contributing to the MapMint project as a Google Summer of Code Student. From 2018 onwards, I am contributing as a GSoC Admin and mentor for the ZOO-Project and MapMint. Also, I serve as a Project Steering Committee (PSC) Member for the ZOO-Project and pgRouting projects. I was one of the mentors for the United Nations OSGeo Education Challenge 2021 for the pgRouting project and represented OSGeo during the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2023 held in California, US.

  • ZOO-Project: from OGC WPS to OGC API - Processes Part 1 and Part 2
Reetta Lindberg
  • Learning paths with FOSS4G
Riku Oja

Riku is a software developer with physicist (PhD) background and an avid interest in open data, open source software, all manner of maps, urban development and location analysis. His favorite projects include Python, databases, backend, online services, APIs and data analysis, but he is interested in all things GIS.

  • Complexity of Land use planning - simplicity from FOSS4G
Saber Razmjooei

Saber Razmjooei is an active figure in the open-source GIS community. He is co-founder of Lutra Consulting, a company dedicated to empowering others with open-source GIS tools and solutions.

  • A straightforward approach to field data collection with real world examples
  • Mergin Maps: an open source platform based on QGIS for data collection and collaboration
  • QGIS 3D and point clouds enhancements
  • QGIS in your browser - QGIS WASM
Salih Yalcin

I worked as an Android Developer and Engineer at the Map Department of the General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre in Türkiye, bringing over eight years of expertise in app development and geospatial sciences. During my time, I led innovative projects to smoothly integrate technology into land registry practices.

Starting my career in 2014, I played key roles in well-known companies like Getir in Ankara and KAYAK in Berlin, making significant contributions to Android development and improving map functionalities.

Aside from my professional roles, I kept things busy at GISLOG Studios, where I explored new technologies and released apps with over 200K downloads on my Google Play account.

My educational journey included being a Geomatics Engineering Ph.D. candidate at Istanbul Technical University, specializing in smart city applications. With a master's degree in Geodesy and Geoinformation Science from Technische Universitat Berlin and another in Geographical Information Technology from Istanbul Technical University, my academic background added depth to my practical experience.

As a conference speaker, I brought a unique mix of technical expertise and real-world application, sharing insights into the dynamic intersection of Android development, geospatial sciences, and land registry advancements.

  • Spatial Data Sharing and Implications: An Example from the Map Department of General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre, Türkiye
Sami Mäkinen

Hands-on architect and the lead developer of the FOSS software package called Oskari at National Land Survey of Finland.

  • State of Oskari for developers
Sangeetha Shankar

I work as a research associate in the area of data management and geodata processing at the Institute of Transportation Systems, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany. Further information can be found in my ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0387-7740

  • GeoServer Monitor PostgreSQL Extension – Persist the monitoring metrics of your GeoServer in a PostgreSQL database
Sanna Jokela

CEO of Gispo Ltd and open data & FOSS4G enthusiast. Loves gardening and cats.

  • Complexity of Land use planning - simplicity from FOSS4G
Seth Girvin

Member of the MapServer PSC, OSGeo Charter Member, and Ireland's OSGeo Chapter

  • Creating a New River Network for Ireland
  • State of MapServer
  • Enhance your MapServer Workflows with mappyfile
Sini Pöytäniemi

Product Owner in National Land Survey of Finland; interested in anything GIS

  • State of Oskari (for end-users)
  • Finnish National Geoportal Paikkatietoikkuna turns 15 years!
Stathis Petridis

Born and raised in Thessaloniki. Graduated from the Department of Topography and Geoinformatics Engineering of International Hellenic University and now a postgraduate student in Applied Informatics of University Of Macedonia.
In February 2020 I started my internship at Consortis Geospatial in the Geoinformatics department, where I remain as an employee after its completion until today. Since my internship and my collaboration with the department, I have expanded my knowledge in GIS and Photogrammetry, as well as an intermediate level of knowledge in Databases, Web and Software Developing. I have also worked with Civil and Surveying Engineering firms in the construction sector on public and private projects.

  • Q-MOKA: A QGIS-Based Application for Managing and Analyzing Traffic Accidents
Stefanie Lumnitz

Stefanie is an Earth Observation Application Scientist at the European Space Agency, leading product development and strategic industrial initiatives under European flagship projects such as Destination Earth (destination-earth.eu), and ESA’s Space for Green Future Accelerator. Her work focuses on enhancing community-driven technology solutions to global challenges such as climate change, with a commitment to sustainable, inclusive practices. She chairs the Big Data from Space conference (bigdatafromspace2023.org) and is a member of the Python Software Foundation and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Previously, she contributed as a core-developer and steering-council member of the Python Spatial Analysis Library (PySAL) and dask-geopandas, and mentored students through NumFocus and the Google Summer of Code.

  • Leading with Open Source: Driving Innovation from Ground to Space
Stefano Bovio

Frontend Developer at GeoSolutions

  • Navigate urban scenarios with MapStore 3D tools
  • MapStore, a year in review
Stefano Conversi

Stefano Conversi was born in Viterbo, Italy, in 1997. He obtained both his BSc degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and MSc degree in Civil Engineering for Risk Mitigation at Politecnico di Milano. Since February 2022 he is part of Politecnico di Milano's GIS-GEOLab team as a PhD student. Currently, he is collaborating with Regione Lombardia's General Direction for Territory and Green Infrastructure, in the development of studies aimed at exploiting Remote Sensing techniques for monitoring and preserving regional ecosystems and biodiversity (e.g. against Invasive Alien Species and drought impacts). His main fields of interest are the ones of crisis management and geoprocessing techniques to support risk assessment.

  • Towards automation of river water surface detection
Sudipta Chowdhury

Versatile transportation and GIS professional with a solid background in GIS development, analysis, and transportation engineering. Known for creating innovative GIS applications and leveraging analytical skills to extract meaningful insights for informed decision-making. Experienced in traffic flow analysis, transportation modeling, and contributing to the planning and design of efficient transportation networks. Committed to pushing the boundaries of innovation at the intersection of GIS, transportation and urban development.

  • Modernizing Geospatial Services: An investigation into modern OGC API implementation and comparative analysis with traditional standards in a Web application
Tambet Matiisen

Heading Autonomous Driving Lab at the University of Tartu. Research interests include artificial intelligence, deep learning and reinforcement learning.

  • Tartu: Pioneering the Future of Self-Driving Technology with Open Source and Open Data
Timo Aarnio

GIS Specialist with software development background. Interested in all kinds of data visualizations and related open source software.

  • Exploring the use of 3D tiles in QGIS – case Helsinki
Tom Kralidis

Tom Kralidis is with the Meteorological Service of Canada and longtime contributor to FOSS4G. He contributes to numerous projects in the Geopython ecosystem.

Tom is the co-chair of the OGC API - Records Standards Working Group, chair of the WMO Expert Team on Metadata, and serves on the OSGeo Board of Directors.

  • pygeoapi mid-year update
  • A fun way to do spatial cataloguing and publishing using pygeometa and mdme
Tomáš Pohanka

Tomas is a GIScience enthusiast with interest in Python programming and databases. He cares about geodata and how to process them. As a hobby, he assembles and develops sensors for measuring weather conditions. In his free time, he travels and does sports.

  • OpenMapTiles - vector tiles from OpenStreetMap & Natural Earth Data
Vasile Crăciunescu

Vasile Craciunescu is a researcher with more than 22 years experience, working for the Romanian National Meteorological Administration and Terrasigna, being in charge with the scientific and operational activities related to GIS database design and implementation, deployment of standardized web services, spatial enabled web interfaces, ETL, EO data processing, project management. He received his diploma in cartography and physical geography in 2001. He has a good experience in working and leading national, EU and ESA research projects. In 2006 Vasile started geo-spatial.org (http://geo-spatial.org), a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps. Since 2011 he is the Romanian delegate in the Copernicus User Forum at the European Commission and the representative of Meteo Romania at Open Geospatial Consortium. In August 2014 he was elected to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation board of directors. For the last eight years he has been teaching FOSS4G-based techniques at the Faculty of Geography - University of Bucharest in the first Romanian ICA-OSGeo Lab. Vasile was the chair of the 2019 FOSS4G international conference.

  • Good old Europe and (geospatial) open source software. Outlook for 2024+
Vasili Bondar
  • Disaster Management GIS in Action: Leveraging Open-Source Software for Rapid Response
Veronica Andreo

Veronica Andreo holds a PhD in Biology and an MSc in Remote Sensing and GIS Applications. She is part of the GRASS Dev Team, and serves as PSC chair since 2021. She is currently working at the Center for Geospatial Analytics, in North Carolina State University (USA) within an NSF grant aimed at bolstering and broadening the software ecosystem of GRASS GIS.

  • Status of GRASS GIS project
Walter Lorenzetti

Django, Python developer and G3WSUITE server-side development manager

  • G3W-SUITE and QGIS integration: state of the art, latest developments and future prospects
  • G3W-SUITE and QGIS Processing API integration: your geographic analysis models on the web
WAPlugin Team

The WAPlugin team is a dynamic group of artificial intelligence engineers and earth science researchers passionate about leveraging remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) for effective natural resources management. Sharing the same determination to make advanced technologies serve sustainable development, they have engaged in a collaboration to develop innovative solutions to the most pressing challenges in this field.

The latest project, WAPlugin, is the result of their collective expertise and commitment to advancing the application of remote sensing data in water resource management and agricultural productivity. As FAO WaPOR Hackathon winners, they have demonstrated exceptional skills in developing practical solutions that integrate remote sensing technology with GIS platforms to streamline data access, analysis and validation processes.

  • Advancing water productivity monitoring: Waplugin for the analysis and validation of FAO WaPOR data in QGIS
Yuri Astrakhan
  • Cofounder of MapLibre
  • Maintainer of Martin tile server
  • Author of Wikipedia API, Maps, and Graphs
  • All MapLibre projects, present and future, in one status update
Yves Bolognini

Project manager and team leader at Camptocamp

  • Digital Twins: Metropolitan Cooperation Platform and Underground Network
  • GeoMapFish Status
Zehra Jawaid

geospatial and design nerd

  • Climate Risk Overview of Coastal Hotspots