I work at the Geodetic Institute of Slovenia in Ljubljana, contributing to various projects as a Remote Sensing/Data Analyst, GIS coordinator, and specialist. Primarily, my work revolves around the analysis of (VHR) aerial imagery, satellite imagery and LiDAR point clouds. I heavily rely on Python, GRASS GIS, QGIS, PDAL, PostgreSQL, for data torturing and distribution.

I am also a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme Environmental Protection at the University of Ljubljana. My research focuses on developing a synergy between hyperspectral remote sensing, machine learning, and chemical analysis for soil contamination detection and monitoring.

Remote Sensing scientist and Open Science Platform Engineer at the European Space Agency - Department of Climate Action, Sustainability and Science.
Leads ESA's strategic initiative EarthCODE (earth code.esa.int), implementing the vision of EO Open Science by enabling adoption of FAIR in the scientific practice.

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.

Anne Fouilloux, a Senior Research Engineer, specializes in Open Science, FAIR data, and Big Data analytics. With a PhD in Atmospheric Physics, she has contributed to Pangeo and EOSC (European Open Science Cloud), focusing on data management, Earth system modeling, and scalable computing. A strong advocate for Open Science, she advances data accessibility and interoperability to drive scientific innovation.

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).

Berit, GIS enthusiast, promotes and supports open source software. Since 2022 she works with GFA Consulting Group GmbH trzying to push GIS into the development cooperation sector. In Oct2024, she started at OPENGIS.CH, where she advises, trains and manages projects. With her many years of experience in various sectors such as academia, public and the development cooperation context, she brings a global perspective and has an talent for translating and teaching different languages.
In her free time, her best friend is her bike, the garden and the mountains. She spends every free minute in the countryside, if possible

Deyan Samardzhiev is the Founder and the Director of Engineering at Lampata. He specialises implementing geospatial cloud-native solutions within various enterprises and the public sector at both the local and government level. His expertise lies in architecting cloud-native environments, building distributed controls, and enabling organisations to leverage spatial data effectively for improved decision-making and operational efficiency. He is key personnel in a variety of leading research projects, most notably, ESA's EarthCODE and part of the Pangeo community. A core part of his approach is guiding private sector projects to transition into open-source initiatives.

Geospatial expert with scientific and industrial experience and a passion for open-source GIS. An active member of the QGIS community, serving as a translations coordinator, plugins developer, and event organizer. Currently contributing to building the geospatial stack at NextGIS OÜ and leading the office in Serbia. My favorite aspect of GIS work is geographic modeling and addressing environmental challenges.

Enock Seth Nyamador is a FOSS4G and Open Data Consultant and advocate. He is an active OpenStreetMap contributor and OSGeo Charter member, as well as a member of the OSGeo Marketing Committee and OSGeoLive PSC. He also participates in the Free software and Free content movements.

Hans van der Kwast is an Associate Professor in Open Science and Digital Innovation at IHE Delft and a QGIS certified trainer. He runs his own company QWAST-GIS, shares free course materials on GIS OpenCourseWare, is co-author of the book QGIS for Hydrological Applications and has a popular YouTube Channel. He is also a board member of the Dutch QGIS User Group and a member of QCooperative.

Ian is a research software engineer at the University of Glasgow, and a long term contributor to the GeoTools and GeoServer projects.

Mag. Ing. Silv. specialized in Urban Forestry, Nature Conservation, and Environmental Protection. With over two years of experience in front-end web development, I bring expertise in creating dynamic and user-friendly web applications.
Currently, I am a Front-End Developer at LIST LABS, where I specialise in developing Web GIS applications for diverse projects. My technical stack includes React, Redux, TypeScript, and OpenLayers, enabling me to deliver efficient and scalable solutions that integrate geospatial data visualisation and interaction.

GIS specialist. Professionally engaged in acquiring, processing and analyzing information - public, spatial and environmental information. The author of many implementations and studies on spatial analytic underpins the decision-making process in the process of assessing the impact of planned investments on the environment. Author and co-author of many spatial data sets, open source data solutions and author of legal regulations related to the functioning of protected areas in north-eastern Poland. In scientific terms, I am involved in the use of GIS in a analysis related to renewable energy sources. More at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakubbobrowski/

Contributor to the development of the Giswater project in BGEO

Hello! I’m Jorge Martinez, currently working as a geospatial software engineer at the World Food Programme. My focus of work is mostly on geo-data collection and analysis to handle emergencies at a global level
My background is in electronic engineering, with a master in computer science. I did research in computer vision and machine learning and then jumped into GIS focusing of development of different open source tools, ranging from spatial database infrastructure, to OpenStreetMap-derived tools.
On my free time, I like to mix music, visit historical museums and try exotic food.

I have worked as a developer in Open Source GIS domain in multiple startups for the past 6 years and built many applications from scratch to production, managed teams, hired people and wore many other hats.I had the honor of working with companies from all over the world including Japan, Switzerland, Australia, US and more.

Now I am volunteering at OSGeo, giving back to the community that has given me access to the whole wide world.

Work: https://jsonsingh.com/work

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.

In early 2021, Kurt moved from the USA to Denmark and now works for Septima in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has a broad skillset. He is a spatial analyst, cartographer, trainer/teacher and author. He has just published his 10th book on the open-source GIS software QGIS with Locate Press. In 2015 he became an OsGeo Charter Member. He is also a fellow of the Rewilding Institute and a board member of Wild Arizona.

M.Eng in Geodesy and Geoinformatics, with over 5 years of experience in full-stack software development, GIS, remote sensing and data science. I'm currently working as Lead Software developer. Due to my involvement in various LIST LABS projects, of which all include use of React, OpenLayers and Tegola, I gained sufficient knowledge to design and develop highly efficient algorithms and quality webapps.

I'm environment scientist with Master's Degree in GIS and currently working at BGEO OPEN GIS SL carrying out tasks related to database development and GIS projects.

Marko is a software engineer and data visualization enthusiast specializing in geospatial technologies. Currently a Founding Engineer at Fused, he builds interactive geospatial applications using React and deck.gl. Previously, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Foursquare and a Tech Speaker at Mozilla. As the Director of Armada JS, Serbia’s largest full-stack JavaScript conference, Marko is dedicated to community building and knowledge sharing. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science and is pursuing a PhD in data visualization.

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

Frontend developer at GeoSolutions, interested in interactive maps, cartography and 3D visualizations

free and open source software, open data, maps, space, entrepreneurish, at @eox_a, skiing, climbing, occasionally Sherlock

Senior Software Engineer at GeoSolutions, project manager and product owner of MapStore with eighteen years experience on WebGIS applications.

Tom Kralidis is with the Meteorological Service of Canada and longtime contributor to FOSS4G. He leads and contributes to numerous projects in the Geopython ecosystem. He is the 2024 recipient of the Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G), awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G community.

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.

I’ve been building GIS solutions at the Geodetic Institute of Slovenia for over 15 years, working across the stack on everything from web mapping applications to data processing pipelines. My background is in biomedical engineering, but I found my way into geospatial tech through the field of automation — and I’ve been streamlining processes and visualizing data ever since.

I’m still more of an open source power user than a contributor — but I hope someday I’ll carve out the time to give something back to the community.

Django and Python Developer.
Main admin developer of the G3W-SUITE application

• MapLibre Co-founder, currently serving on the board
• Maintainer of Martin tile server
• Created Wikipedia API, Maps, and Graphs
• Former principle engineer at Elastic (elasticsearch)
• Currently at Rivian