Frontend Engineer at EOX and the Web Application Lead for the EOPF Sentinel Zarr Explorer project. I am a core maintainer of EOxElements and eodash with specialty in developing open-source tools that visualize geospatial data.

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.

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 Mohr is a passionate advocate for open-source software. Since October 2024, she has worked as a GIS specialist at OPENGIS.CH, where she provides consulting, training, and manages projects. After ten years abroad, she gained extensive experience in academia, the private sector, and development cooperation. Berit brings a global perspective to her work, enriching her talents for teaching and translation. In her free time, Berit enjoys exploring nature by bicycle, tending her garden, and hiking in the mountains – she spends every spare minute outdoors, often with her new addition, her little American Shepherd, Ambo.

Even Rouault is a long-time GDAL contributor and chair of its Project Steering Committee

Felix is a software engineer and open data advocate with a history contributing to the Free Software communities of Debian, OpenStreetMap, and OSGeo. He has mapped bus routes in Nicaragua, led the development of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s Tasking Manager v4, and organized Free Software events across Latin America. Nowadays he works at Development Seed on projects for the European Space Agency, providing open earth observation information at scale.

Software developer at Lutra Consulting, currently working on improving Mergin Maps mobile, one of QGIS official mobile applications.

Hans van der Kwast is Associate Professor of Open Science and Digital Innovation at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. Through the GIS OpenCourseWare platform and his popular YouTube channel he shares free tutorials. He is a board member of the Dutch QGIS Users Association and has his own consultancy QWAST-GIS. He co-authored the book QGIS for Hydrological Applications with Locate Press.

Ian is an independent geospatial consultant who is a founding member of the GeoTools and GeoServer projects. He continues to be surprised that people will pay him to have this much fun.

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.

Software engineer at Telespazio, working on the ESA-funded EOEPCA project that develops open source building blocks for Earth Observation exploitation platforms.

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 founder and Project Officer for the GeoNetwork opensource project. He currently serves on the OSGeo Board

Jody Garnett is an open source developer and advocate working with GeoCat Canada. He has over 20 years experience consulting, training, building solutions, and guiding technology development. Jody is on the steering committee for the GeoServer, GeoTools, and JTS Topology Suite projects, and volunteers as chair of the OSGeo Incubation Committee.

Geologist turned OSGeo developer with a strong focus on Python-based backend development and spatial data engineering. I design and build robust solutions for processing and exposing geo- and sensor data through APIs and database-driven architectures.

Experienced in Python, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker, and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Azure). Previously responsible for the backend of an Azure-based GIS API integrating public spatial datasets into engineering workflows.

Currently deepening my expertise in OSGeo backend solutions to further strengthen my work in scalable, production-ready GIS systems. I combine analytical thinking with a drive to continuously learn, teach and improve.

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 earned a Masters degree in Geography from the University of New Mexico in 2000. He has a broad skillset. He's a spatial analyst, cartographer, trainer/teacher & author. He has published many QGIS books, the most recent being: Discover QGIS 3.x - 2nd Edition, QGIS for Hydrological Applications - 2nd Edition, and Field Data Collection with QGIS and Mergin Maps. He was elected as an OsGeo Charter Member in 2015. He's also a fellow of the Rewilding Institute.

Technical Lead for ESA's Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Common Architecture

MapServer maintainer and developer, member of the MapServer PSC and OSGeo Charter Member

Frontend developer at GeoSolutions, interested in interactive maps and cartography

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.

MapLibre and OxiBUS founder, active open source contributor and advocate, one of the initial developers of Wikipedia platform, former principle engineer at Elastic, now at Rivian working on maps, Rust, and other fun things.

I am the head of a development team at IGN. My team works on creating tools for producing image data (as orthophotos), 3D data (LiDAR data for the whole of France, DTM, DSM) and digital twins. My team also has a large component dedicated to developing web visualization of 3D data for iTowns.