Schedule changes
Version 0.6 Oct. 1, 2026
We released a new schedule version!
We sadly had to cancel a session: “From Satellite Pixels to Solar Production and Energy Storage” by Atma Mani
Version 0.5 Sept. 25, 2026
We released a new schedule version!
We sadly had to cancel a session: “Bringing mapping to the largest platform for people-powered research” by Ryan Noe
We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:
- “Verify, then Trust: Evaluating Geo-AI” by Pat Smyth (Nov. 3, 2026, 4:35 p.m. → Nov. 3, 2026, 2:50 p.m.)
- “Free Open Source Municipal Web Mapping using OpenLayers / GitLab Pages” by Sirgeo (Nov. 3, 2026, 4:05 p.m. → Nov. 3, 2026, 4 p.m.)
- “Colorado's Open-Source Common Operating Picture” by Nicholas Ingalls (Nov. 3, 2026, 4:15 p.m. → Nov. 3, 2026, 4:20 p.m.)
- “OpenWetlandsMap - an accessible, community-maintained dataset of wetland observations” by EmmaLi Tsai (Nov. 3, 2026, 3:40 p.m. → Nov. 3, 2026, 3:50 p.m.)
- “Predicting Rice Supply with GIS and Satellite Indicators” by Takeo Shibata (Nov. 3, 2026, 3:35 p.m. → Nov. 3, 2026, 3:40 p.m.)
Version 0.4 Sept. 24, 2026
We released a new schedule version!
We have new sessions!
- “Deploying Enterprise GIS With Open Source and OGC Standards” by Colin Hobson
- “STAC Search: A Search Engine for Geospatial Datasets” by Yifan Mai
- “Colorado's Open-Source Common Operating Picture” by Nicholas Ingalls
- “Look, no backend! The return of client-side spatial processing” by Carston H
- “Bringing mapping to the largest platform for people-powered research” by Ryan Noe
- “Point Clouds from Your Pocket: 3D Capture with a Phone” by James McAndrew
Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:
- “Project Support at OSGeo” by Jody Garnett
- “GeoServer 3 Tour” by Jody Garnett
- “GeoNetwork 5: Reimagining the Spatial Data Catalog for the future” by Jody Garnett
- “Point, Cloud, Print: 3D Printed Landscapes with Open Source Data” by Caitlyn Young
- “Open Source and Cyber Security Regulation” by Jody Garnett
- “Building Environment App on Zero Budget: FOSS and Hard Lessons” by Soorya Narayan Satheesh
We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:
- “Spatial Memory Systems for GNSS-Degraded Navigation” by Cynthia Williams (Nov. 3, 2026, 2:05 p.m. → Nov. 3, 2026, 2:10 p.m.)
- “Verify, then Trust: Evaluating Geo-AI” by Pat Smyth (Nov. 3, 2026, 4:30 p.m., Carr → Nov. 3, 2026, 4:35 p.m., Gardenia)
- “Introducing Geospatial Awareness to LLMs with Integrity, Provenance, and Trust” by Nathan McEachen (Nov. 4, 2026, 11:30 a.m., Tofanelli → Nov. 3, 2026, 4:30 p.m., Carr)
- “GDAL in 2026: your script's a one-liner now” by Dan Baston (Tofanelli → Bondi)
- “Open Source for Geospatial Foundation updates” by Tom Kralidis, Jeroen Ticheler (Nov. 3, 2026, 11:30 a.m., Gardenia → Nov. 4, 2026, 1 p.m., Carr)
- “pygeoapi project status” by Tom Kralidis (Nov. 4, 2026, 11 a.m., Carr → Nov. 3, 2026, 11:30 a.m., Gardenia)
- “Building an MCP Server Using Postgres” by Bruce Momjian (Bondi → Tofanelli)
Version 0.3 Aug. 12, 2026
We released a new schedule version!
We have new sessions!
Version 0.2 Aug. 5, 2026
We released a new schedule version!
We have new sessions!
- “Hacking the BDC (Broadband Data Collection) for fun and profit!” by W. Nick Pappin
- “Accelerated Multi-Source Vector-Tile Generation with Open-source Frameworks” by Vishal Kumar, Shaishav Mahendrakumar Maisuria
- “Performant maps, open data: Optimizing large municipal queries with MapLibre” by George Owen
- “GeoUI: An Open Intent Protocol for Agent-Driven Geospatial Visualization” by Sanjog Thapa
- “SEA-LWE: A Regional Dataset for Lake Surface Water Extent” by Pratyush Kumar Das
- “How Squished Are Your DGGS Cells? A Spherical Aspect Ratio” by AJ Friend
- “An Iterative Process: Creating California's Important Plant Areas” by Dariya Draganova
- “Supporting multiple SRIDs with PostGIS and Django's GeneratedField” by Kirk Davis
- “Wrangling spatial data, modeling biogeochemistry, and scaling serverless cloud infrastructure” by Matt Brush
- “TorchGeo: ML Workflows for Open Geospatial Data” by Brian M Hamlin
- “Benchmarking Cloud-Optimized Point Clouds (COPC) for Scientific LiDAR Workflows” by Harshini Girish, Rajat Shinde, Alex Mandel
- “Small County use of PostGIS and QGIS for 911 databases” by Randal Hale
- “Building an MCP Server Using Postgres” by Bruce Momjian
- “Collections, collections, everywhere, but not the collection you need” by Brianna (Pagán) Corremonte, Henry Rodman
- “Spatial Memory Systems for GNSS-Degraded Navigation” by Cynthia Williams
- “Contract-Driven Geospatial Indicators at Any Scale” by Rodolfo Figueroa Soriano
- “Georeferencing Natural History Collections at Scale: A Hybrid AI Approach” by Kate Vavra-Musser
- “Can AI Write SQL?” by Bruce Momjian
- “The GeoCDL: streamlining geospatial workflows on high-performance computing infrastructure” by Heather Savoy
- “Geospatial AI Agents in Practice: Sacramento Open Data and Hermes” by Dara O’beirne, Silas Toms
- “Terrain analysis of large datasets: applications from the National Map” by Ryan Gillespie
- “GeoProof and ProofSimple: A Trust Layer for GIS AI Answers” by Adam Cabrera
- “Into the STACLands: A Choose Your Own Adventure” by Matthew Hanson
- “Operational Geospatial Workflows for Decision Support” by Jing Yuan
- “Empowering people to map the urban heat island effect” by Dan Joseph
- “Verify, then Trust: Evaluating Geo-AI” by Pat Smyth
- “OpenHistoricalMap: across the geoverse” by Minh Nguyễn
- “Vector Tiles using DuckDB, GeoParquet & Azure Storage+Functions” by Jesse Amundsen
- “GeoServer 3 Tour” by Jody Garnett
- “AI, Open Source, and the Future of Entry-Level GIS” by Jada O'Donnell
- “Moving from Science to Product” by Naomi Provost
- “Building a Python Workflow for California Rice Monitoring” by Takeo Shibata
- “Open source utilization of 3DHP for fire adapted watershed management.” by Tim Bailey
- “Predicting Rice Supply with GIS and Satellite Indicators” by Takeo Shibata
- “A dashboard for monitoring HAB events in the SF Bay” by Lindsey Sim
- “Cities, unmapped: Scaling Pedestrian Infrastructure Mapping with Tile2Net” by Maryam Hosseini
- “Visualizing Aggregations in STAC: From Scenes to Coverage” by Matthew Hanson
- “Giving LLMs a Sense of Place: a Spatial MCP Server” by Pat Smyth
- “Cliopatria - A geopolitical database from 3400BCE to 2024CE” by Erin Mutch
- “The Archiving and Preservation of Public Geospatial Data” by Kim Durante, Karen Majewicz
- “Open Source and Cyber Security Regulation” by Jody Garnett
- “Civic GeoShell for Emergency Map Sprawl” by Bernardo Salazar
- “GeoNetwork 5: Reimagining the Spatial Data Catalog for the future” by Jody Garnett
- “Developing a GDAL Driver for Cloud-Optimized NISAR HDF5” by Oleg Pariser
- “Connecting Everything to MapGuide Open Source” by Gordon Luckett
- “Validating and Prioritizing Crowdsourced Disaster Reports with Open Geospatial Methods” by Mohammed Bilal Ahmed
- “Creating LLM Captions and Embeddings for Natural-Language Geospatial Search” by Brian Andres
- “Geograypher: Enabling Geospatial Predictions from Individual Drone Images” by David Russell
- “Maps that do the talking: Data-driven visualization with MapLibre” by George Owen
- “gdalraster: Comprehensive GDAL API bindings for R” by Chris Toney, Michael Sumner
- “Leveraging Open-Source to Build Cost-Effective Supply Chain Systems” by Timothy Steward
- “Mergin Maps: an open source platform for field data collection” by Vitor Vieira
- “ISTL: cloud native indexed STL files” by Daniel Tan
- “Building Environment App on Zero Budget: FOSS and Hard Lessons” by Soorya Narayan Satheesh
- “Open Timezone Boundary Data - 10 Years In” by Evan Siroky
- “Code is liability – contributing to GDAL in the LLM era” by Howard Butler
- “Source Cooperative: Cloud-Native Geospatial Data Publishing at any Scale” by Tyler Erickson
- “From Shapefiles to Spatial Databases: PostgreSQL Basics” by Timothy Steward
- “Geospatial Workforce trends: The demand for open source” by Andres Abeyta
- “Hierarchical (Co-)Compaction for DGGS Cells” by AJ Friend
- “Getting Crisis Imagery to Responders: Rebuilding OpenAerialMap” by Cristiano Giovando
- “Agents, DuckDB, and H3: Insights From Overture Without Really Trying” by Isaac Brodsky, Sina Kashuk
- “Introducing Geospatial Awareness to LLMs with Integrity, Provenance, and Trust” by Nathan McEachen
- “Wildfire Intelligence with Open Geospatial AI” by Fuxun Yu, Rishi Madhok
- “Ask the Map: Natural-Language Q&A for Disaster Response” by rosswin
- “Sparse Data, Stronger Maps” by Bernardo Salazar
- “GDAL in 2026: your script's a one-liner now” by Dan Baston
- “Relationships Are the Data: Semantic Graphs for Geospatial Resources” by Dennis Wuthrich
- “From QGIS to the Field and Back with Mergin Maps” by Vitor Vieira
- “Open-Source R Workflows for Modern Geospatial and Accessibility Analysis” by Ari Tilles
- “Point, Cloud, Print: 3D Printed Landscapes with Open Source Data” by Caitlyn Young
- “We Scanned These Maps. Now What?” by Michele Tobias
- “Wither QField? Mapping Apps in the Age of AI” by Rhys Stewart
- “pygeoapi project status” by Tom Kralidis
- “Monitoring Drought Impacts on California Rice with Python” by Takeo Shibata
- “Building Trustworthy Open Geospatial AI Agents:Collaborative Co-Design Approach” by Nidhi Jha
- “The OpenStreetMap platform today” by Minh Nguyễn
- “Building a Geospatial Feature Store: Lessons from Elastic, PostGIS, Kubernetes” by Atma Mani
- “Building SWIFFT: Open Geospatial Flood Intelligence for Transportation Decision Support” by Seth Lawler
- “NASA Open Science Essentials” by Fred Kepner, Peter Löwe, Nidhi Jha
- “State of GRASS” by Corey White
- “QGIS Birds of a Feather” by Randal Hale
- “Scientific data gathering with QField” by Nico Tripcevich
- “Precise but Partial: Honest Mobility Modeling for Public Decisions” by Forrest Pound
- “Where to Cut? Partitioning Branching Shapes in River Floodplains” by avkoehl
- “Precision farming with GeoServer: lessons learned and future directions” by Andrea Aime, Simone Giannecchini
- “Access all the data at once, Virtual Zarr and GeoZarr” by Alex Mandel
- “Adding Open Source Tools to a Proprietary Ecosystem” by Daniel Tan
- “KyFromAbove: Building on Open Data Success” by Ian Horn
- “Wildfire Needs a Hazmat Overlay” by Bernardo Salazar
- “Open Source Low-Power Environment Monitoring with Meshtastic” by Paul Walko
- “Meet the people who put San José on the map” by Minh Nguyễn
- “Natural-Language Routing on an Open Stack” by John Gunnar Carlsson, Andreas Royset
- “Wrangling Public Geospatial Data into a Shared Model” by Matthew VanderMolen
- “Hitchikers guide to QGIS” by Randal Hale
- “From Satellite Pixels to Solar Production and Energy Storage” by Atma Mani
- “GeoJupyter: the Jupyter ecosystem and open tools for geospatial science” by Fernando Pérez, Matt Fisher, Maryam Hosseini
- “Building Open Source Teams” by Bruce Momjian
- “lazycogs: super lazy analysis of massive COG archives” by Henry Rodman
- “State of Geoserver” by Andrea Aime, Simone Giannecchini
- “Building a Regional Geospatial Community: Lessons from BayGeo” by Cam Denney
- “Will Postgres Live Forever?” by Bruce Momjian
- “Detecting, mapping, and taxonomically classifying trees using RGB drone imagery” by Derek Young, Amritha Pallavoor
- “Project Support at OSGeo” by Jody Garnett
- “Modeling SGMA Undesirable Result #6 Using Open-Source CVHM2 Workflows” by Behrooz Etebari
- “DGGS Set Design: Compaction-Aware Optimization” by AJ Friend
- “DuckDB and Spatial Datasets: A Geo-Practitioner's Feedback” by GUILLAUME SUEUR
- “Open Geo Embeddings: Models, Representations, and Systems” by Matthew Hanson
- “SedonaDB: A fast, friction-free spatial database for Python + R” by Dewey Dunnington, Jia Yu
- “OpenWetlandsMap - an accessible, community-maintained dataset of wetland observations” by EmmaLi Tsai
- “GeoServer VS GeoServer: fight!” by Andrea Aime, Simone Giannecchini
- “Who Gets Left Behind? A Reproducible Pipeline for Health Equity” by Ushashi Podder
- “Do formats exist? Towards a unified foundation for data tooling” by Jarrett Keifer
- “AI-dministering GeoServer and MapStore” by Andrea Aime, Simone Giannecchini
- “Open Transit Data from Cal-ITP” by Evan Siroky, Doc Ritezel
- “Leveraging STAC to support CONUS-scale wildfire modeling” by Kirk Davis
- “From Geoportal to Platform: Introducing the BTAA Geospatial API” by Eric Larson
Version 0.1 July 15, 2026
We released our workshop schedule.