Simone Giannecchini

Simone Giannecchini is the founder and Technical Director of GeoSolutions, a leading contributor to open-source geospatial technologies such as GeoServer, MapStore, and GeoNode. With over two decades of experience in large-scale, standards-based system design, he has led deployments of spatial data infrastructures and 3D applications for public and private sector clients globally.


Sessions

11-03
10:30
25min
AI-dministering GeoServer and MapStore
Andrea Aime, Simone Giannecchini

AI assistants can now help administer GeoServer and MapStore via Model Context Protocol servers, publishing layers, tuning caches, diagnosing issues, with guardrails to keep them safe. An early look at what we're building and learning.

Technical
Beavis
11-03
11:00
25min
State of Geoserver
Andrea Aime, Simone Giannecchini

GeoServer enables publishing and processing geospatial data via open standards. This talk highlights new features, community updates, and recent developments, making it valuable for users, developers, and those curious about this widely adopted open-source OSGeo project.

Technical
Beavis
11-04
14:00
25min
GeoServer VS GeoServer: fight!
Andrea Aime, Simone Giannecchini

GeoServer is mature and widely deployed, yet often underperforms due to configuration, not software. This talk self-benchmarks GeoServer: measuring the real performance cost of operator decisions—data formats, security, logging, CRS, JVM settings, and scaling.

Technical
Bataglieri
11-04
15:30
25min
Precision farming with GeoServer: lessons learned and future directions
Andrea Aime, Simone Giannecchini

GeoSolutions experience deploying GeoServer for precision farming at scale: optimizing raster/vector data, PostGIS data modeling, deployment guidelines, and on-the-fly agronomical index styling (NDVI and beyond). Attendees learn to design efficient, scalable GeoServer deployments.

Technical
Bataglieri