Clients & Visualization
●Web Mapping & Visualization48 talksMapLibre / OpenLayers / Leaflet 2.0 — plus the new MLT tile format in the making●Desktop GIS20 talksQGIS 4 migration is this year’s big topic; plugin ecosystem thriving◆3D Web Visualization7 talksCesiumJS at the core — GPU rendering, geology, weather, history◆Mobile & Field Survey3 talksQField and Mergin Maps, the offline field-work standards
Processing & Analysis
●GeoAI & Machine Learning38 talksFrom satellite image classification to urban graph networks1 → 17 talks in a year↗LLMs & AI Agents × GIS17 talksMCP servers, natural-language queries, RAG — talking to GIS has arrived●Remote Sensing & EO29 talksrasterio / xarray / odc-stac — satellite analysis for everyoneNew wave↗DGGS (Discrete Global Grids)7 talksOGC standardization sparks a new generation beyond H3●Point Clouds & Terrain7 talksPDAL plus new Rust tools; open government point clouds lead the wayFrom Japan●3D City Models & PLATEAU7 talksRe:Earth Flow, PLATEAU SDK — CityGML tooling maturing fast●Digital Twins & AR6 talksUrban, environmental and construction twins taking shape◆Routing & Navigation13 talksValhalla / OSRM / pgRouting 4.0 — evolving through Rust & WASM
Data Infrastructure
Headliner↗Cloud-Native Formats40 talksGeoParquet 2.0, PMTiles, COG, Zarr — “just put a file on storage” servingGeoServer 3●Servers, OGC APIs & Catalogs39 talksGeoServer 3 lands this year; STAC becomes the catalog lingua franca●Spatial Databases10 talksPostGIS as the bedrock; DuckDB Spatial & SedonaDB rising for analytics◆Core Libraries4 talksGDAL / GEOS / PROJ — the quiet foundation everything stands on
Applications & Community
●Application Domainsby topic mentionsEnvironment & Climate 77 · Disaster & Resilience 39 · Transport & Mobility 35 · Urban & Smart City 35 · Peace, Memory & Heritage 32 · Agriculture & Food 15 · Health 8●OpenStreetMap & Open Data14 talksCommunity mapping, open addresses, geocoding●Community, Education & Governance23 talksGrowing local chapters, sustaining projects, teaching GIS