Explore the GeoAI talks at FOSS4G
This is a suggested agenda for attendees interested in GeoAI, large language models, spatial agents, machine learning, MCP, embeddings, knowledge graphs, and the infrastructure needed to make AI work with geospatial data.
Browse the full schedule and build your own path. And don’t forget to register!
MONDAY - NOVEMBER 2 - HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Exploring Cloud Native Geospatial Data Formats: Hands-on with Vectors · Jarrett Keifer
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Building Geospatially Aware LLM Agents with Graphs and DGGS · Nathan McEachen · Carr
TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 3 - CONFERENCE TALKS
10:30–10:55
Creating LLM Captions and Embeddings for Natural-Language Geospatial Search · Brian Andres · Carr
11:00–11:25
Giving LLMs a Sense of Place: a Spatial MCP Server · Pat Smyth · Carr
11:30–11:55
Building an MCP Server Using Postgres · Bruce Momjian · Bondi
1:30–1:55
GeoUI: An Open Intent Protocol for Agent-Driven Geospatial Visualization · Sanjog Thapa · Bataglieri
2:00–2:25
Geospatial AI Agents in Practice: Sacramento Open Data and Hermes · Dara O’beirne & Silas Toms · Bataglieri
2:30–2:55
Agents, DuckDB, and H3: Insights From Overture Without Really Trying · Isaac Brodsky & Sina Kashuk · Bataglieri
2:50–2:55
Verify, then Trust: Evaluating Geo-AI · Pat Smyth · Gardenia
4:00–4:25
GeoProof and ProofSimple: A Trust Layer for GIS AI Answers · Adam Cabrera · Bataglieri
WEDNESDAY - NOVEMBER 4 - CONFERENCE TALKS
10:30–10:55
TorchGeo: ML Workflows for Open Geospatial Data · Brian M Hamlin · Bataglieri
11:00–11:25
Geograypher: Enabling Geospatial Predictions from Individual Drone Images · David Russell · Bataglieri
11:30–11:55
Introducing Geospatial Awareness to LLMs with Integrity, Provenance, and Trust · Nathan McEachen · Tofanelli
1:00–1:25
Relationships Are the Data: Semantic Graphs for Geospatial Resources · Dennis Wuthrich · Tofanelli
1:30–1:55
Georeferencing Natural History Collections at Scale: A Hybrid AI Approach · Kate Vavra-Musser · Compagno
2:00–2:25
Building a Geospatial Feature Store: Lessons from Elastic, PostGIS, Kubernetes · Atma Mani · Tofanelli
3:00–3:25
Can AI Write SQL? · Bruce Momjian · Tofanelli
3:30–3:55
Open Geo Embeddings: Models, Representations, and Systems · Matthew Hanson · Tofanelli