First Time FOSS4G Attendee Guide
Attending FOSS4G NA for the first time? This suggested agenda focuses on approachable workshops and talks that introduce core geospatial tools and applications for how they are used in the real world. Come to Sacramento and get to know the FOSS4G community.
Browse the full schedule and build your own path. And don’t forget to register!
MONDAY - NOVEMBER 2 - HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS
Monday’s workshops are a great way to orient yourself before the conference talks begin. There are several beginner friendly options, plus a few more if you already have some open source experience.
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Beginner: Hitchhikers guide to QGIS - Randal Hale
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Beginner: Open Methods for Disaggregating Commodity Flows - JJ Paul
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
All Levels: Exploring Cloud Native Geospatial Data Formats: Hands-on with Vectors · Jarrett Keifer
1:00–4:00 p.m.
All Levels: QGIS Map Design Fundamentals · Michele Tobias
1:00–4:00 p.m.
All Levels: From QGIS to the Field and Back with Mergin Maps · Vitor Vieira
1:00 PM - 4:00 p.m.
All Levels: Make FEMA Flood Maps Cloud-Native: A GeoParquet + DuckDB Pipeline
TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 3 - CONFERENCE TALKS
10:30 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.
All Levels: Into the STACLands: A Choose Your Own Adventure · Matthew Hanson
11:00-11:25
All Levels: State of GeoServer
11:00 am – 11:25 am Bataglieri
Collections, collections, everywhere, but not the collection you need · Henry Rodman, Brianna (Pagán) Corremonte
11:30 am – 11:55 am Carr
Ask the Map: Natural-Language Q&A for Disaster Response · Athena Liu
1 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Grand Nave
Check out the novel methods and applications in the poster session
1:30 pm – 1:55 pm Tofanelli
DuckDB and Spatial Datasets: A Geo-Practitioner's Feedback · Guillaume Sueur
2:00 pm – 2:25 pm Beavis
Wither QField? Mapping Apps in the Age of AI · Rhys Stewart
2:30 – 2:25 pm Gardenia
Come see some exciting Lightning Talks
Deploying Enterprise GIS With Open Source and OGC Standards · Colin Hobson
STAC Search: A Search Engine for Geospatial Datasets · Yifan Mai
Verify, then Trust: Evaluating Geo-AI · Pat Smyth
3:30 – 3:55 pm Bondi
Building a Regional Geospatial Community: Lessons from BayGeo · Cam Denney
4:30 – 4:55 pm Bondi
GeoJupyter: the Jupyter ecosystem and open tools for geospatial science · Fernando Pérez, Matt Fisher, Maryam Hosseini
WEDNESDAY - NOVEMBER 4 - CONFERENCE TALKS
10:30 - 10:55 a.m. Gardenia
Birds of a Feather - Come find (or start!) a Birds of a Feather table.