Open Source Does That? Talks that Inspire.
Innovation and open source…this agenda is for the attendee who wants to see the surprising ways open source is being used to solve real-world problems. Follow open tools into wildfire evacuation, AI-powered disaster response, 911 addressing, supply chains, flood intelligence, historical maps, low-power environmental sensors, drone-based tree identification, natural-language routing, precision agriculture, and more.
Browse the full schedule and build your own path. And don’t forget to register!
MONDAY - NOVEMBER 2 - HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS
9:00 – 12:00 p.m.
Routes to Safety: A Wildfire Evacuation Map from Open Data · Vishal Kumar & Shaishav Maisuria · Beavis
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Geohazard Change Detection for Emergency Management with GRASS · Corey White · Bondi
TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 3 - CONFERENCE TALKS
10:30–10:55
Wildfire Intelligence with Open Geospatial AI · Fuxun Yu & Rishi Madhok · Compagno
11:00–11:25
Giving LLMs a Sense of Place: a Spatial MCP Server · Pat Smyth · Carr
11:30–11:55
Ask the Map: Natural-Language Q&A for Disaster Response · Athena Liu · Carr
1:30–1:55
SEA-LWE: A Regional Dataset for Lake Surface Water Extent · Pratyush Kumar Das · Compagno
2:00–2:25
Geospatial AI Agents in Practice: Sacramento Open Data and Hermes · Dara O’beirne & Silas Toms · Bataglieri
2:30–2:55
Leveraging Open-Source to Build Cost-Effective Supply Chain Systems · Tim Steward · Bondi
2:30–2:55
Small County Use of PostGIS and QGIS for 911 Databases · Randal Hale · Tofanelli
3:30–3:55
Building SWIFFT: Open Geospatial Flood Intelligence for Transportation Decision Support · Seth Lawler · Compagno
4:30–4:55
A Dashboard for Monitoring HAB Events in the SF Bay · Lindsey Sim · Compagno
WEDNESDAY - NOVEMBER 4 - CONFERENCE TALKS
10:30–10:55
Civic GeoShell for Emergency Map Sprawl · Bernardo Salazar · Compagno
11:00–11:25
OpenHistoricalMap: Across the Geoverse · Minh Nguyen · Beavis
11:30–11:55
Cliopatria - A Geopolitical Database from 3400BCE to 2024CE · Erin Mutch · Beavis
1:00–1:25
Getting Crisis Imagery to Responders: Rebuilding OpenAerialMap · Cristiano Giovando · Beavis
1:30–1:55
Georeferencing Natural History Collections at Scale: A Hybrid AI Approach · Kate Vavra-Musser · Compagno
1:30–1:55
Open Source Low-Power Environment Monitoring with Meshtastic · Paul Walko · Beavis
2:00–2:25
We Scanned These Maps. Now What? · Michele Tobias · Compagno
3:00–3:25
Detecting, Mapping, and Taxonomically Classifying Trees Using RGB Drone Imagery · Derek Young & Amritha Pallavoor · Beavis
3:00–3:25
Natural-Language Routing on an Open Stack · John Gunnar Carlsson & Andreas Royset · Compagno
3:30–3:55
Precision Farming with GeoServer: Lessons Learned and Future Directions · Andrea Aime & Simone Giannecchini · Bataglieri