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The OGC Stakeholder Community Coordination Group, which brings together members of the Climate and Disaster Resilience communities, has lined up an exciting program of speakers and panels for the first part of 2024. The talks will showcase geospatial technologies and data (especially those leveraging OGC Standards) across a range of applications used in Climate and Disaster Resilience. The talks are free and open to the public. Anyone interested in how spatial data and technology can help us to improve climate and disaster resilience is encouraged to attend. Seminars are held monthly on the third Wednesday at 11:00-12:30 US Eastern. Each presentation/panel will run for around 30 minutes + time for Q&A. This will be followed by short updates on what's happening in relevant OGC Pilots and Working Groups, as well as any upcoming opportunities. Preliminary Program for Winter/Spring 2024 datespeakertopic17 JanPaul English (Tracking California, Public Health Institute)Geospatial Environmental Health Products from the Public Health Institute21 FebAnna Liljedahl (Woodwell Climate Research Center)Permafrost Discovery Gateway - enabling big data creation and knowledge-generation to support Arctic communities20 MarchGrey Nearing and Avichai Tendler (Google)Google's Global Flood Forecasting Model and Fire Products17 AprilClimate Science + Open Science crossover panel - OSPD participantsHow can open science (geospatial) tools enable climate and disaster resilience?15 MayAllan Jamieson (Ordnance Survey)Can location create trust in supply chains?JuneNo seminar in JuneOGC Member Meeting - informal meetup17 JulyTodd Barr (Verisk)Kate Vavra-Musser (University of Minnesota / iGuide)Title TBC How to join the seminars: Link to use from your computer, tablet or smartphone: https://meet.goto.com/809299333 US Participants can also dial in using a phone:United States: +1 (224) 501-3412Access Code: 809-299-333 To join from a video-conferencing room or system:Dial in or type: 67.217.95.2 or inroomlink.goto.comMeeting ID: 809 299 333Or dial directly: 809299333@67.217.95.2 or 67.217.95.2##809299333 Members can also access the info using the OGC Portal Calendar.

The OGC UK & Ireland Forum is an informal group of people and organizations in UK and Ireland that are interested in OGC Standards and geospatial innovation. It is open to any organisation located wholly or in part in the UK & Ireland. There will be talks on Digital Twin technologies, OGC APIs, Compliance Testing, and more. The meeting will be held at the Geovation Hub in London on Friday June 7th, at 14:00 - 16:00 BST. Virtual participation will be offered via GoTo Meeting. Click here for registration details.

OGC’s 129th Member Meeting is scheduled. Join us in Montreal, where we will continue to connect location, show why standards matter, and share how interoperable technologies are crucial to sharing geospatial information. This one-week event, filled with technology showcases, dozens of Working Group meetings to improve standards and domains, special sessions, workshops, and keynotes, will show the value of the consortium's community of experts. The OGC Collaborative Innovations and Solutions program will also be in attendance sharing the latest concepts in climate, space, aviation, and more: all powered by our community. Registration is open now at ogcmeet.org Strategic Member Support: Dinner Sponsor: General Sponsor:

The OGC Canada Forum is back! Scheduled as part of the 129th OGC Member Meetings in Montreal, join us in person or remotely to contribute to the Canadian Geospatial Community. All Canadian organizations and those operating in Canada are welcome to participate, whether members or non-members of OGC. Canada Forum sessions will be held on June 17 and 18, 2024. The Forum aims to boost collaboration among stakeholders to address Canada's geospatial needs by focusing on capacity building, innovation, standards and economic growth. Attendees can expect discussions on current and future geospatial issues potentially affecting the overall community and assisting in planning ways to overcome issues. The meeting will be held at the Centre Mont-Royal in Montreal. Virtual participation will be offered via GoToMeeting. Registration will open at the end of April. For any inquiries, please contact us at membership@ogc.org. Preliminary Agenda: Eastern TimeMonday, June 17Tuesday, June 1811:00 - 12:30Kick-Off: Opening and the Forum OverviewPanel: National Geospatial Strategy in a Time of Rapid Change and Growing ChallengesDebate: Do Standards Organizations Help the Industry Respond to Global Challenges?Panel: The Transformative Role of Industry in National Geospatial Strategy and Spatial Data Infrastructure12:30 - 13:30Networking Luncheon13:30 - 15:00---Roundtable: Coming Back Together in Partnership and Closing

View the preliminary agenda below. Co-organized with FOSS4G Europe: 1-7 July, 2024. Register here OGC Innovation Days Europe seeks to address stakeholders’ and policymakers’ need for digital solutions that can meet their requirements efficiently and in a user-friendly way. To this end, the event will bring internationally leading software development and data management experts together with non-technical experts - such as urban planners, policy makers, economists, and other beneficiaries of geospatial information - to exchange information and learn from each other. The stakeholders’ needs will be discussed and understood in depth while newly developed prototypes will be presented. OGC is co-organizing Innovation Days Europe with FOSS4G-Europe. The European IT landscape is changing rapidly. Several initiatives are underway, such as developing Data Spaces and Digital Twins, supporting the Green Deal, or otherwise trying to integrate the largely heterogeneous IT landscape. What do these mean for the leading challenges of our century? How can these predominantly technologically oriented efforts help with climate change and disaster resilience? Do they support Land Degradation Neutrality? OGC Innovation Days Europe provides a platform to discuss how current technical efforts can be combined effectively with the necessary governance and policy aspects. What decision processes do we need? What agreements are required for efficient decision processes or homogeneous reporting models for, for example, Climate Change or Land Degradation Neutrality? Thematic focus: Climate and Disaster Resilience, One Health, and Data Spaces Achieving climate and disaster resilience and sustainability requires reliable location information on the environment, land, and climate. Generating this information dedicated to the users’ needs is challenging. It needs highly optimized spatial data infrastructures and climate resilience information systems operated within a targeted policy framework and driven by an efficient policy model. Interoperable data pipelines and well-organized data spaces with their data assessment applications, combined with analysis, visualization, and reporting tools, are required to gain the knowledge to enroll climate strategies and actions. OGC Innovation Days Europe will foster a dialogue between technical experts, decision-makers, and policy experts, with a focus on climate & disaster resilience, one health, the role of data spaces, and the need for modernized knowledge exchange and analysis environments: The public increasingly requires a collaborative, multi-sectoral, and transdisciplinary local-to-global perspective. The EU climate-health cluster actively engages in promoting dialogue on diverse climate-induced health issues, encompassing challenges such as the transmission of zoonotic and vector-borne pathogens, coastal water pathogens, heat-related impacts, and pollution. Its objective is to formulate impactful mitigation and adaptation strategies through innovative research. Emphasis is placed on heightening awareness, facilitating the dissemination of research findings, and supporting evidence-based decision-making. The cluster aims to build capacity, foster resilience, and collaborate with stakeholders to provide scientific evidence and policy advice for stronger EU and global policies. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) will emphasize geospatial reporting Indicators, especially the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15.3.1 Land Degradation Neutrality. The Global Stocktake is in focus for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and the European Space Agency (ESA).  The value of National Spatial Infrastructures is the focus of the Location Innovation Hub. The hub will introduce the role of modernized SDIs and the requirements for future systems.  Expected Outcomes of OGC Innovation Days Europe The workshop will compile the findings of the set of sessions. It will refine the identified requirements for the dataspaces to enhance the information and knowledge exchange on scientific, technical, and policy levels.  OGC Innovation Days Europe supports the shift in IT solutions from being purely technology-oriented to a more holistic approach that better accounts for the various needs of the stakeholders. The event will identify these needs and thus make an essential contribution to improving the direction of future technological developments, supporting operational setups that are driven by efficient governance models and that operate within a solution-oriented policy framework. Preliminary Agenda: Register here Monday 1st July Tuesday 2nd July 09:00 - 10:30Opening Ceremony & KeynotesTools, Gaps, and challenges10:30 - 11:00Break11:00 - 12:30Global Policy FramesClimate and Health12:30 - 14:00Lunch14:00 - 15:30Climate and Disaster ResilienceKeynotes & Discussions15:30 - 16:00Break16:00 - 17:30Spatial Data Infrastructures / Data spacesClosing Ceremony17:30 - TBASocial Program  This event is sponsored by OGC and the European Commission through the Horizon projects CLINT (GA-101003876), AD4GD (GA-101061001), USAGE (GA-101059950), Iliad (GA-101037643), EuroGEOSec (GA-101134335), CLIMOS (GA-101057690) and other projects of the Climate-Health Cluster.

Innovation Days DC is the premier annual Open Geospatial Consortium meeting in Washington, DC. The theme of the 2024 meeting is Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Futures. Through as series of presentations, panel discussions, and collaborative activities, participants will have the opportunity to: Gain insights into OGC Standards-driven geospatial technologies for performant, scalable SDIs Collaborate with a diverse community geospatial experts Network with leaders and technologists from government, industry, and academia Innovation Days DC will begin with an opening keynote by Josh Delmonico, Executive Director for the Federal Geographic Data Committee. This talk will set the stage for a panel discussion of the future of SDIs. Next, a series of lightning talks will cover critical uses of geospatial data, including climate impact, smart cities, and open science. The first day will conclude with a roundtable collaboration, giving participants the opportunity to identify challenges and opportunities associated with migrating spatial data to the cloud. The second day will begin with a keynote, followed by a panel exploring how AI can enhance the reliability and usability of spatial data through integrity, provenance, and trust. A dedicated roundtable on GeoAI applications and outcomes offers practical insights into applying AI within SDIs. The third day is reserved for an invite-only meeting of the OGC Strategic Member Advisory Committee. Each Innovation Days DC session advances the OGC vision of building the future of location with community and technology for the good of society. Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is a critical component for pushing this vision forward. .stk-4548720{align-items:center !important;display:flex !important}Save the Date Agenda Tuesday Dec 3rd 09:00 - 10:30Opening Ceremony & Keynote - Josh Delmonico10:30 - 11:00Break11:00 - 12:00Panel Discussion: A shared vision for SDI futures12:00 - 13:30Lunch13:30 - 14:30Expert Lightning Talks: Climate and Disasters, Marine, Open Science, Smart Cities14:30 - 15:00Break15:00 - 17:00Roundtable Collaboration: Cloud Migration - Opportunities and Challenges17:00 - 19:00Wrap up & Networking Event Wednesday Dec 4th 09:00 - 09:15Day 1 Recap9:15 - 10:30Keynote10:30 - 11:00Break11:00 - 12:00Panel Discussion: Artificial Intelligence, Integrity, Provenance, and Trust 12:00 - 13:30Lunch13:30 - 15:30Roundtable Collaboration: GeoAI - Applications and Outcomes15:30 - 16:00Break16:00 - 17:00Innovation Days Outcomes and Future Directions Thursday Dec 5th 09:00 - 12:00Strategic Member Advisory Committee Meeting (Invite only)12:00 - 13:30Lunch Registration Opens Soon

The General Assembly 2024 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) is held at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria and online, from 14–19 April 2024. The assembly is open to the scientists of all nations. OGC's Marie-Françoise Voidrot, as well as other OGC members, will present the following sessions: Tuesday, 16 April 12:30-14:00 Marie-Françoise Voidrot will present the talk “Multi-dimension efforts to support Earth Observation collaboration across distributed infrastructure and resources”Location: Booth NFDI4Earth #19 (in the entrance hall)The talk is related to the Open Science Persistent Demonstrator as well as the European Projects ILIAD, EuroGEOSec, USAGE, AD4GD, InCASE, DIS4SME, GeoE3, CHEK, ACCORD, CLIMOS, and more. Tuesday, 16 April 15:45-16:15Marie-Françoise Voidrot will present the talk “Open Science Collaboration across Earth Observation Platforms“Location: Booth Open Science & Data Help Desk #X212The talk is directly linked to the Open Science Persistent Demonstrator.‌ Tuesday, 16 April 19:00-20:00Marie-Françoise Voidrot will participate in the panel “Green Deal Data Odyssey: Unveiling Opportunities For The Geoscience Community”Location: L3 Townhall Meeting TM13, L3The panel is relevant to the European Projects ILIAD, USAGE, AD4GD, EuroGEOSec, InCASE, and more. Friday, 19 April 10:45 and 11:15-12:30Marie-Françoise Voidrot will support 2 pico presentations by partners for which she is co-author: “Open Science Collaboration across Earth Observation Platforms”Location: PICO screen PICO4.1. PICO spot 4They are directly linked to the Open Science Persistent Demonstrator.‌ Wednesday, 17 April 15:05 Alba Brobia, from OGC member CREAF will present “G-reqs as a framework for defining precise, technology-agnostic, user-driven geospatial in-situ requirements. Towards a FAIR Global Earth Observation System of Systems without data gaps.”Presented by Alba Brobia, CREAFLocation: room 2.16The presentation is directly linked to the recent OGC Data Requirements ad Hoc meeting and the European Project InCASE. Thursday, 18 April 10:15–10:45 Bente Lilja Bye will present “The importance of data management principles for efficient data spaces.”Location: EGU Open Science and Data Help Desk exhibition booth #X212The presentation is directly linked to European projects ILIAD, InCASE, USAGE, and AD4GD. Friday, 19 April 11:40Bente Lilja Bye will present “The importance of data management principles for efficient data spaces”Location: room G2 session ESSI2.11The presentation is directly linked to European projects ILIAD, InCASE, USAGE, and AD4GD.

OGC, EUnet4DBP, and other relevant organisations are organising the Digital Building Permit Conference 2024 to dive into the current status of research, development, and implementation, and to provide the opportunity for several digital building permit actors to meet and discuss their experiences across the four different interacting systems within the Digital Building Permit challenge: Legislative, Procedural, Organisational, and Technological. The event is a satellite event of The Festival of the New European Bauhaus. Digitalisation of building permits was detected as the critical knot to be solved, in order to pave the way towards massive digitalisation in the construction industry, and to enable the potential of automation and optimisation in the management of building and city data. The topic has being developing for a couple of years and now some mature solutions start to be available. Moreover, some important cross-border (e.g. European) projects as well as other local initiatives are currently running and can present their results. Therefore, the EUnet4DBP, together with several relevant organisations, is organising the “Second International Conference on Digital Building Permit” to dive into the current status of research, developments and implementations, and to provide the opportunity for several digital building permit actors to meet and discuss. Multidisciplinarity and inter-sectoral collaboration are key to solve the multifaceted and complex challenge of building permit digitalisation. Therefore, the conference will be structured to host several different kinds of contributions and activities, from research to implementations, with a relevant part reserved to users and stakeholders, in order to investigate the challenges of the solutions’ uptake. Objectives Share progress all over Europe and the World Engage policy developers and regulators Show benefits and the value of building permit digitalisation through concrete examples Share solutions and components from several developers Encourage municipalities to bring their points of view and expertise Tackling the remaining outstanding problems and challenges Legal aspects discussion Share developments and experiences about data and technology for digital building permits Learn more, including the exciting programme and how to register, at the Digital Building Permit Conference 2024 website.

OGC is proud to support the International Conference on GeoInformation, Data, Processing, and Applications 2024 (GeoDPA'24) - the new, unique exchange forum that brings together both producers of geodata and their users across disciplines and topics for the first time. Learn more and register at: https://geodpa2024.welcome-manager.de/ Important dates:Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 March 2024Acceptance notification: 17 March 2024Early bird registration 23 March 2024Registration will close on 10 April 2024Conference 23 - 25 April 2024

Join fellow open source enthusiasts at the 2024 FedGeoDay! The event will be held April 30 at the Department of Interior Yates Auditorium and the American Red Cross. As always, FedGeoDay is free to attend for .gov .mil .edu and .org attendees.

Locate is the Geospatial Council of Australia’s national conference. This successful annual event attracts over 700 delegates from across the geospatial industry, from surveying, to GIS, to earth observation, allied industries, and more. As Australia’s premier geospatial event, Locate provides both our members and the broader geospatial community a fantastic opportunity to come together to learn about the latest trends and applications in geospatial science, see the newest technologies in our exhibition and create meaningful connections with like-minded professionals. The conference also provides the opportunity to celebrate the best and brightest in our industry, with the oceanic winners of the Geospatial Excellence Awards announced at the gala dinner each year.

Canada’s National Geospatial Leadership Conference Climate Resilience | Geospatial Leadership & AI | Digital Twins | BIM | GIS

The FOSS4GE conference, a European extension of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) annual event, connects professionals in the geoinformation software realm. OSGeo, as an international association, emphasizes geoinformatics, cartography, and open standards, fostering data sharing, collaboration, and innovative problem-solving across various domains. This conference series, initially known as FOSS/GRASS User Conference and later as FOSS4G, arrives in Estonia, offering local professionals and students access to world-class education and insights from global experts, all while facilitating networking and knowledge exchange.

The 12th International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics is organized and hosted by the International Society of Agromatics and BioSense Insitute with technical and financial sponsorships from IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, Food and Agriculture Organization, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Agricultural and Environmental Informatics Application and Research Center (TARBİL), and Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS) of George Mason University. Agro-geoinformation is critical for the agricultural sustainability, food security, environmental research, bioenergy, natural resource conservation, land use management, carbon accounting, global climate change, health research, agricultural industry, commodity trading, economy research, education, agricultural decision-making and policy formulation, etc. The Agro-Geoinformatics conferences were successfully held in Shanghai, China (Agro-Geoinformatics 2012), Washington DC, USA(Agro-Geoinformatics 2013), Beijing, China (Agro-Geoinformatics 2014), Istanbul Turkey (Agro-Geoinformatics 2015), Tianjin, China (Agro-Geoinformatics 2016), Washington DC, USA (Agro-Geoinformatics 2017), Hangzhou, China (Agro-Geoinformatics 2018), Istanbul, Turkey (Agro-Geoinformatics 2019), Virtual, (Agro-Geoinformatics 2021), Quebec City, Canada (Agro-Geoinformatics 2022), and Wuhan, China (Agro-Geoinformatics 2023). The Agro-Geoinformatics conferences have provided and will continue to provide an ideal venue for professionals and students to exchange their ideas, research results, professional experiences, the latest developments and future vision of agro-geoinformatics. The Agro-Geoinformatics 2024 conference will continue covering the recent advances in the life cycle of Agro-geoinformatics, from data collection (including field surveys and remote sensing), processing, storing, archiving, preservation, retrieving, transmitting, accessing, visualization, analyzing, synthesizing, presenting, disseminating to decision making.

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