https://spatialthoughts.com/category/conference/Recent content in Conferences on Spatial ThoughtsHugoen-usThu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2026/01/29/foss4g-asia-2026/Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2026/01/29/foss4g-asia-2026/The FOSS4G Asia 2026 conference was hosted at Nashik, India from 21-25 January 2026. This was a special event for me because I was part of the local organizing committee and worked alongside a...https://spatialthoughts.com/2025/11/23/foss4g-2025/Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2025/11/23/foss4g-2025/The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 2025 conference happened in Auckland, New Zealand from 17-23 November 2025. It was a week-long event with 2 days of workshops followed by 3...https://spatialthoughts.com/2025/09/21/geo-for-good-2025/Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2025/09/21/geo-for-good-2025/Geo for Good is Google's annual conference focused on their geospatial and cloud offerings. The 2025 edition of the summit was hosted at both New York and Singapore. I was glad to take part in the...https://spatialthoughts.com/2025/06/11/qgis-user-conference-2025/Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2025/06/11/qgis-user-conference-2025/The QGIS International User Conference 2025 happened in Norrköping, Sweden from 2-3 June 2025. I have been to the previous conferences in 2024, 2023 and 2019 and always look forward to the annual...https://spatialthoughts.com/2024/10/05/geo-for-good-2024/Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2024/10/05/geo-for-good-2024/Geo for Good is Google's annual summit that brings together users of Google mapping tools. It's usually a large conference hosted at Google HQ in Mountain View, California. This year however, they...https://spatialthoughts.com/2024/09/14/qgis-user-conference-2024/Sat, 14 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2024/09/14/qgis-user-conference-2024/The QGIS International User Conference 2024 happened in Bratislava, Slovakia from 9-10 September 2024, followed by the Contributor Meeting from 11-13 September 2024. This is one of my favorite events...https://spatialthoughts.com/2023/11/22/dw-mapathon-nairobi/Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2023/11/22/dw-mapathon-nairobi/Dynamic World is a new landcover product developed by Google and World Resources Institute (WRI). It is a unique dataset that is designed to make it easy for users to develop locally relevant...https://spatialthoughts.com/2023/04/25/qgis-user-conference-2023/Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2023/04/25/qgis-user-conference-2023/QGIS User Conference 2023 took place in Netherlands on 18-19 April, 2023. This conference was organized by the Dutch QGIS User Group in the small town of 's -Hertogenbosch.https://spatialthoughts.com/2019/03/08/qgis-user-conference-2019/Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2019/03/08/qgis-user-conference-2019/I got a chance to attend the 3rd Annual QGIS User Conference at A Coruña, Spain.https://spatialthoughts.com/2016/11/25/openaq-workshop-notes/Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2016/11/25/openaq-workshop-notes/I recently attended the OpenAQ workshop in Delhi . The workshop’s goal was to bring tech, science and media folks working on air quality together and brainstorm how to use open data to tackle air...https://spatialthoughts.com/2012/10/28/cartonama-2012/Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2012/10/28/cartonama-2012/I was at #cartonama conference in Bangalore on 23rd September, 2012. It was wonderful to be among geogeeks and see the energy and enthusiasm. Got to see some great demos and LBS apps from startups in...https://spatialthoughts.com/2012/10/20/foss4g-india-2012/Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2012/10/20/foss4g-india-2012/India’s first FOSS4G - India conference was organized on 25-26 October, 2012 at Hyderabad. This was a surprisingly low-profile event and there was very little buzz about it on the internet. I learnt...