Tuesday, September 22, 2026

11:00  “Meet and Greet”, light lunch

12:00   Welcome and Introduction

12:15   Research Data Infrastructures

AquaINFRA: Freshwater Expertise & Hydrological Connectivity Services
(Merret Buurman, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) )

AquaINFRA: Supporting the Understanding and Reuse of Reproducible Analysis Workflows
(Dr. Markus Konkol, 52°North GmbH)

GeoIT Innovations for Spatial Information Infrastructures: Examples from NFDI4Earth
(Dr. rer. nat. Auriol Degbelo, Chair of Geoinformatics, TU Dresden)

Standardizing Provenance of Geospatial Workflows with OGC Building Blocks
(Martin Pontius, 52°North GmbH)

13:30   Coffee Break

14:00   Urban Digital Twins

KomMonitor: A Social Digital Twin for Urban Planning | Potential Applications
(Prof. Dr. Carsten Keßler, Department of Geodesy, Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Sebastian Drost, 52°North GmbH)

Recent Developments in Urban Digital Twins at ITC
(Dr. Mila Koeva, ITC, Uni Twente)

Improving Decision-Making and Transparency in Municipalities through Urban Digital Twins – A Practical Example from the City of Wuppertal
(Dr. Christine Pohl, City of Wuppertal)

An uDT to Accelerate Climate Change Adaptation
(Dr. Benedikt Gräler, 52°North GmbH)

Synergies between Digital Twins for Improving Climate Resilience
(Dr. Simon Jirka, 52°North GmbH)

15:30   Coffee Break

16:00  Geo Interoperability for Green Sustainable Societies

Large Scale Forest Monitoring from Space
(Prof. Dr. Fabian Gieseke, Department of Information Systems, Uni Münster)

Interoperability for Disaster Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation
(Dr. Max Steinhausen, Leichtweiß-Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources, TU Braunschweig)

From One-Off to Reusable: OGC Building Blocks for Climate Workflows in Cities and Forests
(Muthu Kumar, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC))

Geointeroperability Reimagined: INSPIRE, Standards and AI
(Antje Kügeler, con terra GmbH)

Spatial Data Infrastructures in Europe – What Next?
(Alexander Kotsev , EC Joint Research Center)

17:30   End

19:00   Dinner

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

09:00   GeoAI

Digital Twins That Speak for Themselves: Why an agent should probably live inside your digital twin – to tell others what it can actually do, and where it stops.
(Dr. Thore Fechner, con terra GmbH)

Perspectives on GeoAI – Applications, Opportunities and Overcoming Limitations
(Matthes Rieke, 52°North GmbH)

AI-Enabled Spatial Data Discovery in Spatial Data Infrastructures
(James Ondieki, 52°North GmbH)

10:00   Coffee Break

10:30  GeoInnovations I

OGC API Processes Under Control with AI
(Dr. Benedikt Gräler, 52°North GmbH)

Designing Geospatial Technologies for Education and Participation – from GI@School to re:edu & openSenseLab in 20 years
(Dr. Thomas Bartoschek, re:edu GmbH)

No Rest for the Wicked – Addressing Complex Spatial Policy Problems with Interactive Planning Support Systems
(Dr. Johannes Flacke ITC, Uni Twente)

QGIS QPegel – Visualizing Realtime Hydrological Measurements in QGIS
(Julia Rotert, 52°North GmbH)

11:30   Coffee Break

12:00   GeoInnovations II

Geospatial AI – Drive, Don’t be Driven
(Christian Elfers, con terra GmbH)

Processing of Heterogenious Geodata for Assessing the Complexity of Urban Environments for Autonomous Driving
(Andreas Richter, Volkswagen AG)

Open Pioneer Trails: A Framework for Modern, Open-Source Web GIS
(Arne Vogt, 52°North GmbH)

GeoAI for Epidemiological Intelligence
(Prof. Dr. Edzer Pebesma, Institute for Geoinformatics, Uni Münster)

13:00   Wrap Up and Outlook
(Dr. Simon Jirka, 52°North GmbH)

13:30   Lunch