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discussion / Geospatial  / 29 August 2025

Geospatial 2025-2026: Event Ideas and Community Needs

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Hello WILDLABS Community! 

The 2025-2026 Geospatial Group Leaders are brainstorming community events for the 2025-2026 year.  Some ideas we have are

  • Geospatial/AI panel
  • Office hours for building skills with GIS tools (QGIS, ArcGIS, Google Earth Engine, etc)
  • Journal clubs
  • Expert panels

  • In-person meetups

     

We would love to hear from you to help us plan out the year's events:

  • What type of events would you like to see?
  • What are the biggest challenges in your work right now that you think we could help solve?

 

Reply to this thread with events (in-person or virtual) or other activities that would be useful for you and your work. 

 

We also have an ongoing survey on the geospatial commnity that you can take here!



Vance Russell
@VAR1
3point.xyz
Over 35 years of experience in biodiversity conservation worldwide, largely focused on forests, rewilding and conservation technology. I run my own business assisting nonprofits and agencies in the conservation community
Group Leader
Commenter level 2
Inventory Reviewer level 1

5 September 2025 3:22pm

Thanks for organizing this @elsa and @tcsmith .  I like the geospatial/AI panel. Particularly interesting, there would be AI that's useful for workflows/processing, e.g., agents. I would like to see more panels featuring intersting data viz in the tech for wildlife community. Also interested in a panel that could feature useful coding scripts for automating tasks, converting shp -> geoparquet, build pipelines for data processing, etc. What are Journal clubs?

CathyNj
@CathyNj  | She
Catherine Njore is a seasoned Cartographer with over 18yrs experience and specializing in children cartography. She recently designed a Cartography: Fun with Maps Program(CFMP); a program that assists children to learn how to draw, read and use maps effectively. 
Commenter level 2

8 October 2025 6:29pm

In person for those in Kenya. Lots happening on the ground. 

CathyNj
@CathyNj  | She
Catherine Njore is a seasoned Cartographer with over 18yrs experience and specializing in children cartography. She recently designed a Cartography: Fun with Maps Program(CFMP); a program that assists children to learn how to draw, read and use maps effectively. 
Commenter level 2

8 October 2025 6:33pm

Hands on technical workshop on GeoAI, QGIS, GEE all on conservation.