The start of Geo Week 2025 is less than two months away, with professionals from the geospatial, 3D, and AEC industries coming together to showcase and discuss the most powerful innovations and workflows across these sectors. We’ve already outlined some of the broad topics we’re most anticipating for this year’s event, and even since that time we’ve seen the conference program come into greater focus.
While it’s hard to pinpoint just a few sessions that are particularly important throughout the entire program, we tried to pick a handful that best exemplify what the show has to offer and why professionals in this industry need to be in Denver for this year’s event to ensure they are at the top of their craft when they head back to the office. Find six of those sessions below, and don’t miss your chance to register for this year’s event, taking place at the Colorado Convention Center from February 10-12.
Elevating Surveying Practices
One of the great things about Geo Week is that, while the conference centers around all of this incredible technology that is both reshaping existing industries and in some cases creating entirely new ones, one of the main pillars remains traditional surveying. That is, of course, one of the oldest professions on the planet, and it’s a great blend of that traditionalism that is embracing innovation and new technologies. This yearly session features those deep within the industry to give key insights into how surveyors can best operate in today’s environment amid so much change.
Transforming Cities and Countries with Digital Twins
We follow up a session about one of the oldest professions on Earth to one about one of the newest workflows and most futuristic topics at Geo Week with digital twins. Long a buzzword that people just threw around because they felt like they had to, digital twins are now being leveraged by professionals across industries, and at larger scales thanks to improved data capture capabilities and the boom around artificial intelligence. This session will feature speakers who are among the early adopters in this space, looking at how digital twins are being built and leveraged on large scales.
Preparing for the Modernization of the National Spatial Reference System
Within the geospatial industry, particularly in the United States, one of the most important things everyone is watching is progress with the modernization of our National Spatial Reference System. This is a process that we have written about extensively here at Geo Week News – and also held a webinar with those at the center of the process answering attendee questions – and this session will continue to dive into that progress and what people need to know. Featuring speakers from within NGS at the center of this work as well as service providers, software and hardware providers, and other public sector workers, this will be a must-attend for anyone in the geospatial space.
Best Practice for Large Airborne Mapping Projects
One of the industry’s most important developments over the last couple of decades has been improvements in sensors for large-scale projects that involve airborne imagery and lidar data collection. This is now a crucial workflow for sectors from civil engineering to urban planning and so much more, with service providers collecting this data being a core part of the geospatial community. This session is for those people – both the data collectors and the end users of said data – looking at the state of the airborne mapping space today and what users need to know.
Transforming Road Safety and Transportation Infrastructure
Transportation is at the heart of so many conversations today between the influx of money and focus around our infrastructure – much of which centers around transportation – as well as sustainability. The result is a lot of work being done for our roadways to improve aging infrastructure and make way for the next stage of transportation as a whole. This session will focus on the many people involved in making this happen at all stages, and how new technologies are changing the way much of this work is being done.
Where is Our Geospatial Workforce?
Like so many other industries around the world, the geospatial industry is suffering through a workforce shortage despite the work being so crucial to so many other projects and sectors. This session is going to be focused on how to remedy this situation with insights from those in the middle of trying to figure out how to attract talent. They will share the best practices they’ve learned over the years and how the industry as a whole can adjust to better support a crucial and growing industry.
If all or some of these sessions sound interesting and relevant to you, be sure to check out the rest of the program here and use the link below to register for your spot at Geo Week 2025!
