Conferences / FOSS4G North America
FOSS4G North America 2025
Nov 3–5, 2025 · Hyatt Regency Reston, Reston, VA, United States
- Conference
- FOSS4G North America Software engineering
- Dates
- Nov 3, 2025 – Nov 5, 2025
- Venue
- Hyatt Regency Reston
- Place
- Reston, VA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No organizer figure found; a third-party Substack recap mentions '500+ attendees across sectors' (https://reimagininggeospatial.substack.com/p/the-open-source-gis-event-of-the).
- Website
- foss4gna.org
- Recorded
- 30 sponsors · 164 speaker appearances
- Notes
- National Capital Region edition. Plenary speakers incl. Bruce Momjian, Paul Ramsey, Katie Picchione; B2B speaker Patrick Cozzi. Hootenanny social included with full ticket. Talks on pretalx talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-na-2025. Speakers: every scheduled session from the pretalx schedule export (talks, workshops, academic track where published separately), one row per speaker per session; affiliations taken from each speaker's pretalx bio where it states an employer/university, else null.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Day Pass - Early Bird | $250 | Sep 17, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Full Conference - Early Bird | $540 | Sep 17, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| One Day Pass - Standard | $295 | Nov 2, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Full Conference - Standard | $640 | Nov 2, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| B2B Session (standalone) | $80 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Workshop (each) | $100 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Student - Full | $320 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Full Conference - Onsite | $740 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 30
Platinum 1
Community 16
- Cercana Systems · Supporters
- CivilGrid · Supporters
- CostQuest · Supporters
- Dewberry · Supporters
- EarthDaily · Supporters
- ERT · Supporters
- GCS Geospatial · Supporters
- IQGeo · Supporters
- Marauders · Supporters
- NGS (newmoyergeospatial.com) · Supporters
- OpenStreetMap US · Institutional Supporters
- OSGeo · Institutional Supporters
- Project Geospatial · Institutional Supporters
- QFieldCloud · Supporters
- TerraFrame · Supporters
- WGIC · Supporters
Other 3
- Penn State University · Academic Sponsors
- Vanderbilt Institute for Spatial Research · Academic Sponsors
- Vanderbilt University · Academic Sponsors
Speakers and talks 164
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Keynote | The Democratization of Databases | — |
| Paul Ramsey | Crunchy Data | Keynote | Keynote: To Be Determined | — |
| Aaron Kelley | UpSlope Advisors | Speaker | From proprietary to open: smarter disaster forecasting with geospatial tools. | — |
| Abdul Raheem Siddiqui | — | Speaker | Cataloging USACE Models in the Cloud: A STAC Experiment | — |
| Abdul Raheem Siddiqui | — | Speaker | Piggybacking on QGIS Processing Framework to Build Scientific Software Tools | — |
| Adeel Hassan | — | Speaker | Bringing it all together: Zarr, Dask, Knowledge Graphs, and LLMs | — |
| Adele Birkenes | Bridges to Prosperity | Speaker | Estimating trail bridge impacts on rural populations with Python | — |
| Alex Mandel | — | Workshop | eoAPI: open-source cloud-native geospatial data cataloging and distribution | — |
| Ali Ziel | — | Speaker | Cloud-Native Humanitarian Maps with eoAPI | — |
| Alyssa Castronuovo | OpenStreetMap US | Workshop | OpenStreetMap 101 | — |
| Andrea Aime | — | Speaker | OGC APIs with GeoServer: implementation, availability, and next steps | — |
| Andrea Aime | — | Workshop | Vector tiles with GeoServer | — |
| Andrea Aime | — | Workshop | OGC APIs, an introduction with GeoServer | — |
| Andrea Aime | — | Speaker | State of GeoServer | — |
| Andrea Aime | — | Speaker | GeoServer 3: motivation and and progress report | — |
| Andrew Turner | Esri | Speaker | Building the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure: Standards, Software, and Community | — |
| Annie Cartas | — | Speaker | Optimizing Complex Webmaps using Vector Tiles, Cacheing, and PostGIS | — |
| Bailey Hanson | — | Speaker | Mapping Community Capital: Revealing Local Gaps in Rural Access | — |
| Bailey Hanson | — | Speaker | Teaching FOSS4G: Sharing Local Data for Improved Community Decision Making | — |
| Ben Scholer | DroneDeploy | Speaker | Grounded: Local Datum Mapping with DroneDeploy | — |
| Benjamin Stewart | World Bank | Speaker | Space2Stats - exploring meso-scale geospatial data | — |
| Benjamin Webb | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Speaker | Geoconnex: Anchoring AI in Reality with the Internet of Water | — |
| Benjamin Webb | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Speaker | Unifying Access to Western Water Data Through OGC API - EDR | — |
| Bernie Drahola | yey'maps | Speaker | Smart Water Utilities: Chat with Your Water Utility Database | — |
| Brad Andrick | Earth Genome | Speaker | Dynamic Aggregations With pg_tileserv | — |
| Brian Blankespoor | — | Speaker | Open-Access High-Resolution data for a Livable Planet | — |
| Brian Timoney | — | Speaker | Geospatial Open Source and Selling the Contemporary Enterprise Software Experience | — |
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Speaker | Making Postgres Central in Your Data Center | — |
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Speaker | Building Open Source Teams | — |
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Speaker | Data Horizons With Postgres | — |
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Speaker | Will Postgres Live Forever? | — |
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Speaker | The Maze of Postgres Options | — |
| Calvin Metcalf | — | Speaker | Cloud Optimized Shapefiles | — |
| Christopher J. Seeger | Iowa State University | Speaker | Teaching FOSS4G: Sharing Local Data for Improved Community Decision Making | — |
| Christopher J. Seeger | Iowa State University | Speaker | Mapping Community Capital: Revealing Local Gaps in Rural Access | — |
| Christopher Ramos | — | Speaker | DUSTCAST: AN ENSEMBLE ML MODEL FOR ARABIAN PENINSULA DUST CONCENTRATIONS | — |
| Christopher Tucker | GeoRobotix | Speaker | Open Standards and FOSS4G for Interoperably Integrating Geospatial Sensors | — |
| Chuck Daniels | — | Speaker | VirtualiZarr: cloud-optimized access to archival-format datacubes without duplication | — |
| Colton Loftus | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Speaker | Unifying Access to Western Water Data Through OGC API - EDR | — |
| Colton Loftus | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Speaker | Geoconnex: Anchoring AI in Reality with the Internet of Water | — |
| Corey White | North Carolina State University | Workshop | GRASS Addon Development with Python | — |
| Corey White | North Carolina State University | Speaker | Growing GRASS | — |
| Dan Baston | — | Speaker | GDAL's new command line interface - and other updates | — |
| Dan Rademacher | GreenInfo Network | Speaker | Making online maps accessible: an open source approach | — |
| David Lees | — | Speaker | VIPER Map Server; map data aggregation for NASA lunar missions | — |
| Dennis Milechin | — | Speaker | Supporting FOSS4G on Boston University's High Performance Cluster | — |
| Dominic Daniels | — | Speaker | Modeling loss with FOSS: Python workflow evolution | — |
| Dr. Fred J. Calef III | NASA | Speaker | Geospatial Mission Operations with the Multi-Mission Geographic Information System | — |
| Elodie Nix | YouthMappers | Speaker | Mapping the Future in 3D: Youth, Data, and Open Platforms | — |
| Ethan Snyder | Remington & Vernick Engineers | Speaker | QGIS Processing Nodes Project Update | — |
| Federico Kurten | — | Speaker | Refining Culvert Detection in Elevation Derived Hydrography with Deep Learning | — |
| Galen Scott | — | Speaker | All Latitudes, Longitudes, and Heights will be Changing | — |
| Garrett Tate | New Light Technologies | Speaker | Dengue Geospatial Prediction Tools for Epidemic Response and Resource Allocation | — |
| Giovanni Allegri | GeoSolutions | Speaker | GeoNode: Use Cases & Custom Applications | — |
| Giovanni Allegri | GeoSolutions | Workshop | Introduction to GeoNode, the open source geosptial CMS | — |
| Giovanni Allegri | GeoSolutions | Speaker | State of GeoNode | — |
| Huidae Cho | — | Speaker | GRASS Meets Longest Flow Paths, Shortest Compute Times | — |
| Ian Horn | — | Speaker | Open Kentucky Imagery and Elevation Data | — |
| Indraneel Purohit | Development Seed | Speaker | Cloud-Native Humanitarian Maps with eoAPI | — |
| Isaac Brodsky | Fused | Speaker | DuckDB + Rasters: Hexagons For Blazing Fast Analytics | — |
| Jae Sung Kim | Michigan Technological University | Speaker | Development of Online Mars Viewshed Analysis Tool | — |
| Jake Adelgren | Cesium | Speaker | What’s new in 3D Tiles | — |
| Jake Low | — | Speaker | OSM US Trails Stewardship Initiative: Open Data Meets Responsible Recreation | — |
| Jake Low | — | Workshop | OpenStreetMap 101 | — |
| Jarrett Keifer | Element 84 | Speaker | (Re)Making Cirrus: Five Years Building a Data Orchestration Framework | — |
| Jarrett Keifer | Element 84 | Speaker | State of STAPI: A community tasking standard | — |
| Jarrett Keifer | Element 84 | Speaker | Is Zarr the new COG? | — |
| Jarrett Keifer | Element 84 | Workshop | Exploring Cloud-Native Geospatial Formats: Hands-on with Raster Data | — |
| Jason Gilman | Element 84 | Speaker | When LLMs Meet GIS: Reliable Open Source Geospatial AI | — |
| Jason Kaufman | — | Speaker | Developing Methodologies to Union Overlying Building Footprint Datasets | — |
| Jason Newmoyer | NGS (newmoyergeospatial.com) | Speaker | Enterprise-Grade Open Source: Operational Insights from CoreSpatial Deployments | — |
| Jessica Breen | — | Speaker | OpenAccess for OpenSource: Writing and Publishing for the FOSS4GNA Community | — |
| Joel Schlagel | — | Speaker | Precision in Language and the Future of “Little Data” Analytics | — |
| John Hogland | Rocky Mountain Research Station | Speaker | Convolution PCA: Engineering independent intensity and texture features | — |
| John Hogland | Rocky Mountain Research Station | Workshop | Environment setup and predictive modeling workshop | — |
| John R Hoopes | University of Washington | Speaker | Astral: A spatial extension for the decentralized web | — |
| John Ross | — | Speaker | Revolutionizing Elections with GIS | — |
| Joseph Holler | — | Speaker | Reproducing geographic analysis studies as open science project-based learning | — |
| Joseph Miller | — | Speaker | Natural Language GeoServer Queries Using OpenAI and WPS | — |
| Joshua S Campbell | Sand Hill Geographic | Speaker | SpaceTimeIDs: Built for Boundaries, expandable to Digital Twins | — |
| Julia Signell | — | Speaker | Is Zarr the new COG? | — |
| Julia Signell | — | Speaker | VirtualiZarr: cloud-optimized access to archival-format datacubes without duplication | — |
| Julia Signell | — | Speaker | STAC Beyond Rasters | — |
| Lauren Frederick | — | Speaker | Geospatial Technology Radar: A Report Against a Turbulent 2025 Backdrop | — |
| Leo Hsu | Tufts University | Workshop | Introduction to PostGIS | — |
| Luke McKinstry | — | Speaker | What’s new in CesiumJS and the 3D Geospatial Ecosystem | — |
| Madie | — | Speaker | Large-Scale Geospatial Analysis with Open-Source h3-indexer | — |
| Maggie Cawley | OpenStreetMap US | Speaker | OSM US Trails Stewardship Initiative: Open Data Meets Responsible Recreation | — |
| Malcolm Meyer | — | Speaker | From Esri to Open Source: A Practical, Hybrid Approach | — |
| Margo Atkinson | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Speaker | Opening Up Urban Form and Development Trends | — |
| Mark Wong | EDB | Speaker | What's going on? An introduction to diagnosing PostgreSQL systems. | — |
| Martin Dobias | Lutra Consulting | Workshop | Mergin Maps Admin Essentials | — |
| Martin Dobias | Lutra Consulting | Speaker | Handling 3D Data in QGIS | — |
| Martin Dobias | Lutra Consulting | Speaker | Cloud-Native Geospatial in QGIS | — |
| Matthew Hanson | Element 84 | Speaker | State of STAPI: A community tasking standard | — |
| Matthew Hanson | Element 84 | Speaker | STAC Best Practices | — |
| Matthew Mills | — | Speaker | Reproducing geographic analysis studies as open science project-based learning | — |
| Matthew Powers | Wherobots | Speaker | Introducing geospatial support in Apache Iceberg | — |
| Michael Mann | The George Washington University | Speaker | Rising Waters, 3D Worlds: Cesium-OSM-Powered Flood Simulations | — |
| Michele Tobias | UC Davis | Speaker | Hand Drawn Maps | — |
| Michele Tobias | UC Davis | Speaker | Remote Sensing for Plants that are Hard to See | — |
| Michele Tobias | UC Davis | Speaker | Academic Birds of a Feather | — |
| Michele Tobias | UC Davis | Workshop | Cartography for Professional Quality Maps in QGIS | — |
| Mohammed Bilal Ahmed | — | Speaker | RescueMap‑AI: Open Source Geo‑AI for Disaster Response | — |
| Nathan McEachen | — | Speaker | Scalable GeoAI: Building LLM Agents Using National Spatial Data Infrastructures | — |
| Nathan McEachen | — | Workshop | Build a GraphRAG To Bring Geospatial Awareness to LLM Agents | — |
| Nuno Oliveira | GeoSolutions | Speaker | Publishing Maritime AIS Big Data via GeoServer, Databricks, and Azure | — |
| Paul Ramirez | — | Speaker | Geospatial Mission Operations with the Multi-Mission Geographic Information System | — |
| Paul Ramsey | Crunchy Data | Workshop | Introduction to PostGIS | — |
| Paul Ramsey | Crunchy Data | Speaker | PostGIS Feature Frenzy | — |
| Paul Ramsey | Crunchy Data | Speaker | PostGIS What's New | — |
| Pedro Uria | — | Workshop | Exploring Multimodal LLMs for Remote Sensing with LibreGeoLens | — |
| Pete Gadomski | Development Seed | Speaker | Cloud-Native Geospatial Metadata with stac-geoparquet | — |
| Peter Petrik | Mergin Maps | Workshop | Mergin Maps Admin Essentials | — |
| Peter Petrik | Mergin Maps | Speaker | Mergin Maps and QGIS for Field Surveys | — |
| Prashant Swarnapuri | — | Speaker | Scalable Architecture for Distributed Spatiotemporal Analytics | — |
| Randal Hale | North River Geographic Systems | Speaker | Taking a proprietary process and move it to FOSS4G | — |
| Randal Hale | North River Geographic Systems | Speaker | QGIS Birds of a Feather | — |
| Randal Hale | North River Geographic Systems | Workshop | QGIS Model Designer | — |
| Regina Obe | Paragon Corporation | Speaker | Spatial SQL Birds of a Feather | — |
| Regina Obe | Paragon Corporation | Speaker | PostGIS performance hacks | — |
| Regina Obe | Paragon Corporation | Speaker | Introduction to pgRouting | — |
| Rich Fecher | — | Speaker | Simulated Experts, Real Insight: A MetaPanel on GeoAI | — |
| Robert Dzur | Bohannan Huston | Speaker | Refining Culvert Detection in Elevation Derived Hydrography with Deep Learning | — |
| Ryan Hippenstiel | — | Speaker | Grounded: Local Datum Mapping with DroneDeploy | — |
| Samuel Barnard | — | Speaker | Reproducing geographic analysis studies as open science project-based learning | — |
| Sergio Baños Calvo | — | Speaker | SDI for water management at AyA in Costa Rica | — |
| Sergio Rey | — | Speaker | Advancing the Python Geospatial Stack: Building Community Across Domains | — |
| Seth Lawler | Dewberry | Speaker | Cataloging USACE Models in the Cloud: A STAC Experiment | — |
| Simone Giannecchini | GeoSolutions | Workshop | OGC APIs, an introduction with GeoServer | — |
| Simone Giannecchini | GeoSolutions | Speaker | Vector tiles and GeoServer: dynamic tiles server and base maps | — |
| Simone Giannecchini | GeoSolutions | Speaker | OGC APIs with GeoServer: implementation, availability, and next steps | — |
| Simone Giannecchini | GeoSolutions | Speaker | GeoServer 3: motivation and and progress report | — |
| Simone Giannecchini | GeoSolutions | Speaker | State of GeoServer | — |
| Simone Giannecchini | GeoSolutions | Speaker | Publishing Maritime AIS Big Data via GeoServer, Databricks, and Azure | — |
| Simone Giannecchini | GeoSolutions | Speaker | Serving earth observation data with GeoServer: addressing real world requirements | — |
| Sina Kashuk | — | Speaker | DuckDB + Rasters: Hexagons For Blazing Fast Analytics | — |
| Sophia Parafina | — | Speaker | Geophysics in the Cloud | — |
| Stefano Bovio | — | Speaker | Building digital urban models for MapStore and Cesium | — |
| Stefano Bovio | — | Workshop | Urban Digital Models with MapStore and Cesium | — |
| Stefano Bovio | — | Speaker | State of MapStore | — |
| Stefano Bovio | — | Workshop | MapStore, Development of an Extension | — |
| Stephen Smith | — | Speaker | Mapping Democracy: Visualizing the Voice of a Million Americans | — |
| Tamar Cohen | — | Speaker | VIPER Map Server; map data aggregation for NASA lunar missions | — |
| Taylor Corbett | Microsoft | Speaker | Microsoft’s Planetary Computer: Building a Planetary-Scale Data Platform | — |
| Taylor M. Oshan | University of Washington | Speaker | Astral: A spatial extension for the decentralized web | — |
| Taylor M. Oshan | University of Washington | Speaker | Advancing the Python Geospatial Stack: Building Community Across Domains | — |
| Ted Banken | — | Speaker | pyplaces-a Python Package for Retrieving Open Places Data | — |
| Ted Banken | — | Speaker | Simplifying the Retrieval of Geospatial Open Data | — |
| Thomas Maschler | — | Speaker | Taming Dependency Hell: Effortless Dev Environments with Pixi | — |
| Thomas Maschler | — | Speaker | From Metadata to Pixels: Loading STAC Data the Smart Way | — |
| Thomas Maschler | — | Speaker | Resampling Without Regrets: The Nonary Tree for EO Grids | — |
| Timothy Steward | Fujitsu | Speaker | The Power of Community and Collaboration in Open-Source Innovation | — |
| Tobia Di Pisa | GeoSolutions | Speaker | State of MapStore | — |
| Tobia Di Pisa | GeoSolutions | Workshop | MapStore, Development of an Extension | — |
| Tobia Di Pisa | GeoSolutions | Speaker | Building digital urban models for MapStore and Cesium | — |
| Tobia Di Pisa | GeoSolutions | Workshop | Urban Digital Models with MapStore and Cesium | — |
| Tom "Hutch" Ingold | — | Speaker | Atlas: Postgres meets GeoAI at scale | — |
| Tom Allnutt | — | Speaker | Making online maps accessible: an open source approach | — |
| W. Nick Pappin | — | Workshop | Broadband Data QuickStart | — |
| XAVIER TORRET | — | Speaker | Giswater 4. State of the art | — |
| XAVIER TORRET | — | Speaker | SDI for water management at AyA in Costa Rica | — |
| Yuri Astrakhan | Rivian | Workshop | Tile serving with MapLibre/Martin/Planetiler - base and overlays | — |
| Yuri Astrakhan | Rivian | Speaker | MapLibre projects, in one status update | — |