Pat Smyth
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- FOSS4G North America
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 2026 | FOSS4G North America 2026 | FOSS4G North America | speaker | Giving LLMs a Sense of Place: a Spatial MCP Server"Which neighborhoods are bottlenecked by a single evacuation route?" Spatial questions are full of ambiguity and hidden joins. We built an MCP server — on H3,…Show less"Which neighborhoods are bottlenecked by a single evacuation route?" Spatial questions are full of ambiguity and hidden joins. We built an MCP server — on H3, DuckDB, and GDAL — that lets an LLM reason spatially and handle these subtleties gracefully. | |
| Nov 2, 2026 | FOSS4G North America 2026 | FOSS4G North America | speaker | Verify, then Trust: Evaluating Geo-AIAn LLM that answers spatial questions confidently — but wrongly — is dangerous. We share an open-pattern evaluation harness using verified ground truth and an…Show lessAn LLM that answers spatial questions confidently — but wrongly — is dangerous. We share an open-pattern evaluation harness using verified ground truth and an LLM-as-judge to measure whether Geo-AI actually reasons correctly. |
Frequent co-speakers
No one else spoke at two or more of the same events.
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