GeoAI 2027 and GeoAI 2028: Hosts selected

We are happy to announce that University College London (UCL, UK, represented by James Haworth and Tao Cheng) will host GeoAI 2027. Meanwhile, GeoAI 2028 will be hosted by East China Normal University (ECNU, China, represented by Jonathan Li and Min Liu) in Shanghai in 2028. They stand out from a very strong pool of proposals. Thank you for all the proposals.

Congratulations to UCL and ECNU. More details regarding the dates will be announced in due time. Look forward to seeing you at GeoAI conferences.

Thank you for a great conference!

With more than 300 participants from 36 countries/regions, 6 out of the 7 continents (except Antarctica!😊), the first International Conference on GeoAI (GeoAI 2026) was a big success!

Thank you all the participants, who contributed to conference with high quality oral/poster presentations and inspiring discussions.

Photos of the event can be found on Google Photos: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Thank you Bart De Wit, Jens Sweerts and other team members for making this possible. If you are not happy with any of the photos depicting yourself, please let us know via GeoAI2026@UGent.be.

We will soon ask all presenters to see whether they are willing to share their slides in PDF or not. If yes, their presentation slides will be available at https://we12s002.ugent.be/geoaipdf/ . We hope most of them will upload their slides by June 24.

Gold Sponsor: HERE

We are happy to announce that HERE is now a Gold Sponsor of GeoAI 2026 conference.

HERE is the global leader in mapping and location technology. For 40 years, we’ve been powering innovation for the world’s most recognizable companies: from launching our first digital map in 1985, to shaping the future of software-defined vehicles today. With the industry’s freshest and richest unified map and a portfolio of products, services and solutions that serve the needs of multiple industries, HERE reveals opportunities that drive progress and unlock new possibilities for every moving vehicle. Discover more at here.com.

HERE will also organise a pre-conference workshop “W7 (Hands-on and Discussion) – Advancing Feature Extraction and Map Quality Analytics through GeoAI and HERE Mapmaking“ on June 3 afternoon.

Bronze Sponsors: Remote Sensing and ISPRS IJGI

We are happy to announce that Remote Sensing and ISPRS IJGI are now our Bronze Sponsors of GeoAI 2026 conference.

Remote Sensing (IF: 4.1; CiteScore: 8.6) is an open access journal published semimonthly online by MDPI.

ISPRS IJGI (IF: 2.8; CiteScore: 7.2) provides an advanced forum for the science and technology of geographic information.

Acceptance decisions sent and registration opens

We have just sent out the acceptance decisions of all the submissions to the corresponding authors. You might want to check whether the notification email goes into your Spam box or not. If you have not received a decision for your submission, please contact us GeoAI2026@UGent.be. We would like to thank all members of the Program Committee for their help in the review process.

Meanwhile, we have just opened the registration system. Early-bird registration ends on March 30.

Look forward to seeing you at GeoAI 2026.

Silver Sponsor: Esri, Inc

We are happy to announce that Esri, Inc is now a Silver Sponsor of GeoAI 2026 conference.

Esri, Inc. is the global leader in enterprise geospatial software and services, serving 700,000 organizations, including 12,000 universities. ArcGIS integrates AI across the platform to accelerate spatial problem-solving, offering advanced geospatial AI tools and over 100 pretrained models that can be used as-is or fine-tuned to address diverse geospatial challenges.