Author: Haosheng

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.

Following the success of the first International Conference on GeoAI, GeoAI 2026, we invite proposals to host GeoAI 2027 and GeoAI 2028.

The call for proposals is available here: https://geoaiconference.org/?page_id=616. Please inform us of your intention to submit a proposal by June 25, and submit the full proposal by July 25.

We are very happy to publish the detailed conference program (draft) of GeoAI 2026. Note that changes are still possible.

If you have any questions or find some mistakes, please contact us at GeoAI2026@UGent.be. Details regarding presentation guidelines will be published before May 10.

Look forward to welcoming you at GeoAI 2026.

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.

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.

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.

We are happy to provide several travel grants for young researchers to attend the GeoAI 2026 conference. 

More details can be found here. Application deadline: 15 March 2026.

We are happy to announce 6 pre-conference workshops, which will be held on June 3 afternoon, starting from 13:30. More details of the workshops will be published online in February. But you can already contact the organisers for more information.

Due to many requests, we are extending the submission deadline to February 3, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth, AoE) for:

• Extended abstracts (600–1200 words)
• Published-article track

We warmly welcome submissions from academia as well as industry, government, and NGOs.

Publication opportunity. Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference online proceedings (with a DOI) and will be openly available on the conference website. We are also exploring special issue opportunities in reputed journals in computer science and GIScience; further details will be shared in early February.

Awards and travel support. GeoAI 2026 will include Best Paper/Presentation Awards. In addition, travel grants will be available for early-career researchers; details and application instructions will be announced in early February.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and to welcoming you at GeoAI 2026.

To make room for pre-conference workshops and hands-on tutorials and to better match venue availability, we’ve slightly adjusted the GeoAI 2026 dates to 3-6 June 2026.

• Wednesday 3 June (afternoon): Pre-conference workshops & tutorials
• Thursday 4 June (early morning) – Saturday 6 June (early afternoon): Main conference. A tentative programme is available here.

If you are interested in organising a pre-conference workshop or hands-on tutorial, please submit your proposal by 18 January 2026. More details can be found here.

Note that the call for extended abstracts for the main conference is open until 20 January 2026.

If you are interested in sponsoring GeoAI 2026, please contact us at GeoAI2026@UGent.be. Various sponsoring packages are available.

We look forward to welcoming you to GeoAI 2026 in June!