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GeoAI for our shared future: Geospatial foundation models and generative Intelligence for people and the planet

    • Date
    7 July 2026
    Timeframe
    14:00 - 17:15
    Duration
    3h 15 minutes
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    Explore how emerging geospatial foundation models and generative AI can advance solutions for people and the planet while upholding scientific rigor and ethical responsibility. Participants will include members of the UN GGIM thematic networks, academia, and the private sector, and will engage with cutting-edge methods, real-world applications, and critical reflections on transparency, fairness and the societal value of GeoAI. As the convergence of Artificial Intelligence and geospatial technology accelerates, the potential to reshape the use of geospatial for achieving and monitoring progress is unprecedented. More than ever before, it is now critical to bridge the gap between state-of-the-art evolving research and on-the-ground policy and implementation of highly advanced solutions.

     

    Overview

    This workshop will host two distinct but inter-connected sessions – 1) GeoAI operational challenges, policy and governance landscape and 2) Emerging state-of-the-art academic research. The first session will include two panel discussions with distinguished representatives from the wider global geospatial stakeholders including the UN, private sector and academia to delve deeper into GeoAI governance and operational challenges, especially in a humanitarian context, climate action and other relevant areas. The second session will focus on the rapid technical evolution of the field with interventions from leading academic researchers.

    The workshop will also present and discuss the outcomes of the 2026 ITU GeoAI Challenge, which explored how embeddings from state of‑the‑art Geospatial Foundation Models (such as AlphaEarth, TerraMind and Tessera) can support multi‑task learning for building and vegetation segmentation and height estimation. The Challenge was organized as an international collaboration between ITU, ESA, KTH Stockholm, Politecnico di Milano and GEO. Please visit the ESA official site here, to enroll and for additional information.

    By bringing together the custodians of global geospatial frameworks and the architects of the next generation GeoAI, this workshop aims to build a roadmap for a GeoAI ecosystem that is not only technically robust but also ethically grounded.

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