AGI Foresight Conference Challenges Geospatial Community to Transition

The Foresight Report 2030, the result of a 12-month project exploring the opportunities and challenges facing the geospatial sector over the next five years, will be released at the conference on the 13th November at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London. Identifying and exploring six forces that will help shape geospatial, the report, and the Foresight Conference agenda, will challenge the geospatial community to transition from speciality domain to critical infrastructure.

The newly published Association for Geographic Information Foresight Conference 2025 agenda features an keynote presentation from Ed Parsons, Geospatial Technology Advisor and Google’s first ever Geospatial Technologist, who will be joined on stage by representatives from Amentum, AtkinsRéalis, Idox Geospatial, 1Spatial, and the North Sea Transition Authority. The innovative programme also features opportunities to explore the six themes of the report (the Data Imperative, the AI Integration Challenge, Infrastructure Evolution, the Collaboration Imperative, Earth Systems Revolution, Skills Revolution, and the Convergence Effect), with Agora based sessions featuring sector leaders.

“To quote the Foresight 2030 report ‘the geospatial sector isn’t simply evolving, it’s fundamentally reconstituting itself around six interconnected forces that challenge every assumption about spatial intelligence in the 21st century’ so, through this event, the report, and our work as a diverse and passionate membership organisation, we as the AGI, and other leaders within the sector must take these changes seriously,” commented Peter ter Haar, Co-Chair of the AGI.