Responding to the profound transformations driven by digitalization, the emerging artificial intelligence models and technologies, and the urgent demand for planetary sustainability and resilience, the 3rd UNWGIC seeks to advance a future-ready responsibly governed global geospatial ecosystem.
| Day #1 | Day #2 | Day #3 | Day #4 | |
| Focus | The Vision | The Integration | The Innovation | The Future |
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A Digital Geospatial Renaissance |
Model, Decide, Manage (Data, Information, Insights) |
Responsible, People-centric, and AI-enabled |
The Age of Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence |
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Reimagining geospatial information for People, Prosperity, Planet, and Peace |
Transitioning to “insights-on- demand” for impactful policies, decisions and actions |
Leveraging responsible innovations and disruptionsto sustain the geospatial renaissanc |
Prioritizing local knowledge and local actions with global solidarity and consensus framework |
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| Emphasis |
Vision, values, and national and global priorities |
Integration, operational transformation, and domains |
Innovation, artificial intelligence, and disruptions |
Partnerships, pathways for the future, and actions |
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Establishing geospatial information as foundational digital public infrastructure and a global public good for effective and responsible governance |
Integrating geospatial, environmental, demographics, economic and statistical data, transitioning to “insightson-demand” for effective decision-making and operational impacts |
Embracing emerging technologies and disruptive innovations, focusing on responsible deployment of appropriate technologies and artificial intelligence tailored to national circumstances and global impacts |
Scaling national, regional and global collaboration and partnerships, including with the next generation and underrepresented, for resilient, local-to-global impacts in an age of deep learning and artificial intelligence |
| Parallel Tracks/Sub-themes | Day #1 | Day #2 | Day #3 | Day #4 |
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#1 - Vision, Governance, and Values |
Shared principles, values, and responsibilities for geospatial information as public infrastructure and public good. |
Governance models that enable cross-sector, cross-institutional, and cross-domain integration and interoperability |
Legal, reliability, and safeguards implications of AI-driven geospatial systems. |
Future governance pathways that balance openness, creativity, economics, security and sovereignty |
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#2 - Integration, Interoperability, and Knowledge Systems |
What “integrated knowledge systems” mean within national, regional and global contexts? |
Which strategies for effective geospatial–statistical–environmental-social-economic integration? |
Which automation, machine learning, and AI-enabled analytics for near real-time insights including on demand? |
What about scalability, sustainability, and post-2030 frameworks, norms and principles? |
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#3 - Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, and Disruption |
The technological progress and its implications for the geospatial ecosystem |
Cloud platforms and AI-enabled integrated knowledge systems |
AI-driven geospatial automation, digital twins and systems |
Workforce transformation, and effective longer-term capability development |
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#4 - Participatory and People-Centered Outcomes |
People, and communities and indigenous knowledge and experience as central to the geospatial paradigm |
Participatory approaches to integrating volunteered, community and authoritative information |
Responsible AI models, technologies and systems, and human oversight (mitigating bias?) |
Pathways for sustainable leadership and capability development |
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#5 - Partnerships, Investment, and Implementation |
UN-IGIF as the mechanism and the enabler for national transformation |
Operational experience in implementing integrated knowledge systems, including within domains and regions |
Next-Gen partnership and economic/financing models for national geospatial ecosystem advancement |
Future partnership and investment models and pathways beyond 2030 |
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#6 – Regional, subregional, thematic, and specialized domains |
Aligning the global geospatial paradigm with the specific priorities of regional, sub-regional, thematic, and specialized domain groups |
Deep-diving into regional, sub-regional, thematic and domain-specific strategies for integrated knowledge systems and cross-sector implementation |
Showcasing localized AI related adaptations and initiatives tailored to unique regional, sub-regional, thematic and domain circumstances |
Formulating joint action plans and collaborative road maps to sustain leadership and capabilities beyond 2030 |
The Congress convenes under the theme “Navigating the Next Frontier: Embracing the Digital Renaissance and a New Geospatial Paradigm,” bringing together the global geospatial community to collectively explore and shape the future of geospatial information management.
16-19 November 2026