On 3 July 2024, the Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS is organising the Zukunftsforum Geoinformatik, a forum on Geoinformatics that will highlight state-of-the-art practices, tools and necessary cultural philosophies that integrate the processes between IT teams and subject matter experts. In four panels, the Future Forum will focus on economic significance, research topics and technology trends with over 20 invited panellists.
Geoinformation systems (GIS) are anchored in the daily work processes of public authorities, companies and NGOs and offer established analysis and modelling functions for dealing with space. Salzburg is a globally recognised scientific hotspot in this field of research: the Centre for Geoinformatics, founded in 1988, is now an established department with 95 employees and seven research groups that research and teach in areas ranging from spatial data science and earth observation to citizen science and digital humanities.
The Zukunftsforum Geoinformatik shows perspectives in which traditional disciplinary boundaries are disappearing in post-pandemic hybrid working environments, AI-dominated workflows and multicultural and transdisciplinary dialogues. We are increasingly moving in a world of data abundance, the ‘geocoding’ of (originally non-spatial) data and ubiquitous (pervasive) information processing with challenges for the organisation and processing of data, including about user-generated information.
EMERALDS at the event
Anita Graser, Senior Scientist in the Data Science & Artificial Intelligence research group at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, will be giving a talk about Geospatial Data Science, presenting examples of current research questions from the EMERALDS project, like federated learning, and trustworthy and explainable AI for mobility.