Forum 2025: Agenda

Tuesday June 17, 2025

Time (Central)	Activities
8:00 am	Registration
9:00 - 10:30 am	Morning Workshops & Tutorials Introduction to the I-GUIDE Platform (Room: Mississippi) Hands-on Tutorial: Cybertraining on Geospatial Data Processing using Python in Hydrology (continues after break) (Room: Ohio) DeepEarth Workshop: Self-Supervised AI for Spatiotemporal Modeling of Ecosystems (continues after break) (Room: Arkansas)
10:30 - 10:50 am	Morning Coffee Break
10:50 am - 12:05 pm	Morning Workshops & Tutorials Enhancing Geospatial-data Intensive Knowledge Discovery with OpenSearch and LLM Search (Room: Mississippi) Hands-on Tutorial: Cybertraining on Geospatial Data Processing using Python in Hydrology (continued from before break) (Room: Ohio) DeepEarth Workshop: Self-Supervised AI for Spatiotemporal Modeling of Ecosystems (continued from before break) (Room: Arkansas)
12:05 - 1:30 pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:30 - 2:45 pm	Afternoon Workshops & Tutorials Introduction to the I-GUIDE Platform (Room: Mississippi) CyberTraining: Broadening Adoption of Cyberinfrastructure and Geospatial Science for Disaster Management (continues after the break) (Room: Arkansas) Analyzing Socio-Environmental Drivers of Urban Crime Using Machine Learning (continues after the break) (Room: Ohio) Bringing Science to Life: The Art of Cinematic Scientific Visualization (continues after the break) (Room: Colorado)
2:45 - 3:05 pm	Afternoon Coffee Break
3:05 - 4:20 pm	I-GUIDE Panel: Geospatial AI and Innovation for Sustainability Solutions (Room: Sheraton Ballroom III) Chair: Shaowen Wang, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Panelists: Michael Goodchild, Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Barbara Damandeep Kochhar, EVP, Chief Platform & Technology Officer, HERE Technologies Siva Ravada, Vice President of Development, Oracle X. Carol Song, Chief Scientist, Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, Purdue University Daniel Sui, Senior Vice President & Professor, Virginia Tech
3:05 - 5:15 pm	Afternoon Workshops & Tutorials From Compliance to Confidence: Applying the I-GUIDE Data Ethics Toolkit for Effective, Responsible, and Reproducible Geospatial Research (Room: Mississippi) CyberTraining: Broadening Adoption of Cyberinfrastructure and Geospatial Science for Disaster Management (continued from before break) (Room: Arkansas) Analyzing Socio-Environmental Drivers of Urban Crime Using Machine Learning (continued from before break) (Room: Ohio) Bringing Science to Life: The Art of Cinematic Scientific Visualization (continued from before break) (Room: Colorado)

Wednesday June 18, 2025

Time (Central)	Activities
8:00 am	Registration
9:00 - 10:30 am	Opening Plenary for the I-GUIDE Forum & the SRI Congress Financing the Future – Mobilizing Capital for Sustainability (Room: Sheraton Chicago Ballroom) Jeffrey Sachs, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Jessica Wollmuth, EY Scott Vogt, ComEd
10:30 - 10:50 am	Morning Coffee Break
10:50 am - 12:00 pm	Keynote: The State of I-GUIDE (Room: Sheraton Ballroom X) Shaowen Wang, Director, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chair: Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara
12:00 - 1:30 pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:30 - 2:30 pm	I-GUIDE Paper Presentations Session: Frontiers in Geospatial and Sustainability Sciences (Room: Sheraton Ballroom X) Chair: Peter Darch, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Iman Haqiqi, Thomas Hertel, and Kavitha Srikanth. Historical Socio-Economic Drivers of Groundwater Stress and the Role of Governance Dharmendra Kumar Singh and Donald Wuebbles. Radiative Forcing and Sustainability Impacts of Aviation Contrails in 2035: Insights from SSP2-4.5 Projections Xin Gu, Su Yeon Han, Soe Win Myint, Eunsang Cho, Yuanhui Zhu, and Joon-Seok Kim. Exploring Dynamic Human Mobility of Diverse Social Groups Under Extreme Heat Conditions: A Simulation-Based Approach
2:30 - 2:45 pm	Group Photo
2:45 - 3:05 pm	Afternoon Coffee Break
3:05 - 3:45 pm	Keynote: Feeding the World, Grid by Grid: Spatial Trade-Offs under Crop Import Tariffs (Room: Sheraton Ballroom X) Thomas Hertel, Purdue University Chair: Venkatesh Merwade, Purdue University
3:45 - 4:55 pm	I-GUIDE Poster Introductions (Room: Sheraton Ballroom X) Chair: Nick Manning, Michigan State University
4:55 - 5:00 pm	Day 1 Wrap-up
5:00 - 5:30 pm	Poster Setup (Room: Sheraton Ballroom IX)
5:30 - 7:30 pm	Poster Session & Reception (Room: Sheraton Ballroom IX) Chair: Diana Sinton, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science

Thursday June 19, 2025

Time (Central)	Activities
8:00 am	Registration
8:30 am - 9:10 am	Keynote: Embracing Large Language Models for Geospatial Applications: A Retrieval and Structuring Approach (Room: Sheraton Ballroom X) Jiawei Han, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chair: Mohan Ramamurthy, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
9:10 – 10:30 am	I-GUIDE Paper Presentations Session: Geospatial Data and Sustainability Sciences (Room: Sheraton Ballroom X) Chair: X. Carol Song, Purdue University Courtney Flint, Michael Englert, and Upmanu Lall. Assessing Vulnerabilities Associated with High-Risk Dams in Utah Iman Haqiqi, Thomas Hertel, and Kavitha Srikanth. Verification and Validation Methods for Gridded Models of Land and Water Management Chhaya Kulkarni, Nikki Privé, and Vandana Janeja. Machine Learning-based Variance Analysis of Brightness Temperature in Simulated Satellite Footprints Nicholas Manning and Andrés Viña. The Known Unknowns: Acknowledging Meta-Uncertainty in Coupled Human and Natural Systems Modeling
10:30 - 10:50 am	Morning Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:50 am	I-GUIDE Paper Presentations Session: CyberGIS & Cyberinfrastructure Innovation and Education (Room: Sheraton Ballroom X) Chair: Anand Padmanabhan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alexander Michels, Ian Zhang, Anand Padmanabhan, John Speaks, Rebecca Vandewalle, and Shaowen Wang. Expanding Access to CyberGIS-Compute through support for Heterogeneous Workflows Peter Darch, Kyra Abrams, and Ivan Kong. Mapping Responsible AI Workflows for Geospatial Data Science: Developing the I-GUIDE Data Ethics Toolkit Fangzheng Lyu. Evaluating the Evaluation Matrices: Integrating Spatial Assessment in Geospatial AI Model Training and Evaluation
11:50 am - 12:00 pm	I-GUIDE Awards (Room: Sheraton Ballroom X) Chair: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
12:00 - 1:00 pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:00 – 2:15 pm	Panel: AI for Sustainability through Geospatial Innovation and Partnership (Room: Sheraton Ballroom X) Chair: Shaowen Wang, Director, I-GUIDE and Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Panelist: Aaron Addison, Executive Director, World Geospatial Industry Council Jiawei Han, Michael Aiken Chair Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, UIUC David Johnson, Associate Professor, Purdue University Angela Lee, Director, Education Solutions, Esri Michael Zentner, External Advisory Board Member, I-GUIDE
2:15 - 2:45 pm	I-GUIDE and SRI Closing Ceremony Reception (Room: Sheraton Chicago Ballroom)
2:45 - 4:30 pm	Closing Plenary for the I-GUIDE Forum & the SRI Congress (Room: Sheraton Chicago Ballroom) Katharine Hayhoe, The Nature Conservancy Timothy L. Killeen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Kristie L. Ebi, University of Washington Nicole Arbour, Belmont Forum Donald Wuebbles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Michelle Relerford, NBC 5 News Today

Friday June 20, 2025

Time (Central)	Activities
8:00 am	Breakfast
Morning	I-GUIDE All Hands Meeting (Invitation Only)
Mid-day	Lunch (Provided)
2:00 pm	Conclusion of the I-GUIDE All Hands Meeting

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