Forum 2025: Agenda

 

I-GUIDE Forum 2025

Geospatial AI and Innovation for Sustainability Solutions

Co-located this year with the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress

Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk | Chicago, Illinois, USA
June 17 - 19, 2025

 

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Monday June 16, 2025 – SRI Congress Opening Day

The Sustainability Research and Innovation (SRI) Congress 2025 officially begins on Monday, June 16.
Please refer to the full SRI agenda for events taking place that day and throughout the week: View the SRI Congress Program

Note: The I-GUIDE Forum begins on Tuesday, June 17 and runs through Thursday, June 19. All I-GUIDE events are listed below.

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
  • Hands-on Tutorial: Cybertraining on Geospatial Data Processing using Python in Hydrology (continued after break)
  • Training Workshop for Using the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) APIs (continued after break)
  • DeepEarth Workshop: Self-Supervised AI for Spatiotemporal Modeling of Ecosystems (continued after break)
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
  • Hands-on Tutorial: Cybertraining on Geospatial Data Processing using Python in Hydrology (continued from before break)
  • Training Workshop for Using the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) APIs (continued from before break)
  • DeepEarth Workshop: Self-Supervised AI for Spatiotemporal Modeling of Ecosystems (continued from before break)
12:05 - 1:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:30 - 2:45 pm Afternoon Workshops & Tutorials

  • Introduction to the I-GUIDE Platform
  • CyberTraining: Broadening Adoption of Cyberinfrastructure and Geospatial Science for Disaster Management (continued after the break)
  • Analyzing Socio-Environmental Drivers of Urban Crime Using Machine Learning (continued after the break)
  • Bringing Science to Life: The Art of Cinematic Scientific Visualization (continued after the break)
2:45 - 3:05 pm Afternoon Coffee Break
3:05 - 4:20 pm I-GUIDE Panel: Geospatial AI and Innovation for Sustainability Solutions 

Panelists:

  • Michael Goodchild, Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Barbara
  • Daniel Sui, Senior Vice President & Professor, Virginia Tech University
  • Siva Rivada, Vice President of Development, Oracle USA
  • Shaowen Wang, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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
  • CyberTraining: Broadening Adoption of Cyberinfrastructure and Geospatial Science for Disaster Management (continued from before break)
  • Analyzing Socio-Environmental Drivers of Urban Crime Using Machine Learning (continued from before break)
  • Bringing Science to Life: The Art of Cinematic Scientific Visualization (continued rom before break)

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

Speaker: Jeffrey Sachs, Economist & President, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

10:30 - 10:50 am Morning Coffee Break
10:50 am  - 12:05 pm Keynote:  The State of I-GUIDE
  • Shaowen Wang, Director, I-GUIDE and Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
12:05 - 1:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:30 - 2:45 pm I-GUIDE Paper Presentations Session: Frontiers in Geospatial and Sustainability Sciences (20 mins each)
  • 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
  • Cheng Su, Shaohua Wang, Haojian Liang, Yang Zhong, Zhenbo Wang and Xueyan Zhang. DeepSpo: A Deep Learning Framework for Solving Spatial Optimization Problems
2:45 - 3:05 pm Afternoon Coffee Break
3:05 - 3:35 pm Invited Talk: Feeding the World, Grid by Grid: Spatial Trade-Offs under Crop Import Tariffs

Speaker: Thomas Hertel, Professor, Purdue University

3:35 - 4:45 pm I-GUIDE Poster Introductions (~30 posters)
4:45 - 5:00 pm Day 1 Wrap-up
5:30 - 7:30 pm Poster Session & Reception

Thursday June 19, 2025

 

Time (Central)

Activities

8:00 am Registration
8:30 am - 9:30 am I-GUIDE Paper Presentations Session: Geospatial AI & Data Science for Sustainability (20 mins each)

  • Fangzheng Lyu. Evaluating the Evaluation Matrices: Integrating Spatial Assessment in Geospatial AI Model Training and Evaluation
  • Nathan Fox and Derek Van Berkel. AI-Validated Social Media Data Offers New Perspectives on Biodiversity: A Case Study of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) in Yellowstone National Park
  • Xiao Li, Shaohua Wang, Haojian Liang, Cheng Su, Xueyan Zhang, Hanghe Cao and Nanmu Su. Optimization of Bus Stop Layout in Dongcheng and Xicheng Districts of Beijing Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning
9:30 – 10:30 am I-GUIDE Paper Presentations Session:  CyberGIS & Cyberinfrastructure Innovation and Education (20 mins each)

  • Alexander Michels, Ian Zhang, Anand Padmanabhan, John Speaks, Rebecca Vandewalle and Shaowen Wang. Expanding Access to CyberGIS-Compute through support for Heterogeneous Workflows
  • Nicholas Manning and Andrés Viña. The Known Unknowns: Acknowledging Meta-Uncertainty in Coupled Human and Natural Systems Modeling
  • Peter Darch, Kyra Abrams and Ivan Kong. Mapping Responsible AI Workflows for Geospatial Data Science: Developing the I-GUIDE Data Ethics Toolkit
10:30 - 10:50 am Morning Coffee Break
1:30 - 3:00 pm I-GUIDE Paper Presentations Session: Geospatial Data and Sustainability Sciences (20 mins each)

  • 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
  • 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
  • Chhaya Kulkarni, Dr. Nikki Privé and Dr. Vandana Janeja. Machine Learning-based Variance Analysis of Brightness Temperature in Simulated Satellite Footprints
12:05 - 1:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:30 - 2:45 pm Panel: AI for Sustainability though Geospatial Innovation and Partnership

Chair:  Shaowen Wang, Director, I-GUIDE and Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Panelist: TBD

2:45 – 3:05 pm Afternoon Coffee Break
3:05 - 3:30 pm I-GUIDE Awards and Wrap-up Session
3:30 - 5:30 pm Closing Plenary for the I-GUIDE Forum & the SRI Congress

Speaker: Katharine Hayhoe, Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy


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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