As part of its data-driven mission, I-GUIDE (the Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment, https://i-guide.io) supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation tackles fundamental scientific and societal challenges focused on sustainability, from biodiversity loss and disaster resilience to food and water insecurity. The I-GUIDE Forum is designed as a conference series to bring together domain science researchers, artificial intelligence (AI) and data scientists, cyberinfrastructure experts, and educators from across academia, government, and industry. The Forum provides a cross-disciplinary venue for sharing AI, cyberinfrastructure, and geospatial approaches to a variety of pressing sustainability and resilience challenges the world is facing.

The I-GUIDE Forum 2025 will feature presentations and discussions about cutting-edge geospatial science and technology advances for enabling sustainability solutions through pushing frontiers in geospatial AI and innovation. The themes for I-GUIDE Forum 2025 focus on (1) Frontiers in Geospatial and Sustainability Sciences; (2) Geospatial AI and Data Science for Sustainability Solutions; (3) Innovation of CyberGIS and Cyberinfrastructure; and (4) Innovative Education, Training, and Workforce Development.

1. Frontiers in Geospatial and Sustainability Sciences: Papers in this track focus on advances in geospatial and sustainability sciences that address complex sustainability challenges across various spatial and temporal scales. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
   • Aging infrastructure
   • Disaster prediction and resilience
   • Food, energy, and water nexus
   • Global to local analysis of sustainability
   • Telecoupling and cross-scale understanding of sustainability
2. Geospatial AI and Data Science for Sustainability Solutions: Papers in this track focus on new algorithms, methods, models, and theories for harnessing heterogeneous geospatial data to solve sustainability problems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
   • Data-intensive geospatial analytics
   • Explainable geospatial AI for sustainability solutions
   • Geospatial data ethics
   • Geospatial foundation models
   • Intelligent geospatial decision support
   • Uncertainty quantification in geospatial AI
3. Innovation of CyberGIS and Cyberinfrastructure: Papers in this track focus on innovative cyberGIS and cyberinfrastructure software, systems, and tools for enabling scalable solutions to sustainability problems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
   • Geospatial cloud and edge computing
   • Geospatial decision support systems
   • Geospatial middleware
   • Geospatial problem solving environments
   • High-performance geospatial computing
   • New frontiers in cyberGIS
   • Reproducibility and replicability of data-intensive geospatial analytics
4. Innovative Education, Training, and Workforce Development: Papers in this track explore how to incorporate the recent advances in sustainability science, cyberinfrastructure, geospatial AI and data science into new learning modalities and resources. Innovative ideas for supporting the development of a proficient workforce is  sought. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
   • Sustainability science curriculum focused on geospatial AI and data science
   • Education advances in geospatial data-intensive sciences
   • Geospatial AI and data science curriculum
   • Open educational resources

Submission Requirements for I-GUIDE Forum 2025: Papers 

I-GUIDE Forum 2025 invites papers or extended abstracts addressing one or more of the aforementioned themes. Papers will be published as described below; extended abstracts are used to select presentations for the Forum but will not be subsequently published.

• The 2025 Forum proceedings will be published by e-Pubs at Purdue University at https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iguide.
• Papers should not exceed eight pages in the single-column publication format, including references. Templates are available within EasyChair.
• Each full paper will be assigned a DOI when published.
• Publications will be open access at no cost to the authors.
• Publications will be indexed in Google Scholar.
• e-Pubs provides automatic monthly readership reports for authors who provide their email addresses.
• Content published on Purdue e-Pubs will remain in perpetuity and is subject to the Purdue e-Pubs policy for withdrawing content.

Both papers and extended abstracts must be submitted through the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=iguideforum2025 by April 18, 2025. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by May 7, 2025.