Forum 2026: Agenda (Draft)

Forum 2026 Home Registration Agenda (tentative) Keynote Speakers Workshops Venue & Accommodations HDR Ecosystem Conference

Monday August 3, 2026: I-GUIDE Forum

Time (Central)	Activities
7:30 am	Registration and Check-in
9:00 - 11:00 am	Workshops (2-hr): Orientation to the I-GUIDE Platform (Session 1) Any Model, Any Place, Any Time: A Hands-on Tutorial for Obtaining Remote Sensing Foundation Model Embeddings with rs-embed
Mid-day	Lunch (On your Own)
1:00 - 3:00 pm	Workshops (2-hr): Introduction to the I-GUIDE Platform (Session #2) From Dam Risk Metrics to Interactive Maps: A Hands-on Jupyter Tutorial for Open Geospatial REST APIs From Compliance to Confidence: Applying the I-GUIDE Data Ethics Toolkit for Effective, Responsible, and Reproducible Geospatial Research
1:00 - 5:00 pm	Workshop (4-hr): Hands-on with Data to Science (D2S): An Open-Source Platform for Managing, Sharing, and Analyzing UAV Geospatial Data

Tuesday August 4, 2026: I-GUIDE Forum

Time (Central)	Activities
7:30 am	Registration and Check In Continental Breakfast available
8:45 am	Welcome and Greetings
9:00 am	Keynote: The State of I-GUIDE Presenter: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	*Paper Session 1*:
12:00 pm	Lunch (provided)
1:00 pm	Lightning Talk Sessions:
2:00 pm	*Keynote: Spatial Analytics: From the Margins to the Mainstream Presenter*: Luc Anselin, Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Spatial Data Science, University of Chicago
3:15 pm	Break
3:45 pm	*Panel*: Challenges and Benefits of Becoming a Convergence Scientist
5:00 pm	Conclude for the Day

Wednesday August 5, 2026: I-GUIDE Forum + HDR Ecosystem Conference

Time (Central)	Activities
7:30 am	Registration and Check-in Continental Breakfast available
9:00 am	Keynote: Data Challenges and Impact Presenter: Chaitan Baru, Emerging Technologies in the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) Directorate, National Science Foundation (NSF)
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Panel: GeoAI with Students in Today's Research and Educational Settings Yuqin Jiang, University of Hawaii at Manoa Debayan Mandal, Arizona State University Fangzheng Lyu, Virginia Tech University Eric Shook, University of Minnesota
11:45 am	I-GUIDE Forum & HDR Ecosystem Conference Group Photo
12:00 pm	Lunch (provided)
1:00 pm	Panel: Industry and Data
2:15 pm	Paper Sessions (concurrent)
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Lightning Poster Introductions
5:00 pm	Reception & Joint Forum/HDR Poster Session
7:00 pm	Conclude for the day

Thursday August 6, 2026: HDR Ecosystem Conference

Time (Central)	Activities
7:30 am	Registration and Check-in Continental Breakfast available
9:00 am	HDR Welcome and Introductions, by Shaowen Wang
9:15 am	HDR Paper Session 1:
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	HDR Paper Session 2:
12:00 pm	Lunch (provided)
1:15 pm	HDR Panel Session
3:00 pm	Break
3:20 pm	HDR Sessions
5:00 pm	HDR Concludes for the day

Friday August 7, 2026: HDR Ecosystem Conference

Time (Central)	Activities
7:30 am	Registration and Check-in Continental Breakfast available
9:00 am	HDR Panel: the Future Directions of HDR-Related Activity Presenters: Shaowen Wang, Director of I-GUIDE, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Tonya Berger-Wolf, Director of Imageomics, The Ohio State University Vandana Janeja, Director of iHARP, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Eric Toberer, Director of ID4, the Colorado School of Mines Shih-Chieh Hsu, Director of A3D3, University of Washington
10:15 am	Break
10:30 am	HDR Paper Sessions:
12:00 pm	Lunch (provided)
1:00 pm	HDR Conference concludes

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