HeiGIT is participating to this year's Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Weeks with a session on the practical applications of AI in humanitarian work, presented by Dr. Sukanya Randhawa, Lead Machine Learning for Good.
The FOSSGIS conference is the largest conference for open source geoinformation software and OpenStreetMap in the German-speaking world. This year´s edition will take place from 26-29 March 2025 in Münster, Germany. Current research and development topics will be presented and discussed in various formats. HeiGIT is once again contributing with two different sessions.
Climate mitigation and protection against heat have many facets. The exhibition “The Aesthetics of Climate Adaptation” aims to present urban measures for adapting to the consequences of climate change with a focus on Heidelberg's Bahnstadt district.
We are very pleased to host guest speaker Sebastián Block Munguía from the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (Yale University), who will give a talk on “Spatial datasets to assess countries' environmental performance”.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf, Scientific and Managing Director at HeiGIT and Professor of Geoinformatics / GIScience (GIS) at Heidelberg University, will give a lecture on the topic “Climate Protection and Humanitarian Aid: Support from Geoinformatics.”
The Heidelberg Geographical Society (HGG) has invited leading experts to present on urgent contemporary issues and engage in discussions with the audience afterward.
HeiGIT organizes and participates in several events throughout the week, such as “Piloting Drones”, “Mapathon with German Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders”.
We invite you to contribute to the workshop on Geocomputational Analysis of Socio-Economic Data at the International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems in Hamburg on November 13, 2023!
Under this year’s main theme “People at the centre: scaling up anticipatory action”, the platform offers a plethora of workshops and discussion sessions.
From 19th until 23th September 2023 the 62nd German Congress for Geography (DKG) and Young Congress for Geography (JGK) will take place at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
