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The third annual GeoGov Summit is scheduled for September 8-10 at the Hyatt Regency Dulles Airport Hotel in Herndon, VA. The Summit is a unique forward-looking forum that brings together leaders and experts from across all levels of government, as well as representatives from industry, academia, and NGOs. The Summit focuses on advancing the use of geospatial information, applications, workflows, and supporting infrastructure to better inform policy and improve our understanding and decision making regarding a range of critical issues and opportunities facing government from the local to national levels.
This year’s working theme is “Expanding our National Geospatial Ecosystem in Partnership: Informing Decisions, Driving Impact.” Amidst the significant transformation taking place across government and the reality of increasingly limited resources, this trend of increased use of location along with the growing pace of innovation in the geospatial industry offers potential for greater efficiency and deeper insights for improved decision making. Expanded partnerships and new models of collaboration and coordination hold promise to further improve the extent and utility of our geospatial ecosystem to better address the myriad of challenges and opportunities we face as a nation.
Location-driven insights are fast becoming deeply integrated across the workflows, processes, and applications of industries, user communities, and citizens. Decisions within government, businesses, and citizenry are driven increasingly by the context of location. The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) offers nationwide coverage of authoritative geospatial data and supporting technology and infrastructure to help government build insights and knowledge by placing topics in a location context. This national geospatial ecosystem serves as an underpinning component in achieving a knowledge economy - creating greater efficiency, productivity, transparency, and responsiveness to the needs of our society, the economy, and the environment.
The GeoGov Summit focuses on facilitating a rich forum for Government-to-Government (G2G) and Government-to-Business (G2B) discussion and networking. Such an environment is essential to broaden collaboration, discovery of innovative solutions, and effective partnership development to further advance national development by leveraging our critically important National Geospatial Ecosystem.
GeoGov Summit 2025 will unite government leaders, industry experts, and innovators to delve into the latest advancements in geospatial technologies and their transformative role in governance, infrastructure, and public services. This premier event will focus on how geospatial data and technology are revolutionizing decision-making, urban planning, policy development, and disaster management.
President
Esri
Executive Director
Taylor Geospatial Institute
President, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, Director, WyGISC
Deputy Director
U.S. Census Bureau
Director of the National Geospatial Program (NGP), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Operating Partner
DCVC
Professor, Director Center for Urban Science and Progress NYU, Tandon School of Engineering
CEO, Global Solutions, Former Director, NGA (retired)
Building on the success of the 2024 Summit, the 2025 GeoGov Summit will focus heavily on expanding national stakeholder engagement as well as identifying and prioritizing ways to support implementing components of the NSDI strategy.
Moving Forward - US Geospatial Strategy from Plan to Practice
Seeing is Believing – Communicating the Value of our Geospatial Ecosystem for National Development and Sustainability
Piloting to Practice for Advancing the Utility of Our Geospatial Ecosystem
Government and Governance: Advancing the NSDI for National Development and Sustainability
Readying the Geospatial Workforce to New Markets, Sources, Technologies, and Practices
Moving Forward - US Geospatial Strategy from Plan to Practice
The GeoGov Summit brings together a dynamic ecosystem, drawing top-tier policy makers and decision makers from across government, along with senior executives and professionals from industry, academia and the non-profit sector. Our goal: to engage Summit participants in conversation to generate new insights and action to sustain and grow our national geospatial knowledge infrastructure.
Come prepared to engage as the Summit offers opportunity to all participants to add their voices to the program discussion and to benefit from rich networking and partnership development opportunities.
We look forward to welcoming you to Dulles for three transformative days of networking, inspiration, insights and action!
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Representing a higher education institution, specifically a business school, the GeoGov conference provides a seat at the table to engage in thoughtful and productive conversation for how to advance not only the geospatial industry, but also to innovate new public to private partnerships. The conference has helped us advance industry and also government connections.
Head of Strategic Partnerships
Adjunct Marketing Faculty
University of Pittsburgh School of Business
A strong national geospatial ecosystem thrives on collaboration, with state and local governments playing a key role in producing cornerstone fundamental data. Their active participation helps eliminate redundancy and duplication of efforts across various government levels. The GeoGov Summit provides a valuable opportunity for all stakeholders to come together, share knowledge, and work towards a more efficient and unified national geospatial framework.
Commercial/GIS Division Manager
Cobb County Board of Tax Assessors
GeoGov Summit is where key leaders gather over a few days for insights, networking and what the future holds. The plenary sessions are well planned and informative. It's a must attend for anyone serious about the anything Geospatial.
President and Chief Idea Officer
Claim Academy
I consider the work done at past GeoCov Conferences to have been instrumental in advancing critically important GIS priorities. These include improved cross sector collaboration, the development of strategic spatial standards, exploring new applications and technologies, designing an implementation plan for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). GeoGov is very much a results oriented conference, and is designed to foster the emergence of effective new ideas. If you care about the future of GIS you owe it to yourself and to your organization to attend.
Board Member
New York City Geospatial Information Systems and Mapping Organization (GISMO)
GeoGov Summit is proving to be a productive forum for bridging the gap between industry and research with government hence accelerating the support we can provide, as a community, to governments in their uptake and application of geospatial tech in their decision-making workflows.
Executive Director
Taylor Geospatial Institute
