There’s only one week to go until more than 200 of the world’s positioning, navigation and timing experts descend upon Sydney for the biennial global PNT conference.
PNT2026 will take place from 4 to 6 February at the conference centre at the Royal Randwick racecourse in Sydney.
The conference has become one of the most important PNT gatherings, attracting a wide array of speakers from the public and private sectors, the military, academia and others.
The program will be headlined by five local and international keynote speakers:
- Lieutenant General Susan Coyle AM CSC DSM, Chief of Joint Capabilities, Australian Defence Force
- Professor Zak Kassas, TRC Endowed Chair in Intelligent Transportation Systems, The Ohio State University
- David Ball, Regional Director Australia New Zealand, Lockheed Martin Space
- Chris Shaw, CEO and co-founder, Advanced Navigation
- Dr Alison Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer, NAVSYS Corporation
The full list of speakers can be found on the conference website.
The plenary, panel discussion and technical session program covers a huge range of topics encompassing land, sea, sky and even lunar activities.
The scope of discussion will range from policy to technology to research, and will include subjects such as:
- PNT in all its guises: Resilient, alternative, LEO, military and more
- GNSS techniques, threats and resilience, and technologies
- Positioning: Ubiquitous, SBAS, the Positioning Australia program and more
- Workforce: Women in PNT
- Geodetic foundations and measurement techniques
- Timing, sensor fusion and quantum navigation
- Space: Ionospheric modelling and space weather, lunar navigation
- Autonomous systems
- Security risks and threats
The discussions will be of interest to a wide range of professionals working in fields as diverse as surveying, aviation, maritime, agriculture, mining and space.
The event has attracted an impressive list of sponsors, many of which will have stands and displays in an expanded exhibition area. The sponsor list includes:
Platinum Sponsor
- Lockheed Martin Australia
Sustaining Sponsor
- Geoscience Australia
Foundation Sponsor
- UNSW School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Gold Sponsors
- Oscilloquartz
- CoverTel Telecommunications Group
- Iridium
- Viavi
Silver Plus Sponsor
- Advanced Navigation
Silver Sponsors
- Aptella
- C.R. Kennedy | Leica Geosystems
- iTkey Meinberg
- Safran
- UPG | Trimble
- FrontierSI
- Braemac
- Forge Photonics
- SBG Systems
- Scientific Devices
Bronze Sponsor
- Institute of Navigation
Spatial Source is proud to be a media partner for the event.
This conference comes around only every two years, an interval during which technology marches on rapidly. So it will pay to not miss out on this opportunity in order to stay abreast of the latest developments and hear firsthand from the researchers, industrial experts and vendors who work on the cutting edge of PNT solutions.
Only thirty delegate tickets remained open as of Wednesday, 28 January.
Registration details are available on the conference website, as are details about the venue and travel information.
PNT2026 is an event of the Australian Institute of Navigation, which in 2025 merged with the Australia-based International Global Navigation Satellite Systems (IGNSS) Association.
