
Now in its second decade, the Aus Gov Data Summit is dedicated to advancing the government’s agenda of leveraging data as a national strategic asset. This premier event aims to empower Australian public service data leaders to elevate their missions, increase efficiency, and deliver exceptional public services.
With more than 500 leaders from federal state, and local governments expected to attend, the summit will feature an expanded program with four dedicated streams: C-suite, data and analytics, ICT leadership and innovation, and cybersecurity. Each stream is specifically tailored to address the critical challenges and opportunities within the Australian public service data ecosystem.
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The Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration (CSDILA) at the University of Melbourne, will host the Global Geospatial and Land Community at Melbourne Connect.
The program will include a Certified Leadership Training Course, which will equip executives and leaders with the knowledge, skills and insights needed to leverage geospatial technologies effectively, drive innovation within their organisations, and respond proactively to the evolving landscape of geospatial challenges and opportunities.
The associated Global Forum on Advancing Land and Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation will see the CSDILA and UN-GGIM bring together a leading team to deliver specialised leadership training in the domains of geospatial data and land administration.
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GISTAM 2025, the 11th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management will be a meeting point of researchers and practitioners that address new challenges in geospatial data sensing, observation, representation, processing, visualisation, sharing and management.
This includes all aspects of information communication and technologies as well as management information systems and knowledge-based systems.
The conference will present original contributions of either practical or theoretical nature, including research and applications of specialised or interdisciplinary natures, addressing different aspects of geographic information systems and technologies.
Topics to be covered include:
- Data acquisition and processing
- Remote sensing
- Interaction with spatial-temporal information
- Spatial data mining
- Managing spatial data
- Modelling, representation and visualisation
- GIS and climate change
- Domain applications
Deadlines:
- Regular Paper Submission: 13 December 2024
- Abstracts Track Submission: 30 January 2025

GIScience 2025, the 13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, will be hosted by the University of Canterbury in collaboration with the GIScience academic research community across New Zealand.
The GIScience conference regularly attracts more than 250 international participants from academia, industry and government to discuss and advance the state-of-the-art in geographic information science.
The first day of the 2025 conference will be dedicated to workshops and tutorials, while the main conference program will run on the second and third days; it will include a single refereed paper track and an abstract track for posters and demo submissions.
GIScience 2025 welcomes papers, posters and demos covering emerging topics and fundamental research findings across all sectors of geographic information science, including (but not limited to) the role of geographic information in geography, computer science, engineering, information science, linguistics, mathematics, cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, social science and geostatistics.
Deadlines:
- Proceedings papers: 31 January 2025
- Workshop proposals: 14 February 2025
- Abstracts: 4 April 2025
- Demos: 4 April 2025
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