Registration is required at https://www.geography2050.org/
Location: DAY 1 at the Forum, DAY 2 at Lerner Hall
The grand challenges facing our planet and global society require all of the intelligence humanity can muster - whether human, artificial, or both. Luckily, a kind of augmented collective intelligence that understands these challenges at local, regional, and global scales has become available in recent years - GeoAI. After a half a century of satellite remote sensing, and the creation of countless layers of geospatial (spatio-temporal) data by governments, academics, non-profits, commercial businesses, and citizens around the world, this modern GeoAI revolution has transformed and supercharged the quest begun by our computer scientists, making it relevant to every corner of our planet. For the eleventh anniversary of the American Geographical Society’s (AGS) annual Fall Symposium, AGS and the Columbia Climate School (CCS) will bring together leading practitioners and thinkers from government, industry, academia, and the non-profit world to discuss how GeoAI will transform the ways we monitor and anticipate change, so that we can better shape our future
Symposium Themes: GeoAI Foundation Models, GeoAI and Glimpsing into the Future, Global Risks and Human Security, The Geography of Blind Spots - Bias, Justice, and Equity in GeoAI, Persistent Sensing and Planetary Reasoning, GeoAI and Climate Processes, Having a Conversation with our Planet: Multi-Modal GeoAI, Turning GeoAI into Action, and Building the GeoAI industry: The Resource Imperativ
Hosted by the American Geographical Society is a 21st-century learning society dedicated to advancing geographic and geospatial thinking, knowledge, and understanding across business, government, academia, and the broader public. AGS has a 173-year tradition of advancing the frontiers of all things geo.
