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Geographical Information Science Research Group

The Geographic Information Science Research Group (GIScRG) of the RGS-IBG is glad to invite you to submit proposals for sponsorship of your RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 sessions.

Call for session sponsorship 2025

Themes

The GIScRG welcomes sessions that focus on, but not limited to:

  • Geographic information science
  • Geographic information systems and tools
  • Critical GIS, ethics and privacy
  • Reproducibility and open science
  • Mapping, cartography and information visualisation
  • Spatial analysis and uncertainty
  • GeoAI, including but not limited to
    • Machine learning
    • Large language models
    • Vision models
    • Multimodel models
    • Foundation models
    • Agent-based modelling
    • Information retrieval
  • Movement analysis
  • Location-based services
  • Crowdsourcing, citizen science and volunteered geographic information
  • Applications, including but not limited to
    • Environment
    • Health
    • Transportation
    • Urban analytics

Chair’s theme

Every year the conference has a Chair’s theme which this year is Geographies of Creativity/Creative Geographies. The themes are often very broad and it is not a requirement for your proposal to be linked to the theme. Often the links between the theme and presentations at the conference are very general.

Some potential ideas from the GIScRG that relate to this theme include the topics listed below, but other ideas, topics and suggestions are very welcome.

  • Geographies of Creativity/Creative Geographies
    • Mapping creative content and creative industries
    • Spatial analysis of creative content and creative industries
    • Creative uses of GIS
    • Qualitative GIS

Sponsorship

Obtaining a group sponsorship for your session is not required, but it will connect your session to the broader GIScience community of the RGS-IBG. We will promote your session along with the other sessions we sponsor, providing your session with broader publicity.

The session will be part of our conference programme, thus avoiding overlaps with other GIScience sessions. Please note, however, that sponsorships do not include financial support, although you might be able to apply for a guest pass.

Please send the information below to giscience.rgs@gmail.com before 3 February.

  • Session title
  • Session abstract (250 words)
  • Session organisers’ name, affiliation and email
  • Session format and how many timeslots you are requiring
  • Whether you aim for a co-sponsorship with other groups
  • (No need to include abstracts for paper contributions)

We are also open to co-sponsorships with other Research Groups.

Timeline

  • Call of papers and sessions for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025: now open.
  • Deadline for sponsorship applications from session organisers to GIScience RG: 3 February.
  • Decision on sponsorship applications from GIScience RG to session organisers: 10 February.
  • Deadline for submissions from session organisers to RGS-IBG: 7 March.