Connect
Connect with the global geospatial community to collaborate, share knowledge, and advance open standards through technical sessions, networking, and innovation.
Standards are the output. Connection is the engine.
Connect With the OGC Community
Across in-person meetings, online collaboration, and working groups around the world, Connect brings the OGC community together to build relationships, share ideas, and shape tomorrow’s geospatial solutions.
OGC Connect & OGC iDays
Our flagship events bring the global geospatial community together. Each year, OGC Connect meets in the Americas, Europe, and a third global region, with parallel Build and Apply tracks for technical and strategic collaboration. OGC iDays brings the community together annually in Germany.
Committee Meetings
The community stays connected throughout the year. Technical Meetings, Planning Committee sessions, and Regional Forums keep conversations moving, decisions progressing, and new ideas flowing between major events.
Builder Days Code Sprints
Code Sprints bring developers, implementers, and standards experts together to prototype, test, and improve candidate standards. The results feed directly into OGC standards work and prepare ideas for broader implementation through Apply.
MEMBER COMMUNITY
Agora
Agora is OGC’s online community, available on the web and through iOS and Android apps. Join conversations, participate in working groups, discover upcoming events, and stay involved in OGC activities wherever you are.
Why Connect?
The more you engage, the more value you gain. OGC brings together government, industry, academia, and innovators, creating opportunities to find collaborators, access technical expertise, develop new business opportunities, and work with others tackling the same challenges
Continue Your Journey
There are two ways to put interoperability to work at OGC. Build is where standards are developed and improved. Apply is where they are tested and used to solve real-world problems.