Webinars and Virtual Events

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is undertaking its Testbed-17 Innovation Initiative, a collaborative effort to rapidly prototype, design, develop and test solutions to location-related problems. Testbed-17 outcomes are expected to shape the future of geospatial software architectures, processing, and data handling. Testbed sponsors supported this vision with cost-sharing funds to partially offset the costs associated with development, engineering, and demonstration of these outcomes. These funds enabled participants to recoup a portion of their initiative expenses.

Le but de ces webinaires sera d'informer les producteurs de données géospatiales et les parties prenantes des résultats de l' étude de développement de concept (CDS- Concept Development Study), y compris les résultats de l'atelier de novembre 2020 ainsi que du rapport d'ingénierie (ER-Engineering Report) issu de cette étude. Ce Rapport d'Ingénierie articulera des considérations sur l’architecture et les technologies, les exigences et les solutions possibles pour permettre une meilleure interopérabilité à l’avenir des données d’effets cumulatifs.

The purpose of these webinars will be to inform geospatial data producers and stakeholders of the Concept Development Study (CDS) results, including outcomes of the November 2020 Workshop as well as the CDS Engineering Report (ER). The ER will articulate architectural and technological considerations, requirements and possible solutions to enable increased Cumulative Effects data interoperability in the future.

If you're looking to help shape the future of location technology by participating in OGC's Testbed-17, but have some technical, procedural, or other questions, the Bidders Q&A Webinar will review questions and answers surrounding the CFP and show attendees how to seek additional answers afterward. The deadline to submit questions for the Testbed-17 Bidders Q&A webinar is the January 12. Questrions can be submitted via the "Additional Message" textbox in the OGC Innovation Program Contact Form. Question submitters will remain anonymous, and answers will be regularly compiled and published in the CFP Clarifications Table.

Join OGC in December for the UK & Ireland Forum Christmas Meeting. This event will be virtual. Topics will include the year in review, highlights for the region, and a keynote session.

This Winter, the 5th Pan-Canadian Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Summit will be held virtually on December 2-3, 2020. This event is open to all and is meant to foster knowledge sharing, best practices and innovation on spatial data infrastructures. The event will be attended by geomatics experts and data users from the four corners of Canada and beyond. Representatives from federal, provincial and territorial governments, municipal and academic communities, and private industry will come together to attend the summit, exchange information, and discuss and present the evolution and future prospects of their geospatial data infrastructures.

This OGC Member Portal Training Webinar will provide you with introductory guidance on how to gain access to OGC’s portal, an online tool used to connect and empower our global community of location experts. This 1 hour guided tour will show you how to manage your membership, explain the difference between Standards Working Groups and Domain Working Groups (SWGs and DWGs), and will feature a Q&A session with our staff. This webinar will be recorded and available on our website.

The OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) candidate standard uses current web technologies and best practices to enable anyone with web development experience to easily identify and retrieve a subset of data from ‘big data’ stores. The idea is to save those users interested in environmental (or other) data from having to transfer and deal with datasets that inevitably contain data concerning areas or time periods that are irrelevant to their interests. A major objective of this second OGC API - EDR Sprint is to enable full interoperability of all existing, and new, client and server implementations that support the OGC API – EDR candidate standard.

A pre-event webinar will take place on November 4, 2020 at 9:00am US Eastern. The webinar will set out the scope of the code sprint and provide an overview of the candidate standard.

The limitations of current SDI’s are recognised globally.  In 2018, at its Eighth Session, the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) adopted the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (IGIF) to address the shortcomings in contemporary SDIs and to provide a guide for strengthening and maximising integrated geospatial information and technologies to power decision-making capabilities. This Framework, made up of nine strategic pathways, is centred on innovation – technological advancement, process improvement, creativity and bridging the geospatial digital divide.