JuliaCon 2026

The Julia ecosystem for handling geospatial data and analysis is growing and improving. This is a session for anyone interested in geo in Julia to meet package contributors and users to discuss future direction and collaboration efforts.

In this community building session we aim to:

• Hear what people are doing in Julia and Geo
• Develop group goals and common understanding for ecosystem coherence
• Uncover gaps and rough edges in the ecosystem
• Lower the barrier to getting involved

A rough program:

• Introductions: what are you using Julia for, in three words
• Show and tell: share your geo packages and projects that don't have their own JuliaCon talks
• The good, the bad and the ugly in Julia geospatial: a constructive session of gripe-driven development
• Slido poll with questions on datasets, pain points, nice things, integrations, major wishes for the ecosystem

The SINDBAD framework, with Sindbad.jl, SindbadTEM, OmniTools.jl, TimeSamplers.jl, and ErrorMetrics.jl packages offers a user‑friendly, Julia‑based system for terrestrial model–data integration. It enables scalable, differentiable experiments across spatial and temporal scales, supporting next‑generation understanding of vegetation–water–carbon interactions.