2025-10-01 –, Gaston Berger
The current AI hype, driven by generative AI and particularly large language models, is creating excitement, fear, and inflated expectations. In this keynote, we'll explore geographic & mobility data science tools (such as GeoPandas and MovingPandas) to transform this hype into sustainable and positive development that empowers users.
Anita Graser is a spatial data scientist, open-source advocate, and author. Her background is in geoinformatics, and she is currently working as a Senior Scientist in the Data Science & Artificial Intelligence research group at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna. Anita also serves on the QGIS project steering committee and teaches Python for QGIS at UNIGIS Salzburg. She is the lead developer of MovingPandas (a Python library for analysing movement data) and has developed tools such as the Time Manager plugin for QGIS. She has received multiple awards, including the international OSGeo Sol Katz award for her contributions to open-source geographic information systems. Anita has published several books about QGIS, including "Geocomputation with Python", “Learning QGIS” and “QGIS Map Design” and writes a popular spatial data science blog at https://anitagraser.com/.