Tracks Announced: Discover and Learn at the 2025 Cesium Developer Conference
The overwhelming response to our call for submissions for the first Cesium Developer Conference has us both excited and needing to catch up after weeks of reviewing, sorting, notifying, and organizing sessions! We received over three times the number of submissions we originally had planned for the event, so we ended up making changes to the format of the conference to include more sessions.
The conference is June 23-25 in Philadelphia. Find out more information and register to attend here.
Six session tracks
The conference will feature six themed tracks with more than 60 20-minute full talks over both main days of the conference and a block of more than 20 5-minute lightning talks on June 24, highlighting openness and interoperability. Five tracks will run concurrently during the user sessions parts of the agenda. We’ll release talk abstracts in early May so you can carefully plan your days.
AEC and Digital Twins
Digital twin technologies are revolutionizing architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) project delivery and asset performance. By enabling stakeholders to visualize and analyze projects within a geospatial context, these technologies improve collaboration, boost efficiency, maximize asset performance, and reduce costs. Learn from developers who create innovative solutions for smart planning, construction, and operations, making the infrastructure around us more resilient and reliable.
Climate and Disaster Resilience
The global scope of climate change and scale of natural disasters require better understanding and communicating impacts and solutions. Open geospatial technologies enable developers to create innovative approaches for new tools and workflows to help address issues that touch communities everywhere.
Aerospace and Defense
Open geospatial technology has become a critical tool in enabling the analysis of Earth, monitoring trade and agriculture, and transforming orbital space into an active commercial and operational environment. Learn from developers who are using 3D geospatial data, game engines, and new experiences to support users in the most challenging domains.
3D, AI, and Data Technology
Advances in 3D, AI, and data technologies have rendered geospatial an essential component of applications from social games to autonomy. Thanks to a huge community of developers, open geospatial enables XR experiences, spatially distributed connected systems, analysis of terabytes of Earth observation data, and more.
Market and Education
Delivering high-value experiences and solutions with open geospatial technologies requires an understanding of the trends and opportunities that create maximum impact for new applications, services, and data. For developers and technologists who want to go beyond the “what” and explore the “why,” this track offers a perspective on the market opportunities and impacts of the open geospatial industry.
Cesium, iTwin, and 3D Tiles
The teams working on open technologies such as Cesium, iTwin, and 3D Tiles dive into their latest work on topics requested by the community and enabling advances in performance and interoperability. Cesium- and iTwin-related open geospatial technologies are advancing rapidly and powering new applications from the sea floor and into space.
And more
Beyond the six tracks, the conference will feature networking opportunities and intensive training and discussions:
- Pre-conference “Cesium Deep Dive” open to 50 attendees
- glTF Ecosystem Forum hosted by the Khronos Group
- Cesium Certified Developer networking social
- Mainstage panel discussion on open standards
- Community tables for universities and non-profits
- Developer “office hours”
- Opening and closing night receptions
- Food and refreshments provided throughout the event
- Announcements from partners
- … and more.
We’re excited to host the open geospatial developer community, and we encourage attendees to register soon. Conference admissions and hotel rooms are filling up fast!