GEOREAL24 July 2026
🔵 Esri UC 2026: AI has the power. GIS gives it context. 🌍🗺️
Last week we attended the Esri User Conference in San Diego for the second year in a row. This year under the motto "GIS – Creating a More Intelligent World" and with more than 17 000 attendees from 117 countries.
Last year everyone was talking about "GeoAI". This year AI was no longer a separate novelty but a natural part of the whole platform – AI assistants and agents are appearing across everyday workflows. In the plenary session, Jack Dangermond recalled the essential point: AI supplies the power, but reliable results rest on quality spatial data, geographic context and expert review.
And that this is not a distant future was clear at the Expo with more than 200 organisations – from AI assistants through robotic platforms to XR. User presentations then showed GIS and AI in action across sectors: city management, infrastructure planning, energy, transport, emergency management and nature conservation.
The Czech Geological Survey (Česká geologická služba, ČGS) and the geology and geography sections of the Faculty of Science, Charles University received the Esri Special Achievement in GIS Award 2026 for the National Geological and Hydrogeological Map of Ethiopia. Congratulations! 🇨🇿
From the UC we bring back new contacts, inspiration and confirmation of the direction we have long been taking at GEOREAL: to acquire spatial data accurately, process it well and make it available in GIS to the people who use it for planning and decision-making.
You will find a link to the awarded project in the comments. 👇
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