You are warmly invited to join the Pre-ICC 2025 workshop on “Future Cartography and GIS Education in the Era of AI”, organized by the ICA Commission on Education and Training and the ICA Working Group on the Cartographic Body of Knowledge. The workshop is scheduled in the afternoon of August 17, 2025.

Venue: Meeting Room 8/15, Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, Canada.
Time: 15:45pm, Sunday, August 17, 2025 (local time)
Chairs: Terje Midtbø, Tao Wang

15:45, Opening Remarks, Georg Gartner, The ICA President

15:50, We Need Cartography Education: The Relevance of Contemporary Cartography Curriculas, Georg Gartner, Vienna University of Technology

16:10, Cartographic Body of Knowledge in the Era of AI, Terje Midtbø, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

16:30, AI Accelerates the Cartographic Transformation from Data to Design, Aileen Buckley, Esri

16:50, Do AI Help or Disturb in Education Process? Małgorzata Wieczorek, University of Wrocław(canceled due to Air Canada strike)

17:10, Mapping and Visualizing the Curriculum of a Canadian Geomatics Masters Program, Paul Pickell , University of British Columbia

17:30, Map in University General Education: Cartography in Teaching Geography And History, Tao Wang, Capital Normal University (canceled due to Canadian visa failure)

17:50, Panel Discussion

Thank you all for the wonderful presentations and fruitful discussions!
(photo from Professor Georg Gartner)