Workshop on Cartographic and GIS Education in the AI Era

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The ICA Commission on Education and Training and the ICA Working Group on the Cartographic Body of Knowledge are organizing a Workshop on Cartographic and GIS Education in the AI Era. It is scheduled from 9:00 AM to 12:00 AM on September 11th, 2026 (UTC-5) , the last day of the CAGIS 2026, https://cartogis.org/conferences/cagis2026/. The workshop will be held at the Busch Student Center on the campus of St. Louis University, Missouri, USA.

Please find the programme below:

Chair: Terje Midtbø

09:00 – 09:20, Tao Wang, What to Be Done: Cartographic Education in the AI Era

09:25 – 09:45, Małgorzata Wieczorek, Do AI Help or Disturb in Education Process

09:50 – 10:10, Mark Cygan, GeoAI Now, Where It Is Going And Challenges for Education

10:15 – 10:35, Terje Midtbø, CartoBoK – Body of Knowledge for Cartography

10:40 – 11:00, Discussion

If you are interested in joining the workshop online, please contact the organizers for the Zoom Meeting link (Terje Midtbø, terje.midtbo@ntnu.no, and Tao Wang, wangt@cnu.edu.cn).

This workshop invites cartography and GIS experts and educators to share their insights and latest practices in education, covering topics including but not limited to:
  • Perspective and reflections on future cartography and GIS education with AI, from both educator and learner viewpoints
  • Curriculum design and programs development in cartographic education in AI era
  • Developing AI enabled online educational resources for teaching cartography
  • Best practices and experiences in teaching map making, map use and analysis using AI technologies
  • Integrating cartography in geography education and geo-related disciplines using AI tools
  • Open source tools and datasets for cartographic education

The workshop will include invited talks, expert presentations and interactive discussions in a hybrid format.

You are warmly invited to join and submit an extended abstract using the ICA template. Please send your abstract to the organizers (Terje Midtbø, terje.midtbo@ntnu.no, and Tao Wang, wangt@cnu.edu.cn) before July 30th, 2026. Notification of acceptance will be made before 15th August, 2026.

More details will be announced soon. Stay tuned.