| Wednesday, 30 September 2026 | ||||||||||
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Registration and Welcome Coffee | |||||||||
| Arenberg Room (210 pax) | ||||||||||
| 09:00 - 09:15 | A1 | Turning Data into Real-World Impact - Best Practice & Use Cases (I) Environment & Land Use | Moderator: Fiona SMITH | |||||||
| Ecosystem accounting in the EU – from maps to tables, and back (Ekkehard Petri; European Commission) | ||||||||||
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Ecosystem types in the extent map of Italy at the national level (Raffaella Chiocchini; ISTAT) | |||||||||
| 09:30 - 09:45 | More and better statistical reporting: The Portuguese Land Use and Land Cover Statistics project (Célia Ferreira; Statistics Portugal) | |||||||||
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Multifunctional Farms And Renewable Energy In Italian Ecoregions (Luana De Felici; ISTAT) | |||||||||
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Exploring National Mapping and Cadastral Agency Data for Enhanced Housing Stock Assessments (Iria Enrique Regueira, JRC, European Commission) | |||||||||
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Q&A | |||||||||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |||||||||
| 11:00 - 11:15 | A2 | Turning Data into Real-World Impact - Best Practice & Use Cases (II) Transport and Accessibility | Moderator: Julien GAFFURI | |||||||
| Does the tool matter? How analytical tools influence accessibility assessment results (Agnieszka Gajda; Institute of Urban and Regional Development, Poland) | ||||||||||
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Geospatial Data in Urban Statistics: Measuring Accessibility (Sylwia Filas-Przybył; Statistical Office Poland) | |||||||||
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Assessing UN SDG 11.2.1 - convenient access to public transport. A methodological update focusing on a raster-based data framework. (Hugo Poelman (independent expert – retired senior assistant EC DG REGIO) | |||||||||
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Cross-Border Accessibility to Healthcare Services: A Pan-European study (PÁSZTO, Vít & MACKŮ, Karel & KRÖNER Tomáš; Department of Geoinformatics, Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic)) | |||||||||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Eurostat’s Project on Recharging Infrastructure and Public Transport (Nayia Panayiotou; ESTAT.E3: Transport and Energy) | |||||||||
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Q&A | |||||||||
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break | |||||||||
| 13:30 - 13:45 | A3 | Turning Data into Real-World Impact - Best Practice & Use Cases (III) Common Geographies & Small-area Statistics | Moderator: Linus RISPLING | |||||||
| Assessing the Suitability of the Eurostat 1 km² Population Grid for Local Demographic Analysis in Italy (Pietro Nurzia(1), Alberto Sabbi(2), Stefano Mugnoli(2) ; ISTAT (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica)) | ||||||||||
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Leveraging AI and spatial methods to geocode the last three Maltese Population and Housing Censuses on a 1 km² grid (Andrew Formosa; NSO Malta) | |||||||||
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Localities from Statistics Sweden — a Success Recipe (Esbjorn Pettersson; Statistics Sweden) | |||||||||
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Developing a National Small-Area Framework for Area-Based Data in Finland (Ville Helminen, Kimmo Nurmio, Rina Tammisto; Finnish Environment Institute and Statistics Finland) | |||||||||
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Development and Application of the National Settlement Centers Map Using a Geospatial-Statistical Integration Model: The Case of South Korea (Hwang, Myung-hwa & Im, Eun-sun; Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), South Korea) | |||||||||
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Q&A | |||||||||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break and Poster Session in Salle Miroir | |||||||||
| 15:30 - 15:45 | A4 | Turning Data into Real-World Impact - Best Practice & Use Cases (IV) Geospatial Statistics for Targeted Policy | Moderator: Guiseppe NOVELLA | |||||||
| Spatial data integration based on low level socio-economic data at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Ákos Jakobi; Hungarian Central Statistical Office) | ||||||||||
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Educational Statistics Go Local: The Growing Impact of Spatial Education Data in Switzerland (Michael Bühler; Swiss Federal Statistical Office FSO) | |||||||||
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Using geo-statistical best practice to enable targeted policy outcomes in the UK (Dr Sarah Parker; Office for National Statistics UK) | |||||||||
| 16:15 - 16:30 | From data to action: developing national socio-economic zones through statistical-geospatial integration (Dana Moe; Statistics Norway) | |||||||||
| 16:30 - 16:45 | ||||||||||
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Q&A | |||||||||
| Orange Room (60 pax) | ||||||||||
| 09:00 - 09:15 | O1 | Trusted Data in an Insecure World (I) Climate Change and Adaptation | Moderator: Martin BRADY | |||||||
| Ecosystem Accounts – integrated data for addressing climate change and food security challenges in Slovenia (Špela Gale, M. Sc.; Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS) | ||||||||||
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Global exposure information produced by the Copernicus Emergency Management Service – combining census information and built-up information to save lives (Pietro Florio; European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Disaster Risk Management Unit, JRC.E1) | |||||||||
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Flood exposure assessment at statistical sector level: a nationwide geospatial methodology for Belgium (Julien Martineau and Florence Masson; NGI Belgium) | |||||||||
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Modeling the local impact of summer heat on mortality (Prof. dr. Christel Faes; Universiteit Hasselt) | |||||||||
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Uniform and Shared Geo-Capabilities for Emergency Services (Rink W. Kruk; National Geographic Institute Belgium) | |||||||||
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Q&A | |||||||||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |||||||||
| 11:00 - 11:15 | O2 | Trusted Data in an Insecure World (II) European and National Examples | Moderator: Maurice BRANDT | |||||||
| Pan European trusted geodata enabling the future – An introduction to EuroCoreReferenceMap (Giuseppe Novella; EuroGeographics) | ||||||||||
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Study on Cross Border Data Collection (Johan van der Valk; Statistics Netherlands) | |||||||||
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Toward Smarter Freight Statistics: Integrating On-Board Units into Survey Design (Justin Delloye; Statistics Belgium) | |||||||||
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Gender and Land Ownership Statistics (Diane Stiemer; Kadaster Netherlands) | |||||||||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | From FAIR principles to marine data value: digitalisation and governance in the Norwegian MAREANO programme (Thomas Hagen Thuesen; Norwegian Mapping Authority) | |||||||||
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Q&A | |||||||||
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break | |||||||||
| 13:30 - 13:45 | O3 | Leading Data with Strong Governance (I) Strategic Applications | Moderator: Sara STEWART | |||||||
| A top-down approach to information architecture and data governance in cloud environment case integrated geospatial information (Godfrey Lowndes; Statistics Finland) | ||||||||||
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Strengthening governance through geostatistical integration – what Statistics Norway has learned from international development projects (Svein Reid; Statistics Norway) | |||||||||
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Measuring what you manage? Regional economic statistics, evidence-informed policy and multi-level governance in the UK (Calvin Jones; Jones the Numbers Ltd) | |||||||||
| 14:15 - 14:30 | View of the Netherlands - a new geospatial strategy for the Netherlands (Barteld Braaksma; Statistics Netherlands) | |||||||||
| 14:30 - 14:45 | GSGF Europe in Polish statistical production process (Anna Sławińska; Statistics Poland) | |||||||||
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Q&A | |||||||||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break and Poster Session in Salle Miroir | |||||||||
| 15:30 - 15:45 | O4 | Leading Data with Strong Governance (II) Foundational location data | Moderator: Esbjörn PETTERSSON | |||||||
| From Classification Variable to Organising Principle: The Role of Geospatial Information in Official Statistics (Jens Olin; Statistics Sweden) | ||||||||||
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Good governance in the data ecosystem depends fundamentally on strong governance of the foundational data that underpins it: a case of national addresses in South Africa (Sharthi Laldaparsad; Statistics South Africa) | |||||||||
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Building a reference database of addresses for official statistics in France: key takeaways (Laurent BROCHET, INSEE) | |||||||||
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Assessment of INSPIRE Building theme metadata and services availability (Iria Enrique Regueira, JRC, European Commission) | |||||||||
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Transforming an Administrative Archive into a Statistical Register: Addresses in Italy (Davide Fardelli; Register of geographic and territorial units (RSBL)) | |||||||||
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Q&A | |||||||||
| Blue Room (30 pax) | ||||||||||
| 09:00 - 09:15 | B1 | Earth Observation Workshop on Building Detection (Eurostat) | Moderator: Carla MARTINS | |||||||
| Overview of EO for statistics initiatives. (Carla Martins; Eurostat) | ||||||||||
| 09:15 - 09:30 | From Earth Observation to Urban Extent: A CDSE Workflow for SDG Indicator 11.3.1 (Mert Kubilay UludaĞ; TurkStat) | |||||||||
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Improving Land Use Mapping with Deep Learning in Netherlands (Athithya Loganathan; CBS) | |||||||||
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Building data from High-Resolution Images (Francisco Caldeira, Cristina Gabriel, Statistics Portugal) | |||||||||
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Earth Observation and AI for Construction Statistics (EO4ConStat): Can EO and AI be used in quality assurance of construction statistics? (DESTATIS: Stefan Irrgang, Maren Köhlmann; BKG Frederik Stellmach, Carola Stolle ) | |||||||||
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Q&A | |||||||||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |||||||||
| 11:00 - 11:15 | B2 | Technology & Innovation (I) Earth Observation & Artificial Intelligence | Moderator: Jørn Kristian UNDELSTVEDT | |||||||
| Building operational workflows for sustainable development monitoring (Mónica Miguel-Lago (European Association of Remote Sensing Companies, EARSC) & Marc Paganini (European Space Agency, ESA)) | ||||||||||
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Integrating Earth Observation into Official Statistics: Linking Statistical Production and Geospatial Integration in the European Statistical System (Mayra Zurbaran Nucci; European Commission) | |||||||||
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Geo-Enabling the Future: Modernizing Spatial Data Infrastructures for the Age of AI and Cloud-Native Analytics (Daria Kolarczyk, Javier de la Torre (Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, CARTO)) | |||||||||
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Harnessing GIS and Artificial Intelligence to Transform Official Statistics for Real World Impact (Kate Hess; Esri) | |||||||||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Geo Slovenia and Artificial Intelligence: Building a Geospatial Community for the Data Age (Matjaž Grilc; Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia) | |||||||||
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Q&A | |||||||||
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break | |||||||||
| 13:30 - 13:45 | B3 | Technology & Innovation (II) Standards & Dissemination Solutions | Moderator: Justin McGURK | |||||||
| Bridging Official Statistics and Geospatial Intelligence through Multimodal Large Language Model (Igor Kuzma; StatSlovenija) | ||||||||||
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Geo-enabling Statistics: How OGC APIs Bridge the Gap Between Tabular and Geospatial Data (Panu Muhli; Finnish Geospatial Research Institute) | |||||||||
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Shared Geospatial Infrastructures for Integrated Services – Implementing the S-100 framework in Norway (Malin Bergset; Norwegian Hydrographic Office) | |||||||||
| 14:15 - 14:30 | How federal partners share their geospatial data through Geo.be: 2 case studies of ongoing collaboration (Annie Royen and Floor Van Damme; NGI Belgium) | |||||||||
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Geo-Enabling Official Statistics: Development of an Interactive Thematic Mapping Platform at TurkStat (Mert Kubilay Uludağ; TurkSTAT) | |||||||||
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Q&A | |||||||||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break and Poster Session in Salle Miroir | |||||||||
| 15:30 - 15:45 | B4 | Technology & Innovation (III) Cross-thematic Examples | Moderator: Amelia WARDZINSKA-SHARIF | |||||||
| Balancing Privacy and Utility in Synthetic Data with Geospatial Dimensions (Violeta Calian and Nidia Guadalupe Lopez Flores: Statistics Iceland) | ||||||||||
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Geo-enabling the past - using centuries with open data (Vilni Verner Holst Bloch; Statistics Norway) | |||||||||
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Municipal DataLAB: Turning State and Geospatial Data into Practical Tools for Municipalities (Monika Baublytė; State Data Agency of Lithuania) | |||||||||
| 16:15 - 16:30 | ||||||||||
| 16:30 - 16:45 | The COSEO-Project: Work Package Air Inequality (Melanie Brauchler; Federal Statistical Office Germany (Destatis)) | |||||||||
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Q&A | |||||||||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Free time | |||||||||
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Social Programme (registration required) | |||||||||
| 19:30 - … | Dinner (registration required, to be paid for by yourself) | |||||||||
| Thursday, 1 October 2026 | ||||||||||
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Registration and Welcome Coffee | |||||||||
| Description | ||||||||||
| Moderators: Marie VANDRESSE, Director General, Statistics Belgium and Ingrid VANDEN BERGHE, General administrator, National Geographic Institute of Belgium | ||||||||||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome and opening session | Welcome speeches and introduction to the day | Marie VANDRESSE, Statistics Belgium | |||||||
| Ingrid VANDEN BERGHE, National Geographic Institute of Belgium | ||||||||||
| Paul MORRIN, Director for the Directorate for Sectoral and Regional Statistics, Eurostat | ||||||||||
| Ingrid KAMINGER, Chief Geospatial Officer, Statistics Austria and president of the EFGS | ||||||||||
| 09:30 - 11:00 | Where do we stand? | Keynote: From Progress to Impact: Advancing Statistical-Geospatial Integration | Apolonija OBLAK FLANDER, Director General, Statistics Slovenia | Session content: Statistical and geospatial data integration has advanced significantly over the past decade. Emerging data sources and new technologies have created unprecedented opportunities and challenges for geo-enabled information to support decision-making . But have we reached our full potential? In this session, senior representatives from national and European organisations will share their perspectives on the progress made so far, highlight areas where we are succeeding, and discuss the key challenges that still need to be addressed to unlock the full value of statistical-geospatial integration. | ||||||
| Keynote: TBC | Cora SMELIK, Member of the Executive Board of Kadaster Netherlands & Henk VERDUIN, Director of Environmental and Spatial Statistics, Statistics Netherlands | |||||||||
| Panel discussion: Are we geo-enabled? | Moderator: Marta NAGY-ROTHENGASS, Head of Unit - Regional statistics and geographical information, Eurostat Discussants: Sallie PAYNE SNELL, Secretary General and Executive Director, EuroGeographics Ingrid KAMINGER, Chief Geospatial Officer, Statistics Austria and president of the EFGS Mikko LINDHOLM, Deputy Director General, Statistics Finland Jani KYLMÄAHO, Director of Development and Digitalization, National Land Survey of Finland | |||||||||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | ||||||||||
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Location matters, strengthening policy making | Policy insight: TBC "Crisis Management" | TBC | Session content: As policy priorities change, policy needs on data change with them. The challenge is not only to produce more data, but to deliver location-based information that is targeted, timely, accessible, and capable of answering today's policy challenges. In this session, policymakers and leaders from statistical and geospatial organisations will discuss emerging information needs, identify gaps in current data provision, and explore how official data ecosystems can better support decision-making in a rapidly changing world. | ||||||
| Policy insight: TBC "Housing" | TBC | |||||||||
| Panel discussion: Myth vs Reality: What Really Enables Policy Impact? | Moderator: Apolonija OBLAK FLANDER, Director General, Statistics Slovenia Discussants: Paul MORRIN, Director for the Directorate for Sectoral and Regional Statistics, Eurostat Stefan APPEL, Head of Unit for the European Semester and Economic Analysis, DG Regio Darko VUCETIC, Director of Development and Innovation, Republic Geodetic Authority of the Republic of Serbia and Co-chair of UN-GGIM: Europe Kristine VLAGSMA, DG ENER Housing Taskforce | |||||||||
| 13:00 - 14:00 | ||||||||||
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Opportunities and challenges Beyond Technology | Keynote: The Symphony, Not the Instrument: Orchestrating Institutional Maturity | Steven RAMAGE, Founder of Réseau Consulting | Session content: While data, standards, and technology are essential for statistical-geospatial integration, they are only one part of the solution. Effective governance, organisational capacity, and institutional collaboration are equally critical to meeting evolving policy needs. In this session, experts and leaders from the statistical and geospatial communities will discuss how organisations and key stakeholders can strengthen these non-technical capabilities and work more effectively together to deliver integrated and policy-relevant data and insights. | ||||||
| A fireside conversation exploring geospatial journeys and the dos and don'ts of successful institutional collaboration | Conversation leader: James NORRIS, International Policy Lead, Ordnance Survey UK and Co-chair of UN GGIM: Europe Discussants: Cora SMELIK, Member of the Executive Board of Kadaster Netherlands Henk VERDUIN, Director of Environmental and Spatial Statistics, Statistics Netherlands Martin BRADY, Former Location Information Director at the Australian Bureau of Statistics Steven RAMAGE, Founder of Réseau Consulting | |||||||||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | ||||||||||
| 15:30 - 16:30 | The way forward, the roadmap towards a geo-enabled future | Closing discussion and wrap-up with the moderators: The way forward, the roadmap towards a geo-enabled future | Marie VANDRESSE, Statistics Belgium & Ingrid VANDEN BERGHE, National Geographic Institute of Belgium | Session content: This session will have a closing discussion bringing together the key messages from the day, exploring common challenges, emerging opportunities and future priorities for advancing statistical-geospatial integration. | ||||||
| 16:30 - 18:30 | ||||||||||
| 18:30 | ||||||||||
| Friday, 2 October 2026 | ||||||||||
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Welcome and Good Morning Coffee | |||||||||
| Arenberg Room (210 pax) | Description | |||||||||
| 09:00 - 10:30 | A1 | What Works? Organisational Approaches to Statistical-Geospatial Integration | Moderator: Rina TAMMISTO & Jerker MOSTROM | |||||||
| Embedding geospatial thinking into official statistics | Organisational approaches to statistical-geospatial integration. Through country experiences, comparative insights and interactive discussion, this session explores how organisations organise governance, responsibilities, services and collaboration to embed geospatial thinking into official statistics. | |||||||||
| Country Experiences | ||||||||||
| Interactive poll and comparative insights | ||||||||||
| Discussion and key takeaways | ||||||||||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |||||||||
| 11:00 - 11:15 | A2 | Building the Future of Statistical-Geospatial Integration | Moderator: Svein J. REID & Jørn Kristian UNDELSTVEDT | |||||||
| INGEST 2 (Sara STEWART, UNECE) | This session focuses on initiatives in-the-working, for strengthening statistical-geospatial integration. Such as development of guidance materials, tools, future core data definitions and policy. | |||||||||
| 11:15 - 11:30 | UN-GGIM: Europe - new work plan with priorities for 2026-2030 | |||||||||
| 11:30 - 11:45 | A comprehensive policy framework for core geospatial data in the EU (Claudia MURESAN, DG DEFIS) | |||||||||
| 11:45-12:00 | Proposal on development of guidance materials on geospatial training and statistical-geospatial integration (Svein J. REID & Jørn Kristian UNDELSTVEDT, Statistics Norway) | |||||||||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Interactive poll and comparative insights | |||||||||
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Conference closing | Conference closing session | Closing speech with key remarks and insights from the conference. | |||||||
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break | |||||||||
| 13:30 - 14:15 | A3 | EFGS General Assembly | EFGS General Assembly - open to all | EFGS General Assembly to discuss key issues related to the EFGS objectives and activities for the next year. | ||||||
