Geo Week 2027 to Bring Global Geospatial Networking to Salt Lake City
Geo Week will arrive in Salt Lake City in February 2027 with a network of more than 185 supporting organisations spanning six continents, as the geospatial and mapping event builds out its industry partnerships alongside its move from Denver.
The event will run from 23 to 25 February 2027 at the Salt Palace Convention Center, bringing together surveying, mapping, reality capture, remote sensing, digital construction and geospatial technology communities. The relocation places Geo Week in a region with an established technology sector and gives the organisers an opportunity to connect the event more closely with Utah’s geospatial community.
ASPRS and Reality Capture Network have been confirmed as official Event Partners, contributing conference programming, specialist sessions, events and training. A further group of Industry Partners includes GISCI, ISPRS, MAPPS, NSPS, OGC, USGIF, USIBD and WGIC.
Behind the list of organisations is a geospatial sector whose traditional boundaries are becoming harder to define. Surveying now overlaps with reality capture, engineering teams routinely work with point clouds and spatial datasets, and infrastructure owners are bringing GIS, BIM and digital twins into the management of physical assets.
Briefing
- Geo Week 2027 will take place from 23 to 25 February at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- More than 185 Supporting Partners from six continents are involved with the event.
- ASPRS and Reality Capture Network are the official Event Partners for 2027.
- Eight organisations have been named as Industry Partners, including OGC, ISPRS, USGIF and WGIC.
- Utah Geographic Information Council and Salt Lake Users Group are among the local organisations joining the partnership network.
Building Across Geospatial Disciplines
Modern geospatial work rarely sits comfortably within a single professional boundary. Surveyors increasingly work with lidar, mobile mapping and automated data processing, while engineering and construction teams consume point clouds and reality-capture datasets. Infrastructure owners are building digital twins, and aerial mapping is increasingly connected with remote sensing, photogrammetry and machine learning.
Geo Week’s published areas of interest for 2027 reflect that breadth, covering aerial lidar and data acquisition, AI and machine learning, BIM and GIS integration, digital workflows for architecture, engineering and construction, large-scale digital twins, photogrammetry, point clouds, reality capture, remote sensing, SLAM and mobile mapping.
A transportation authority evaluating mobile mapping has different operational priorities from an aerial survey company or an engineering consultancy developing a digital twin, yet all three may depend upon compatible spatial data, coordinate systems, processing workflows and standards. Professional and technical organisations therefore remain closely involved even as the commercial technology develops around them.
ASPRS, the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and Reality Capture Network occupy the most prominent positions as Event Partners. Their involvement brings established professional communities around photogrammetry, remote sensing, mapping and reality capture directly into the educational programme.
The Industry Partner group extends across professional certification, photogrammetry and remote sensing, surveying and mapping companies, professional surveyors, open geospatial standards, geospatial intelligence, building documentation and the wider international geospatial sector.
Connecting Geo Week With Utah
The 2027 edition will be the first Geo Week held in Salt Lake City following the decision to relocate from Denver.
When the move was announced in February 2026, Event Director Lee Corkhill pointed to Utah’s practical use of GIS across water systems, utilities, transportation infrastructure and public lands, together with lidar acquisition and open-data initiatives. The geography surrounding Salt Lake City also presents a concentration of mapping environments ranging from dense urban development to mountains, desert landscapes and the Great Salt Lake.
The Utah Geographic Information Council and Salt Lake Users Group are joining the event’s network for 2027, providing connections with practitioners already working in the region rather than treating Salt Lake City simply as a new convention destination. Women in GIS will also participate in the 2027 event.
“Geospatial work spans so many sectors and specialties that it takes a wide network of partners to truly represent the industry,โ said Lora Burns, Marketing Manager at Geo Week. โOur goal has always been to build the premier gathering place for geospatial professionals to connect and move the field forward, and each partnership โ from our longtime supporters to new collaborationsโ is essential to making that happen.”
Geo Week says it will continue accepting partnership commitments as preparations for the event progress.
From Reality Capture to Infrastructure
The technologies represented at Geo Week increasingly feed directly into construction and infrastructure workflows. Reality capture can begin with terrestrial laser scanners, drones, vehicle-mounted systems, handheld equipment or conventional survey instruments, with the resulting information passing through photogrammetry, point-cloud processing and GIS platforms before reaching engineering design, BIM, asset management or digital-twin environments.
Infrastructure and transportation consequently sit alongside surveying and mapping, utilities, urban planning, natural-resource management and facility management within the event’s audience. Lidar, photogrammetry, SLAM, remote sensing and imagery are increasingly being combined with AI, machine learning, data integration and visualisation, reducing the separation between collecting spatial information and extracting useful intelligence from it.
Faster sensors and increasingly automated software have not removed questions around accuracy, interoperability, professional competency, data quality or appropriate workflows. The involvement of standards, certification and professional organisations keeps those issues alongside the hardware and software being demonstrated on the exhibition floor.
Salt Lake City in February 2027
Denver had been Geo Week’s established home, while Salt Lake City offers a new regional audience and closer links with Utah organisations. The organisers describe the city as part of the wider “Silicon Slopes” technology corridor and have pointed to its technology workforce and geospatial activity in explaining the relocation.
For the geospatial community, the practical applications around the city may be more relevant. Transport networks, utilities, public lands, rapidly developing urban areas and demanding terrain all require accurate spatial information and provide operating environments for many of the technologies represented at the event.
The full conference programme is still developing, with further information on workshops, sessions and networking activities due to be released as the event approaches. Registration has already opened.
Geo Week’s first Salt Lake City edition will put its international network alongside a new regional audience, with surveying, mapping, reality capture and built-environment technologies sharing the same exhibition floor.
Key Industry Questions
- When is Geo Week 2027?ย Geo Week 2027 takes place from 23 to 25 February 2027.
- Where will Geo Week 2027 be held?ย The event will be held at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is relocating from Denver for the 2027 edition.
- Who are Geo Week’s Event Partners?ย ASPRS and Reality Capture Network are the official Event Partners announced for 2027.
- Which organisations are Industry Partners?ย The announced Industry Partners are GISCI, ISPRS, MAPPS, NSPS, OGC, USGIF, USIBD and WGIC.
- How many Supporting Partners does Geo Week have?ย Geo Week says its 2027 network includes more than 185 Supporting Partners spanning six continents.
- What technologies does Geo Week cover?ย The programme covers areas including lidar, photogrammetry, reality capture, remote sensing, mobile mapping, SLAM, point clouds, AI and machine learning, BIM-GIS integration and digital twins.
- Does Geo Week cover construction and infrastructure?ย Yes. Architecture, engineering and construction, together with infrastructure and transportation, are among the sectors addressed by the event.
- Why is Geo Week moving to Salt Lake City?ย The organisers have cited Salt Lake City’s technology sector, established geospatial community and practical GIS and mapping applications across utilities, transportation, public lands and other areas.
Strategic Takeaways
- Geo Week’s partnership structure connects professional associations, standards organisations and specialist technical communities with a broader commercial technology event.
- Local Utah partnerships give the move to Salt Lake City stronger connections with practitioners already working in the region.
- Surveying, reality capture, infrastructure, BIM and digital-twin workflows increasingly depend upon the same underlying spatial information.
- Standards, certification and professional organisations remain relevant as sensors, processing software and automated workflows develop.
- Construction and infrastructure are substantial consumers of geospatial information, bringing technologies once associated primarily with specialist surveying deeper into project and asset workflows.
