FOSS4G 2025

Overview

This conference was held in Auckland, New Zealand, 17-23 November 2025.

• Conference website
• Videos

Logo

• Logo Contest
• Logo Entries

Venue

The workshops, conference and community day were held at AUT.

Sponsors

Platinum Re:Earth

Gold AWS GeoCat Land Information New Zealand New Zealand Tourism Pacific Community / Digital Earth Pacific (also Women in Geospatial Breakfast sponsors)

Silver ArkEdge Space Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum / Source Cooperative Development Seed Gaia3D Geoscience Australia GeoSolutions QFieldCloud Sparkgeo (also Childcare Sponsors) Terria

Bronze Auspatious TomTom

Partners OSGeo OSGeo Oceania Whanganui District Council

Program Overview

Date	Name	Tickets Sold
17-18 November	Workshops	494
19-21 November	Conference	393
22-23 November	Community Day	N/A

Keynotes

TBC

Social Program

Date	Name	Venue	No. of Attendees	Payment Structure
18 November	B2B	AUT	64	Separate ticket ($25)
18 November	Icebreaker	The Maritime Room	178	Included with conference registration
19 November	Travel Grant Program Breakfast	Scarecrow	26	Paid for out of Travel Grant Program allocation
19 November	Conference Dinner	Hilton Auckland	243	Separate ticket ($150)
20 November	Women in Geospatial Breakfast	Amano	49	Separate ticket ($15) / sponsored by Pacific Community
20 November	Geochicas	Rocketman	63	Separate ticket (pay-what-you-want)
22 November	Rangitoto Island Day Trip	Rangitoto Island	30+	Separate ticket ($60 to cover ferry transport)

Conference Attendees

By ticket type Ticket Type Attendees Price ($NZD) Early Bird 154 $700 Standard 47 $950 Sponsor 42 Included with sponsorships Volunteer 36 Complimentary Last Chance 32 $1250 Community Contributor 30 $500 Travel Grant Program 26 Included with grants Student/Retired 16 $500 Keynote 5 Complimentary OSGeo Board Member 5 Complimentary

Media

• Reflections from FOSS4G 2025 - Daniel O'Donohue (Mapscaping)

Good Mojo

Travel Grant Program

26 attendees were provided with grants to help cover flights, accommodation and visas. 4 half day workshops, conference registration and access to all social events including the conference dinner were also provided.

Organisation

Conference Committee

• Alex Leith - Conference Co-Chair + Sponsorship, Finance
• Simon Nitz - Conference Co-Chair + Program, Finance
• Elisa (Eli) Puccioni - Travel Grant Program
• Dawn Hendrick - Communications, Merch
• Pierre Kurth - Logo Competition
• Kamsin (Kammy) Raju - Side Events and Adventure Guide
• Leo Ghignone - Volunteers, Program, Merch
• Nick Forbes-Smith - Website, AV, Entertainment
• Greg Lauer - Sponsorship, Travel Grant Program
• Hamish Campbell - Venues and Events, Website
• Daniel Silk - Registrations, Ticketing
• Jessie Lindsay - TGP Breakfast, Childcare Coordinator
• Martin Tomko - Academic Papers, Movie Night
• Dr Ivana Ivánová - Academic Papers
• Phoebe Adams - Volunteers
• Michel M Nzikou - Committee Member
• Byron Cochrane - Committee Member

The conference committee was also supported by:

• The Conference Company - Event Organisation, Finance, Registration Desk
• Kirsten Doert - Communications, Merch
• Stella Blake-Kelly - Design