Countdown to Intergeo 2025: innovation meets application

From 7-9 October, Frankfurt will be the hub for all professionals turning geodata into real-world impact. At Intergeo 2025, innovation meets application – where the future of digital infrastructure, construction, and urban resilience takes shape. As a global business centre and home to many European and international headquarters, Frankfurt provides a fitting backdrop for what promises to be a dynamic edition with fresh features and new perspectives.

This year’s edition brings cutting-edge technology and practical solutions together on one stage: from satellite data tackling urban heat islands to digital twins supporting climate-resilient infrastructure. Discover how BIM workflows streamline construction, and how scanning technologies and engineering geodesy enable precise monitoring and high-resolution 3D modelling. Whether it’s smart city development, agricultural planning or real estate strategies – Intergeo 2025 offers three days of concentrated expertise, ready to power robust networks and forward-looking business models.

Application Dome

This year, the most important event for geodesy, geoinformation and land management will once again present two stages directly in the halls in addition to the tried-and-tested mix of scientific and technical conference and practice-oriented expo. The Main Stage is all about new technologies and innovations such as GeoAI, sensor technology, mapping workflows and standards. In addition, the new Application Dome will focus on real use cases for the first time. It’s not about theory, but about tangible results: best-practice stories show how innovative tools are already solving real problems today – whether in urban development, mobility, the environment or the energy sector. “With the new Application Dome and the Main Stage, we are bringing knowledge transfer, exchange and concrete practical solutions even closer to the markets. They are not a marginal phenomenon – they set the pace for the expo and create real meeting spaces for innovation, business and networking,” explains Olaf Freier, chief strategy officer of Hinte Expo & Conference. “This makes Intergeo 2025 more than ever a platform where the future is shaped and solutions are made visible.”

Earth observation

In cooperation with the DLR, Intergeo will show how satellite data enables concrete climate strategies. From high-resolution satellite images to drone images and mobile 3D scanners – together they provide a seamless data stream that can be directly integrated into GIS workflows. German cities such as Dresden and Langenfeld, for example, are already leveraging such data to precisely localize heat islands, simulate different greening scenarios and quantify their cooling effect. In the event of extreme events – such as the monsoon floods in Pakistan in 2022 – up-to-date flood maps are created within hours so that emergency services can quickly identify risk zones. In the Alps, continuous monitoring enables the early detection of slow landslides and protects traffic routes and settlements. And metropolitan areas across Europe benefit from comprehensive land-use datasets that reveal potential for re-densification or green space bottlenecks. In this way, reality capturing combines precise recording with immediately implementable decisions – from climate resilience and disaster prevention to sustainable urban planning.

Real Estate Lab

With the new Real Estate Lab, the real estate industry is entering the Intergeo stage with a special format. The focus: the intelligent combination of geodata, real estate data and artificial intelligence (AI). The exclusive format brings together thought leaders for more transparency, efficiency and innovation along the entire real estate life cycle.

Start-up Area and GeoCampus

Fresh ideas, big exposure: the Start-up Area at Intergeo offers start-ups targeted visibility – with pitch slots on the Main Stage, strong communication and attractive funding opportunities from BAFA. It is also supported by Geoawesome, a well-known international platform of the geospatial community.

The GeoCampus, supported by KonGeoS, connects young talent, research and industry – a strong platform for recruiting and innovation.

 Geoinformation for a smarter world

The conference offers a wealth of scientific expertise and practical exchange. “Today, geodata answers the big questions from climate resilience to the energy transition. Intergeo 2025 brings together the players who are shaping the solutions,” states Rudolf Staiger, president of DVW.

The event will kick off with the opening keynotes on ‘Geo & AI’, in which leading minds from research and industry will show how artificial intelligence not only interprets maps, but also writes them itself. This will be followed by a full day of topics on digital twins: trend analysis illuminates the strategic value of virtual images, practical reports explain their use in large-scale projects and critical infrastructures, and a final session sheds light on how deep learning models automatically classify point clouds – a quantum leap for maintenance and monitoring.

 At the same time, the Earth Observation Track explores the possibilities of satellite-based data collection in greater depth. In cooperation with the DLR, Copernicus data is used to identify heat islands, quantify heavy rainfall risks and model CO₂ emission scenarios – concrete tools that municipalities can use to fulfil their duty to adapt to climate change.

Friends of research and science will find academic depth in the Forum Frontiers of Geodetic Science (FroGS). The spectrum of sessions ranges from ‘Gravity Field: Why and How?’ to airborne and space-based remote sensing and ‘Earth in Motion’. This creates a dialogue space in which the most precise GNSS measurement series meet interdisciplinary climate research.

Other strands are dedicated to UAV-supported mapping, smart cartography & AR visualization, policy & digital sovereignty, as well as a special offering related to real estate & finance. In total, more than a hundred presentations will form a compass that shows decision-makers where the industry is heading.