Welcome to the Call for Presentations/Workshops/Academic Abstracts for FOSS4G Asia 2026 that will be held at Nashik, India from 21st to 25th January 2026. This year’s FOSS4G-Asia conference will feature a dedicated Academic Track, General Track and Poster Presentation Track. These are aimed at fostering the exchange of ideas and collaborative opportunities between the geospatial academic community and practitioners in Geospatial technologies.
We welcome all levels of experience, knowledge, skills, and innovative ideas related to open source geospatial, OpenStreetMap, and Open Data. We are inviting submissions that present empirical, methodological, conceptual, or literature review-based research that utilizes or evaluates FOSS4G tools and technologies.
Furthermore, we have different sessions detailed below:
- Talks: Presentations are the heart of the conference. You will have 20 minutes podium style presentations including Q/A(General Track, Academic Track)
- Workshops: Workshops are half (4 hours) or full-day (8 hours) hands-on experiences, with participants following along with an instructor. Workshops will be run by experienced members of the open source community, and sometimes by the actual developers.
- Posters: A poster presentation is the presentation of research/project information in the form of a paper poster that conference participants may view.
Submissions
For submissions and details of specific tracks, click on the respective titles
- General Track
- Academic Track
- Poster Presentations
- Logo Contest (Concluded. Please await our brand new logo!!)
Important Dates
- 01st August – Call for submissions starts
- 22nd September – Logo Contest submissions closed
- 23rd November – Last date for abstract submission (General + Academic + Workshops)
- 30th November – Acceptance of proposals
- 15th December – Nominations to be received for David Hastings Award
- 10th January 2026 – Last date for full paper submission – https://foss4g.asia/2026/full-paper-submission/
If you have any inquiries about submitting your talks/abstracts/posters/workshop proposals, please contact us at secretariat-2026@foss4g.asia
Code of Conduct
We expect all participants to adhere to our code of conduct.