The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is pleased to announce the call for Training Session submissions for the 2025 GEOINT Symposium, scheduled to take place in St. Louis, MO, from May 18-22, 2025.   

The Submission period is open from August 5 – September 15, 2024. 

What are Training Sessions? 

Training sessions take place during USGIF’s annual GEOINT Symposium. This is a unique opportunity for GEOINT subject matter experts to share their knowledge and educate attendees through one-hour training sessions focused on various aspects of GEOINT tradecraft, including applications, policy, technology, and methodologies.  

These sessions are designed to provide forward-thinking, cross-sectional training and are intended to be purely educational, avoiding commercial promotion. 

USGIF individual or organizational members may apply to present a training. Submissions imply a commitment to attend if selected. The GEOINT 2025 Symposium will take place in St. Louis, MO, May 18 – 22, 2025. 

While we allow specific organizational software, hardware, and tools for short case study demonstrations, presenters should limit organizational promotion to one introductory slide. We will reject all sales pitch presentations (more than one slide about the company and products). 

There are two training and education categories: 

1. Technology Agnostic: may include (but not limited to) policy, generalized technology, models, methodologies, and frameworks that can be interoperable among various systems. We will prioritize topics related to the Symposium theme, Building a Secure Tomorrow Together.
2. Hands-on training: skills-specific training in the latest commercial software and/or tools.