Events – SCGIS Vancouver

SCGIS Vancouver hosts talks from conservation and GIS specialists, hands-on workshops, map competitions, and social mixers.

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Upcoming Events

Our inaugural map competition. Create a map that explores, communicates, or celebrates a conservation theme.

SCGIS Vancouver will be at GIS Day 2026, where we will announce the winners of our Maps for Conservation competition.

Our annual meet up bringing together presenters from the conservation GIS realm, with presentations from our map contest winners.

A hands-on workshop building a cloud-ready conservation map database with QGIS and QField[Cloud], with a case study in a local Vancouver park.

The Society for Conservation GIS annual conference.

We kicked off the Vancouver chapter with a talk from Pano Skrivanos (Overstory Mapping & Research) and a social mixer.

Advancing Conservation and Community Resilience with Thermal and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: Applications from NASA’s ECOSTRESS and EMIT Missions.

An annual worldwide celebration of GIS technology and community, promoting geospatial literacy, education, and awareness.