MAGIC Geospatial Conference 2025
Keynote Presentation
From Queries to Spatial Reasoning: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming GIS
Artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are rapidly being integrated across GIS with recent developments focusing on the incorporation of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) into GIS. These AI capabilities manifest themselves as “AI Assistants” and can help you with common tasks, including, but not limited to writing SQL queries, creating Survey123 surveys, and finding content in ArcGIS Online. In this presentation, you will learn how generative AI is being incorporated into ArcGIS as AI Assistants. You will also learn about the emergence of vision-language models which can be used to interrogate or describe imagery and agentic AI which is enabling spatial reasoning in GIS. Whether you are new to generative AI or have been using GPT for a few years, this presentation will open your eyes to how AI can enhance your GIS and workflows.
Greg Brunner - Principal Data Scientist and Team Lead at Esri
Mr. Brunner is an experienced scientist, award-winning professor, and principal data scientist at Esri, the global market leader in GIS software, location intelligence, and mapping. In his current role, he serves as the Esri Professional Services AI and Analytics practice lead where he helps guide organizations across the globe with their implementation of AI and advanced analytics. In addition to serving as practice lead, he and his team also work on developing custom AI and computer vision driven spatial analysis tools in support of extracting features from imagery and 3D mesh data.
