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With more than 600 stands and 18,500 visitors Intergeo is the place to be and meet. As in previous years FIG had a stand together with German assoications and organisations as well as CLGE. FIG was represented by Vice President Michalis Kalogiannakis, Chair of FIG Commission 1 Tim Burch and FIG Director Louise Friis-Hansen. Several Commission Chairs were attending, too, hereunder Chair of FIG Commission 9 Peter Ache, Commission 6 Werner Lienhart, former chair of commission 3 Hartmut Müller as well as other FIG representatives including Chair of Task Force on Diversion and Inclusion Stephen Djaba and Tomasz Malinowski who were both actively promoting the FIG Congress 2026. Thank you very much for your help!
Preparing the FIG Stand. As promotion material Roiboos Tea Bags from South Africa was handed out with an encouragement to come to Cape Town, South Africa for the FIG Congress 2026 - a huge success |
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Special meetings were arranged with some of FIG Corporate members, hereunder Trimble, Leica, Bentley, CHC Navigation, SuperMap, Topcon, Geomares (GIM Magazine), and Mena 3D.
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FIG members from Ukraine visited the FIG stand  |
The FIG stand was busy and well visited with a mixture of representatives of members of FIG which were nice to meet and have a good talk with; potential members of FIG; potential corporate sponsors for the FIG Congress 2026; and others who had an interest in hearing about who FIG is and what FIG is working on as well as why this international cooperation is important and matters.
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The presence of FIG at Intergeo is two-fold and serves both to inform in general about FIG and specifically about the FIG Congress 2026 - encouraging participation and submission of abstracts as well as the opportunities for potential sponsors and exhibitors
At the Welcome Reception Presiddent of the German association DVW and FIG Honorary President Rudolf Staiger welcomed all to Intergeo and to Frankfurt. Intergeo is an amazing mixture of technology, innovation and collaboration in a vibrant atmosphere. The main themes of INTERGEO 2025 were Geo-AI, data sovereignty, and reality capturing, which explored how geoinformation and technology are creating smarter, more sustainable solutions. Other key topics included Earth observation, digital twins, BIM, and smart cities. This years Intergeo showed how the geoinformation industry is actively shaping a digital future by moving from knowledge transfer to practical application.
A very big thanks to Michalis Kalogiannakis and Tim Burch for their help at the booth and around, and for three very productive and busy days.
Intergeo 2026 will take place in Munich, Germany - hope to see you there!
Louise Friis-Hansen
30 October 2025
