Open Visualization
Collaborator Summit 2026

ETH Hönggerberg
Building HIL Room E7
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5,
8049 Zürich, Switzerland

On September 9-10, 2026, come together with the vis.gl/deck.gl community to discuss the present & future of the leading open source library for visualization on the web.

At the Open Visualization Collaborator Summit, we’ll bring together an international audience of developers to discuss how they are using open-source tools to build applications for geospatial analysis, biological research, AI training, and beyond. Our goal is to foster collaboration, encourage contributions, and shape the future of open-source visualization across disciplines.

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Where?

We'll be hosting the 2026 Open Visualization Collaborator Summit at ETH's Hönggerberg HIL building in Zürich, Switzerland.

ETH Hönggerberg
Gathering at ETHZ

Who?

We are contributors who maintain open-source libraries at the heart of the Open Visualization community — including deck.gl, kepler.gl, GeoDa, and cosmos.gl; developers who build amazing applications with them; and folks who are passionate about data visualization in general. Come along to dive into topics like browser-based rendering, GPU-accelerated data processing, and scientific visualization. Share your work, meet others facing similar challenges, and help define the future of the open visualization ecosystem.

Agenda

Have A Topic Idea?

Talk sessions are beginning to fill up. If you have an idea for a session, send it in. All levels and topics on GIS, analytics, microbiology, automated transportation, graphing, computation, and more are all welcomed!
SUBMIT SESSION PROPOSAL

Day 1:

08:30 Breakfast & Social (30 mins)

09:00 - 09:55

Chris Gervang Ib Green Felix Palmer Xiaoji Chen

Vis.gl

State of the Union

OpenVis Steering Committee

  • Chris Gervang
  • Ib Green
  • Felix Palmer
  • Xiaoji Chen

vis.gl

10:00 - 10:25

Ilya Boyandin

SQLRooms

Beyond notebooks and dashboards

Ilya Boyandin

SQLRooms

10:25 Break & Networking (20 mins)

10:45 - 11:10

Joseph Birkner Vagram Airiian

erdblick: Hypercharged NDS.Live HAD Map Visualization

Why deck.gl Ruined Cesium For Us

Joseph Birkner

Vagram Airiian

Klebert Engineering   NDS e.V.

11:15 - 11:40

Peter Todd

Reserved

 

Peter Todd

11:45 - 12:10

Javier de la Torre

Making deck.gl AI-Ready

Declarative Specs as an Agent-Native Interface for Maps

Javier de la Torre

CARTO

12:15 Lunch (1-1/2 hr)

13:45 - 14:10

Vis.gl

Post Lunch Huddle:

Open floor demos & discussions while we digest.

 
 

14:15 - 14:40

Adam Krebs Chris Gervang

Noodles.gl

A visual programming language for Deck.gl

Adam Krebs

Chris Gervang

Joby Aviation

14:45 - 15:10

Frank Elsinga

MLT in the deck.gl ecosystem

Why it exists and why it matters

Frank Elsinga

Maplibre

15:10 Break & Networking (20 mins)

15:30 - 15:55

Alexander Müdespacher

Bringing the Atlas of Switzerland to the Web with deck.gl

 

Alexander Müdespacher

ETHzürich

16:00 - 16:25

Group Photo

We welcome everyone to join our yearly group photo.

Day 1: End of Programming

Day 2:

08:30 Breakfast & Social

09:00 - 09:25

Julia Koschinsky

The GeoDa Project

Open Geospatial Analytics in Browser with AI Assistance

GeoDa Steering Committee

  • Julia Koschinsky

GeoDa.AI

9:30 - 9:55

Felix Palmer

One Giant Leap For 3D Tiles

 

Felix Palmer

CARTO

10:00 - 10:25

Oliver Wipfli

Mapterhorn

Aggregating satellite, terrain, and aerial imagery

Oliver Wipfli

Mapterhorn

10:25 Break & Networking (20 mins)

10:45 - 11:10

Nikita Rokotyan

Reserved

 

Nikita Rokotyan

cosmos.gl

11:15 - 11:40

11:45 - 12:10

Robert Christie

🛳 poopdeck.gl

Spatiotemporal-tiles and Time Series Animations

Robert Christie

12:15 Lunch (1-1/2 hr)

13:45 - 14:10

Charles Richardson

4 Year Odyssey With Deck.gl

 

Charles Richardson

NEW HEAT

14:15 - 14:40

Xiaoji Chen Ib Green

Visualizing the Firehose

GPU Execution Timelines at
Data Center Scale

Xiaoji Chen

Ib Green

OpenAI

14:45 - 15:30

Discussion: Future of Vis.gl

Join us for an open discussion on where we go from here?

Vis.gl Steering Committee Members

vis.gl

Day 2: End of Programming