GeoBeer events are sponsored and hosted by various companies and organisations throughout Switzerland. So far, we have been sponsored by the following institutions:
- GeoBeer #1, 2013-03-06 in Zürich
Sponsored by EBP, organised by Stephan Heuel and Ralph Straumann
Lightning talks:
«NotePlac.es: Geocoding meets Evernote» by Stephan Heuel (EBP)
- GeoBeer #4, 2013-09-25 in Zürich
Sponsored by Esri Switzerland, organised by Philipp Marty
Lightning talks:
«GPS: Genauigkeit unter die Lupe genommen» by Reto Wick (Esri Switzerland)
«Potential von Real-Time-Tracking im Sport und für Sportevents» by Christian Sailer (Esri Switzerland)
«Leap Motion» by Thomas Husmann (Argus)
- GeoBeer #5, 2013-10-31 in Bern
Sponsored by Centre for Development and Environment, Universität Bern, organised by Elias Hodel
Lightning talks:
«OGC Standards» by Pierre Lacroix (Uni Genève)
«Open Data, Open Source and Traceability» by David Oesch (Swisstopo KOGIS-COSIG)
«HyperCities: Thick Mapping in Digital Humanities» by David Shepard (UCLA)
- GeoBeer #7, 2014-05-06 in Olten
Sponsored by geOps, organised by Uli Müller
Lightning talks:
«R for Visualisation» by James Cheshire (UCL)
«Mapping Public Transportation» by Patrick Brosi (geOps)
- GeoBeer #8, 2014-09-10 in Zürich
Sponsored by EBP and Crosswind, organised by Stephan Heuel, Ralph Straumann, Tobias Brühlmeier and Christoph Kiefer
Lightning talks:
«Maps in Business Intelligence – Dashboards Reloaded» by Tobias Brühlmeier (Crosswind)
«Highspeed Raster Compression without Loss» by Luzius Ammann (Intergraph)
«Styling Vector Layers Was Never so Easy» by Vasile Coțovanu (private)
«State of the Union: Data as Enabling Tech?!» by Ralph Straumann (EBP)
- GeoBeer #9, 2015-06-11 in Lausanne
Sponsored by Camptocamp, organised by Emmanuel Belo
Lightning talks:
«Introduction on 3D» by Emmanuel Belo (Camptocamp)
«Genève 3D» by Pascal Oehrli (GE)
«Neuchâtel 3D» by Marc Riedo (NE)
- GeoBeer #10, 2015-09-19 in Zürich
Sponsored by Swiss Organisation for Geographic Information, organised by Pol Budmiger and Marco Sieber
Lightning talks:
«Storymaps … Story Data Tools» by David Oesch (Swisstopo KOGIS-COSIG)
«Storymaps: Raus aus den Schulden» by Stephan Heuel (EBP)
«Open (Geo) Data am Beispiel der Stadt Zürich» by Marco Sieber (Zürich)
- GeoBeer #12, 2016-03-17 in Wädenswil
Sponsored by Life Sciences und Facility Management, ZHAW and Esri Switzerland, organised by Patrick Laube and Christian Sailer
Lightning talks:
«Aquatisch-Terrestrisches Monitoring in der Ökohydrologie» by Michael Döring (ZHAW)
«Monitoring des Zusammenlebens von Wildtieren und Menschen im Naherholungsraum Wildnispark Sihlwald» by Roland Graf (ZHAW)
- GeoBeer #13, 2016-06-09 in Bern
Sponsored by Swiss Organisation for Geographic Information, organised by Pol Budmiger
Lightning talks:
«DIWA – Wildtiere im Visier: Was ist bei der Beobachtung von Wildtieren aus der Luft zu beachten?» by Roman Eyholzer (private)
«Toponyms Matter!» by Ross Purves (UZH)
«Lärmminderung dank Geodesign» by Micha Köpfli (n-Sphere)
- GeoBeer #14, 2016-10-07 in Zürich
Sponsored by Swiss Society of Cartography, organised by Stefan Räber and Lorenz Hurni
Lightning talks:
«Was hat ein Atlas mit Bier zu tun?» by René Sieber (ETHZ)
«Schraffenland 2.0» by Roman Geisthövel (ETHZ)
- GeoBeer #15, 2017-03-23 in Zürich
Sponsored by EBP, organised by Ralph Straumann and Stephan Heuel
Lightning talks:
«Make Geoportals Great Again» by Nadia Panchaud (ETHZ)
«The Rise of Bots» by Ralph Straumann (EBP)
- GeoBeer #16, 2017-05-18 in Aarau
Sponsored by AGIS Service Center, Kanton Aargau, organised by August Keller and Thomas Wider
Lightning talks:
«Parallelen zwischen dem AGIS und einem Bier-Verteilsystem» by Armin Meier (AG)
«EnvIS vs. EnVIS – ein Informationssystem zur Visualisierung der Umweltbeobachtung im Kanton Aargau» by Christophe Lienert (AG)
«GIS-Analyse: 80% Kommunikation, 20% Analyse» by Silvio Zanola (AG)
- GeoBeer #17, 2017-10-05 in Muttenz
Sponsored by Institut für Vermessung und Geoinformation, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, organised by Martin Christen and Stephan Nebiker
Lightning talks:
«Augmented and Virtual Reality-Projekte mit Smartphone, HoloLens und VR-Brillen» by Martin Christen (FHNW)
«Entwicklung des Multisensorsystems BIMAGE.CapturePro-Backpack für die kinematische bildbasierte Innenraumaufnahme» by Stefan Blaser (FHNW)
«On GIS, Mobility and Generalization» by Pia Bereuter (FHNW)
- GeoBeer #18, 2017-12-14 in Zürich
Sponsored by Abteilung Geoinformation, Amt für Raumentwicklung, Kanton Zürich, organised by Priska Haller and Christian Kaul
Lightning talks:
«Die REST-Schnittstelle für Open Government-Geodaten des Kantons Zürich» by Matthias Trauffer (ZH)
«How PPGIS Changed the Future of Helsinki» by Veera Helle (Mapita)
«Railways Go Airborne: Drohneneinsatz bei der Bahn» by Hans-Jörg Stark (SBB)
- GeoBeer #19, 2018-01-31 in Bern
Sponsored by geosuisse, organised by Petra Hellemann and Thomas Meyer
Lightning talks:
«Strassen- und Verkehrsdaten: Geodaten und Anwendungen für sinnvolle Mobilität» by Francine Constantin (bbp geomatik)
«Copernicus: Ein neuer Blickwinkel aus dem Weltall» by Claudia Röösli (UZH)
- GeoBeer #20, 2018-04-05 in Rapperswil
Sponsored by Hochschule Rapperswil, organised by Stefan Keller
Lightning talks:
«Cartographic Adventures in 3D» by Raluca Nicola (Esri Inc.)
«Areas-of-Interest and the Beauty of Geovisualization» by Philipp Koster (HSR)
- GeoBeer #21, 2018-05-30 in Unterägeri
Sponsored by Klokan Technologies, organised by Petr Pidal
Lightning talks:
«Services All Over the Place» by Dominic Müller (ZG)
«OpenMapTiles — Open-Source World Maps» by Petr Pidal (Klokan)
- GeoBeer #22, 2018-09-20 in Schaffhausen
Sponsored by Crosswind, organised by Tobias Brühlmeier and André Bruggmann
Lightning talks:
«Wie die Landwirtschaft die Geoinformation im Kanton Schaffhausen beeinflusst» by Romedi Filli (SH)
«Sind Maschinen bereits die Hauptnutzer von Geodaten?» by Raffael Hilber (BKW)
«Wie können Natural Language Processing und Open Data die Adress-Geokodierung verbessern?» by André Bruggmann (Crosswind)
- GeoBeer #24, 2018-11-21 in Bern
Sponsored by Swisstopo and geo.admin.ch, organised by David Oesch and Mario Keusen
Lightning talks:
«Geoportal Bern: Ergebnisse der Nutzendenumfrage» by Peter Schär (BE)
«Data Fusion von Geo- und Meteoriten bei der SBB» by Christian Trachsel (SBB)
«Vektorkacheln online editieren leicht gemacht» by Uli Müller (geOps)
- GeoBeer #25, 2019-01-31 in Bern
Sponsored by KKGEO-CCGEO, organised by Mathias Ritter
Lightning talks:
«BIM & Geodaten» by Daniel Gantenbein (HMQ)
«Augmented Reality & Geodaten» by Martin Christen (FHNW)
«Geoinformation in der Politik» by Christa Hostettler (BPUK)
- GeoBeer #26, 2019-03-21 in Bern
Sponsored by OPENGIS.ch, organised by Marco Bernasocchi and Matthias Kuhn
Lightning talks:
«Outdoor AR» by Marcus Hudritsch (BFH)
«La vie en jaune — Le projet d’un homme qui a décidé de parcourir tous les sentiers pédestres de la Suisse» by Pascal Bourquin (private)
«Technical Challenges for a Global Seismic Assessment» by Daniele Viganò (Global Earthquake Model Foundation)
- GeoBeer #27, 2019-05-16 in Burgdorf
Sponsored by Geocom, organised by Melanie Meuter and Bastian Arnold
Lightning talks:
«Visualisierung von Bauprojekten mit VR» by Nicole Sulzberger (EBP)
«railway-stations.org — Offene Geodaten für Schweizer Bahnhöfe» by Georg Russ (Mobiliar)
- GeoBeer #28, 2019-07-02 in Zürich Altstetten
Sponsored by Energie360°, organised by Urs Mändli
Lightning talks:
«geodienste.ch: Kantonale Geodaten an einem Ort» by Mirjam Zehnder (KKGEO-CCGEO)
«esRi — Leveraging Traditional GIS Environments with R» by Urs Mändli & Kirill Müller (Energie360° & cynkra)
- GeoBeer #29, 2019-10-03 in Herisau
Sponsored by GEOINFO AG, organised by Christine Kalberer
Lightning talks:
«Benötigt ein Landwirt GIS?» by Marco Forrer (Labcom)
«Erfahrung mit Open Source-Komponenten in Geoportalen» by Bruno Schäpper (GEOINFO)
- GeoBeer #30, 2019-11-28 in Yverdon-les-Bains
Sponsored by HEIG-VD, organised by Jens Ingensand
Lightning talks:
«Automated Filter: An Approach towards Increasing Participants’ Motivations and Improving Data Quality in Citizen Science Projects» by Maryam Lotfian (HEIG-VD)
«Repenser le syndrome “Too Many Markers”» by Loïc Furhoff (HEIG-VD)
«GeoMSF: Building the Future of GIS at Médecins sans Frontières» by Ken Bragg (MSF)
- GeoBeer #31, 2020-02-05 in Bern
Sponsored by geo7, Meteotest and Centre for Development and Environment, Universität Bern, organised by Catherine Berger and Elias Hodel
Lightning talks:
«Shifting Cultivation-Landnutzungssysteme: Erkennung und Analyse in der Google Earth Engine» by Andreas Eugster (CDE, Uni Bern)
«MurGame — Schütze Dich vor Murgängen!» by Catherine Berger (geo7)
- GeoBeer #32, 2020-04-14
Virtual event, no sponsor, organised by GeoBeer Team
- GeoBeer #33, 2020-12-17
Virtual event, no sponsor, organised by GeoBeer Team
- GeoBeer #34, 2021-03-18
Virtual event, no sponsor, organised by GeoBeer Team
Lightning talks:
«Movement Data in GIS» by Anita Graser (AIT)
«What is Old is Now New Again: Radar’s Critical Role in Today’s Remote Sensing Renaissance» by Brian Timoney (The Timoney Group)
- GeoBeer #35, 2021-12-10
Virtual event, no sponsor, organised by GeoBeer Team
Lightning talks:
«Women+ in Geospatial — Community-Building to Promote Gender Equality in Geospatial» by Daria Luedtke (Wegaw)
«Pankow Vector (S)Tiles» by Riccardo Klinger (digital-geography.com)
«PostGIS 3.2.0 Coming Highlights» by Regina Obe (PostGIS Project Steering Committee)
- GeoBeer #36, 2022-09-15 in Laax
Sponsored by OPENGIS.ch, organised by Matthias Kuhn and Marco Bernasocchi
Lightning talks:
«labdoo.ch: Ein gemeinnütziges Hilfsprojekt, das mittels Laptops Zugang zu IT und Bildung ermöglicht» by Marco Bernasocchi (OPENGIS.ch)
«burnair.cloud: Eine (Web-) App für Gleitschirmpiloten» by Bernie Hertz (burnair)
«Geodaten im Stromnetz» by Peter Egger (ewe)
- GeoBeer #37, 2022-12-01 in Zürich
Sponsored by MSCI, organised by Marc Folini and Stephan Heuel
Lightning talks:
«Alternative Land Use Perception in Oklahoma» by Shelby Snapp (private)
«All Aboard the Whale!» by Marc Folini (MSCI)
«Neugestaltung Weiterbildung CAS ETH GIS» by Sabine Wöhlbier (ETHZ)
- GeoBeer #38, 2023-04-05 in Zürich
Sponsored by EBP, organised by Ralph Straumann
Lightning talks:
«Remote Sensing im Newsroom: Wie die NZZ mit Satellitenbildern arbeitet» by Adina Renner (NZZ)
«OGD in 2023: Decentralised, Automated & in Real Time» by Philipp Bosch (ZH)
- GeoBeer #39, 2023-06-08 in Luzern
Sponsored by Axon Vibe, organised by Luca Dall’Acqua
Lightning talks:
«Machine Learning for Transportation Systems» by David Jonietz (Axon Vibe)
«Map-Making with a Laser Engraver» by Luca Dall’Acqua (Axon Vibe)
- GeoBeer #40, 2023-09-06 in Solothurn
Sponsored by Amt für Geoinformation, Kanton Solothurn, organised by Stefan Ziegler
Lightning talks:
«Geoharvester – eine Suchmaschine für Schweizer Webservices» by Friedrich Striewski (FHNW)
«Satellitendaten für die Landwirtschaft» by Tiziana Speckert (EBP)
«The Missing Maps of the US Far Right Media’s Coverage of Climate Change» by Carolyn Fish (University of Oregon)
- GeoBeer #41, 2023-12-07 in Zürich
Sponsored by HxGN Schweiz AG, organised by Raphael Näf and Martina Eckert
Lightning talks:
«Notruflokalisierung» by Thomas Woodtli (HxGN Schweiz AG)
«Satellite Data for Everyone?» by Claudia Röösli (University of Zurich, Department of Geography, EO Applications and Services)
- GeoBeer #42, 2024-04-25 in Bussigny and Aarau
Sponsored by Camptocamp, organised by Emmanuel Belo
Lightning talks:
«Where is Waldo’s Lab at EPFL?» by Natalie Meystre (EPFL)
«Geodata in Civil Protection: Preparation, Prediction, Analysis, Reaction» by Elio Pittera (Federal Office for Civil Protection, National Emergency Operations Centre)
- GeoBeer #43, 2024-06-27 in Zürich
Sponsored by Esri Schweiz AG, organised by Jonas Herzog
Lightning talks:
«Catching Urban Lizards» by Dagmara Pasiak (Esri R&D)
«Ein Startup baut das Geodaten-Produktionssystem der Swisstopo – Einblicke und Hintergründe» by Emanuel Mahler (Dira Geosystems)
«Size & Fit – Vermessung bei Zalando» by Sandro Huber (Zalando)
- GeoBeer #44, 2024-09-05 in Herisau
Sponsored by GEOINFO Applications AG, organised by Christine Kalberer
Lightning talks:
«Meteodrones» by Martin Fengler (Meteomatics)
«DAVOS: Digitale Analyse von Orts- und Stadtbildern» by Oliver Hänni (Fachhochschule Graubünden)
«Bergrettung und Kartenmaterial» by Oliver Zangerl (Alpine Rettung Ostschweiz, Station 1.01 Schwägalp)