The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said on the 23rd that it will host the "2025 K-GEO Festa" for three days from the 24th to the 26th at KINTEX Exhibition Hall 1 in Ilsanseo-gu, Goyang, Gyeonggi.
Marking its 17th year, K-GEO Festa is the largest international geospatial information event in Korea, and is held annually to strengthen the competitiveness of the geospatial information industry—core infrastructure of the Fourth Industrial Revolution era—and to build a future innovation industry ecosystem, the ministry said.
This year's event will be held under the theme "GeoAI that opens change, an awakening world." Through technology exhibitions, conferences, and business programs, it will spotlight smart innovations that the latest geospatial technologies and geospatial artificial intelligence will create.
In the exhibition hall, more than 100 institutions from Korea and abroad will showcase advanced geospatial technologies and services across four zones: data vision, smart convergence platforms, industrial innovation and the social safety net, and future talent and the innovation ecosystem.
In the data vision zone, visitors can see AI-based satellite image analysis technologies used in diverse fields such as agriculture, defense, and the environment, as well as real-time information collection technologies using high-precision LiDAR sensors, a core technology in autonomous driving and robotics.
In the smart convergence platform zone, the event will present everyday changes driven by the convergence of geospatial technology and artificial intelligence through GeoAI-based geospatial solutions and a real estate 3D analysis service using conversational AI, and will exhibit a digital twin–based administrative platform service that supports administrative innovation.
In the industrial innovation and social safety net zone, services for building city-scale 3D modeling data to streamline urban infrastructure management will be exhibited, and in the future talent and innovation ecosystem zone, research outcomes and practical assignments from 10 geospatial-related universities nationwide will be on display.
In addition, 19 conferences and side events featuring experts from industry, academia, research, and government at home and abroad will be held during the event. On the 24th, a launch ceremony will be held for the "K-GEO Future Innovation Forum." As a representative policy platform in the geospatial field, the forum will identify pending issues centered on three areas—safety and infrastructure, new industries and convergence, and systems and data—and seek solutions through public-private cooperation, the ministry said.
Alongside a variety of conferences, including "Convergence of smart construction and geospatial information," which shares a geospatial technology vision for smart construction, special lectures will be given by writer Song Gil-young and MAUM.AI CEO Choi Hong-seop on the themes "The era of understanding myself through big data" and "Geospatial information and Physical AI."
Business support programs will also run to help Korean companies expand overseas and attract global investment. An investment attraction competition will be held for startups to provide on-site matching opportunities with professional investment firms, and for the first time at the event, more than 50 overseas professional buyers will be invited to support business meetings for domestic small and midsize enterprises and startups.
At this year's event, 25 high-level officials from nine countries, including Bangladesh and Mongolia, will be officially invited to expand the international cooperation network. On the 24th and 26th, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will sign MOUs with the Ministry of land of Bangladesh, the Ministry of Construction, Urban Development and Housing of Mongolia, and the Ministry of Urban Infrastructure of Ethiopia, respectively, to expand exchanges on geospatial policies and lay the groundwork for overseas expansion.
First Vice Minister Lee Sang-kyung said, "GeoAI, which combines geospatial information and artificial intelligence, is the force driving innovation across industries and administration," adding, "We expect this event to be the starting point for cooperation and a leap forward that will lead the innovations created by geospatial artificial intelligence."