FIG 2026

The Future We Want – The SDGs and Beyond.

Why Attend

FIG 2026 presents a pivotal moment for geospatial professionals to accelerate action, foster innovation, and shape the next era of global sustainable development. This Congress will bring together thought-leaders, policymakers, and experts to explore how land governance, geospatial intelligence, and technological advancements can drive sustainability, resilience, and equitable growth beyond 2030. FIG 2026 will serve as a catalyst for bold ideas and strategic action, ensuring a thriving and sustainable future for generations to come.

Help Us:

• Promote and develop sustainable and professional geomatics/surveying in the region and the transition to a circular economy.
• Bring together geomatics/survey experts from around the world to network, create best practices and produce industry reports.
• Foster and encourage the development and training of geomatics/surveying in the region.
• Stimulate Knowledge and Skills Transfer – facilitate the sharing of knowledge, ideas, techniques, materials, and technologies by providing local educators, practitioners and researchers with access to a network of international attendees.
• Encouraging international cooperation in geomatics/surveying which in turn will hopefully generate innovation, ideas and research agendas for many years to come and support the region’s economies.
• Stimulate Foreign Direct Investment in the region
• Promoting resource efficiency through sustainable production and consumption in the region.
• Provide an opportunity to showcase the best available technologies and practices to the region.
• Allows the sharing and curating of knowledge among peers.
• Identify and promote competence in a body of individuals through accreditation.
• Providing support to the region’s developing and emerging economies.
• Aid in the region’s economic recovery both in tourism and geomatics/survey sectors.
• Stimulate other industry trade in products and services – showcase local entrepreneurs, artisans, artists and craftspeople and give them access to a global audience. These small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs) form part of a sector which has been identified as crucial to growing the region’s economies.