GeoAI Festival – Explainable Earth Webinar Series

Join these online webinars to explore what how geospatial data and artificial intelligence could solve crisis and create opportunities.
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  • GeoAI Festival – Explainable Earth Webinar Series

This event is part of a series

When

20 January, 29 January and 12 February 2026

Location
Online
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Overview

As part of the GeoAI Festival, this three-part webinar series is led by Innovate UK with partners Lloyds Banking Group and UK Multimodal AI Network, to explore the future of GeoAI (geospatial data and artificial intelligence combined) with a focus upon agentic AI, multimodal AI, and systems thinking.

During this series, we will examine:

  • how autonomous decision-making agents can model geospatial dynamics
  • how integrated multimodal data unlocks richer insights into planetary change
  • why systems thinking is critical for embedding these technologies within sustainable, interconnected frameworks.

Across all topics, there will be an emphasis on the role of trusted data flows, open standards, and transparent governance with the goal to position GeoAI as a collaborative, resilient ecosystem for addressing global challenges.

Who Should Attend?

These webinars would be relevant for anyone who wants to better understand how economies may be developed and crises solved through spatial analysis and artificial intelligence tools.

Individuals including software pioneers, thought-leaders, science and data specialists, policy decision-makers, strategy leads across private and public sector, as well as university researchers and professors.

For instance, members of financial services sectors may also be interested in these sessions with the view to optimise risk assessment, whilst decision makers from the infrastructure, transport, and sustainability sectors may be interested in the prospective possibilities.

About the webinars

20 January 2026 – The Rise of Agentic GeoAI: Autonomy, Trust, and Collaboration

29 January 2026 – Seeing the Whole Picture: Multimodal AI for Understanding a Planet in Flux

12 February 2026 – Open by Design: How Systems Thinking Enables Resilient GeoAI

Alongside our guest speakers, each webinar will be led by:

  • Luca Budello, Knowledge Transfer Manager – Geospatial at Innovate UK
  • Dr Nataliya Tkachenko-Love, Responsible AI R&E at Lloyds Banking Group
  • Justin Beirold, Knowledge Transfer Manager – Complex Systems at Innovate UK Business Connect
  • Team member from UK Open Multimodal AI Network

Guest speakers for each webinar will be announced in due course.

You may register for all events or choose the one(s) most relevant to your interests and business needs.

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Accessibility and Inclusion

We are committed to ensuring our events are accessible for all.

If you experience any barriers to registering, for any reason, please contact us by email: enquiries@iukbc.org.uk or phone: +44 03333 403250 and we will support your registration.

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This Event is part of Geospatial.

The world is powered by data; turning data into information helps us make decisions across all sectors of the economy. Innovate UK Business Connect hosts an innovation network that focuses on connecting the data holders and data processors with the people that can benefit from the insight geospatial data can provide.

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