We invite the Geospatial community to attend the upcoming Sixth Spatial Data Science Symposium.

SDSS2025 is a distributed/online symposium. Participants are welcome to join one of the symposium hubs distributed around the world. Groups of participants will meet at these hubs to present and discuss with other participants both in person and online. The UC local hub will convey at the University of Canterbury in the Ernest Rutherford building, room 263 from 9:45-4pm on Thursday 4th of December 2025 to participate in the activities listed below:

NZ Time	Title
9:45-11:00am	Thematic Session on Generative AI and Agentic AI for GIS and Cartography (online \| local hub)
11:00-12:00pm	mGeoHealth: real-world applications of spatial data science to improve population health and wellbeing (in person \| local hub)
12:00-1:00pm	Lunch Break
1:00-1:30pm	Prof. Peyman Zawar-Reza giving keynote talk: “Towards a NeuroSpatial Insight Engine”
1:30-2:00pm	POST DOCTOCTORAL FELLOWS’ ORAL PRESENTATIONS (in person \| local hub)
2:00-2:45pm	COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION (in person \| local hub)
2:45-3:45pm	POSTGRADUATES’ ORAL PRESENTATIONS (in person \| local hub)
3:45-4:00pm	CLOSING REMARKS AND AWARD (in person \| local hub)

Keynote Speaker:

Prof. Peyman Zawar-Reza
School of Earth and Environment
University of Canterbury

Bio:
I am primarily a highly interdisciplinary Data Scientist interested in understanding complex dynamical systems, by analysing their high frequency outputs/data, from which we might be able to infer their intrinsic mechanisms. Most of my research to date has involved studying the role of turbulence in the atmosphere, but recent advances in neurosciences have highlighted the fact the brain signals, can also be studied using methods applied to turbulent motion in fluids. Therefore, I have recently been interested in mapping brain signals, as obtained for example by an EEG, to spatial context – in a geographic sense.