INTERGEO 2026: These Highlights Visitors Should Keep an Eye on in Munich

In 2026, the event will focus more on applications that visitors can directly experience. Expo, Conference, stage program, and live demonstrations will be more closely interconnected. Particularly, Reality Capturing will have significantly more space with a new experience area.

Visitors should keep an eye on these highlights

Reality Capturing becomes live experience

In Hall C5, the Reality Capturing Experience Parc shows live what Mobile Mapping, Laser Scanning, and Photogrammetry can do in digital existing condition documentation. Those wanting to test technologies before purchasing will find an opportunity here. The kickoff is by Jack Dangermond, founder and president of Esri, with a keynote on GIS and connected geospatial data. Several sessions will focus on GeoAI: How Artificial Intelligence evaluates spatial data and can support decisions in administration, business, and infrastructure, shown through concrete examples. Digital Twins and BIM are other focal points, with projects from urban development, infrastructure planning, and permitting processes. The Real Estate Lab connects geodata, real estate prices, and AI. At the Main Stage and in the Application Dome, technological trends meet practical implementation examples. In the Start-up Area and at the GeoCampus, young companies and research institutions introduce new approaches. One of the most notable focuses in 2026 is Reality Capturing. In Hall C5, with the new Reality Capturing Experience Parc, an area is being created where visitors can not only see but also directly compare different technologies. Mobile Mapping, Laser Scanning, and Photogrammetry will demonstrate how buildings, infrastructure, or other real environments are digitally captured and transformed into usable data models. Practical demonstrations will make applications in construction, real estate, industry, administration, and urban development visible. The area is complemented by the Reality Capture Hub and the Application Dome, making a technological change tangible. The real question today is no longer how much data can be captured. What matters is how quickly and reliably information can be generated from it, which can actually be used for planning, operation, or decisions.

AI changes the work with geodata

Artificial Intelligence is one of the major topics of the Conference. Several agenda items deal with GeoAI and the question of how AI can recognize spatial relationships and derive new insights from large geospatial data repositories. The applications range from remote sensing and infrastructure to administration and municipal planning. It is about technical possibilities and concrete practical examples. This connection will be particularly interesting for authorities and businesses. Geodata are already available in large quantities many places. AI can help to automatically detect changes, link information, or speed up decision-making processes. However, the critical factor remains how reliably such systems operate and how well they integrate into existing processes.

Jack Dangermond launches future topics

The opening of the INTERGEO Conference and the keynotes will be accessible to all ticket holders for the first time in 2026, not just conference guests. Among the highlights is the keynote by Jack Dangermond, founder and president of Esri. Under the title "GIS – Creating a More Intelligent World," he will show how Geographic Information Systems can be used in decisions about infrastructure, sustainability, and resilience. This is part of an evolved event concept: the fair and conference are intended to interlock more closely.

Digital Twins meet BIM and Infrastructure

Another focus is on digital twins. Virtual replicas of cities, buildings, or infrastructures bring data from various sources together and thus support planning, simulation, and operation. At the INTERGEO, these approaches are connected with BIM and GIS, for instance. Conference sessions will deal with digital twins for infrastructure, linking BIM and Geographic Information Systems, and digital building applications, thereby bringing frequently separate data worlds closer together. For the construction industry and public administration, this can become relevant when information does not have to be captured multiple times and planning and permitting processes become more digital.

Real Estate industry rediscovers geodata

The Real Estate Lab also returns in 2026 with an expanded concept. The format brings together geoinformation, real estate industry, administration, and academia. The focus is on how geodata can become the strategic basis for real estate decisions. The program addresses the connection between geodata and purchasing prices as well as the impact of environmental and location information on property values. On September 16, the morning program is open to all conference participants for the first time. Geodata are no longer limited to classic surveying tasks. They become an economic resource: for investments, site analyses, real estate appraisals.

Three days for the geospatial industry

The INTERGEO 2026 takes place from September 15 to 17 at the Messe München. The Expo is open daily from 9 am to 6 pm and spans halls B5, B6, C5, and C6. Those coming to Munich will encounter an industry whose technologies are becoming increasingly relevant outside of traditional geodesy. AI, digital twins, Reality Capturing, and Earth observation provide data for construction projects, cities, real estate, infrastructure, and public administration. In 2026, therefore, the focus will be less on what is technically possible in general. More interesting will be which applications are developed enough to actually save time in the workday, improve processes, and base decisions on better foundations.