Join us at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for a GIS Day celebration on Wednesday, November 12th, 2025. We are getting a head start on GIS Day, which is traditionally celebrated on the 3rd Wednesday of November as an international forum for users of GIS technology to demonstrate real-world applications that are making a difference in society and for people to learn more about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its benefits. This in-person all day event will be hosted in CMU’s Cohon University Center.

Register below ⬇️ to attend in November

The event is a day-long symposium with talks, a roundtable, map gallery, open house, and more. We welcome wide participation in a variety of topic areas including: social and economic research, arts and culture, broad implementations of the sustainable development goals, spatial applications of AI, creating a sustainable local GIS community, using GIS tools, and of course research in Policy, Architecture, Urban Studies, Geography, GIScience, Digital Humanities, Environmental Studies, Engineering, and more. This year each submission will be asked to spotlight the data used - in quality of sources, the nuances of collecting the data, etc.

We would love for you to share your work at GIS Day! If you aren’t sure - submit it to us anyway! We especially want students across the region to submit talks and maps. Your map doesn’t have to be perfect and we will have two workshops on Making Nice Maps including a Map Clinic where you can get feedback on your own map to help you prepare for submission.

★ 🔵 Submit your work 🟠 ★

This event and our workshops are open to all. We hope this event is a day for people to mingle and learn. Submissions are open to anyone in the Western PA region. 

• Submit your work for participation by October 15th

• Notification of acceptance: October 24th      

• Maps due for printing: November 6th    

We are accepting submissions for the following:

Lightning talks (3-5 minutes) Short 3-5 minute talk about something you’ve been working on or think people should know. 

Maps (to be displayed in a map gallery) A map that you created. We will have a virtual map gallery for all submissions and a select few will be chosen for display at the event. Accepted maps displayed at the event will need to be submitted for printing by Nov 6.

Tabling at Open House (1.5 hours) Organizations, companies, informal groups or people with research demonstrations can set up a table at the open house to share your services, swag or research.

Volunteers If you want to help out leading up to or during the event, you can submit your name as a volunteer and we will contact you to learn your interest.

Thank you, and we look forward to hanging out with you and seeing what you have been working on! 

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Organized by Pittsburgh GIS Day Organizing Committee

Members: CMU Libraries, Sustainability Initiative, ESIM (Enterprise Space Information Management), School of Architecture & College of Engineering; Allegheny County GIS Office; University of Pittsburgh Geology and Environmental Science, University Library System & Urban Studies; Chatham University Falk School of Sustainability and Environment; Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center; City of Pittsburgh Department of Innovation and Performance & Pittsburgh Regional Transit; Esri; and the Larson Design Group.

Sponsors of the Event (interested in sponsoring the event? contact Jessica)

• CMU University Libraries
• CMU Statistics and Data Science Department
• Larson Design Group
• Esri