You’re invited to a special event at the Center for Geospatial Analytics at NC State University on May 22, 2025, as part of the GRASS Developer Summit Raleigh 2025.

We’ll kick things off at 4:00 PM with a series of fast-paced GRASS Lightning Talks by speakers from mundialis, Natrx, Bohannan Huston, government, and academia, showcasing real-world applications of GRASS—an open-source geoprocessing engine.

A reception will follow at 5:00 PM, offering time to connect with researchers, government professionals, and industry collaborators.

Lightning Talks: 4:00-5:00PM

Reception: 5:00-7:00PM

Please RSVP to help us plan accordingly: https://forms.gle/CTsJeW7c6CTZgKYQ7

Speakers and Topics:

• Markus Metz & Markus Neteler, mundialis, Optimizing Urban Infrastructure: Automated Trench Planning with GRASS (presented by Vaclav Petras)
• Anna Petrasova, North Carolina State University, Scaling Up Urban Growth Projections with FUTURES
• Verónica Andreo, CONICET – Instituto Gulich, GRASS-fed Species Distribution Models
• Rob Dzur, Bohannan Huston, Inc., Going with the Flow: How GRASS Helps Us Navigate Elevation-Derived Hydrography (EDH) Breakthroughs
• Nick Brady, Natrx, Distributed GRASS for Erosion Assessments
• Huidae Cho, New Mexico State University, Continental-Scale Hydrologic Modeling Using GRASS
• Gregory Power, Town of Cary, Using GRASS for Open Data Pipelines
• Doug Newcomb, Hydro Flattening Impounded Water Bodies from LiDAR Point Cloud Data
• Caitlin Haedrich, North Carolina State University, Modeling Agricultural Runoff with Tangible Landscape and GRASS