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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">I-GUIDE Forum 2023: Harnessing the Geospatial Data Revolution for Sustainability Solutions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">October 4-6, 2023<br>
Columbia University<br>
New York City<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">As part of its data-driven mission, I-GUIDE (the Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment,
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/i-guide.io__;!!DZ3fjg!5BWVPZQDn0WZ8ARbNuS1ijsZ9yIxwtlyIJ1KtlFS-eDJ5dHwzgyfmy6zqnDQx16aJufrEvXbKtsi3xmAO7ULFJWOWTVulNir2w$">
https://i-guide.io</a>) tackles fundamental scientific and societal challenges focused on sustainability, from climate change and biodiversity loss to food and water insecurity. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">I-GUIDE Forum is a new conference series designed to bring together domain science researchers, data scientists, cyberinfrastructure experts, and educators from across academia, government, and industry. The Forum
provides a cross-disciplinary venue for sharing and promoting artificial intelligence (AI), cyberinfrastructure, and data-intensive approaches to a variety of pressing sustainability and resilience challenges the world is facing. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The I-GUIDE Forum 2023 will feature presentations and discussions about cutting-edge geospatial AI and data science advances for enabling sustainable development solutions through pushing convergence science frontiers.
The themes for the Forum 2023 focus on the following four themes:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">(1) Frontiers in Synergizing Convergence and Sustainability Sciences;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">(2) Geospatial AI and Data Science for Sustainability;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">(3) Innovation of CyberGIS and Cyberinfrastructure; and
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">(4) Inclusive Education, Training, and Workforce Development. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Submission Requirements for I-GUIDE Forum 2023<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">I-GUIDE Forum 2023 invites short papers addressing one or more of the aforementioned themes. Each paper should not exceed six pages in the single-column publication format, including references. Short papers will
be published in the proceedings of the Forum. Additionally, a set of papers will be invited for submission to special issues of multiple journals such as the
<i>Environmental Research Letters (ERL)</i>, <i>International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS)</i>, and
<i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)</i>. Short Papers must be submitted through the following link:
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iguideforum2023__;!!DZ3fjg!5BWVPZQDn0WZ8ARbNuS1ijsZ9yIxwtlyIJ1KtlFS-eDJ5dHwzgyfmy6zqnDQx16aJufrEvXbKtsi3xmAO7ULFJWOWTUdeewxJg$">
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iguideforum2023</a> by <b><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">July 17<sup>th</sup>, 2023</span></b>. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by August 4<sup>th</sup>, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Please see the I-GUIDE Forum 2023 webpage for additional information:
</b><a href="https://iguide.illinois.edu/forum-2023/"><b>https://iguide.illinois.edu/forum-2023/</b></a><b>.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Shaowen<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Shaowen Wang, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Professor and Head, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Faculty Fellow, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation (OVCRI)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Affiliate Professor, Computer Science, Information Sciences, Urban & Regional Planning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Founding Director, CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies (CyberGIS Center)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Director, NSF Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Room 2064 NHB, MC-150, 1301 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://go.illinois.edu/ShaowenWang"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">https://go.illinois.edu/ShaowenWang</span></a><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">; Tel: +1.217.333.7608;
Twitter: swuiuc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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