Portolan

Talks & demos

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Cayetano Benavent · OGC Metadata Summit 2026

AI-Ready Metadata in Practice

Lessons from building Portolan, with a demo of an agent that joins hazard zones, hospitals, and population from one catalog.

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Youssef Harby · Cloud Native Geospatial Japan 2026

Portolan: An SDI Without Servers

Builds the path to Portolan one layer at a time, from range requests on object storage to one STAC catalog that software, people, and agents read the same way.

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Chris Holmes · Open Geodag 2026

A Cloud-Native Upgrade for Spatial Data Infrastructure

How GeoParquet, COG, PMTiles, STAC, and other cloud-native formats can improve how spatial data infrastructures work.

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Javier de la Torre · OGC Connect Helsinki

The Next SDI

How an SDI can work as trusted infrastructure for people and agents while keeping data under its publisher's control.

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CARTO

Finland.SDI agent demo

Watch an agent answer questions using Finland's national SDI, reading directly from the catalog without an API.

The calculator, comparing monthly storage and egress costs across three providers.

Open Geodag

Cost calculator

Estimate the cost of publishing your data as a Portolan catalog.