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Table of Contents

A Field Guide by Role
INTERGEO returns to Munich September 15–17 — what’s worth a surveyor’s, a GIS manager’s, or a BIM lead’s floor time, organized by role.

Inside Concordia
Topcon’s PNT proving ground near Modena, where trust in precision gets built, tested, and re-tested in the field, year after year.

Bringing Precision to the Ground
A roughly $700 RTK receiver won’t replace a survey rover — it changes who gets to carry centimeter-level positioning around.

The Unity Thesis
Trimble’s case that GIS context, survey-grade position, and asset management are three views of the same problem.

One Platform, Every Direction
More than 15,000 people filled San Diego for Esri’s 46th User Conference — a wide survey of a mapping platform still expanding on every front.

Reality Capture, Reconsidered
Esri’s Konrad Wenzel on Gaussian splatting, why survey-grade accuracy still matters, and what a working digital twin looks like in Zurich.

Digital Twins Are a Journey, Not a Product
Esri’s Micah Callough on the expertise every AEC firm needs, and the flood-control system he built before the term “digital twin” existed.

Agentic AI Has to Know Where It Is
Esri’s Ismael Chivite on the real difference between an assistant and an agent, and what MCP solves for a profession that can’t afford a plausible wrong answer.