AI is rewriting how spatial work gets done, but not all of it, and not equally. Beneath the noise of demos and pilots, the real shift is quieter and more important: every stage of the geospatial workflow is being mediated by AI, which means every stage is asking something different of the human practitioner.
In this session, GriidAI co-founder Mohamed Abdalhamid revisits the four familiar moves of spatial work – plan, execute, validate, reuse – and unpacks how each one is changing in the agentic AI era. What gets automated. What gets harder. What becomes non-negotiable. And, most importantly, what stays human.
Drawing from real cases in planning, infrastructure, and climate risk, you’ll leave with a clearer sense of where AI accelerates spatial work, where it quietly fails, and where your judgement, domain expertise, and validation matter more than ever. This is not a session about replacing GIS – it is about understanding the new operating model for the people who do it.
