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FIG CONGRESS 2026 - SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT

The overall theme of the congress is: The Future We Want - The SDGs and Beyond

The FIG Congress 2026 gives you as professional the opportunity to:

	Learn and share globally – with participation from around 80-90 countries
	Network across silos, cultures, generations, sectors and professional roles – with sessions and representation from the broad range of experts
	Make an impact on careers, organizations and communities
	Enjoy undisturbed on-site time to focus, concentrate, and collaborate

The SDGs will be central to all sessions, highlighting how surveyors work with and find solutions towards these goals and beyond. Surveyors must be heard as the next global development agenda for post-2030 is prepared in the next few years.

Read more and submit your abstract

Register and plan your trip

Follow the steps:

1. Submit abstract  (deadline 1 November)
2. Secure your travel
3. Register - remember to check pre-events, social events, and technical tours
4. Book your flight  and airport transfer
5. Book accommodation and leisure tours
6. Wait and look forward to your trip... check www.fig.net/fig2026 regularly

Pre Events

When attending the conference please check the pre-events that are offered:

  The Young Surveyors Conference
  Reference Frames in Practice seminar
  Land Value and Cadaster - Twins for Transparency of Real Estate in AI-Times
  Real Estate Price Effects of Climate Actions & Reality Check: Are Valuation Models and Data Fit for Purpose?

Networking opportunities

Networking is a central element at a FIG event. It is a unique opportunity to meet with colleagues and friends from all around the world and to expand your contacts. To facilitate networking various activities will take place during the Congress such as the welcome reception, Gala Dinner, technical tours specially designed by your colleagues from South Africa. Various social tours are offered to give you the opportunity to explore the country.

More information and news about the Congress is availabe on the congress website: www.fig.net/fig2026

FIG NEWS

Call for Nominations for President and Two Vice Presidents FIG Member Associations are encouraged to nominate candidates for the positions of President and Vice Presidents for the term 2027-2030 Read more...

Call for bids for FIG Congress 2030 Does your organisation want to be the host of the large FIG Congress that will take place in 2030? What are the main items on the agenda in your country that you would like international input to? What are interesting projects that the rest of the world should learn about? What city in your country could be suitable to welcome surveyors, geospatial experts, valuers and related professions from all over the world? Submit your bid. Read more...

The FIG Foundation Young Surveyor Grants The FIG Foundation will sponsor and award Young Surveyor Grants in support of FIG Congress 2026 and FIG Young Surveyors Conference. A total of 4 grants will be awarded. Deadline to submit application is 5 December 2025. Read more...

NEWS FROM FIG

FIG at Intergeo 2025 FIG was represented with a booth at Intergeo, and with more than 600 stands and 18,500 participants  Intergeo is a splendid place to meet with  members, representatives and many others with an interest in FIG Read more...

Second edition of LADM published, and a special thanks! The five parts of the second edition of LADM has now been published as ISO and CEN standard. A special thanks to Christiaan (Chrit) Lemmen for his work on LADM from which he is now stepping down. Read more...

Global geospatial leaders unite at GeoNow 2025  The 9th international workshop on Dynamic and Multi-dimensional GIS (DMGIS) was held in Beijing, China on 22-23 August 2025. Read more...

UN Headquarters, New York

FIG’s Impactful Voices Heard at UN-GGIM in New York FIG’s strategic presence and community engagement at 15th session of the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Read more...

NEWS FROM COMMISSIONS, MEMBERS AND OTHERS

Dr. Naa Dedei Tagoe, Ghana’s first female Associate Professor in photogrammetry  FIG extends its warmest congratulations to Dr. Naa Dedei Tagoe, Chair Elect of FIG Commission 8 – Spatial Planning and Development, on her promotion from Senior Lecturer to Associate Professor at the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Ghana. Read more and on   GhanaWeb

UN-Habitat Professionals Forum on LinkedIn The UN-Habitat Professionals Forum - HPF - of which FIG is a member, has launched a new page on LinkedIn. You can follow their activities here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/un-habitat-professionals-forum/

COMMISSION AND NETWORK MEETINGS

Commissions 7 Annual Meeting and FIG Joing Land Administration Conference, Commission 8 Annual meeting and 13th International FIG Workshop on LADM and 3D-LA
3-5 November 2025 in Florianaplis Brazil
Online participation can still be purchased here:  https://www.feesc.org.br/inscricoes/evento/iniciar_inscricao/18199  
More general event details here:  https://figbrasil.paginas.ufsc.br/en/inscricoes/

10-14 November 2025, UNECA, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
2nd African Women Land Professional Associations Conference - 2AWLPAC 2025

Meet the speakers The speakers for the African Women Land Professional Associations Conference 2025 have been confirmed. This promises to be a conference you won’t want to miss Read more...

FUTURE EVENTS

3-5 November 2025: Florianapolis, Brazil
FIG Commission 7  Annual Meeting and FIG Joint Land Administration Conference
held together with the ONU-Habitat Brasil Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) and the 13th International FIG Workshop on LADM and 3D-LA including Commission 8 annual meeting, all hosted by the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). 
Online participation can still be purchased here:  https://www.feesc.org.br/inscricoes/evento/iniciar_inscricao/18199  
More general event details here:  https://figbrasil.paginas.ufsc.br/en/inscricoes/

10-14 November 2025 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2nd African Women Land Professional Associations Conference (2AWLPAC 2025) organised by FIG Africa Regional Network (ARN) with the theme: "African women land professional associations and gender perspectives for social justice, inclusion and demand for reparation for Africans and descendants of Africans in diaspora".
Read more...

18-20 November 2025: Ahmedabad, India  
9th India Land Development Conference (ILDC) 2025. Theme: “Centrality of Land and Sustainable Development: Addressing the Past, the Present and the Future".
Conference brochure  |  More information

19-22 November 2025, Abuja FCT, Nigeria
 NIQS 31st BIENNIAL CONFERENCE/ELECTION GENERAL MEETING (BEGM)
The Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS) is organising her 31st Biennial Conference/Election General Meeting with the theme “REBUILDING NIGERIA: Enhancing National Development Through Fiscal Reforms, Infrastructure Planning and the New Governance Imperative”.

2026

24-29 May 2026: Cape Town, South Africa
FIG Congress 2026
Conference days: 25-28 May
Pre-events: 23-24 May
FIG General Assembly:

More events: Check the events page

Kind regards,
Ms. Louise Friis-Hansen
Director

	International Federation of Surveyors                                                                   Fédération Internationale des Géomčtres Internationale Vereiningung der Vermessungsingenieure International Federation of Surveyors Kalvebod Brygge 31-33 DK-1780 Copenhagen V Tel. + 45 3886 1081 Direct: + 45 9391 0810 louise.friis-hansen@fig.net  www.fig.net
	FIG Congress 2026 Cape Town, South Africa Web site: www.fig.net/fig2026

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