Enhance your professional skills with the Location Innovation Hub!
We offer a range of training and events to help you develop your skills. Join us to develop your expertise and open up new opportunities for growth.
Find the Location Innovation Hub events
You can find all the Location Innovation Hub events in the Positio magazine calendar. The same calendar also lists other geospatial events.
The calendar is administered by Geoforum Finland. Make sure your events reach your target audience by publishing them on the Positio events calendar.
Location Innovation Hub events
Unlocking Growth in Africa
The Unlocking Growth in Africa webinar series brought together experts, innovators, and business leaders during spring 2025 to spotlight the transformative role of geospatial and technology innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Regional events
We have activities throughout Finland. Location Innovation Hub regional partners organise events in Turku, Oulu and Helsinki.
Geomob
Geomob is an international event series and podcast for geospatial enthusiasts. Geomob has been running in Europe for more than fifteen years - and now also in Finland! Geomob Finland events are organised by Location Innovation Hub.
Location Innovation Hub learning courses
Skills and Development Platform by FAIR
Find courses and other learning opportunities on AI, data, high performance computing, cyber security and more. If you want to explore courses organised by the Location Innovation Hub, use the filter option and select LIH EDIH. The platform is administrated by the Finnish AI region FAIR.
Location Innovation Academy
The Location Innovation Academy offers free support to enhance the accessibility, interoperability and integration of geospatial data and services.
The new Location & AI: The Basics course is designed for European directors, managers and consultants who want to understand the business potential of GeoAI.
University of Turku
Learn the essentials of geospatial data, open data, web mapping, sustainable development, and AI in cybersecurity with our free online courses. Gain practical skills in tools like QGIS and explore real-world applications across research, planning, and decision-making.
Oulu university of Applied Sciences
Want to be a professional drone operator? Learn with the DroneMaster online course. The course is suitable for anyone who is involved in unmanned aviation for work, study or hobby purposes.
Gispo
Gispo offers various types of customised courses and workshops. Topics can include for example the use of open datasets, open source GIS tools or 3D data.
GeoSPA Talks
GeoSPA is a series of talks revolving around anything geospatial. Focusing on Space, Place, and Analysis. GeoSPA works under the Fiuginet network (Finnish University Network for Geoinformatics) See upcoming talks from GeoSPA website
Event and training plans
Event and training plans from previous years
Contact us
For more information on training activities and regional events, please contact us at locationinnovationhub(a)nls.fi.
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