This past Tuesday in Bern, the Swiss QGIS community came together for the 2025 edition of the QGIS.ch User Meeting — and we at OPENGIS.ch were proud to be deeply involved across the entire event, from presentations to hands-on workshops.
Sharing Insights and Innovation
The day began with our CEO, Marco Bernasocchi, opening the conference with an update on the QGIS project, covering exciting news about the upcoming QGIS 4 release and the ongoing website revamp (slides here). Shortly after, he took the stage again to present the latest improvements in QField, including new features, user experience (UX) enhancements, and under-the-hood upgrades that continue to enable efficient field data collection (slides here).
In collaboration with Timothée Produit from IG Group SA, our colleague Isabel Kiefer presented tools and streamlined processes for installing, managing, and updating TEKSI (and other) modules. These solutions are a testament to our mission of simplifying complex GIS infrastructure in public and private organisations alike.
Later in the morning, our CTO Mathias Kuhn gave a compelling talk on Machine Learning and AI in QGIS, showing real-world use cases and technical innovations that bridge geospatial workflows with intelligent automation.
Strengthening QGIS Security
As part of our commitment to sustainability and professionalisation in open source GIS, we are also proud to be a partner of Oslandia in the QGIS Security Project, which Vincent Picavet presented during the event. This initiative aims to ensure that QGIS continues to meet the highest standards of security — a crucial foundation for its growing adoption in critical infrastructures around the world.
Hands-on with QField – in Three Languages!
In the afternoon, OPENGIS.ch hosted a fully booked, multilingual QField workshop, attended by 25 enthusiastic participants. The session provided hands-on experience for users who wanted to take their QGIS projects into the field and was an excellent opportunity to exchange best practices and tips from real-world use cases and get some sun 🙂
OPENGIS.ch Tools in Action
Even outside of our sessions, tools developed by OPENGIS.ch were featured prominently throughout the day:
- QField played a key role in the Zermatt use case presentation, demonstrating its flexibility and robustness in alpine field operations.
- The Model Baker plugin, to which we contribute heavily, was showcased with its new multilanguage support for QGIS models — a significant step forward for the Swiss context and its multilingual projects.
A Thriving Community
As always, the QGIS.ch user meeting was a reminder of the strength and passion of the Swiss open source geospatial community. A huge thank you to the organizers, speakers, and participants who made the event such a success — we’re already looking forward to the next one!
Stay connected:
👉 QField website
👉 QFieldCloud
👉 Model Baker plugin
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