QGIS Cyprus at the QGIS User Conference 2026 in Laax ¶

Marios Kyriakou, Chair of QGIS Cyprus (Senior Software Engineer, KIOS), and Andreas Georgiou, Research & Innovation Lead of QGIS Cyprus (Senior Research Engineer, KIOS), represented QGIS Cyprus and the KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence at the University of Cyprus at the QGIS User Conference 2026, held on 5–6 October in Laax, in the Swiss Alps.

The talks ¶

A QGIS-Based Spatial Analytics Framework for Severity-Aware Road Crash Hotspot Detection: Andreas presented a QGIS-based framework that finds road crash hotspots by combining crash locations with crash severity, using the greater Limassol area as a case study.
Reducing Leakages through Pressure Management using the OCEANOS Digital Twin: Marios showed how QGIS, water network models and sensor data help water utilities lower pressure and leakage while keeping service levels, with applications in Limassol and Larnaca.

Andreas Georgiou presenting road traffic crashes in the greater urban area of Limassol, 2016–2023, in his talk on severity-aware road crash hotspot detection at the QGIS User Conference 2026 in Laax

Marios Kyriakou presenting 'Reducing Leakages through Pressure Management using the OCEANOS Digital Twin' at the QGIS User Conference 2026 in Laax, Switzerland

Session chairs ¶

Both also served as volunteer session chairs at the conference.

Andreas Georgiou and Marios Kyriakou holding the QGIS Cyprus flag in the Swiss Alps near Laax

KIOS continues to support open science, open-source tools and the QGIS Cyprus community, turning research into practical solutions with real-world impact.

Last year’s conference in Norrköping: QGIS Cyprus at the QGIS User Conference 2025.