The first day of the summit will be held at the historic headquarters of the American Red Cross (430 17th St NW, Washington, DC 20006) in the Board of Governor's room. The Summit will officially kick off with keynotes, plenaries, and a report from the HOT board.

As Geographer of the United States, Lee Schwartz holds the position of the Director of the Office of The Geographer and Global Issues in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Dr. Schwartz is the State Department's 9th Geographer and has responsibility for providing guidance to all U.S. federal agencies on questions of international boundaries and sovereignty claims. He oversees the Humanitarian Information Unit – a U.S. government inter-agency organization focused on unclassified data coordination for emergency preparedness, response, and mitigation. Dr. Schwartz will discuss the history of the U.S. Department of State's working relationship with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team as well as future challenges and opportunities.

HOT serves a unique role in humanitarian operations and international development: we bridge the formal and the informal. We provide an interface between three communities: OpenStreetMap volunteers who work remotely, OpenStreetMap volunteers who work on the ground, and the formal institutions who respond to emergencies and invest in development projects. Over the next 3 years, we should plan to adapt this interface to shifts in humanitarian action and international development which will accompany the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the agreements at the climate talks (COP21 and COP22), the first ever World Humanitarian Summit, and significant changes in the donor ecosystem. What questions will we be asking ourselves? What design challenges do we face as we balance the demands of each community we connect?

OSM Japan's community engagement strategy.

Community engagement during a disaster.

As CEO, Ian oversees the technology strategy and development capacity at Development Seed. Ian has a rich history of building teams and communities at the intersection of technology and human rights. Ian was a founding member of the National Democratic Institute’s Information and Communications Technology team and went on to build Internet Freedom Programs at the State Department’s Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor where he oversaw the growth of the program's portfolio from $20 million to over $100 million. Ian will talk about critical data infrastructure for emergency response, as well as give perspectives on how the community can grow and improve. He will discuss technical aspects like imagery coordination and the ecosystem of tools in connection with broader issues like coordination with the humanitarian response community.

Planet Labs is a new startup with a bold mission: To image the entire planet every day. In the last year alone the company has built and launched 87 satellites, which are successfully imaging at 3-5 meter resolution. The goal is not only to increase awareness of our planet but also to enable greater responsiveness to everything that affects it. Chris serves as Product Architect, guiding Planet's technology to make it as easy as possible to access the data and take action. Chris was previously founder of OpenGeo, and serves on the boards of the Open Geospatial Consortium and Brave New Software. He will give an overview of the mission and technology of Planet Labs, and talk through potential collaboration points with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

"Data is key to spatial information. Its availability, accessibility, accuracy and affordability are always a challenge in developing parts of the world. At eHealth Africa, a foremost health care and public health access support organization, the importance of spatial data could not be overemphasised. This presentation will showcase what eHealth Africa has been able to achieve using OSM and discuss mapping in Nigeria as a whole and eHealth Africa's successes in Kano State specifically. "

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is in town! Mapbox is not only a sponsor of the Summit, they are opening the garage doors (1714 14th St NW Washington, DC 20009) and kicking off the three-day HOT Summit with a party. Volunteer mappers, educators, community organizers, humanitarians, geographers, coders, and everyone else is welcome. Food and drinks are on Mapbox. Bring your friends – please just RSVP to let them know you are coming.

For this day of talks and sessions we'll move over to the American Red Cross building at 2025 E St NW, Washington, DC 20006. The format for the day's events will be more in line with a traditional conference. There will be two tracks of talks. We'll also have a third room for open space.

From December 2005 to January 2010, HOT existed as a series of conversations, blog posts, presentations and emails about the wild idea to connect disaster response to OpenStreetMap (a crazy idea in itself). This talk will dig into the vaults and bring out key moments in the evolution of this wild idea to reality, from the origins in the nascent crisis mapping community during Katrina and the South Asia Tsunami, through building support with forward thinking humanitarians and human thinking technologies, to the first HOT activation in Gaza, the naming of HOT, and the first use of OSM data in a humanitarian map.

With funding from USAID the American Red Cross guided the development of an extension to OpenDataKit called OpenMapKit to make OSM field data collection easy and fit into existing humanitarian workflows. This workshop will go over how to setup OpenMapKit, author surveys and conduct a field enumeration. Participants should bring a laptop and an android phone to participate.

The World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery in partnership with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and other development agencies including USAID, the US State Department's Humanitarian Information Unit, and the American Red Cross, Open Cities recently launched “Planning an Open Cities Mapping Project.” This guide documents the design process and lessons learned during the first phase of Open Cities Work in Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. This talk will use a case study approach to present the methodology described in the guide. It will also announce the next phase of Open Cities projects currently being launched in Vietnam, Madagascar, Comoros, Jamaica."

The Peace Corps is currently conducting a pilot project to engage middle and high school students in the DC and Virginia areas in OpenStreetMap. Social studies students map Peace Corps HOT tasks as they study the role of GIS in international development and connect via video chat with the current Peace Corps Volunteer whose community they are mapping. The pilot is ongoing and this talk will share preliminary results and discuss lessons learned regarding our use of OSM and the HOT task manager in the classroom. We will also present HOT use cases from current Peace Corps Volunteers.

TeachOSM aims to meet the needs of teachers and instructors who not only need to know how to use the OpenStreetMap platform, but also be able to organize and run events, manage student accounts, and in some cases, assign grades. TeachOSM exists to promote the use of OpenStreetMap for teaching the fundamentals of geography. Attendees to this session will learn how TeachOSM works, how to use TeachOSM materials to organize better mapping events and how we're engaging the community through sponsorship of badging and microcredentials.

"In Kibera, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, there are around 350 schools - nearly all of which are considered informal or outside the public school system. We know this because we mapped them, one at a time. OpenSchoolsKenya.org, Map Kibera along with GroundTruth Initiative, Development Gateway and contributions from Development Seed, presents a map of each school and its data in a simple profile format. The information, housed in OSM, includes data ranging from number of teachers to school fees to building materials, photos and more. Attendees will hear about our experiences and how we think this approach could be adopted, across various sectors, to keep OSM data fresh and bring information access right down to the grassroots.

An inside look at how HOT activations happen.

In the nascent stages of the West Africa Ebola outbreak in March 2014, very little of the affected countries - Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia - was mapped. The unprecedented size and geographic range of this outbreak created huge logistical and epidemiological restraints on responders. Within a few months West Africa was mapped by over 3,500 volunteers around the world. Response organizations, such as the Red Cross and MSF began using the information in OpenStreetMap daily to locate existing hospitals and newly built Emergency Treatment Centers, for offline navigation, and to track the outbreak in real time. Detailed, accurate maps created from OSM allowed responders to track location data collected on Ebola patients and their contacts. This panel will discuss how OSM in a humanitarian response can be used beyond just navigation, but for operational planning and analysis as well.

Imagery from satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other aircraft is becoming increasingly available after a disaster. It is often difficult to determine what is available and easily access it. OpenAerialMap (OAM) seeks to solve this by providing a simple open way to host and provide access to imagery for humanitarian response and disaster preparedness.

With the continued reduction in costs for small aerial vehicles and high resolution cameras, their use in crisis and humanitarian mapping has increased dramatically in recent years. Attendees will learn about the current state of sUAS technology and how they can be used to capture highly detailed imagery within days of an event for unparalleled accuracy and up-to-the-minute mapping and damage assessments.

The Missing Maps project has seen considerable success in the engagement of new mappers. The vast majority of this engagement is at mapathons. The journey they have taken to arrive at Missing Maps has not come by way of OSM, or even mapping. However, they are committed to humanitarian idea, understand the benefits of the project and they want to contribute. The challenge we are facing is scaling this model. Already, we cannot find venues in London that can cater for the people that want to attend, and hundreds of individuals have expressed a desire to attend mapping events in places we cannot organise them. During this session, we would like to explore ideas and experiences from the HOT community on mass engagement of new mappers in both the physical and virtual realm, including motivation, training, support, validation and development.

The Imagery Coordination group participates in helping find and process pre- and post-disaster imagery through the NextView and other license arrangements. Coordination has happened through a mix of Google group discussions, maps, coordination apps, and Github. This session will be a facilitated discussion to review best practices, challenges and discuss coordination improvements. We will end the meeting with a list of next actions the group can use to further development of how HOT coordinates imagery requests.

HOT's well known Tasking Manager remote mapping coordination tool was born in 2011. Its lead developer will share how and why it was created and some highlights of its history. The session will conclude with discussion about the future and how the Tasking Manager can continue to evolve thanks to its Open Source Software license and community contributors.

There is tremendous research interest in OpenStreetMap currently. HOT is an important focus of this interest and there is an opportunity to engage with academic researchers to help ensure that scholarship benefits our community and the people around the world we seek to assist through our work. This session will be a community conversation around the ways in which the HOT community could enable productive and healthy relationships with scholarly research into our work. Topics for discussion could include research ethics, opportunities for documenting HOT's efforts, and the kinds of questions that the HOT community would see benefit from having academic investigation into. This panel will include Heather Leson, Martin Dittus, and several other members of the HOT community.

The GeoQ project has been briefed at the White House, World Bank, Showcased by CNN, cited by Forbes magazine and reported by the Washington Post. GeoQ places open source geospatial technologies at first responders' fingertips to assist relief organizations during crisis situations, leveraging a crowd-sourced workflow model as well as incorporating traditional and non-traditional map imagery and information. GeoQ allows users to rapidly examine areas affected by a situation, input relevant details and disseminate this information to the field. This approach allows GeoQ to provide an impact assessment across a large geographical area within the first 24 hours of an event, providing information when timing is most critical. This presentation will discuss the development and deployment of the application.

The final day of the Summit will also be in the American Red Cross building at 2025 E St NW, Washington, DC 20006. Space in four rooms will support talks, discussions, hackathon/sprint activities, and opportunities for participants to self organize sessions based on experiences from the first part of the Summit.

Maptime is an open learning environment for all levels and degrees of knowledge, offering intentional educational support for the beginner. Maptime is simultaneously flexible and structured, creating space for mapping tutorials, workshops, ongoing projects with a shared goal, and independent/collaborative work time. Beginners most welcome!

Learn about street surveying live on the streets of Washington D.C. We will have an indoors 1 hour workshop to learn the tools and techniques and then hit the streets of D.C. for a 1 hour mapping exercise. Then we return to Summit HQ for a 1 hour of data entry. Wear comfortable shoes!

Sometimes referred to as 'the seeds of tropical forest destruction', logging roads lead to rainforest fragmentation and land clearing. In order to monitor their growth over time the World Resource Institute and Moabi are launching the Logging Roads project, using the HOT Tasking Manager and OSM iD to map thousands of kilometers of logging road to OSM. In our talk, we will address the following issues: redeploying and customizing the TM and iD, designing tools to supplement the TM and iD and to track progress, and how to use OSM as a data management platform at the organization level.

OpenStreetMap changesets give us access to a wealth of metadata information that is not specifically geographic but incredibly rich. Metadata is helpful in understanding the changing nature of OSM. One can extract additional information about volunteer activity, areas for priority editing, or areas for future coordination. osm-meta-util and the forthcoming osm-meta-api provide streaming metadata tools to analyze edits to OSM on a minutely basis. This talk will cover how you can use this tool in your application and discuss ideas for future development.

Field Papers allows people to print paper maps or atlases of an area, mark them up with a pen or pencil, upload them to the web, and then use tools like the OpenStreetMap ID Editor to turn those pen marks into geodata. Over the past few years, it has served humanitarian mapping efforts large and small, but over time it got buggy and hard to use. Thanks to a prompt from HOT, Stamen is now rebuilding Field Papers to make it run more sustainably. Come learn about all the improvements we're making and how you can help us make Field Papers the very best on-the-ground mapping tool it can be.

HOT projects and mapping parties around the world are important catalysts for volunteer engagement in humanitarian mapping. However there are technical barriers to entry: mapping is a complex practice, it requires specialist tools and an understanding of specialist concepts. To address this, HOT mapping parties typically provide technical instructions, a safe space where beginners can make early mistakes, and easy access to expert guidance. How well does this work? I will compare the outputs of a range of different humanitarian mapping projects published on the HOT tasking manager, and present early results of a large-scale quantitative study. This entails an analysis of all volunteer contributions to determine the impact of HOT projects on the map. A key aspect is an assessment of their short-term engagement: how long do people stick around? Do newcomers drop out more quickly than expert mappers?

The continued transmission of Wild Polio Virus and poor coverage of Oral Polio Vaccination during Immunization Plus Days (IPDs) is now a threat to Global Polio Eradication program. Among other factors, performance of vaccination team and failure to locate missing children are considered a major problem in planning and implementation of IPD in eight high risk states of Northern Nigeria. The use of GIS maps and GPS tracking has been identified as a valuable tool to locate settlements, help prepare microplans and to monitor the activity of vaccination teams. During this presentation, participants will see how the use of GIS in Nigeria has helped improve the quality of Polio vaccination campaigns and thus contributed to reducing the number of wild Polio cases from over a hundred cases to 0 cases in just a few years.

MapGive is a flagship initiative of the State Department's Open Government Plan, a public diplomacy program to support the use of OSM in humanitarian and development response through imagery services, analysis, promotion, event organizing and technical expertise in OSM for the Department's domestic bureaus, diplomatic posts, other U.S. Government agencies, and foreign governments. MapGive has supported the Ebola OSM response in West Africa, helped organize mapping events from National Geographic headquarters to Ramallah, contributed to open education resources and open source software, and worked closely with the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for a collaborative mapping component to the Young African Leaders Initiative ConnectCamps. We'll review the trials and triumphs of the last year of MapGive, and give a view into the future.

Many of us use JOSM every day but it can do a lot more that just than tracing buildings and editing tags. A former TeleNav employee and expert JOSM user will teach the more advanced techniques and tools that make JOSM such a powerful OSM editor.

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in partnership with the Australia-Indonesia Facility Disaster Reduction agency has worked for almost 3 years to help six Indonesia Provincial Disaster Agencies and the local community use OpenStreetMap in conjunction with QGIS and InaSAFE to build better contingency plans in case of disaster. They are using OpenStreetMap to map and maintain information about critical infrastructure locations in each area and then combine it with scientific disaster and hazard data models to determine what the effects would be of different types and magnitudes of disaster incidents. This talk will review our progress and achievements in the last 3 years, what we teach to agencies and the community and our plans for the future.

Peace agreements may be signed, and hostilities may cease, but landmines and other explosive remnants of war are an enduring legacy of conflict. Between 1999 and 2008 in 119 countries 73,576 casualties due to landmines were reported. Both landmines and other leftover explosives pose a serious and ongoing threat to civilians. These weapons can be found on roads, footpaths, farmers’ fields, forests, deserts, along borders, in and surrounding houses and schools, and in other places where people are carrying out their daily activities. They deny access to food, water, and other basic needs, and inhibit freedom of movement. They prevent the repatriation of refugees and internally displaced people, and hamper the delivery of humanitarian aid. The general public has a short term memory with regards to hazards, warning signs get taken down and the international community loses interest. Building a open data set in OSM could be a great asset to the world. Currently there are no OSM attributes for minefields or explosive hazards however there are proposals for them. This discussion will relate to how we can move forward with a project to identify and map these dangerous areas. [Portions of this description are copied directly from "Landmine Monitor Report 2009: Toward a Mine-Free World"]

As governments, international organizations, and large NGOs get more closely involved with HOT, how does the culture of OSM transform their work, and how does HOT adapt to the mechanics of bureaucracy. In Washington D.C., a group of organizations have started not just talking about this, but doing things together, linking up technical requirements, communication needs, and event coordination. We want this space to grow to encompass other nodes of OSM institutional support, and breath the spirit of OSM into all aspects of our work. This panel will consist of three lightning talks, followed by a very open audience led discussion on OSM in Institutions.

For people staying extra days or based here in DC there may be additional events on Sunday and Monday such as a hackday or OAM Sprint. More details soon!