Flai spent Intergeo 2026 in Munich, September 15 to 17, at our booth in Hall C6, E106. Three days of live classification demos and a steady stream of visitors, but what stood out most this year was something less tied to any single demo or conversation: how much value there still is in getting an entire industry into one hall at the same time.
Intergeo is one of the few places where the whole LiDAR and geospatial community shows up together. Mapping company PMs, national agency contacts, hardware and software partners. People we've met at previous editions of the show, and people we were meeting for the first time. The value of a week like this isn't really in any one pitch or demo. It's in the accumulated effect of a few hundred short conversations, each one adding a little more context to how the industry is actually thinking and working right now.
A lot of what came up at the booth was familiar, and that's its own kind of signal. Teams are dealing with the same pressures: data volumes growing faster than headcount, QC time eating into delivery schedules, the need to automate repetitive work without losing control of the parts that need a human eye. What's different is how these conversations happen now. They're less about convincing someone that automation works and more about comparing notes on how everyone else is actually running it. That kind of comparing notes only really happens face to face, at an event like this one.
Our own Blaž Vidmar took the stage in the Smart City track this year, presenting on classifying LiDAR at national scale using Germany's Digital Twin program as the example.
But the talk was one morning of a three-day week. The rest of it was people. Old contacts who came back to the booth to catch up, partners we only really see in person once or twice a year, and a few new faces who are clearly going to be worth staying in touch with.
That's the actual case for showing up to events like Intergeo. Not the pitch, the badge scans, or the swag. It's the chance to be in a room with people who understand the same problems you do, and to have the kind of conversation that doesn't happen over email.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth or sat in on the session. See you at the next one.
If your organization is running, or planning, a large-scale LiDAR campaign and wants to talk through classification and deployment, including on-premise or air-gapped requirements common in government and defense contexts, get in touch with the Flai team.