Cesium DevCon 2026 talks are up, including a keynote from SQLite's creator

# 2026 Cesium Developer Conference Session Recordings Source: [https://cesium.com/events/cesium-developer-conference/2026](https://cesium.com/events/cesium-developer-conference/2026) -  #### Hajime Wakabayashi, Software Engineer, Earthbrain Smart Construction Dashboard by EARTHBRAIN uses CesiumJS to visualize earthwork sites as digital twins\. This talk demonstrates how 3D Gaussian Splatting from imagery such as drone footage delivers\.\.\. -  #### Liz Dailey \- CreateAccess Liz Dailey is the Co\-Founder and Executive Director of CreateAccess, a nonprofit that advances economic opportunity for young people in underresourced communities through inspiring, hands\-on 3D\.\.\. -  #### Adam Morris, Sean Lilley \- Bentley Systems This presentation introduces 3D Tiles 2\.0, the next generation of the 3D Tiles open standard for streaming large‑scale 3D geospatial content\. Learn how 3D Tiles 2\.0 builds upon glTF 2\.1 as its core\.\.\. -  #### Greg Beatty, Software Engineer, Synopsys We plan to share current work and lessons learned with using 3DTiles for interplanetary analysis\. Challenges addressed include precision at this scale and performance\. -  #### Hiroshi Yaginuma, CTO, Locus Blue Inc\. This session presents scalable techniques for rendering and interacting with large point cloud datasets in CesiumJS\. We will explore adaptive performance strategies, enhanced attribute visualization,\.\.\. -  #### Lucas Gigodot, Jeroen Vermeulen Bentley iTwin Capture and Cesium ion offer some of the most advanced photogrammetry reconstruction services available\. This session will cover the 3D reconstruction workflow and the best practices to\.\.\. -  #### Renaud Keriven \- Bentley Systems, Michael Rubloff \- Radiance Fields An update on Reality Modeling -  #### Jesse Fleri \- Sandtable Sandtable demonstrates how the Mentat platform applies AI and simulations to streamline, accelerate and enrich mission and autonomy planning by helping teams rapidly assess complex environments,\.\.\. -  #### Xuan Huang, Don McCurdy \- Bentley Systems Cesium is bringing Vector Tiles into the 3D world\. We will start by discussing the categories of vector data and use cases we aim to support, followed by our proposed solution: a 3D\-native,\.\.\. -  #### Taiki Miyagawa, Civil Engineer, Digital Design Center/Nippon Koei Co\., Ltd\. Research & Development Center By extending CesiumJS for WebXR, we built a multi‑platform VR experience using 3D content on Cesium ion without any game engine\. This approach enables lightweight, browser‑based VR accessible across\.\.\. -  #### Margarita Kartaviciute, Senior Software Engineer, Bentley Systems In this workshop, participants will build a small application that combines an LLM\-powered chat interface with a Cesium\-based 3D visualization\. They will learn how to connect conversational AI to\.\.\. -  #### Hideyuki Kobayashi \- CalTa Inc\. CalTa introduces "TRANCITY Nebula," a new digital twin service launching March 2026\. This session explores how we leverage Cesium to solve complex infrastructure challenges in Japan through\.\.\. -  #### Wayne Sullivan, Justin Gould \- Parametrix Live UE5 & Bentley Cesium transportation demos\. Including: Custom Vissim importer, Streetscape improvements in Downtown LA, Montana's first DDI, Alaska cruise terminal featuring animated pedestrian\.\.\. -  #### Luke McKinstry, Software Engineer, Bentley Systems This deep\-dive workshop will walk through building an interactive CesiumJS application using a modern JavaScript setup\. Participants will learn how to connect to Cesium ion to stream 3D Tiles into a\.\.\. -  #### Josh Rouzer, Justin Dehorty \- Bentley Systems Josh and Justin will discuss how a full UI redesign and introduction of agentic workflows with Sandcastle Copilot are lowering the barrier of entry for CesiumJS\. -  #### Roberto Fernandez Hergueta, Sergio Contreras \- Arup How do cities become software? This session presents Madrid’s operational digital twin, built on open standards and 3D Tiles\. Learn how Cesium enables scalable 3D streaming, real\-time data fusion,\.\.\. -  #### Chengxuan Li \- Cornell University This talk presents EnergyAtlas, a city\-scale building digital twin platform, and showcases how it assists cities like Ithaca, NY in evaluating building retrofit strategies, electrification pathways,\.\.\. -  #### Olivier Lange \- Uzufly Ltd We present a Web Components system that wraps Cesium’s API into composable custom elements\. A single <cesium\-viewer\> tag enables terrains, basemaps, 3D Tiles, layers, models, and plugins—making\.\.\. -  #### Kelsey Click, Nadine Alameh, Elaine Lewis, Sharel Liu, Alison Watson Hear from a multi\-generational panel of pioneers shaping the geospatial and infrastructure industry, spanning corporate leadership, entrepreneurship, education, and emerging technical talent\. Through\.\.\. -  #### Jason Newmoyer \- NGS CoreSpatial Portal integrates GeoServer\-driven OGC services with Cesium ion and CesiumJS for high\-performance real\-time tracks and hybrid 2D/3D workflows\. This talk shows the Ion plugin architecture,\.\.\. -  #### Liz Dailey, Co\-Founder & Executive Director , CreateAccess Attendees will gain: Exposure to core 3D geospatial concepts and use case examples for 3D geospatial in education, research, and industry Hands\-on experience navigating and using Cesium Stories,\.\.\. -  #### Danny Williams, Richard Hipp, Bryan Beal, Patrick Cozzi, Shehzan Mohammed Close out the Cesium Developer Conference with an inspiring lineup of tech visionaries and community leaders\. The session kicks off with feature keynotes from SQLite creator Richard Hipp, and\.\.\. -  #### Jack Strongitharm \- Unity Both Unity and Cesium utilize the 3D tiling methodology for the delivery of large\-scale content to applications\. This presentation will demonstrate the synergy of both technologies to develop\.\.\. -  #### Daniel Mitchell \- University of Glasgow \- TransiT High fidelity visualisations underpin a Digital Twin of the Port of Dover, integrating transport, maritime, traffic, and energy datasets to support transparent, scenario\-based planning for\.\.\. -  #### Stephen Phillips \- Epic Games Cesium makes it dead simple to drop in accurate geospatial context like Google’s Photorealistic Tiles, but most users don’t customize it beyond a basic cartographic cutout\. This session will cover\.\.\. -  #### Roberto Fernandez Hergueta, Head of Emerging Tech, Arup This session presents Barcelona’s Underground Digital Twin, built on open standards such as MUDDI, AGS, and IFC\. Discover how Cesium enables 3D/4D visualization, semantic integration, and real\-time\.\.\. -  #### Michael Sulesky \- Pennoni Associates Pennoni's 3D visualization team, PFX, will be highlighting some of its biggest projects of the past year that utilized Cesium\. -  #### Klaus Konarkowski \- Blacknight Space Event Horizon is a tool to visualize aerospace events and perform custom analytics\. The tool enables real\-time GLTF articulations, handles custom propagation, implements visual "save states", and\.\.\. -  #### Roop Saini \- Bentley Systems Cesium is starting to incorporate advanced capabilities from Bentley iTwin Platform, unlocking new possibilities for design review workflows\. This session highlights features like change detection\.\.\. -  #### Michael Jansen \- TwinMaster Award\-winning TwinMaster transforms Cesium\-powered 3D models into AI\-native Digital Twins capable of multi\-objective reasoning across cost, carbon, performance, constructability, and other key KPIs\.\.\.\. -  #### Gustavo Medina, CEO, XRF XR technology transforms critical decision\-making in high\-stakes environments\. This session demonstrates how immersive spatial visualization cuts response time and reduces errors when seconds\.\.\. -  #### Osarodion Victory Igbinobaro, Tyler Wescott \(AERO AI\) Infrastructure inspection AI struggles with scarce, noisy training data\. This talk presents a work\-in\-progress pipeline that uses Cesium\-powered infrastructure digital twins as real\-world anchors for\.\.\. -  #### Ryan Duffy \- Array Labs Array Labs returns with a live, operational 3D\-from\-space product — now processing and fusing multi\-sensor data from partner constellations\. We'll demo our production, Cesium\-powered 3D viewer and\.\.\. -  #### Ping\-Chun \(Lucas\) Chen \- Onework This talk presents an end\-to\-end digital twin approach used in large\-scale infrastructure projects worldwide\. We demonstrate how Cesium enables highly detailed web\-based models combined with\.\.\. -  #### Yuria Iwasaki \- Electric Power Development Co\.,Ltd\. Electric Power Development Co\., Ltd\. \(J\-POWER\) leverages TRANCITY and Cesium for Unreal for advanced employee training\. This session introduces real\-world use cases where game engine technology\.\.\. -  #### Travis Crowell, Business Development Engineer \- Geospatial\. Bentley Systems Attendees will learn how to take a sample set of oblique images, generate Gaussian Splats as 3D Tiles in their Cesium Ion account, load and configure the data in a CesiumJS Sandcastle and/or Cesium\.\.\. -  #### Cory Barr, Software Developer , Bentley Systems Attendees will learn: The difference between reality and design data; How to get design data into Cesium; Techniques for geolocation design data; How to leverage element properties of the design\.\.\. -  #### Matteo Massimi, Independent Developer Demonstration of how CesiumJS can be used to build a feature\-rich outdoor planning tool\. By combining custom terrain analysis with aggregated open data, this approach enables the creation of a\.\.\. -  #### Janine Liu, 3D Software Developer, Bentley Systems Get familiar with the fundamentals of Cesium for Unreal\! This workshop will cover how to stream real\-world data into Unreal Engine as well as basic georeferencing concepts, seamless world navigation,\.\.\. -  #### Jeshurun Hembd \- Bentley Systems CesiumJS continues to expand what’s possible for high‑performance 3D geospatial visualization on the web\. In this session we'll showcase the latest capabilities in CesiumJS, including advances in\.\.\. -  #### Ankit Trehan, Software Engineer, Bentley Systems In this session you will explore: How to tile varied data in cesium ion from different sources\. How to tile varied data in cesium ion from different sources\. Clipping workflows for data through the\.\.\. -  #### John Thompson, Aerospace Solutions Developer , Blacknight Space -  #### Patrick Cozzi, Amanda Morgan, Robert Cardillo, Nicole Williams, Sarah Chow, Chellie Cameron, Keith Bentley, Richard Hipp Join Patrick Cozzi, Cesium Founder and Bentley Chief Platform Officer, to celebrate 15 years of Cesium\. From the early days of terrain and point clouds to today’s widespread adoption of 3D Tiles,\.\.\. -  #### Ryan Veenstra \- Bentley Systems This session explores new Cesium workflows that put metadata to work through querying and search—enabling richer exploration and understanding of 3D data, and unlocking new design‑time and\.\.\. -  #### Alex Gorsuch \- WearTAK Explore how WearTAK leverages Cesium to bring high\-fidelity 3D terrain and situational awareness to the tactical edge\. We discuss optimizing 3D tiles for low\-power wearables, reducing cognitive load\.\.\. -  #### Erin Ingram \- Bentley Systems Ansys & Cesium are improving orbital mission support via time interval path tracking & pathfinder visualizations, along with improved sensor visualizations from satellites to earth\. -  #### Ashley Rogers, Lucas Gigodot \- Bentley Systems Short intro to spec, LOD support/reconstruction highlights \(enabled by Capture/exposed through ion\), client demos\. -  #### Anthony TJ Koury \- Space systems engineer High\-Performance 3D Viz with Cesium and WebAssembly -  #### Patrick Kranzinger \- Viscan GmbH Turn any iPhone into a survey\-grade reality capture device\. This session presents scin®, a native iOS app that pairs with external RTK GNSS receivers to produce centimeter\-accurate photogrammetric\.\.\. -  #### Samuil Nikolov, Undergraduate Researcher, and Daniel Lopez, Embry\-Riddle Aeronautical University We built an Unreal Engine digital twin of EagleCam 2\.0's fisheye cameras using Cesium's lunar tileset and custom distortion shaders\. The system enables preflight lens selection, placement\.\.\. -  #### Antonio Jara \- Libelium Sense Citiverse turns site captures into streamed 3D city experiences in Cesium\. Using Cartagena and the Alhambra as case studies, we show our pipeline: capture, optimize to 3D Tiles, publish, and\.\.\. -  #### Trent Tinker, Amanda Morgan, Neil Trevett, Tam Belayneh, Ben Erwin, Scott Simmons Geospatial technology is evolving faster than ever — but real\-world impact still depends on interoperability, open standards, and cross\-industry collaboration\. In this panel discussion, leaders from\.\.\. -  #### Cameron Woodbury \- Hobu, Inc\. Learn about implementation patterns, techniques, and challenges while streaming cloud optimized formats such as COPC, COG, and GeoParquet in CesiumJS\. We will discuss open source tooling available\.\.\. -  #### Christopher Tucker, Salwa Jeries \- GeoRobotix How GeoRobotix’s Rapid Deployability Kit, based on OpenSensorHub, harnesses the power of the OGC API \- Connected Systems Standard to stream realtime sensors into OGC 3DTiles based 3D scenes in\.\.\. -  #### Joseph Sipos \- 5D Realities Joey Sipos is the founder of 5D Realities and the creator of Glider Sim, a VR flight\-soaring simulator used by thousands of pilots and enthusiasts worldwide\. He has over 15 years of experience in\.\.\. -  #### Sean Lilley \- Bentley Systems, Thomas Pheiffer \- Earthbrain Short intro to spec, client demosAn overview of time\-dynamic 3D Tiles, a new capability coming in 3D Tiles 2\.0 for streaming change over time\. We'll walk through examples \- such as time\-dynamic point\.\.\. -  #### Michael Menton \- HDR Inc\. My presentation covers my 4D workflow utilizing Cesium in Unreal Engine and Synchro 4D \(& other Bentley software's\) on some of North Americas largest transportation projects like the Ontario Line &\.\.\. -  #### Steph Marquez \- Bentley Systems Discover how new design model capabilities like clipping, georeferencing, and filtering make large\-scale infrastructure data more usable and performant\. This session explores how these cross\-industry\.\.\. -  #### Joseph Nolan \- Virtuix, Inc\. Defense and law enforcement operators require the ability to transform high\-fidelity 3D terrain data into immersive VR experiences, enabling mission planners to physically rehearse operations by\.\.\. -  #### Michael Belousov, CTO, Graphl Technologies LLC Graphl Technologies is building a new kind of visual programming language with AI\-first capability and deep integration with the iTwin\.js platform\. This new tool is low level enough to be embedded in\.\.\. -  #### Jeshurun Hembd \- Bentley Systems This talk will introduce the new voxels extension in 3D Tiles 2\.0, and discuss how to use it in Cesium runtimes to visualize massive volumetric datasets spanning subsurface geology, ocean\.\.\. -  #### Genki Miyachi, Software Engineer, EarthBrain\.Ltd We built a water flow prediction feature on CesiumJS for construction site management\. It visualizes puddle formations, outflow points, watersheds, and flow paths as 3D point primitives on terrain,\.\.\. -  #### Ankit Trehan, Tom Fili, Lisa Bos This session highlights what’s new and what’s coming next in Cesium ion, with a focus on expanding capabilities for both developers and enterprise teams\. We’ll cover new APIs and user interfaces for\.\.\. -  #### Starr Long \- The Acceleration Agency Starr Long has been making video games and technology for over 30 years\. During his career he helped start the MMO industry and has created some of the largest Active Digital Twins ever built\. Starr\.\.\.