IMAGE 2026 returns to George R. Brown in Houston, 17-20 August. Four days, the four major North American applied-geoscience societies (SEG, AAPG, SEPM, Geophysical Society of Houston) under one roof. Expected ~6,500-7,000 attendees, ~700 technical sessions.
EarthScan plans for 2026
Building on the strong IMAGE 2025 outing:
- Booth presence: first time exhibiting at IMAGE. Live VeerNet demo + EAN-DDA results
- Three technical papers under review:
- VeerNet at multi-operator scale (M Quamer Nassim)
- EAN-DDA cross-basin behaviour study (Tannistha Maiti)
- "From research-prototype to operator-deployment": deployment notes from EarthScan's first three operator pilots (Tarry)
- Panel participation: Tannistha Maiti is on the SEG AI Committee panel discussing data-sharing standards for cross-basin foundation-model pretraining
Themes we expect
- Foundation models for seismic: Stanford / NTNU / KAUST research updates, plus operator-side pretraining results
- Data platform standardisation: OSDU adoption, lakehouse vs. warehouse for subsurface
- Energy transition geoscience: geothermal site characterisation, hydrogen storage geology, CCS monitoring
- Reservoir digital twins: operator-side maturity check-in
Why this is the year-defining event for EarthScan
IMAGE is the booth + technical-paper + customer-conversation venue we plan around. 2026 is the year EarthScan moves from "new face at IMAGE" to "expected face at IMAGE."
