Open Meeting: Technology in Orienteering on 9 November 2025

Open Meeting: Technology in Orienteering on 9 November 2025

The IT Commission invites to an open meeting on the use of technology in orienteering.   The meeting will take place online on 9 November 19.00-21.00 CET (UTC +1).

The format will be short presentations on different topics related to technology.  The focus will be on the technology related considerations and challenges that face developers of technology for orienteering, and how these challenges are solved. If time permits there will be a Q&A window after each presentation.

The meeting will be held on Microsoft Teams.  The link to the meeting will be shared later.

The preliminary program:

• The technology behind broadcast and streaming from IOF major events
  Per Frost, Event Presentation Manager, IOF, Sweden
• A holistic approach to event organisation
  Burkhard Ritter, Managing Director, SPORTtIdent, Germany
• What does it take to make a multi-platform mapping app?
  Alistair Landels, OCAD, Switzerland
• Lessons from the Forest: 25 Years of Radio Control Deployment in Orienteering
  Ian Marsden, Director GPProjects, CTO Eseye, United Kingdom
• The IOF Data Standard – upcoming revision project
  Edoardo Tona, IOF IT Commission
• A new punching system
  Chuan Lian, HuiChang, China
• A Sub-GHz Mesh Radio System for Reliable Orienteering Punching and Tracking: Technical Challenges and Design Decisions
  Tate Needham, CEO meshO, Australia
• Training with Virtual Checkpoints in Forest
  Guntis Šmaukstelis, Latvia
• Double Diamond approach to orienteering product development – user research in practice
  Fryderyk Pryjma, CEO effde, Poland