Recorded Sessions
At Avineon Tensing, we believe in shaping Geospatial Intelligence not only through our solutions but also by engaging with the community behind it. That’s why we host free FME Skill Booster events, join and support our partner Safe Software with their webinars and run our FME Tour events across the UK. Where we're able to, we will share recordings of our events through this page.
AI Skill Booster Welcome
Transform your data processing capabilities with our comprehensive FME AI Skill Booster Series. This introductory video sets the stage for a practical, hands-on learning experience that bridges the gap between complex AI technologies and everyday data workflows. Ready to elevate your data processing capabilities? Watch the full series, access our GitBook resources, and discover how AI integration with FME can revolutionise your approach to data workflows.
AI Assist
Ready to work smarter, not harder, in FME? In this video from our AI Skill Booster series, we dive into FME's AI Assist. Discover how this intelligent feature, including the new FME 2025.1 AI assistant, helps you with everything from writing tricky regular expressions and SQL queries to now a context-aware FME expert that offers instant, reliable guidance. It's designed to simplify your FME challenges, making workflow development faster and more intuitive for everyone.
OpenAI and OpenStreetMap
This video dives into the exciting integration of FME and OpenAI to revolutionise how you interact with OpenStreetMap data. Learn how this innovative approach allows you to bypass traditional query syntax, providing instant and precise access to spatial information using plain language prompts.
OpenAI and Sentiment Analysis
Transform complaint handling with FME and OpenAI's powerful sentiment analysis capabilities. This video in our AI Skill Booster series demonstrates how to process incoming feedback, assess severity levels, and generate personalised, compassionate responses, all through structured workflows. Learn how spatial analysis adds context to complaints and discover options for maintaining data privacy through local AI deployment for sensitive information.
Google Gemini and Text Extraction
Discover a new era of data extraction in our AI Skill Booster series. In this AI Skill Booster video, we dive into how FME drives powerful AI automation for text extraction using Google Gemini. Learn how to efficiently extract, categorise and augment text pulled from receipts, invoices, and other documents, regardless of image quality – all at a low cost.
Google Gemini Image Classification
Explore how FME's integration with Google Gemini enables automated image classification. This video in our AI Skill Booster series demonstrates the use of custom transformers to identify objects and extract detailed metadata. All orchestrated through a streamlined workflow that converts images into structured, actionable data.
Gemini GeoGuesser
Challenge AI in a game of GeoGuessr! This fun demonstration transforms the popular online game into an automated workflow using FME and Google Gemini. Watch as AI analyses street scenes from around the world, from iconic landmarks like the Sydney Opera House to anonymous highways and makes remarkably accurate location predictions in seconds. The video showcases how entertainment concepts can inspire practical AI applications in your everyday workflows.
AI Skill Booster Wrap Up
Take your next steps with confidence! This final video in our AI Skill Booster series gives you the practical knowledge to set up API keys to begin running AI-powered FME workflows on your own machine as well as access to valuable resources for continued learning.
FME:25 A few of our favourite things...
Ready to supercharge your data integration? Dive into this dynamic session with David Eagle, recorded live at our UK Tour Edinburgh event! Discover how the FME Platform, with its incredible new features in FME 2025.1, will revolutionize your data journey. You'll explore FME Realize, the groundbreaking augmented reality product, experience significant advancements in multi-lingual support, and learn to generate no-code API endpoints directly in FME Flow via Data Virtualization. This is a game-changer for accessing and sharing your data. Don't miss these cutting-edge insights that will truly turbocharge your data integration!
Modernising Geospatial Data: From Shapefiles to Parquet & DuckDB
Unlock geospatial data's full power! Join Simon Green and Oliver Morris as they move beyond traditional formats like shapefiles and CSVs to cloud-native geospatial containers. Discover how modern solutions, including Overture Maps and Source Cooperative, deliver unparalleled performance and storage efficiency. This session reveals how cloud-optimized formats like Parquet and DuckDB offer massive file compression and lightning-fast in-memory querying, set to revolutionize your geospatial workflows. Don't miss out on transforming how you handle and analyse spatial data!
Bridging the BIM-GIS Divide: Schiphol Airport's 3D Integration with FME & ArcGIS
Bridge the BIM and GIS divide with Oscar Willems' session from the FME UK Tour Edinburgh! Discover how FME unifies these critical data realms in a real-world application at Schiphol Airport. Schiphol Infrastructure tackles the complex challenge of integrating highly detailed, semantic BIM data with large-scale GIS. Learn how FME addresses Schiphol's unique operational demands, spanning from historic to new infrastructure.
A data analysis journey to the London Marathon finish line
Join Clare Scarborough's inspiring data journey from recovery to the London Marathon finish line! In this session, Clare reveals how she used FME to analyse her run metrics and positional data from Strava and official London Marathon sources. Discover her fascinating insights into personal performance, including surprising comparisons with celebrities who ran the race. See how Clare had fun with time series data in the Esri platform, bringing her story to life with Esri Experience Builder. Watch this unique blend of personal achievement and powerful data analytics!
Pixel Puzzler: Extracting value from images
Your organisation is sitting on a goldmine of untapped information: images. From site surveys and inspection photos to scanned legacy documents, this "dark data" holds immense value, but accessing it has always been a challenge. Until now.
Join David Eagle, Director of Service Delivery at Tensing, as he demonstrates how to use FME to connect to a range of powerful AI and computer vision services. See how you can build sophisticated workflows to automatically analyse, tag, and extract specific information from your image libraries.
This is a practical guide to orchestrating multiple AI services to solve complex problems, all from within the familiar FME environment.
The Growing Value and Application of FME & GenAI
Revolutionise your data strategies! Oliver Morris explores the growing value of Generative AI (GenAI) within the FME Platform. Discover how organisations are embedding GenAI into FME workflows for tasks like data classification, extraction, and validation, all without code. This session offers practical methodologies for building smarter, more efficient data processes using rapidly evolving AI tools. Learn to leverage FME and GenAI to transform your operations and stay ahead.
AWS Bedrock - Amberside Case Study
Discover how Amberside Energy and Avineon Tensing, with Amazon, are automating site survey image classification and report generation using FME and AWS Bedrock. Learn how this integration speeds up image processing, reduces manual effort, and optimises geospatial workflows with secure AI. Perfect for enhancing geospatial AI and automating image processing!
AI Agents Made Simple
Explore agentic workflows with FME and Survey123! Join Siobhan Ryan as she demonstrates creating an AI Agent within FME to automate and streamline ArcGIS Survey123 data validation. This session reveals how to save time and ensure accuracy through intelligent automation.
FME + Google Gemini - why we're excited
Discover real-world results with FME and Google Gemini! Oliver Morris reveals how the team at Avineon Tensing transformed over a million handwritten electrical installation logs, dating to 1915, into structured, actionable data, saving hundreds of thousands of pounds. This session outlines the workflows, reviews processing times, AI model performance, and running costs, showcasing why we're so excited about Gemini in FME.
