ODCGIS is an event partner for Data Matters 2026, a one-day conference taking place at IET Birmingham: Austin Court on 22 September.
It’s an ideal opportunity for us to highlight how GIS and data support decision-making across the social housing sector.
With social housing providers facing growing financial, operational and regulatory pressures, the quality and usefulness of organisational data has never been more important.
ODCGIS has developed a deep understanding of these challenges through extensive work across the sector. We have delivered hundreds of housing data capture projects and currently provide GIS Managed Services to 84 Housing Associations across the UK.
This experience has given us an unrivalled understanding of how GIS can be used across a social housing organisation not simply as a mapping tool, but as a way of bringing information together, generating insight and supporting better-informed decisions.
At Data Matters 2026, we will also be showcasing our latest product, ODCGIS Property Insights.
Drawing on our expertise in social housing GIS, Property Insights provides a range of data sets designed to deliver detailed insight into individual properties. The aim is to help housing organisations develop a clearer understanding of their stock and make more effective use of the information available to them.
Rick Thompson, Operations Director at ODCGIS, said: “Data, finance and operations managers across social housing are under increasing pressure to make well-informed decisions, often while dealing with constrained resources, competing priorities and an ever-growing volume of information. The challenge is not simply having more data. It’s being able to understand it, connect it and turn it into something that can support practical decisions.
“This is where we believe GIS can make a real difference. Our experience of working on data capture projects and supporting housing associations through our Managed Services means we understand both the data challenges and the operational realities facing the sector.
“ODCGIS Property Insights builds on that experience by providing detailed property-level insight through carefully selected data sets. It gives organisations another way to understand their properties and the factors that may influence them, helping decision makers move from simply having data to gaining useful insight from it.”
We look forward to meeting housing professionals at Data Matters 2026 and discussing the ways in which GIS, property data and data-driven approaches can support organisations across the social housing sector.
Data Matters 2026 takes place on 22 September 2026 at IET Birmingham: Austin Court.
For more information, visit https://datamatters.housing-technology.com/
