Institute of Remote sensing organized an international conference on Geospatial applications in disaster management as their first initiative for capacity development. This conference brought together international and national experts and people from different government, non-government, international agencies to talk about geospatial applications in assessing disaster and climate change impacts and its roles in providing solutions through generating data, producing products and services. The conference held at Senate Hall, Jahangirnagar University on 3^rd of April 2017. The conference was a daylong that started from 10:30 am and continued it to 06:30 pm.