This Symposium is celebration of 40 years of DGELM impactful transformation and innovation within the surveying and spatial professionals’ community. With the theme, “Charting Our Legacy and Mapping Our Future: 40 Years of Geospatial Excellence in Caribbean Development,” the Symposium provides a forum for graduates and professionals within the built environment to share their experiences and research on the changes the profession has undergone in the last 4 decades and the role of surveying technologies, practices and policies in keeping with best practice and international standards.