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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 1h
Call for speakers: CNG Zürich, October 29 We're looking for speakers who can share practical experience, lessons learned & new ideas across the cloud-native geo ecosystem! 📍 Zürich, Switzerland 👉🏽 Submit your abstract by Oct 11 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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CNG Zürich 2026 — Call for Speakers
CNG is hosting a one-day community event on 29 October 2026 from 14:00-18:00 at Meta's Offices in Zürich. We're looking for speakers who can share practical experience, lessons learned, and new ideas ...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 24/09/2026
This MapScaping podcast episode features Marshall Robinson & Clinton Lunn from the Utah Geological Survey. They share how they moved from a traditional ArcGIS Server setup toward a cloud-native approach leading to them turning off two servers & saving around $25K/yr mapscaping.com/podcast/clou...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 22/09/2026
13 days until #CNG2026! 3 keynotes at Snowbird, Utah ▪️ @ianschuler.bsky.social – The Great Retooling ▪️ Katie Baynes – Boring at Scale: Consistency as Public Infrastructure in a Distributed Geospatial Ecosystem ▪️ @dbreunig.bsky.social – Using AI Without Losing Your Soul 🔗 2026.cloudnativegeo.org
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 21/09/2026
14 days until #CNG2026 What does it actually take to make geospatial data easier to access and use? We’ll spend Oct 6–9 exploring that question from formats & infrastructure to real-world applications and AI at Snowbird, Utah. Join us: 2026.cloudnativegeo.org
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 21/09/2026
If you're in #NYC for #ClimateWeekNYC, join us on Sep 24 at the Cooper Union for a one-day, in-person gathering with the @cloudnativegeo.org community. Tickets are still available. Here are the details to register: cloudnativegeo.org/events/cng-nyc
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 05/09/2026
. @maxlenormand.bsky.social also did a full walkthrough of how Nissim Lebovits did the analysis, if you want to see all the details and do something like this yourself, check out this video: youtu.be/VBZs963TqrU?...
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Full walkthrough: How we found 3M missing people in Argentina with open data
YouTube video by Radiant Earth
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 11/08/2026
@opengeohub.bsky.social has joined the CNG community 🌍 Hear from their Director and Co-Founder, Tomislav Hengl, on the two biggest threats to open, reproducible geospatial science, and what they're building next. www.linkedin.com/pulse/cng-me...
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CNG Member Spotlight: OpenGeoHub Foundation
OpenGeoHub Foundation is an independent not-for-profit research foundation promoting open source and open data solutions. They harness the power of machine learning and geo-computation for Global Good...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 30/07/2026
Join us for #CNGNYC on Sept 24 during #ClimateWeekNYC at The Cooper Union for a day of sharing, learning & connecting. 📍 Space is limited so we recommend registering early! luma.com/fsll2xt4
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CNG NYC · Luma
Join us for a one-day, in-person gathering with the CNG community at The Cooper Union in NYC during NYC Climate Week. Practitioners across the cloud-native…
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 30/07/2026
Interested in emerging best practices for storing, cataloging & accessing EO embeddings? Join @power-chell.bsky.social on Aug 6 at 9am PDT for a webinar on geo-embeddings, with perspectives from users, producers & a look ahead to the Oct 27–28 sprint in Zurich cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/07...
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Announcing the Geo-Embeddings Sprint II: From Emerging Standards to Real-World Adoption
IBM, CNG, Clark University, and Planet will convene a second Geo-Embeddings Sprint on October 27–28, 2026, in Zürich, Switzerland, focusing on benchmarking, fitness-for-use, and broader adoption of EO...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 16/07/2026
Registration for CNG #Japan 2026 is now open. Monday, August 24th, the week before FOSS4G Hiroshima. The agenda will be available soon, but we'll have speakers across industry and academia. Register now to guarantee your spot! luma.com/majfkvtc
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CNG Japan · Luma
A half-day Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) gathering in outside of Tokyo in Yokohama hosted at JAMSTEC's Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences (YES). This…
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 07/07/2026
#CNG2026 Workshop @maxlenormand.bsky.social from Fused.io is running this full-day hands-on session, showing you how to build full end -to-end pipelines in production with big data in min with data on @source.coop and deploying results instantly. Oct 6, Snowbird Utah 2026.cloudnativegeo.org
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 30/06/2026
New to cloud-native geospatial? Start here. Julia Wagemann (@thrivegeo.bsky.social) & Guillaume Eynard Bontemps (@cnes.fr) are running a full-day intro to STAC COG Zarr GeoParquet & processing at scale with Dask + DuckDB at #CNG2026. Just bring a laptop Oct 6, Snowbird Utah 2026.cloudnativegeo.org
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 25/06/2026
Zipped shapefiles. Inconsistent schemas. No cloud-native distribution. This #CNG2026 workshop has a pipeline for that – GeoParquet + DuckDB, no GDAL CLI, no intermediate disk conversions. Built on FEMA flood maps. Reusable for any public vector dataset. Oct 6: 2026.cloudnativegeo.org
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 24/06/2026
Join the 1st STAC community gathering in Japan 🇯🇵 This hands-on workshop is for builders to work on outstanding issues (D1), for data providers to share best practices (D2) & for data users to build on top of STAC (D3) Aug 25–27 at JAXA in Tsukuba cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/06...
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Announcing STAC Japan 2026
The first STAC community gathering in Japan comes to JAXA Tsukuba, August 25–27, colocating with FOSS4G Hiroshima.
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 22/06/2026
Workshop Spotlight Cesar Aybar & Mikolaj Czerkawski from @asterisk-labs.bsky.social are running an AI dataset building crash course at #CNG2026. Start with the tools, finish with your own dataset. Oct 6, Snowbird Utah. Grab your ticket + sign up: 2026.cloudnativegeo.org
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 17/06/2026
#CNG2026 Workshop COGs, @zarr.dev, or something else — which format actually performs for your use case? Join Francesco Nattino from @esciencecenter.bsky.social to learn how to build & benchmark cloud-optimized raster & tensor datasets Oct 6, Snowbird Utah. Sign up at 2026.cloudnativegeo.org
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 15/06/2026
Workshop spotlight at #CNG2026 Your next data consumer might be an AI agent — not a human. Join Chris Stoner from @awscloud.bsky.social on Oct 6 to build an MCP server for the Registry of Open Data using vibe coding with Kiro. Grab your ticket + sign up for workshops: 2026.cloudnativegeo.org
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 11/06/2026
🇯🇵 Call for Speakers: CNG Japan 2026 Building something interesting with #CloudNativeGeo tech? Join us in Tokyo on Aug. 24 We're looking for 5–10 minute talks focused on real-world experience, lessons learned & new ideas. Talks can be in English or Japanese. cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/06...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 11/06/2026
3 Qs for Brian Freitag Recently appointed to the CNG Editorial Board, Brian, Data System Evolution Lead at NASA, shares what he’s watching in #cloudnativegeo, where he thinks the community should focus on next & what he’s currently working on Read the Q&A: cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/05...
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CNG Editorial Board Spotlight – Q&A: Brian Freitag
Editorial Board Spotlight series features a different board member sharing their perspectives on geospatial trends and tools, what’s capturing their attention through reading or their current work, an...
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Element 84 @element84.com · 10/06/2026
Do you get the @cloudnativegeo.org emails in your inbox? 📬☁️🗺️ We love hearing from the CNG community and learning about the latest in cloud native geospatial news, blog posts, and upcoming workshops. Most recently, the CNG team spotlighted new opportunities to join our E84 team!
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Source Cooperative @source.coop · 19/05/2026
Join us for Source Changevlog v1.3.0, a livestreamed walkthrough of the latest features & improvements across @source.coop with @alukach.com, @tylere.bsky.social & Michelle Roby. Register to watch live on: ▪️YouTube: luma.com/b3ips729 ▪️LI: www.linkedin.com/events/74625...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 11/05/2026
Registration for CNG London 2026 is now open. Tuesday, 23 June, during #London Climate Action Week. Space is limited to 50 participants. CNG members attend free. Register for the full day here (8:00-16:00) luma.com/xgl73unv & for the reception only here (16:00–18:00) luma.com/gmmdwwp5
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CNG London 2026 | 8am-4pm · Luma
Join us for a one-day, in-person gathering with the CNG community at The Jellicoe in London, UK. Practitioners from across the cloud-native geospatial…
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 07/05/2026
We’re excited to welcome @awscloud.bsky.social as a sponsor of CNG Forum 2026 and grateful for their support of the cloud-native geospatial community. Read why they’re supporting #CNG2026 – Join us! 📍 Snowbird, Utah 🗓️ Oct 6–9, 2026 www.linkedin.com/pulse/aws-jo...
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AWS joins CNG Forum 2026 as a Sponsor
We’re excited to announce Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the official sponsor of CNG Forum 2026's Lanyards. CNG Forum 2026 brings together practitioners from big tech companies, small consulting firms, ...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 04/05/2026
#CNG2026 call for abstracts closes in 2-weeks. Submit by May 17 ▫️2 community tracks, lightning talks & workshops. We want to hear how you're using COGs, GeoParquet, @zarr.dev, @stacspec.bsky.social & vector tiles, especially user impact 📍Snowbird, UT | Oct 6–9 cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/04...
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Share your Work at CNG Forum 2026
Submit an abstract for CNG Forum 2026, to be held October 6-9 in Snowbird, Utah. The submission deadline is May 17.
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 30/04/2026
TakeMe2Space has joined the CNG community 🛰️ In our latest organizational member spotlight, Founder Ronak Kumar Samantray shares how they're bringing AI inferencing into orbit, what it means for geospatial, and what's next. Read it on LinkedIn → www.linkedin.com/pulse/cng-me...
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CNG Member Spotlight: TakeMe2Space
TakeMe2Space is building Orbital Data Centers – a satellite network in Low Earth Orbit built for high-performance compute and storage, with a focus on running AI inferencing directly in space. We aske...
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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 29/04/2026
New: Zarr support in deck.gl-raster! Here's a GPU-driven animation of Zarr temperature forecasts, fully client-side, no server involved. developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 27/04/2026
The blog post below builds on the intro by @briannaritapagan.bsky.social & @thomashervey.bsky.social, who co-authored a white paper based on the “Beyond Open Data” discussion session at #CNG2025. The white paper is available now: cloudnativegeo.org/beyond-open-...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 27/04/2026
In part 2 of the four-part series of the “Beyond Open Data” blog series, the authors argue that usefulness may be a better measure to evaluate data usage than openness alone, shifting the conversation from access to impact. Read the post here cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/04...
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Beyond Open Data: Usefulness is a better measure of quality than openness
Beyond Open Data white paper thesis 1: Usefulness is a better measure of quality than openness.
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 24/04/2026
The full white paper is available now. Read it, share it, and give your perspective. cloudnativegeo.org/beyond-open-...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 24/04/2026
The full white paper is available now. Read it, share it, and give your perspective. cloudnativegeo.org/beyond-open-...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 23/04/2026
Join us in Snowbird this October for #CNG2026. 🎟️ Early bird pricing through May 15 – we’d love to see you there. CNG Forum 2026 | Snowbird, Utah | Oct 6–9 2026.cloudnativegeo.org
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 23/04/2026
Taylor Geospatial is sponsoring our Gala Dinner & Awards Ceremony at #CNG2026 – and they’ve been with us since day one as a founding sponsor. Their support helps us recognize the people and organizations advancing geospatial science. www.linkedin.com/pulse/welcom...
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Welcoming Taylor Geospatial to CNG Forum 2026 as a Sponsor
We’re pleased to announce Taylor Geospatial as the official sponsor of CNG Forum 2026’s Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony. CNG Forum 2026 brings together practitioners from big tech companies, small con...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 21/04/2026
3 Questions for Julia Wagemann Newly appointed to the CNG Editorial Board, Julia from @thrivegeo.bsky.social & @geospatialwomen.bsky.social, shares what she’s watching in cloud-native geospatial, where the community should focus, and what she’s working on 🔗 cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/04...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 20/04/2026
Interested in supporting CNG London? We have sponsorship opportunities starting at $500. Drop a note to louisa(at)radiant.earth for a copy of the prospectus.
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 20/04/2026
📣 CNG London is coming – June 23 at The Jellicoe We're looking for 15–20 min talks from practitioners in the cloud-native geospatial space. Real experience. No pitches. Submit by May 2 → forms.gle/oezoDbQU1ERQ...
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CNG London 2026 — Call for Speakers
CNG is hosting a one-day community event on 23 June 2026 at The Jellicoe in London. We're looking for speakers who can share practical experience, lessons learned, and new ideas across the cloud-nativ...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 20/04/2026
As CNG's organizational membership grows, we wanted to find a better way to introduce them to the community. Our first member spotlight is CTrees. We sat down with Naomi Provost, their Head of Engineering, to hear about what the team is building. Read the Q&A → www.linkedin.com/pulse/cng-me...
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CNG Member Spotlight: CTrees
CTrees tracks carbon in every living tree on Earth to accelerate natural climate solutions. They bring together remote sensing, AI, climate science, and data engineering experts to map carbon, defores...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 15/04/2026
Join @esa.int @developmentseed.org @eox.at & @thrivegeo.bsky.social for a live #webinar to explore how cloud-native Sentinel data supports advanced analysis workflows enabled by the EOPF Sentinel Zarr Explorer 🗓️ 20 April 2026 ⏲️15:00–16:00 CEST Register here: buytickets.at/thrivegeo/20...
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Select tickets – EOPF Explorer Webinar #2 – Advanced Analysis with Sentinel Zarr – Zoom
EOPF Explorer Webinar #2 – Advanced Analysis with Sentinel Zarr – Zoom, Mon 20 Apr 2026 - Following the launch session focused on discovery and screening, this second webinar dives deeper into analysi...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 08/04/2026
Introducing the CNG Mentorship Pilot, a 6-month program pairing geospatial pros with mentees for 1:1s on career growth, tech skills, or specific projects. 🗓️ May–Oct 2026 🏔️ Meetup at #CNG2026 in Utah! ⏳ Apply by April 30 Learn more here 👇🏽 cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/04...
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Introducing the CNG Mentorship Pilot Program
CNG announces its mentorship pilot program that will run May - October 2026.
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 02/04/2026
Monthly community meetings start Thursday, April 9, at 11 a.m. PT. To join, request access at geo-embeddings-community@cloudnativegeo.org.
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 02/04/2026
We co-hosted the Geo-Embeddings Sprint with Planet & Clark University to establish shared standards for Earth observation embeddings – storage formats, metadata & access patterns. Find the best practices & docs at geoembeddings.org. For full recap of sprint 👇🏽 cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/04...
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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 02/04/2026
Native Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF support in Lonboard! - Stream massive COGs on demand - Full control over image rendering: apply colormaps, change band combinations, use ML models - Read COGs from anywhere, including local files and private data (via Obstore) developmentseed.org/lonboard/lat...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 01/04/2026
CNG London 2026 🇬🇧 Call for speakers now open! Join us on June 23. We're looking for 15–20 min talks grounded in real experience: things you've built, problems you've solved, lessons you've learned, or ideas you're actively working through. ▪️Submit by May 2 🔗 forms.gle/oezoDbQU1ERQ...
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 23/03/2026
"geoparquet-io can now extract WFS layers with @duckdb under the hood. Here's 309k building parcels from Salta province in Argentina in 2 min & 14 sec Credit to @youssef_7arby for his original write-up on querying WFS with DuckDB!" - Nissim Lebovits via LinkedIn
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 19/03/2026
ℹ️ Community Insights: @opencholmes.bsky.social & Nissim Lebovits released geoparquet-io, an opinionated command-line tool for converting, validating & optimizing GeoParquet files. Built on DuckDB, PyArrow & obstore for fast ops on large datasets. Testers needed cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/03...
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Introducing geoparquet-io
An opinionated Python CLI tool for optimizing GeoParquet data
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 18/03/2026
We're also streaming LIVE on LinkedIn! You can join the conversation here👇🏽 www.linkedin.com/events/74397...
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Login to LinkedIn to keep in touch with people you know, share ideas, and build your career.
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 18/03/2026
What would a "perfect census" look like from a data science perspective? 🗓️ Wed March 25 at 12pm PDT, @jed.co sits down with Christopher Dick of Demographic Analytics Advisors to dig into demographic data products. Join the conversation LIVE on YouTube → luma.com/3t36zaqg
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Demographic Data and the Perfect Census – A Conversation with Christopher Dick · Luma
Join us for a conversation with Christopher Dick, Founder and CEO of Demographic Analytics Advisors to discuss what it takes to build great demographic data…
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 11/03/2026
Foundation models solve training on PB of imagery but usability is a struggle when comparing or stacking them. Isaac Corley from Wherobots shares lessons learned working with Earth embeddings products, requiring patches for GDAL, Rasterio & TorchGeo cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/02...
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The Technical Debt of Earth Embedding Products
Every geospatial foundation model team solves the hard problem — training on petabytes of imagery. Nobody solves the easy one: letting other people use the output.
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 11/03/2026
Don't miss this encore of @juliesquid.bsky.social's AGU Greg Leptoukh Lecture! Julia will talk about how Openscapes is using open-source concepts to shift culture in science. 🗓️ March 19, 1:00 pm ET 📍 Remote via Zoom (everyone welcome, will be recorded) openscapes.org/events/2026-...
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Julie Lowndes’ Greg Leptoukh Lecture Reprise – Openscapes
Forking as a Worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 06/02/2026
Upcoming Podcast | Tues Feb 10 at 10am PST Join us LIVE with folks from @earthgenome.org on the new Storm Events Database, a 1.9M-record dataset spanning 70+ years of NCEI storm records. Watch the convo LIVE on 🔗 YouTube luma.com/m94ce3n7 🔗 LinkedIn lnkd.in/eB8ZumYF
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The Storm Events Database – A Conversation with Kwin Keuter and Brad Andrick · Luma
Join us for a conversation with Kwin Keuter and Brad Andrick from Earth Genome to explore the recently launched Storm Events Database – a collaborative effort…
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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 04/02/2026
⏰ Reminder: applications close in 2 days (Feb 6) We’re looking for folks actively creating or using EO vector embeddings to help define best practices together. Apply today to attend this two-day in-person sprint 🗓️ Mar 10–11 | 📍 Worcester, MA forms.gle/Q27DbuciWgY9...
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Registration for Earth Observation Vector Embeddings Standard Sprint
This registration form is for a 2-Day Sprint on Defining Standard for Earth Observation Vector Embeddings. March 10–11, 2026 | Clark University, Worcester, MA Please complete this registration for...
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