CNG London
The daytime event is now sold out. You can still join the wait list or register for the evening reception.
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 ecosystem will come together to share, learn, and connect. The event features 15–20 minute talks from practitioners sharing concrete, experience-driven presentations, along with lightning talks, panel discussions, and networking. Space is limited to ~50 participants.
Can’t make the daytime program? You’re still welcome to register for the evening reception, 16:00–18:00.
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Agenda
| Opening | ||
| 08:30 | Meet & greet | |
| 09:00 | Welcome & Introduction | Jed SundwallRadiant Earth |
| Morning session15-minute talks + 5 minutes Q&A | ||
| 09:15 | Featured Talk: A World Without Public DataAn overview of innovations and progress made possible by public data, and what we need to do to sustain them. | Craig MillsWRI |
| The GeoAI UK Outlook: So What?Why technical readiness isn't enough — and what it takes to move GeoAI from prototypes to adoption. | Luca BudelloInnovate UK | |
| Turning Earth Observation AI into Action for Environmental ProblematicsEarth Index — foundation-model embeddings making EO actionable for non-experts; emerging applications in seagrass / blue carbon. | Noelia Jiménez Martínez & Glen LowEarth Genome | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | TESSERA: Pixelwise Embeddings of Earth ObservationsGlobal 10 m pixel-wise embeddings, open weights, Zarr v3 + STAC adoption — and new revised models. | Anil MadhavapeddyUniversity of Cambridge |
| Large Multidimensional Datasets Challenge for Cloud-Native WorkflowsA walk through how our Zarr chunking strategies have transformed access efficiency across multiple dimensions. | Sol CottonOpen Climate Fix | |
| Elevating the Field — Getting Ground-Level Nature Data into the CloudWhy it's hard, where we are now, and what we prioritize from here. | Molly BankEcho Labs | |
| Barrios Visibles: Mapping Argentina's Informal Settlements with CNG | Nissim LebovitsRadiant Earth | |
| 12:30 | Lunch, meet & greet | |
| Afternoon session15-minute talks + 5 minutes Q&A | ||
| 14:00 | Earth Compress: Open Source, Publicly Owned, AI-Powered Software Infrastructure for Earth DataBuilding a domain-aware compression stack to make petabyte-scale analyses accessible to everyone. | Jacqueline CampbellAsterisk Coop |
| When the Developer is an AgentLessons from rebuilding an EO compute platform for machine-driven workflows. | Stefan AmbergerTilebox | |
| Lightning talks5 minutes each | ||
| 14:40 | From Days to Minutes: A Just-in-Time Pipeline for Plot-Level Supply-Chain Analytics | Jake WilkinsEpoch Blue |
| A Cloud-Native Approach to Global Drought Mapping with H3, GeoParquet, and DuckDB | Alper DincerClimingo | |
| Going Cloud-Native without the Cloud: Lessons Learned from Antarctic Ice Dynamics | Ross SlaterUniversity of Leeds | |
| Mapping the Unmapped: Cloud-Native Open Imagery for Disaster Response | Petya KangalovaHumanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | |
| Panel discussion | ||
| 15:00 | More is Different: How Massively Scaled Technologies are Reshaping Science and Policy | David EavesUniversity College LondonJack Kellydynamical.orgNiall RobinsonNVIDIAKaja WasikEcho Labs |
| Closing | ||
| 15:45 | Closing | Jed SundwallRadiant Earth |
| 16:00 | ReceptionUntil 18:00. | |