CNG Forum (Cloud-Native Geospatial Conference)
At a glance
- Next event
- Not announcedLast: Oct 29, 2026
- Call for papers
- Closed May 17, 20262026 call
- Audience
- 250 attendees2025 · source
- Tickets
- $200–$6003 prices, 2025
- Sponsorship
- $2,500–$35,00010 packages, 2025
- Sponsors
- 14 in 2026▲ +8% vs 2025 (13)
- Program freshness
- 96#54 of 143 · 2% reruns
- Similar conferences
- SatSummit, FOSS4G North America, FOSS4G
- Organizer
- Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG), a Radiant Earth initiative
- Category
- Software engineering
- Website
- cloudnativegeo.org
- Typical place
- 5 cities
- Topics
- Data engineeringGenerative AIWarehouse & lakehouseMachine learningData science
In-person events of the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (formerly the Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation), covering COG, STAC, Zarr, GeoParquet and related cloud-native data formats and tooling. The flagship ran as CNG Conference 2025 (Apr 30-May 2, Snowbird, Utah; the first in-person CNG conference) and CNG Forum 2026 (Oct 6-9, Snowbird). In 2026 CNG also ran a 'global event series' of one-day/half-day community gatherings with full agendas, recorded here as separate editions: London (Jun 23), Yokohama (Aug 24), New York (Sep 24) and Zürich (Oct 29). Online-only events are out of scope and have no edition files: the CNG Virtual Conference 2024 (Nov 13, 2024) and webinars. Also not recorded: STAC Community Sprint 2025, Zarr Development & Adopter Summit 2025, STAC Japan 2026 workshop (JAXA Tsukuba), and the Geo-Embeddings Sprint (Zürich, Oct 2026). Social accounts are the organizer's (CNG).
Speakers it attracts
The 203 people who spoke at CNG Forum (Cloud-Native Geospatial Conference) in 2025–2026, by their record at the other conferences we track.
Most established speakers
- Fernando Pérez · UC BerkeleyKeynoted 2 other conferences, spoke at 4: PyCon (national Python conferences), Compute!, FOSS4G North America…
- Julia Stewart Lowndeskeynote hereKeynoted 2 other conferences, spoke at 3: useR! (The R User Conference), posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf), Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference
- Brandon Liu · ProtomapsKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 4: State of the Map, FOSS4G, FOSS4G North America…
- Dewey Dunnington · WherobotsSpoke at 7 other conferences: Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon), FOSS4G North America, SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python)…
- Chris Holmeskeynote here · PlanetKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 3: SatSummit, FOSS4G North America, EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language)
- Julia Wagemann · thriveGEOKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 3: FOSS4G, JupyterCon, SatSummit
- Kyle Barron · Development SeedSpoke at 5 other conferences: FOSS4G, SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python), SatSummit…
- Matthew Hanson · LGNDKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: FOSS4G, FOSS4G North America
- Nora Anwar · Overture Maps FoundationKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: State of the Map, FOSS4G North America
- Amy RoseKeynoted 1 other conference: FOSS4G
- Julia Signell · Element 84Spoke at 4 other conferences: PyData, FOSS4G, FOSS4G North America…
- Justin Lewis · TerraFrameKeynoted 1 other conference: The AI Summit
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year, counted once across events.
- Partial or unverified list
2 of 2 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.
Speakers per year
Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.
Events
| Dates | Event | Place | Format / status | Attendance | Sponsors | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 2026 | CNG Zürich 2026 | Zürich, Switzerland | — | — | 16 | |
| Oct 6–9, 2026 | CNG Forum 2026 | Snowbird, United States | — | 12 | 88 | |
| Sep 24, 2026 | CNG NYC 2026 | New York, United States | — | 6 | 16 | |
| Aug 24, 2026 | CNG Japan 2026 | Yokohama, Japan | — | 1 | 17 | |
| Jun 23, 2026 | CNG London 2026 | London, United Kingdom | — | 2 | 17 | |
| Apr 30, 2025 – May 2, 2025 | CNG Conference 2025 | Snowbird, United States | 250 | 13 | 88 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 1 of 6 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.
- SatSummit0.25
- FOSS4G North America0.22
- FOSS4G0.15
- Google Geo for Good Summit0.09
- SDSC0.09
Sponsors over the years
Top 18 of 18 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Title / headline
- Other / unspecified