Conferences / CNG Forum (Cloud-Native Geospatial Conference)
CNG Conference 2025
Apr 30, 2025 – May 2, 2025 · Snowbird (Cliff Lodge), Snowbird, UT, United States
- Conference
- CNG Forum (Cloud-Native Geospatial Conference) Software engineering
- Dates
- Apr 30, 2025 – May 2, 2025
- Venue
- Snowbird (Cliff Lodge)
- Place
- Snowbird, UT, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 250CNG recap: 'around 250 attendees from over 100 organizations' (events page: '250+ attendees')
- Website
- 2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org
- Recorded
- 13 sponsors · 88 speaker appearances
- Notes
- First in-person Cloud-Native Geospatial conference, run by the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (a Radiant Earth initiative). Three tracks: On-ramp to Cloud-Native Geospatial Data; Cloud-Native Geospatial in Practice; Building Resilient Data Infrastructure. Speakers: full agenda from the conference site (talk affiliations as printed; plenary speakers' affiliations were not printed on the agenda and are left null). Sponsors: logos listed under 'Organized in collaboration with' on the home page (no tiers printed). Sponsorship items from the sponsor page (sponsors had to be CNG organizational members).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students (w/ ID) | $200 | Apr 25, 2025 | Availability 3 Mar-25 Apr | web.archive.org |
| CNG Members | $500 | Apr 25, 2025 | Availability 3 Mar-25 Apr; US government employees eligible for member rate | web.archive.org |
| Non-CNG Members | $600 | Apr 25, 2025 | Availability 3 Mar-25 Apr | web.archive.org |
| Community Sponsorship (scholarship) | $2,500 | — | Sponsors must be CNG organizational members | web.archive.org |
| Tabletop exhibit | $3,000 | — | Sponsors must be CNG organizational members | web.archive.org |
| Workshop | $7,000 | — | Sponsors must be CNG organizational members | web.archive.org |
| Breakfasts & Breaks Day 1 | $8,000 | — | Sponsors must be CNG organizational members | web.archive.org |
| Breakfasts & Breaks Day 2 | $8,000 | — | Sponsors must be CNG organizational members | web.archive.org |
| Conference Lanyards | $8,000 | — | Sponsors must be CNG organizational members | web.archive.org |
| Lunch Day 1 | $10,000 | — | Sponsors must be CNG organizational members | web.archive.org |
| Lunch Day 2 | $10,000 | — | Sponsors must be CNG organizational members | web.archive.org |
| Welcome Reception | $30,000 | — | Sponsors must be CNG organizational members | web.archive.org |
| Gala & Awards Ceremony | $35,000 | — | Sponsors must be CNG organizational members | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 13
Other 13
- Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence · Organized in collaboration with
- Amazon Web Services · Organized in collaboration with
- Earthmover · Organized in collaboration with
- Fused · Organized in collaboration with
- NASA · Organized in collaboration with
- OGC · Organized in collaboration with
- Overture Maps Foundation · Organized in collaboration with
- Planet · Organized in collaboration with
- Safe Software · Organized in collaboration with
- Schmidt Ocean Institute · Organized in collaboration with
- Sparkgeo · Organized in collaboration with
- Taylor Geospatial · Organized in collaboration with
- Wherobots · Organized in collaboration with
Speakers and talks 88
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Holmes | — | Keynote | Keynote | — |
| Drew Breunig | — | Keynote | Keynote & Discussion | — |
| Julia Stewart Lowndes | — | Keynote | Keynote | — |
| Aashish Panta | University of Washington | Speaker | Scalable Web-Based Exploration and RAG-enhanced Insights for NASA's Downscaled Climate Data | — |
| Aimee Barciauskas | — | Track lead | Track Introductions: Why this is important? (Track 2) | — |
| Alex Leith | — | Workshop | Cloud-Native Geospatial for Earth Observation | — |
| Alexander Merose | Open Athena AI Foundation | Speaker | Why machine learning people should think about databases: lessons from AI weather models | — |
| Alfonso Ladino | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Speaker | Efficient Weather Radar Data Management in Practice: FAIR Principles and Cloud-Native Solutions | — |
| Amy Rose | — | Panelist | Plenary Panel: Builders Panel | — |
| Antoine Dolant | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Speaker | Agentic LLM Framework for Adaptive Decision Discourse | — |
| Arvind Mohan | Center for Nonlinear Studies | Lightning talk | Bridging "Nerdville" and "Fieldville": A Vision for Resilient Data Infrastructure for Real-World AI in Crisis Management | — |
| Benjamin Clark | Overture Maps Foundation & Meta | Speaker | STAC-ing GeoParquet | — |
| Benjamin P. Stewart | World Bank | Lightning talk | The World Bank Lightning Talk | — |
| Brad Andrick | Earth Genome | Speaker | Scaling EarthIndex: AI Meets Cloud-Native Geospatial | — |
| Brandon Liu | Protomaps | Speaker | Minimum Viable CNG | — |
| Brianna Pagán | Development Seed | Track lead | Track Introductions: Why this is important? (Track 3) | — |
| Brianna Pagán | Development Seed | Discussion leader | Discussion | — |
| Charlie Savage | Privateer/Orbital Insight | Speaker | Building a Geospatial Platform with CNG Technologies | — |
| Chris Stoner | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Using AWS Open Data with Amazon Bedrock | — |
| Cristiano Giovando | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | Speaker | OpenAerialMap: Streamlining Access to Open Disaster Imagery | — |
| Damian Wylie | Wherobots | Speaker | Extract insights from satellite imagery at scale with WherobotsAI | — |
| Dana Bauer | Overture Maps Foundation | Speaker | Interfacing with Cloud-Native Overture Data and the GERS Ecosystem | — |
| David Raleigh | Umbra | Speaker | Effortless STAC Queries: CQLAlchemy and the Power of Autocompletion | — |
| David Wright | Esri | Speaker | Cloud-Native Geospatial and ArcGIS | — |
| Dean Hintz | Safe Software | Speaker | Model-based data transformation workflows to support loading and automation pipelines for cloud-native with FME | — |
| Deepak Cherian | Earthmover | Workshop | Zarr, Icechunk, & Xarray for cloud-native geospatial data-cube analysis | — |
| Duk-jin Kim | Seoul National University | Speaker | Satellite-Based Disaster Monitoring System Utilizing Cloud Computing | — |
| Emma Marshall | University of Washington | Speaker | Cloud-native geospatial datacube workflows with Xarray and Zarr | — |
| Emma Marshall | Earthmover | Workshop | Zarr, Icechunk, & Xarray for cloud-native geospatial data-cube analysis | — |
| Eric Charles | Datalayer | Speaker | AI Agent for Jupyter to simplify Earthdata Discovery and Analysis | — |
| Erin Trochim | University of Alaska Fairbanks | Speaker | Questioning Candor: AI-Driven Frameworks for Geospatial Data | — |
| Florent Gravin | Camptocamp | Speaker | Leverage cloud-native vector data in your webmapping application, simply | — |
| Frederic Leclercq | Flanders Marine Institute | Speaker | Cloud-Optimized Formats for Scalable and Efficient Data Management in the EDITO Datalake | — |
| Greg van Gaans | Department for Housing and Urban Development (DHUD), South Australia Government | Speaker | Delivery of Enterprise Geospatial Services using a Cloud-Native Geospatial Approach | — |
| Guyu Ye | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Modeling Sustainable Urban Spaces on AWS | — |
| Hans Mohrmann | Brightband | Speaker | A Cloud-Native Dataset of Atmospheric Observations for ML Applications | — |
| Howard Butler | Hobu, Inc | Speaker | Data Gravity Shapes the Architecture of Cloud-Native Geospatial | — |
| Hugo Lee | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA | Speaker | Multiscale Geospatial and AI-Driven Approaches for Climate Model Evaluation | — |
| Jarret Keifer | — | Workshop | Deep Dive into Cloud-Native Geospatial Raster Formats | — |
| Jed Sundwall | — | Welcome | Welcome | — |
| Jeffrey Albrecht | Regrow Ag | Speaker | Are COGs Actually Scaleable? | — |
| Jeffrey Gillan | Data Science Institute - University of Arizona | Speaker | Making the World's Drone Data Open & Cloud-Native | — |
| Jen Marcus | Taylor Geospatial | Discussion leader | The Where of it All | — |
| Jennings Anderson | Overture Maps Foundation | Speaker | Interfacing with Cloud-Native Overture Data and the GERS Ecosystem | — |
| Jessie Pechmann | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | Lightning talk | Cloud-Native Geo for Good: Empowering Humanitarian Action with Accessible Data | — |
| Joe Hamman | Earthmover | Workshop | Zarr, Icechunk, & Xarray for cloud-native geospatial data-cube analysis | — |
| Jose Macchi | Geotekne | Speaker | Unleashing Massive Cloud Power: Scalable & Enriched Access to OvertureMaps with GeoServerCloud | — |
| Julia Signell | Element 84 | Speaker | STAC <> Zarr | — |
| Julia Wagemann | thriveGEO | Speaker | Sentinel's EOPF Toolkit: Driving Community Adoption of the Zarr data format for Copernicus Sentinel Data | — |
| Julia Wagemann | thriveGEO | Track lead | Track Introductions: Why this is important? (Track 1) | — |
| Katie Baynes | NASA | Discussion leader | The Where of it All | — |
| Kwin Keuter | Earth Genome | Speaker | Scaling EarthIndex: AI Meets Cloud-Native Geospatial | — |
| Kyle Barron | Development Seed | Speaker | Super-fast cloud storage operations with Obstore | — |
| Lena Trudeau | Inclined Analytics | Discussion leader | The Where of it All | — |
| Lindsey Neild | Earthmover | Speaker | Zarr for Cloud-Native Geospatial. When and Why? | — |
| Lindsey Nield | Earthmover | Workshop | Zarr, Icechunk, & Xarray for cloud-native geospatial data-cube analysis | — |
| Lukas Bindreiter | Tilebox | Speaker | Tooling Designed for the Complexities of Space Data: A Hyperspectral Data Workflow | — |
| Lukas Bindreiter | Tilebox | Speaker | Beyond Points: Efficient Spatio-Temporal Polygon Indexing for Scalable Catalogs | — |
| Lynne Schneider | — | Plenary | Plenary Talk | — |
| Marc Prioleau | Overture Maps Foundation | Discussion leader | Beyond Open Data | — |
| Martha Morrissey | Pachama | Lightning talk | Helping Restore Nature with Cloud-Native Geospatial | — |
| Matt Fisher | Schmidt DSE @ UC Berkeley | Speaker | Exploring more approachable geospatial data workflows as a community | — |
| Matthew Hanson | Element 84 | Speaker | Introduction to STAC | — |
| Matthew Powers | Wherobots | Speaker | Introducing geospatial support in Apache Iceberg | — |
| Matthias Mohr | Independent Software Engineer and Consultant | Speaker | The Future of ARD: Composable Building Blocks | — |
| Maxime Lenormand | Fused | Speaker | Serverless Python - Making the most out of cloud-native formats | — |
| Michal Migurski | CARTO | Lightning talk | CARTO Lightning Talk | — |
| Mo Sarwat | — | Panelist | Plenary Panel: Builders Panel | — |
| Naomi Provost | CTrees | Speaker | Moving from Science to Product: Making Cloud-Native Geospatial Work for Us | — |
| Natalie Evans Harris | State of Maryland | Lightning talk | Maryland State Chief Data Officer Lightning Talk | — |
| Nathan Swain | Aquaveo | Speaker | Tethys Platform: Bridging Earth Science and Cloud-Native Geospatial Technology | — |
| Noah Slocum | Esri | Speaker | Spatial analysis at scale with ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine and Apache Spark | — |
| Pete Gadomski | Development Seed | Speaker | Right-sizing STAC: An exploration of STAC API backends, including stac-geoparquet | — |
| Raphael Hagen | CarbonPlan | Speaker | Exploring questions around visualization and data distribution of vector CNG formats | — |
| Sai Cheemalapati | Speaker | Cloud-Native Geospatial in Earth Engine: COGs and Beyond | — | |
| Samapriya Roy | Desert Research Institute | Speaker | Cloud-Native Data Commons: Lessons from Building the Earth Engine Community Catalog | — |
| Sarah Zwiep | Floodbase | Speaker | Why We Don't Use Zarr (Yet) | — |
| Sean Gorman | — | Panelist | Plenary Panel: Builders Panel | — |
| Shane Loeffler | CarbonPlan | Speaker | Exploring questions around visualization and data distribution of vector CNG formats | — |
| Simon Ilyushchenko | Speaker | Google Earth Agents: Building and Benchmarking AI Assistants | — | |
| Tim Wallace | The New York Times | Lightning talk | The New York Times Lightning Talk | — |
| Tom Augspurger | NVIDIA | Speaker | GPU-accelerated Cloud-Native Geospatial | — |
| Tom Lee | Mapbox | Discussion leader | Beyond Open Data | — |
| Tom Nicholas | Earthmover | Speaker | VirtualiZarr and Icechunk: How to build a cloud-optimised datacube of archival files in 3 lines | — |
| Tom Nicholas | Earthmover | Workshop | Zarr, Icechunk, & Xarray for cloud-native geospatial data-cube analysis | — |
| Tonian Robinson | USGS | Speaker | Accessing and Processing Landsat Data in the Cloud | — |
| Tyler Erickson | VorGeo | Lightning talk | Mapping the CNG Ecosystem | — |
| Zachariah Dicus | KBR, Inc., Contractor to the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center | Speaker | Zarr: Landsat Trade Study at Scale | — |
Sources
- https://2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org/agenda
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250407165218/https://2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250303204922/https://2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org/sponsor
- https://cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2025/06/recapping-cng-conference-2025-cloud-native-geospatial-irl/
- https://cloudnativegeo.org/events/