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🌡️ On last month's Great Data Products episode, guest host Nissim Lebovits talked with Elizabeth Wesley (WRI) about turning decades of Landsat observations into a global dataset for local heat risk planning. 🎧 Listen here: greatdataproducts.com/episodes/202...

It was an honour to talk SedonaDB at @cloudnativegeo.org forum! It's rare to get my passion for teaching and my extra nerdy database work in the same talk, but CNG was the perfect place. For anybody attending @foss4gna.bsky.social in a month, sign up for the SedonaDB workshop to find out more!

We're back from our conversations, workshops, and hikes in Utah for @cloudnativegeo.org Forum 2026! This year's #CNGForum was full of discussion about unifying data types, & how we can all work to use data more efficiently and effectively. We're excited to continue this work as we close out 2026!

The CNG Zürich agenda is live! 🇨🇭 Join us on Thursday, 29 October at the Meta Offices in Zürich for an afternoon of presentations, lightning talks, and a panel, followed by an evening reception. Check out the agenda and registration info here: cloudnativegeo.org/events/cng-z...

It's time to get ready for CNG Zürich on October 29th! We'll be doing it at Meta's offices. Agenda to be announced soon, but in the meantime, make sure to secure your spot by registering here luma.com/iap4y8sl

GDP podcast livestream - Oct 19 at 11 am EDT Join Nissim Lebovits as he talks with Oliver Wing about Fathom’s global flood risk data and the challenges of turning sophisticated models into useful info. Join live on YouTube luma.com/t0p1eqnx or on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/event/manage...

Meet our #CNG2026 exhibitors👇🏽 @element84.com · @SafeSoftware · @ai2.bsky.social · @developmentseed.org · @earthmover.io · Wherobots Stop by their tables to learn about the tools & services they’re building for the cloud-native geo community Join us at Snowbird, , 6–9 Oct 2026.cloudnativegeo.org

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...

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

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

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

. @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?...

@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...

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...

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

#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

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

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

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

#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

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

🇯🇵 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...

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...

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!

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...

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

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...

#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...

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...

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...

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-...

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...

The full white paper is available now. Read it, share it, and give your perspective. cloudnativegeo.org/beyond-open-...

The full white paper is available now. Read it, share it, and give your perspective. cloudnativegeo.org/beyond-open-...

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

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...

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...

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.

📣 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...

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...

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...

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...

Monthly community meetings start Thursday, April 9, at 11 a.m. PT. To join, request access at geo-embeddings-community@cloudnativegeo.org.