3rd SMD and ETD Workshop on A.I. and Data Science: Leaping Toward Our Future Goals

Jed Sundwall is the Executive Director of the Radiant Earth Foundation. He has over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of data, product development, cloud computing, economics, and policy. Before joining Radiant Earth, he created various data sharing and sustainability initiatives at Amazon, including the Amazon Web Services Open Data Program which makes over 100 petabytes of data available for analysis in the cloud. 

He helped create new patterns of sharing data in the cloud that have been adopted by NASA, USGS, Google, Microsoft, Geosciences Australia and other institutions around the world. He serves on the Board of Directors of NatureServe, is an advisor to PLACE Fund, and has served on the Landsat Advisory Group. 

He has a master's degree in foreign policy from the University of California in San Diego where he studied the adoption of open source software by the Brazilian federal government.