Accelerating Informatics for Earth Science Action 2024
Date: June 13, 2024

Location: Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA

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To advance Earth Science to Action, NASA wants to make better use of archived data and physics-based forecasting models by tapping into the rapidly developing expertise of commercial data product providers to increase the speed to validate insights for decision-makers and to better understand the science of Earth as a system. The goal of this event is to foster the development of productive partnerships between commercial data product developers and the science community, including innovative ways to improve the processing of archived and real-time satellite data.

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Thursday, June 13, 2024

8:30 AM    Welcome

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8:45 AM    Earth science: what information we need, why we care - Karen St. Germain/NASA

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9:15 AM    Panel: AI/ML what is working well, opportunities to accelerate impactful climate science

Moderator:

• Lukas Mandrake/JPL

Panelists:

• Saleem Hussain/IBM

• Arlindo DeSilva/NASA

• Corbin Kling/Planet

 

10:00 AM  Open Discussions at Posters

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12:00 PM  Lunchtime conversation: “How can data science and earth science collaboratively advance together?”

Moderator:

• James Parr/Trillium Technologies

Panelists:

• Michael Eilts/Spire

• Joel Minton/Google

• David Saah/U San Francisco

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1:15 PM    Open Discussions at Posters

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2:15 PM    Small-Group Theme Discussions

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4:15 PM    Vision of the future – Lorien Pratt/Quantellia

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4:35 PM    Summary – Vint Cerf/Google

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5:00 PM    Close