Join us for #CNGNYC on Sept 24 during #ClimateWeekNYC at The Cooper Union for a day of sharing, learning & connecting. 📍 Space is limited so we recommend registering early! luma.com/fsll2xt4

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Join us for a one-day, in-person gathering with the CNG community at The Cooper Union in NYC during NYC Climate Week. Practitioners across the cloud-native…

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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...

Announcing the Geo-Embeddings Sprint II: From Emerging Standards to Real-World Adoption

IBM, CNG, Clark University, and Planet will convene a second Geo-Embeddings Sprint on October 27–28, 2026, in Zürich, Switzerland, focusing on benchmarking, fitness-for-use, and broader adoption of EO...

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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

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A half-day Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) gathering in outside of Tokyo in Yokohama hosted at JAMSTEC's Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences (YES). This…

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#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

Join the 1st STAC community gathering in Japan 🇯🇵 This hands-on workshop is for builders to work on outstanding issues (D1), for data providers to share best practices (D2) & for data users to build on top of STAC (D3) Aug 25–27 at JAXA in Tsukuba cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/06...

Announcing STAC Japan 2026

The first STAC community gathering in Japan comes to JAXA Tsukuba, August 25–27, colocating with FOSS4G Hiroshima.

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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...

CNG Editorial Board Spotlight – Q&A: Brian Freitag

Editorial Board Spotlight series features a different board member sharing their perspectives on geospatial trends and tools, what’s capturing their attention through reading or their current work, an...

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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...

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Introducing Source Changevlog 🛰️ v1.3.0: preview Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs & STAC catalogs in the browser, ROR IDs on org profiles, schema.org metadata. Plus from v1.0–v1.2: 3D globe, new landing page, faster search. 🔗 github.com/source-cooperative/source.coop/releases/tag/v1.3.0

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

CNG London 2026 | 8am-4pm · Luma

Join us for a one-day, in-person gathering with the CNG community at The Jellicoe in London, UK. Practitioners from across the cloud-native geospatial…

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CNG@cloudnativegeo.org · 4mo ago

CNG London 2026 🇬🇧 Call for speakers now open! Join us on June 23. We're looking for 15–20 min talks grounded in real experience: things you've built, problems you've solved, lessons you've learned, or ideas you're actively working through. ▪️Submit by May 2 🔗 forms.gle/oezoDbQU1ERQ...

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...

AWS joins CNG Forum 2026 as a Sponsor

We’re excited to announce Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the official sponsor of CNG Forum 2026's Lanyards. CNG Forum 2026 brings together practitioners from big tech companies, small consulting firms, ...

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#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...

Share your Work at CNG Forum 2026

Submit an abstract for CNG Forum 2026, to be held October 6-9 in Snowbird, Utah. The submission deadline is May 17.

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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...

CNG Member Spotlight: TakeMe2Space

TakeMe2Space is building Orbital Data Centers – a satellite network in Low Earth Orbit built for high-performance compute and storage, with a focus on running AI inferencing directly in space. We aske...

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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-...

CNG@cloudnativegeo.org · 3mo ago

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...

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...

Beyond Open Data: Usefulness is a better measure of quality than openness

Beyond Open Data white paper thesis 1: Usefulness is a better measure of quality than openness.

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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

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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...

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...

Welcoming Taylor Geospatial to CNG Forum 2026 as a Sponsor

We’re pleased to announce Taylor Geospatial as the official sponsor of CNG Forum 2026’s Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony. CNG Forum 2026 brings together practitioners from big tech companies, small con...

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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@cloudnativegeo.org · 4mo ago

CNG London 2026 🇬🇧 Call for speakers now open! Join us on June 23. We're looking for 15–20 min talks grounded in real experience: things you've built, problems you've solved, lessons you've learned, or ideas you're actively working through. ▪️Submit by May 2 🔗 forms.gle/oezoDbQU1ERQ...

📣 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...

CNG London 2026 — Call for Speakers

CNG is hosting a one-day community event on 23 June 2026 at The Jellicoe in London. We're looking for speakers who can share practical experience, lessons learned, and new ideas across the cloud-nativ...

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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...

CNG Member Spotlight: CTrees

CTrees tracks carbon in every living tree on Earth to accelerate natural climate solutions. They bring together remote sensing, AI, climate science, and data engineering experts to map carbon, defores...

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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...

Select tickets – EOPF Explorer Webinar #2 – Advanced Analysis with Sentinel Zarr – Zoom

EOPF Explorer Webinar #2 – Advanced Analysis with Sentinel Zarr – Zoom, Mon 20 Apr 2026 - Following the launch session focused on discovery and screening, this second webinar dives deeper into analysi...

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