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.
We co-hosted the Geo-Embeddings Sprint with Planet & Clark University to establish shared standards for Earth observation embeddings – storage formats, metadata & access patterns.
Find the best practices & docs at geoembeddings.org.
For full recap of sprint 👇🏽
cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/04...
Native Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF support in Lonboard!
- Stream massive COGs on demand
- Full control over image rendering: apply colormaps, change band combinations, use ML models
- Read COGs from anywhere, including local files and private data (via Obstore)
developmentseed.org/lonboard/lat...
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...
"geoparquet-io can now extract WFS layers with @duckdb under the hood. Here's 309k building parcels from Salta province in Argentina in 2 min & 14 sec
Credit to @youssef_7arby for his original write-up on querying WFS with DuckDB!" - Nissim Lebovits via LinkedIn
ℹ️ Community Insights: @opencholmes.bsky.social & Nissim Lebovits released geoparquet-io, an opinionated command-line tool for converting, validating & optimizing GeoParquet files. Built on DuckDB, PyArrow & obstore for fast ops on large datasets. Testers needed
cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/03...
We're also streaming LIVE on LinkedIn! You can join the conversation here👇🏽
www.linkedin.com/events/74397...
What would a "perfect census" look like from a data science perspective?
🗓️ Wed March 25 at 12pm PDT, @jed.co sits down with Christopher Dick of Demographic Analytics Advisors to dig into demographic data products. Join the conversation
LIVE on YouTube → luma.com/3t36zaqg
Foundation models solve training on PB of imagery but usability is a struggle when comparing or stacking them. Isaac Corley from Wherobots shares lessons learned working with Earth embeddings products, requiring patches for GDAL, Rasterio & TorchGeo
cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/02...
Don't miss this encore of @juliesquid.bsky.social's AGU Greg Leptoukh Lecture! Julia will talk about how Openscapes is using open-source concepts to shift culture in science.
🗓️ March 19, 1:00 pm ET
📍 Remote via Zoom (everyone welcome, will be recorded)
openscapes.org/events/2026-...
Upcoming Podcast | Tues Feb 10 at 10am PST
Join us LIVE with folks from @earthgenome.org on the new Storm Events Database, a 1.9M-record dataset spanning 70+ years of NCEI storm records. Watch the convo LIVE on
🔗 YouTube luma.com/m94ce3n7
🔗 LinkedIn lnkd.in/eB8ZumYF
⏰ Reminder: applications close in 2 days (Feb 6)
We’re looking for folks actively creating or using EO vector embeddings to help define best practices together. Apply today to attend this two-day in-person sprint
🗓️ Mar 10–11 | 📍 Worcester, MA
forms.gle/Q27DbuciWgY9...
In collaboration w/ Planet & @clarkuniversity.bsky.social, we're hosting a sprint to define standards for EO vector embeddings. If you have hands on experience creating or using EO vector embeddings, please consider applying to attend
🗓️ Mar 10 &11
📍 Worcester, MA
cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/01...
🚀 Call for Abstracts – #CNG2026
Share your work with the cloud-native geospatial community! Two tracks:
▪️ On-Ramp to Cloud-Native Geo – beginner workflows, tutorials, tooling
▪️ Cloud-Native in Practice – real-world use cases & demos
Submit here: 2026.cloudnativegeo.org#/callforspea...
What is cloud-optimized scientific data & why does it matter? @tegnicholas.bsky.social from CNG org member @earthmover.io breaks down why simply moving legacy scientific formats to the cloud often leads to slow performance & how new formats like @zarr.dev can help
🔗 earthmover.io/blog/fundame...
Thanks to everyone who joined us live. If you missed it, you can catch the full podcast recording 👇🏽
youtu.be/5N5x8V1W7-Q
🎙️ Call for Speakers is open!
Working on cloud-native geo tech? We’re looking for
• Real-world case studies
• Lessons learned – what worked & didn’t
✅ Speaker perk: accepted speakers get Super Early Bird pricing
⏰ Submit an abstract by May 17
2026.cloudnativegeo.org#/callforspea...
#CNG2026
⏳ Last chance: Super Early Bird pricing for Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) 2026 ends tomorrow
Save $100 on CNG Forum 2026 tickets – prices increase Jan 9
🎟️ $450 for CNG members | $550 for non-members
📍 Snowbird, Utah
🗓️ October 6–9, 2026
Get your ticket: cloudnativegeo.org/2026
🆕. @bdon.org published a v1.0 version of the #CloudNativeGeo Storage Cheatsheet, now featuring:
▪️ Presets for cloud-native datasets
▪️ “choose your own” inputs for dataset size and chunk read sizes
▪️ CNG-branded design and dark mode!
Check it out here: bdon.github.io/cng-storage-...
Great Data Products podcast reminder:
Join us this Wednesday Jan 7 at 3pm EDT. Register to watch LIVE on YouTube luma.com/vk4ms1pb or on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/events/denic...
What made #CNG2025 special:
🌐 250+ attendees from 100+ orgs
⭐ 4.7/5 star rating
✅ 95% said they'd return
▪️Real technical depth, no fluff
For #CNG2026, we're going bigger: 500 attendees, higher bar, more impact. Join us
cloudnativegeo.org/2026
Register to watch LIVE on either:
YouTube luma.com/vk4ms1pb or
LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/events/denic...
I went last year, it was worth the trip!
Register to watch LIVE on either:
YouTube luma.com/vk4ms1pb or
LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/events/denic...
Registration is officially open for CNG Forum 2026
Super Early Bird tickets available now through Jan 9
Plus: Calls open for speakers, workshop leaders, exhibitors & sponsors
cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2025/12...
If you missed the conversation between @geoskeptic.bsky.social & @jed.co on how open tech standards evolve, using #stac as a case study, you can watch it here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFFe...
What's the difference between data & data products? Our Executive Director @jed.co sat down with Daniel O'Donohue from MapScaping to explore that question, plus @source.coop, cloud-native approaches & building institutions designed for the 21st century. Listen here: mapscaping.com/podcast/from...
Reminder: Register to watch LIVE this Wed Dec 10 at 11am PST via
🔗 YouTube luma.com/p5287nqc or LinkedIn linkedin.com/events/73969...
Register to watch live on Dec 10 at 11am PST at greatdataproducts.com. You can also watch live on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/events/73969...
