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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...

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...

docs.google.comCNG Zürich 2026 — Call for SpeakersCNG is hosting a one-day community event on 29 October 2026 from 14:00-18:00 at Meta's Offices in Zürich. We're looking for speakers who can share practical experience, lessons learned, and new ideas ...

This MapScaping podcast episode features Marshall Robinson & Clinton Lunn from the Utah Geological Survey. They share how they moved from a traditional ArcGIS Server setup toward a cloud-native approach leading to them turning off two servers & saving around $25K/yr mapscaping.com/podcast/clou...

#CNG2025 helped a lot in navigating this move! And if you’re coming to #CNG2026 you’ll hear more from Clinton about what they built, what broke along the way, what changed once users had direct access to canonical data files & where they still don’t have a good answer. 🔗 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

. @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?...

youtu.beFull walkthrough: How we found 3M missing people in Argentina with open dataYouTube video by Radiant Earth
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Nissim Lebovits accidentally found 3 million people missing from the official census in #Argentina. We worked with @maxlenormand.bsky.social to learn more about how. Watch the full video: youtu.be/FwLLs1E-sao?...

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

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...

cloudnativegeo.orgCNG Editorial Board Spotlight – Q&A: Brian FreitagEditorial 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!

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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

luma.comCNG London 2026 | 8am-4pm · LumaJoin 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 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...

linkedin.comAWS joins CNG Forum 2026 as a SponsorWe’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, ...

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...

linkedin.comCNG Member Spotlight: TakeMe2SpaceTakeMe2Space 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...

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-...

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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...

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...

linkedin.comWelcoming Taylor Geospatial to CNG Forum 2026 as a SponsorWe’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...

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.

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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...

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...

linkedin.comCNG Member Spotlight: CTreesCTrees 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...

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

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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...