Talks & Writing
45 talks, workshops, and invited sessions across some twenty venues, 2018 onward — through Development Seed, Element 84, and LGND — plus a moderated panel, a podcast, and fifteen posts.
Slides and recordings link out to wherever they live: conference programs, video.osgeo.org, and the older decks still served from this domain.
Upcoming
2026
2025
- State of STAPI A community tasking standard. Co-presented. abstract
- STAC 101: What You Really Need to Know abstract
- Earth Search: Expanding Open Access to Sentinel-2 and Beyond abstract
- AI Coding and the Future of Open-Source Geospatial Software abstract
- State of STAPI Co-presented. abstract
- STAC Best Practices abstract
- Introduction to STAC agenda video
2024
- The State of STAC abstract
- Community Standards and Satellite Tasking abstract
- GeoAI for all Helping answer the most common questions in geo. abstract
- STAC for Public EO Data abstract video
- The Sensor Tasking API (STAPI) Specification abstract
- Next Generation Search & Discovery Multi-speaker session. session
- AI/ML for Search and Discovery Multi-speaker session. session
2023
2022
- SatSummit 2022 Session not listed publicly. speaker page
- The State of Cloud-Native Geospatial abstract
- Analysis Ready (Meta)Data abstract
- STAC Best Practices and Tools Co-presented. abstract
- Overview: SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs (STAC) video
2021
2020
- STAC and Cloud-Optimized Data Multi-speaker session. session
- A Geospatial Cloud slides
- STAC and the Open-Source Ecosystem Opened the Geospatial Interoperability with STAC session. session session deck slides
2019
- STAC (lightning talk) video
- How Open Communities are Revolutionizing Science Scalability and reproducibility in the geosciences through open standards. slides
- How Open Communities are Revolutionizing Science Opening keynote. slides speaker page
- STAC and the Open-Source Ecosystem slides
- How Open-Source Software Made cubesatdata.com Possible slides
- STAC Software Efforts source
- SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) and sat-utils slides
- How Cloudy is London Really? A MODIS cloud-frequency data story. source
2018
- sat-utils Workshop, Analysis at Scale track. speaker page source
- Finding and Using Public Earth Imagery with sat-utils A talk cut and a workshop cut. source
Panels & podcasts
Writing
- If AI Is Going to Task Satellites, We Need Standards
- AI Coding and the Future of Open-Source Geospatial Software
- The 2025 Geospatial Tech Radar
- STAC: A Retrospective, Part 2 — Why STAC was Successful
- STAPI Sprint #5: 0.1 Release
- STAPI Sprint #4: Interoperability for Satellite Data Ordering
- Tasking Sprint #3 Recap
- Introducing Earth Search Console
- Introducing Earth Search v1: New datasets now available
- SpatioTemporal Asset Tasking Sprint #2 Recap
- STAC: A Retrospective, Part 1
- Tasking Sprint
- Deconstructing Analysis-Ready Data
- Sat-utils: Find and use open satellite data
- sat-api: an API for SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs