A case for replacing the traditional server-based SDI stack with cloud-native formats — COG, GeoParquet, STAC — and object storage: faster, cheaper, AI-ready, and sovereign. Portolan as a working blueprint.

Opening keynote challenging the traditional Spatial Data Infrastructure model and arguing for a community-driven ecosystem in which governments, corporations, nonprofits, and individuals all contribute.

Opening keynote on building a queryable Earth — how simple catalog services like STAC, commodity hosting, and formats like COG and PMTiles add up to a new kind of spatial data infrastructure.

Kickoff of the second Outreach event, with Nadine Alameh of the OGC, followed by an overview of what cloud-native geospatial is — with Howard Butler on the technical principles underneath it.

An overview of cloud-native geospatial for newcomers at the first Outreach Day — what it is, and how far the community had come toward it.

Keynote introducing the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog spec and community to an Analysis Ready Data audience — a higher-level tour of what STAC is for and where it was heading.

Keynote on making the world's imagery and geospatial data as queryable as the web — open formats, open catalogs, and the tooling that would have to exist to get there.

Why Google's private infrastructure had done more for sharing geospatial data than hundreds of national SDI initiatives — read through open source's ‘architectures of participation’. Barriers to entry, treating users as contributors, and a sketch of a ‘GeoPortal 2.0’ built to invite them in. Also the soft launch of OpenGeo.org.

A conversation about cloud-native geospatial — what the formats change about how data gets shared, and why the shift matters beyond the technical details.

On building open standards that actually get adopted — STAC, GeoParquet, and what it takes to move a whole ecosystem rather than ship a spec.