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Washington DC '24
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Ben Strong, PhD

He/Him.

Science and Machine Learning Lead at Earth Genome.

About

Dr. Ben Strong is the Science and Machine Learning Lead at Earth Genome. In this role, he leads the development of the Earth Index platform, which allows anyone to quickly search and fine tune models across terabytes of Earth Observation data to monitor relevant environmental trends. He also leads the application of Earth Index in several downstream applications, including Amazon Mining Watch, a cross-sector, multi-institution collaboration exposing illicit and environmentally destructive gold mining within the Amazon. He advocates for nature-centered approaches for AI through his role as XPrize Brain Trust member and other public roles, and he was recently named an inaugural recipient of the Boundless Fellowship in support of “breakthrough leadership for nature.” Prior to his work at Earth Genome, Dr. Strong was a Research Scientist at Google X. He obtained his doctorate in geophysics from Stanford.


On the agenda

  1. Large Earth Foundation Models

    May. 17 '24, 09:00am
    Session
    The Forum (South)

    The emergence of Generative AI is perhaps the greatest technology advancement since the last SatSummit. Large Earth Models are emerging that draw from similar approaches as Large Language Models (LLMs). These Large Earth Models can potentially revolutionize how we derive earth insights. This session will review the Foundation Models approach, which differs from prior AI approaches, and share several promising implementations.

    Moderators

    1. Zara Khan

    Speakers

    1. Ben Strong, PhD
    2. Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño, PhD
    3. Rahul Ramachandran, PhD
    4. Hiba Debbar

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Sponsors

Platinum

  1. NASA Lifelines

Bronze

  1. Element84

  2. Esri

  3. Impact Observatory

  4. United States Agency for International Development (USAID)


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