Agenda

Networking with breakfast and coffee provided.

Common Space is building a new kind of Earth observation infrastructure: high-resolution satellite imagery designed from the ground up as a shared resource for public good. In this interactive workshop, we’ll share our initial product architecture and invite the SatSummit community to help shape what comes next. Participants will pressure-test how users discover, task, access, analyze, and share imagery; explore workflows for emergencies and proactive collection; and identify where tools, APIs, AI, alerts, and integrations could make the greatest difference. Rather than presenting a finished product, we’ll bring early designs, assumptions, and open questions to the room. The goal is to leave with a clearer understanding of what Common Space should build, what it should integrate with rather than reinvent, and what a truly community-centered satellite data platform needs to work in the real world.

Workshop space is limited. Sign-up will happen in-person when you check in for the conference.

Why rivals are building one open, global map. Overture Maps Foundation tackles questions this community cares deeply about on a daily basis. When corporate members fund and govern an open dataset, whose priorities shape what gets mapped, and how well? How does Overture relate to OpenStreetMap and the volunteer mappers whose work underpins so much humanitarian response? Can an open map built largely by AI and corporate data sources reach the places that matter most for crisis response and development, where commercial incentives are weakest? Will Mortenson joins us to discuss how Overture works, where it's headed, and what a club-funded open data model can teach the rest of the geospatial world about sustaining public goods at scale.

• Beyond the Satellite: What It Takes to Turn EO Data into Climate Action at IOM’s Climate Mobility Innovation Lab
• Eyes on the prize: Earth Observation systems in a new paradigm of international development funding
• Integrating Earth Observation Data for On-Farm Decision Support
• Using satellite-based nighttime lights to understand cholera dynamics
• Using Historical Geospatial Data to Understand Groundwater Flooding in Queens
• USDA Forest Service FireCon on RasterFlow
• Putting Peace and Security on the Map: New Frontiers for Risk Intelligence with LLMs and Geospatial Data

These experts will help us digest what we heard on day one, where AI is still falling short, and what trends we should be paying attention to. How can AI turn pixels into decisions people can act on? And where does that pipeline break down? What are the trends worth tracking?

Satellite-based damage data was a critical resource for first responders on the ground following the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela in June 2026. However, after the response settled, we observed a stark contradiction: the damage data sources showed high disagreement and generally reached different damage status conclusions on the building-level, even when using the same underlying remote sensing data. This 1 hour, 15 minute interactive workshop will feature lightning talk-style presentations from a panel of experts involved in the humanitarian response following the earthquakes in Venezuela. This will be followed by a brainstorming session where participants can contribute their expertise to help the humanitarian sector as a whole find ways to improve processes for the next response. This workshop is intended for EO practitioners working on damage mapping in either natural hazard or armed conflict scenarios. Each expert presenter will offer to workshop attendees a prompt or call to action for how to improve analytical workflows and processes moving forward so that we can better support life-saving efforts on the ground in the future.

Workshop space is limited. Sign-up will happen in-person when you check in for the conference.

• Migrating Digital Earth Africa: Challenges, Lessons Learned, AWS Best Practices
• Novel approaches for a satellite-informed pipeline to collect, analyze, and archive evacuation data in the wake of a climate disaster
• Satellite imagery in browser, what are the challenges?
• The imagery exists. Can you find it?
• A Field Report on the Last-Mile Problem in Earth Observation
• Software was the Appetizer: What AI Actually Needs From Geospatial Standards.
• GenAI Fundamentals for Mere Mortals

A new generation of Earth observation operators is flipping the traditional build model: instead of designing a satellite and finding a market for it, they start with a problem on Earth and build the mission around solving it. This panel brings those operators together to talk about how that shift changes funding and design decisions, where being purpose-built creates real advantages, and where it creates real constraints.

Networking with coffee and snacks provided.

A hands-on workshop introducing Agents for the Planet, where participants will explore how environmental and conservation organizations can build trustworthy AI agents around their own expertise, data, and real-world workflows. Attendees will explore practical examples and leave with a clearer understanding of where agents can help, what it takes to use them responsibly, and how to identify a promising agentic workflow within their own organization. We will also share examples from our early partner pilots and invite attendees to help shape the approach.

Workshop space is limited. Sign-up will happen in-person when you check in for the conference.

• EDC: The Data Layer for Geospatial AI
• Scaling Trust in the AI age of Earth Observation: Patterns and Strategies for Agentic WorkloadsScaling Trust in the AI age of Earth Observation: Patterns and Strategies for Agentic Workloads
• Agentic Data for Animal Telemetry
• The Methodology of Introducing Hyperspectral to an Imaging Market
• The Distaster Imagery Explorer: Dynamic time-enabled Imagery for Humanitarians

Satellites, AI, and other emerging tools are reshaping how we track environmental change and respond to risk, but their real test is whether they reach the people most vulnerable to it. This session takes a systems view: people and planet are not separate problems, and the technologies that matter are the ones built with that intersection in mind. We'll explore what's actually working, what isn't, and what it takes to turn novel approaches into outcomes that protect both communities and the ecosystems they depend on.

Lunch is provided and we hope you are able to catch up with colleagues and meet new people.

Small-group discussions on specific topics (noted soon). These are informal, off-the-record conversations while we enjoy lunch together. Just a handful of people at a table, a host steering the conversation, and a candid discussion on the questions that matter most. Pick a table, bring your appetite, and dig into a topic with someone who could be your next collaborator.

Two teams and a hot button issue. Who gets to decide who sees the world? Should we be restricting imagery as much as we are today? When does national security stop being justification enough? What are the costs of imagery holdbacks when it comes to truth and transparency and humanitarian aid, as well as peace and security?

After our debate teams wrangle these questions, our panel of experts will weigh in. They'll help us sift through what we just heard and add their own expertise to the mix.