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Max Lenormand

Geospatial Data Scientist / Podcaster / Video Producer at Independent.

About

Max Lenormand is a geospatial data scientist, podcaster & video producer, telling stories about satellite imagery and geospatial data. After working as a geospatial data scientist on flood modelling (ICEYE), cocoa & coffee tree mapping (Satelligence) and 3D vegetation monitoring (Overstory) and cloud compute infrastructure for large scale geospatial analysis (Fused) he moved back to telling stories about data & people. He has hosted and run the 'Minds Behind Maps' podcast and runs the 'Max Lenormand' channel on YouTube and worked with organizations like Radiant Earth to help communicate their work to a broader audience.

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  • Worth a Thousand Words?

    Nov. 18 '26, 03:00pm Panel Press Hall

    When and how journalists decide to use satellite imagery, the impacts and the costs, and their calls to action for this community. A single image can anchor a story, corroborate a source, or make an atrocity impossible to ignore, but the decision to run it is rarely simple. This session pulls back the curtain on that decision-making process: what journalists weigh before publishing, what it costs them when they get it wrong, and what they wish this community understood better.

    Moderators

    1. Max Lenormand

    Speakers

    1. Christoph Koettl
    2. Sarah Cahlan
    3. Krishna Karra
    4. Sasha Schell
    5. Zach Toombs
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Sponsors

Gold

  1. NASA

Silver

  1. Esri

  2. LGND

  3. Planet

Hosts

  1. Development Seed

  2. Common Space

  3. Taylor Geospatial

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