For more than a decade, SatSummit has brought together leaders from across the satellite, Earth observation, and geospatial communities to explore the technologies, ideas, and challenges shaping our world.
Today, we're excited to announce the next chapter.
SatSummit will return with two upcoming editions:
St. Louis, Missouri | November 18-19, 2026 Lisbon, Portugal | March 16-17, 2027
Following our first European edition in Lisbon in 2024, and for the first time outside Washington, DC, in North America, SatSummit is expanding its footprint while staying true to its core mission: creating space for meaningful conversations about the future of our field.
We are launching with a focus on St. Louis, where Common Space, Taylor Geospatial, and Development Seed will convene practitioners, researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and technology leaders for two days of discussion, debate, and connection.
The satellite and geospatial sectors are entering a period of rapid change.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how Earth observation data is analyzed and applied. Commercial and government priorities are increasingly intertwined. Questions around competition, public access to data, funding, ethics, and long-term impact are becoming more urgent than ever.
SatSummit St. Louis will create space for the conversations our community needs right now—not only about what technology can do, but about who benefits, who decides, and what kind of future we want to build.
Topics will include:
- Sustaining community resources as funding landscapes shift
- The dual-use dilemma and when satellite imagery serves both humanitarian and military ends
- How humanitarian and climate organizations are doing mission-critical work with less
- GeoAI in practice: what works, what's hype, and who benefits
- Commercial imagery, government pressure and the price of access
- And more!
Additional details on speakers, sponsorship opportunities, registration, and programming will be announced in the coming weeks.
Join us in St. Louis this November, and stay tuned for more information about our return to Lisbon in March 2027.