Episode # 008 of "Open Talk" is now live 🎙️

In this episode, we look back on CNG Forum 2026 and share some highlights from the conference!

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#CNG2026

Find NatCap at #CNG2026!

Software Architect, James Douglass (Stanford NatCap), will present on:

💡Improving access to quality datasets w/ complete metadata
💻 Scaling compute infrastructure so developers worry less about runtime environments
🌱 Reducing barriers to interpreting InVEST model results

RSE Francesco Nattino will be at #CNG2026 in Snowbird, Utah Oct 6–9. He'll share lessons on building and benchmarking cloud-native datasets in a hands-on workshop, and presenting what we're trying to achieve with the #CLOUDNES project. Will we see you there?
More info on CLOUD-NES: cloudnes.org

Meet our #CNG2026 exhibitors👇🏽

@element84.com · @SafeSoftware · @ai2.bsky.social · @developmentseed.org · @earthmover.io · Wherobots

Stop by their tables to learn about the tools & services they’re building for the cloud-native geo community

Join us at Snowbird, , 6–9 Oct 2026.cloudnativegeo.org

#CNG2025 helped a lot in navigating this move!

And if you’re coming to #CNG2026 you’ll hear more from Clinton about what they built, what broke along the way, what changed once users had direct access to canonical data files & where they still don’t have a good answer.

🔗 2026.cloudnativegeo.org

13 days until #CNG2026!

3 keynotes at Snowbird, Utah

▪️ @ianschuler.bsky.social – The Great Retooling
▪️ Katie Baynes – Boring at Scale: Consistency as Public Infrastructure in a Distributed Geospatial Ecosystem
▪️ @dbreunig.bsky.social – Using AI Without Losing Your Soul

🔗 2026.cloudnativegeo.org

14 days until #CNG2026

What does it actually take to make geospatial data easier to access and use?

We’ll spend Oct 6–9 exploring that question from formats & infrastructure to real-world applications and AI at Snowbird, Utah.

Join us: 2026.cloudnativegeo.org