SatSummit 2024
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Speakers

Isaiah Lyons-Galante

PhD Student at University of Colorado Boulder. He/Him.

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About

Isaiah is a geospatial data scientist pursuing a PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder. Before graduate school, Isaiah worked in Kenya for six years for a renewable energy developer building mini-grids in rural communities across the continent. He is driven to find novel applications of statistics and machine learning to geospatial data to address pressing global development challenges.

On the agenda

  1. Application Talks

    May. 17, 11:30am
    Lightning Talks
    The Forum (North)
    • A Light in the Dark: Detecting Mini-Grid Electrification with Remote Sensing in Sub-Saharan Africa (Isaiah Lyons-Galante)
    • Energy Access Explorer: A Digital Public Good to Enable Climate-friendly and Viable Energy Transitions for All (Santiago Sinclair Lecaros)
    • United We Observe: Collaborative EO Satellite Efforts in Tackling Environmental Challenges (David "Chalky" Petterson)
    • Leveraging remote sensing data for environmental project diligence and monitoring transparency (Katie Tyler)
    • Leveraging Earth Observation to Track Conflict-linked Environmental Damages (Wim Zwijnenburg)
    • Finding the 140,000 impacted by Hurricane Iota in Honduras (Ian Coady)
    • The science and practice of war damage impact assessment using satellite radar (Corey Scher)

    Moderators

    1. Madison Musgrave

    Speakers

    1. Isaiah Lyons-Galante
    2. Santiago Sinclair Lecaros
    3. David "Chalky" Petterson
    4. Katie Tyler
    5. Wim Zwijnenburg
    6. Ian Coady
    7. Corey Scher
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Sponsors

Platinum

  1. NASA Lifelines

Gold

  1. Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Bronze

  1. Element84

  2. Esri

  3. Impact Observatory

  4. United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Community

  1. Earth Genome

Hosts

  1. Development Seed

  2. DevGlobal

Media Partner

  1. Geo Awesomeness