SatSummit 2024
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Yoni Nachmany

Head of Data Engineering at Zeus AI. He/Him.

About

Yoni Nachmany is the Head of Data Engineering at Zeus AI, building foundation models for weather and climate. He leads the development of Earth observation pipelines to train multi-modal models for data assimilation and forecasting.

Previously, Yoni worked as a geospatial engineer at the Overture Maps Foundation, Gro Intelligence, The New York Times R&D Lab and Mapbox with fellowships at the Imperial College Business School, Radiant Earth Foundation, Sinergise and Azavea.

He has presented at SatSummit, GeoPython, the David Rumsey Map Center, FOSS4G and the Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange about topics ranging from 3D digital twins to geographic bias in ML training datasets. Yoni graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master's in Data Science.


On the agenda

  1. Machine Learning Talks

    May. 17, 10:15am
    Lightning Talks
    The Forum (North)
    • Modern Geospatial Foundational Models Are Not Foundational (Ritwik Gupta)
    • Human in the Loop Learning for Geospatial AI for Good (Caleb Robinson, PhD)
    • Building Open and Transparent GeoAI Frameworks for Scalability (David Saah)
    • To show and tell: geospatial LLM agents as active collaborators for Earth observation (Steve Brumby)
    • Sand Storm Detection and Monitoring using Machine Learning (Muhammad Adeel Hassan)
    • Identifying Seasonality in Earth Observations for Engineering Features (Ali Filipovic)

    Moderators

    1. Yoni Nachmany

    Speakers

    1. Ritwik Gupta
    2. Caleb Robinson, PhD
    3. David Saah
    4. Steve Brumby
    5. Muhammad Adeel Hassan
    6. Ali Filipovic

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Sponsors

Platinum

  1. NASA Lifelines

Bronze

  1. Element84

  2. Esri

  3. Impact Observatory

  4. United States Agency for International Development (USAID)