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What you can expect 

Join us for 2.5 days of presentations, demos, panels, hacking, and workshops. The conference kicks off on April 30 at 8 AM and wraps up on May 2 at 12:30 PM, so plan your travel accordingly.

Our goal is create opportunities for experts and beginners from enterprises, startups, academia, and government to learn from each other and create new connections.

Keynote speakers 

Plenary speakers 

Speakers 

Workshop Leaders 

Agenda 

Tracks 

• On-ramp to Cloud-Native Geospatial Data: Capacity building for professionals who are new to working with cloud-native formats and workflows.
• Cloud-Native Geospatial in Practice: Best practices, cost savings, and innovation enabled by the adoption of cloud-native technologies.
• Building Resilient Data Infrastructure: Creating the infrastructure and systems we need to make trustworthy data reliably available to solve global challenges.

Agenda at a glance 

Day 1: Wednesday, April 30 

Time Slot	Title
7:30-9:00	Breakfast
9:00-9:45	Welcome & Keynote - Chris Holmes
9:45-10:45	Track Introductions - Julia Wagemann, Aimee Barciauskas, & Brianna Pagán
10:45-11:15	Morning Break
11:15-12:15	Talks, Discussions, and Workshops
12:15-1:15	Lunch
1:15-2:45	Talks, Discussions, and Workshops
2:45-3:00	Transition
3:00-4:00	Talks and Workshops
4:00-4:30	Afternoon Break
4:30-5:00	Closing Plenary - Lynne Schneider
5:00-6:00	Plenary Lightning Talks
6:00-7:30	Student Poster Session & Happy Hour

Day 2: Thursday, May 1 

Time Slot	Title
7:30-9:00	Breakfast
9:00-9:30	Keynote - Julia Stewart Lowndes
9:30-9:45	Transition
9:45-11:15	Talks, Discussions, and Workshops
11:15-11:45	Morning Break
11:45-1:15	Talks, Discussions, and Workshops
1:15-2:15	Lunch
2:15-3:45	Hacking, Birds of a Feather, and Workshops
3:45-4:15	Afternoon Break
4:15-4:30	Recap from Track Leaders
4:30-5:15	Closing Plenary Builders Panel
6:00-8:00	Gala Dinner

Day 3: Friday, May 2 

Time Slot	Title
7:30-9:00	Breakfast
9:00-9:30	Keynote - Drew Breunig
9:30-10:00	Set up for Discussions
10:00-10:15	Transition
10:15-11:30	Future Focused Discussions
11:30-12:00	Group Reflection & Next Steps
12:00-12:30	Closing Remarks

Call for posters 

Please fill out this form to submit your poster proposal to present your academic or scientific work. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis until space is filled. The final deadline for submission is 30 March 2025.

Ticket Pricing 

Early Bird registration window is open from 1 January to 2 March 2025, and the regular rate will be available from 3 March to 25 April 2025.

Registration Type	CNG Members	Non-CNG Members	Students (w/ ID)	Availability
Early Bird	$400	$500	$150	1 Jan-2 Mar
Regular	$500	$600	$200	3 Mar-25 Apr

US government employees are eligible for the CNG Member rate. Register with your .gov email address to receive the discount. If you cannot or prefer not to use a .gov email address to register, please write us at hello@cloudnativegeo.org.

When & Where 

Join us in the beautiful mountains of Utah.

• When: April 30 - May 2, 2025
• Where: Snowbird Ski Resort

Your Stay at Snowbird 

We’ve arranged a special group rate of $199 per night at the Cliff Lodge at Snowbird for Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum attendees.

• Reservation Deadline: All reservations must be made by March 30, 2025.
• After this date, any unsold rooms will be released from our block and returned to Snowbird’s general inventory. Reservations made after March 30, 2025, will be accepted on a space-available basis.

We provide booking instructions to people when they register for the conference.

Transportation to and from the Airport 

Guests can schedule ground transportation between Snowbird and Salt Lake City Airport (SLC) when booking their lodging. The round-trip cost is $114 per adult for shared transportation, or $57 one-way. To arrange transportation, guests will need to provide their flight or pick-up details at the time of booking. If flight information isn’t available at that time, guests can call Snowbird at 1-800-453-3000 to add those details — no later than three days before their arrival date.

Snowbird Discounts for Skiing 

For those looking to enjoy the mountain slopes, Snowbird is offering 20% off current online pricing for CNG Conference attendees on:

• Lift Tickets for skiing and snowboarding
• Fast Tracks to skip lift lines
• Equipment demos and rentals

Sponsorship 

If you’re driving innovation in geospatial data, we would love your support! Learn more about sponsorship opportunities for CNG Conference 2025.

Who’s Coming? 

People from these organizations will be there:

• Abaca Labs
• Amazon Web Services
• Aquaveo
• Brightband
• Camptocamp
• Carbon Mapper
• CarbonPlan
• Clark University
• Coiled
• con terra GmbH
• CTrees
• Datalayer
• Desert Research Institute
• Development Seed
• DuckDB Labs
• Earth Genome
• Earthmover
• Element 84
• The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment (DSE) at UC Berkeley
• Flanders Marine Institute
• Floodbase
• Geotekne
• Google
• Government of South Australia Department for Housing & Urban Development
• Hobu, Inc
• Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
• IDC
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
• Mapbox
• Meta
• NASA
• NOAA
• NVIDIA
• OGC
• Open Athena
• Orbital Insight
• Overture Maps Foundation
• Pachama
• Parsyl
• Protomaps
• Radiant Earth
• Regrow
• Seoul National University
• State Farm
• The World Bank Group
• thriveGEO GmbH
• Tilebox
• UC Santa Cruz
• University of Alaska Fairbanks
• University of Arizona
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• University of Utah
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
• VorGeo
• Whitecap Geospatial
• Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions