Cloud-Native Geo Sessions at FOSS4G NA

This is a suggested agenda for attendees interested in Cloud-Native Geo, including hands-on workshops and talks on STAC, GeoParquet, DuckDB, vector tiles, Zarr, cloud-optimized point clouds, reproducibility, and data publishing at scale. Browse the full schedule and build your own path. And don’t forget to register!

MONDAY - NOVEMBER 2 - HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Exploring Cloud Native Geospatial Data Formats: Hands-on with Vectors  ·  Jarrett Keifer

1:00–4:00 p.m.

Mastering Reproducible Geospatial Environments with Nix  ·  Pratyush Kumar Das

TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 3 - CONFERENCE TALKS

10:30–10:55 

Into the STACLands: A Choose Your Own Adventure  ·  Matthew Hanson · Bataglieri

11:00–11:25

Collections, Collections, Everywhere, but Not the Collection You Need  ·  Henry Rodman & Brianna Corremonte · Bataglieri

11:30–11:55

Visualizing Aggregations in STAC: From Scenes to Coverage  ·  Matthew Hanson · Bataglieri

1:30–1:55

DuckDB and Spatial Datasets: A Geo-Practitioner’s Feedback  ·  Guillaume Sueur · Tofanelli

2:00–2:25

SedonaDB: A Fast, Friction-Free Spatial Database for Python + R  ·  Jia Yu & Dewey Dunnington · Tofanelli

3:30–3:55

Access All the Data at Once, Virtual Zarr and GeoZarr  ·  Alex Mandel · Tofanelli

4:00–4:25

Benchmarking Cloud-Optimized Point Clouds (COPC) for Scientific LiDAR Workflows  ·  Alex Mandel, Rajat Shinde & Harshini Girish · Tofanelli

WEDNESDAY - NOVEMBER 4 - CONFERENCE TALKS

10:30–10:55 

Source Cooperative: Cloud-Native Geospatial Data Publishing at Any Scale  ·  Tyler Erickson · Bondi

11:00–11:25

From Geoportal to Platform: Introducing the BTAA Geospatial API  ·  Eric Larson · Bondi

11:30–11:55

The GeoCDL: Streamlining Geospatial Workflows on High-Performance Computing Infrastructure  ·  Heather Savoy · Bondi

1:00–1:25

Accelerated Multi-Source Vector-Tile Generation with Open-source Frameworks  ·  Vishal Kumar & Shaishav Mahendrakumar Maisuria · Bataglieri

1:30–1:55

Vector Tiles Using DuckDB, GeoParquet & Azure Storage+Functions  ·  Jesse Amundsen · Bataglieri

2:00–2:25

Building a Geospatial Feature Store: Lessons from Elastic, PostGIS, Kubernetes  ·  Atma Mani · Tofanelli

3:00–3:25

lazycogs: Super Lazy Analysis of Massive COG Archives  ·  Henry Rodman · Carr