Webinar Series 1: Concept, Practices, and Vision:
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jacqueline Le Moigne, NASA AIST
Panelist: Mr. Stan Posey, NVIDIA Inc.,
Dr. Michael Goodchild, UCSB, National Academy member and co-Founder of Digital Earth International Society
Webinar Series 2: Conceptual Architecture, Examples and Interoperability
Panelist: Laura Carriere, head of the NASA Center for Climate Simulations (NCCS
Ryan Berkheimer, Physical Scientist of NOAA NESDIS NCEI
Ben Lewis, Geospatial Technology Manager, Harvard Center for Geographical Analysis
Webinar Series 3: Big Earth Data, Analytics and Climate Change
Co-Chairs: Dr. Wendy Guan, Harvard University and Dr. Zhenlong Li, University of South Carolina
Kenneth S. Casey, Deputy Chief, Data Stewardship Division at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and 2021 President of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
Dr. Daniel Duffy, Chief of the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO, Code 606) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Panelist: Dr. Daniel Brown, UW-Seattle & Dr. Tom Allen, Old Dominion University
Webinar Series 4: Modeling for Air Quality (Leveraging AI and Geophysical Models)
Dr. Mohammad Pourhomayoun, CSU-LA
Dr. Wenfu Tang, NCAR, MUSICA
Panelist: Dr. Thomas Huang, NASA JPL
Panelist: Mrs. Anusha Srirenganathanmalarvizhi, George Mason University
Webinar Series 5: Geospatial AI and Digital Twins in Contemporary Infrastructure
Keynote Speaker: Song Gao, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dave Page, Oakridge National Lab
Panelist: Gengchen Mai, University of Georgia
Panelist: Douglas Rao, NC State Climate Institute
Webinar Series 6: Ethics
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Daniel Sui, Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation, Virginia Tech
Panelist: Dr. Peter Darch, Associate Professor, the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Faculty Affiliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Panelist: Dr. Junhwan King, Assistant Professor, Smart Cities for Good, Department of Geography, Virginia Tech
Webinar Series 7: Health
Keynote Speakers: Dr. David Watkins, MD, MPH, Global Health | Internal Medicine, University of Washington & Dr. Ilya Shmulevich, Ph.D. Institute of System Biology (ISB)
Panelist: Shane Liu, Chief Technologist, Booz Allen Hamilton & Lingchao Mao, Ph.D. candidate, Georgia Institute of Technology
Webinar Series 8: Exploratory Solutions for Earth Observation Digital Twins
Keynote Speaker: Ramesh Rangachar, (The Aerospace Corporation) – Ground Systems Architect, NOAA NESDIS Systems Architecture and Engineering
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rebekah Esmaili
Keynote Speaker: Lynn Montgomery, (Lockheed Martin)
Dr. Jeff Steward, Principal Research Scientist, Orion Space Solutions
Digital Twins Webinar 9: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Twins
Speaker: Ruichuan Zhang, Associate Professor at Virginia Tech
Speaker: Yi Wang, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Speaker: Alex Liu, CEO of RMDS Lab
Speaker: Petros Koumoutsakos, Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard,
Digital Twins Webinar 10: Research Roadmap for Digital Twin
Speaker: Xinyue Ye, Harold Adams Endowed Professor in Urban Informatics and Stellar Faculty Provost Target Hire at Texas A&M University
Speaker: Pierre Goovaerts (PhD), Chief Scientist at BioMedware
Speaker: James Kinter, Professor Director, The Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, George Mason University
Digital Twins Webinar 11: Economic Impacts of Climate Change
Keynote: Laura A. Bakkensen, Associate Professor, School of Government & Public Policy, University of Arizona
Keynote: Martin Rama, Former World Bank Chief Economist, Latin America and Caribbean
Panelist: Daniel Riera-Crichton, Betty Doran Stangle Professor of Applied Economics
Panelist: Luis Ortiz Assistant Professor in Climate Applications at George Mason University