| June 18, 2025: Webinar 15: Digital Twin Center of Excellence Workshop – This session brought together a diverse group of researchers and professionals to explore the implications of digital twin technology. After viewing ten presentations, participants discussed the use cases of DTs and their ability to address Grand Challenges such as human health, climate change, and food security. Emphasis was placed on the importance of collaboration among government, industry, and academia stakeholders to drive continued innovation. |
| May 22–24, 2025: Digital Twins Webinar 14: Geography of Digital Twins – The session explored digital twins—virtual models of real-world systems—and their applications in geospatial analysis, data science, and urban planning. It featured workshops, keynote speeches, panel discussions, and a virtual symposium on spatiotemporal data science. Other topics covered include modeling, augmented reality, big data, high-performance computing, workflows, and the ethical implications of digital twins. It brought together experts from academia, industry, government, and NGOs. |
| March 28, 2025: Digital Twins Webinar Series 13: A New Paradigm of Digital Transformation to Fill the Last Gap of Making Your Research Count – Digital twin is emerging as the new paradigm of digital transformation with a focus on end user or problem solving. It is envisioned to automatically replicate a problem, predict what could happen, and test solutions with what-if answering capabilities. There are fundamental challenges to be investigated from geospatial cyberinfrastructure to community decision making. This session discusses the concept, a national study, automation, GeoAI, transportation, and ethics, trust and uncertainty perspectives. |
| December 13, 2024: Digital Twins Webinar Series 12: Advanced Digital Twin Information Systems and Earth Action II Oral – This session will be an interdisciplinary program about utilizing the power of DTs for a variety of Earth Action topics: Climate, sea level rise, weather impacts, disasters, terrestrial and marine ecosystem change, urban and agricultural flooding risks, prolonged drought and related topics. Related presentations that describe current and future DT systems along with novel data ingest, digital replicas as emulators, AI/ML, validation and outward facing technologies (e.g., results visualization and user interaction) are welcome. |
| October 4, 2024: Digital Twins Webinar 11: Economic Impacts of Climate Change – This Digital Twin Webinar aims to discussion Climate Change a topic that has deep and long-term impacts to our home planet and human society. One of such impact is the economic fluctuation, this webinar invited four experts to discuss how to measure economic change using air quality observations, economic impact by natural hazards, and climate change impact on insurance. |
| July 24, 2024: Digital Twins Webinar 10: Research Roadmap for Digital Twins – This Digital Twin Webinar aims to discussion the complexities and opportunities in prediction capabilities and spatial-temporal data integration. The insights shared will underscore the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, continuous model improvement, and effective communication of uncertainty to enhance decision-making processes in the face of growing research challenges. |
| April 30, 2024: Digital Twins Webinar Series 9: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Twins – What the challenges and opportunities of Digital Twin innovation and research? This webinar brings together five experts to introduce their experiences with 5G network, sustainability & intelligence, agriculture, knowledge discovery and building structures. They will also highlight the opportunities and challenges encountered in their projects. |
| March 18, 2024: Digital Twins Webinar 8: Exploratory Solutions for Earth Observation Digital Twins – In fiscal year 2022, NOAA announced its interest via Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) in exploring digital twin technology via solution prototypes that allow it to analyze ways in which it might enhance its ability to process, monitor, quality-control, consolidate, fuse, and assimilate environment observations and streamline the satellite data ground processing and dissemination to users and applications. In this webinar, three distinct solutions that were explored through this partnership will be contextualized and presented. The keynote speaker and solution authors will provide a description of their activities, approaches, and how they may open up opportunities for future products and services. |
| March 1, 2024: Digital Twins Webinar Series 7: Public Health – Join us for the seventh webinar in our Digital Twin (DT) series, exploring the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Public Health and Healthcare. DT offers a groundbreaking approach to replicating and analyzing real-world healthcare systems, leveraging AI to fuse diverse data sources and simulate the current state of physical counterparts. In this webinar, we are thrilled to feature keynote speeches by renowned experts in the relevant fields, and our distinguished panelists, including industry leaders and researchers, will further explore the applications and challenges of Digital Twins in healthcare. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights into the future of AI-driven DTs in transforming public health and healthcare delivery. |
| December 18, 2023: Digital Twins Webinar Series 6: Ethics– Ethics, trust and confidence is a challenging aspect for digital twins. We invite you to join three leading scholars to discuss the opportunities and challenges. |
| October 27, 2023: Digital Twins Webinar Series 5: Geospatial AI and Digital Twins in Contemporary Infrastructure – Digital Twins will engage big data from various sources. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have been utilized to process the big data for actionable information. We invited two keynote speakers to addressed the GeoAI opportunities and challenges, HPC Image processing and digital twins, foundation models and AI at ESIP and relevant NOAA divisions will also discussed by two panelists. |
| September 26, 2023: Digital Twins Webinar 4: Modeling for Air Quality (Leveraging AI and Geophysical Models) – Digital Twins are envisioned to have the capability of forecasts and prediction based on modelling and simulation. This webinar features both geophysical-based modeling and AI/ML-based modeling for air quality by two experts. They are joined by two others to discuss the opportunities and challenges of integrated modeling for digital twins using air quality as an example. This webinar presents diversified views from government labs, centers, academia and innovation. |
| August 28, 2023: Digital Twins Webinar 3: Big Earth Data, Analytics and Climate Change – One of the important digital twin functionalities is to fuse large amount of data to replicate the current status of a physical twin, the 3rd webinar of the digital twin series features keynotes from NOAA and NASA to introduce their unique capabilities on producing, archiving, analyzing, and processing big earth data to replicate the climate change and relevant disasters. Two academic experts join them to discuss the opportunities and challenges of big earth data, analytics and climate change driven by flooding and wildfire. |
| July 24, 2023: Digital Twins Webinar Series 2: Conceptual Architecture, Examples and Interoperability – The architecture of a digital system defines flexibility, capability, and functionality. This 2nd digital webinar series invites two architecture experts as keynotes with a panelist to discuss the architecture needs of a digital twin. |
| June 15, 2023: Digital Twins Webinar Series 1: Concept, Practices, and Vision – What is a Digital Twin? Why has this topic taken the research world by storm, and will it really meet its potential? We invited the leading managers and scholars to discuss theses topics of Digital Twins and their potential applications in this introductory webinar. |
