GeoNYC Relaunch: Climate Week Edition
GeoNYC is back! After running strong up until 2019, it's time to relaunch New York City’s premier geospatial meetup during Climate Week NYC 2025.
This gathering brings together practitioners, technologists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and anyone passionate about the power of location data. From mapping climate risk to building modern geospatial infrastructure, we’ll explore how spatial thinking is shaping the future of cities, business, and the planet.
Schedule
6:00p to 6:15p: Arrival and Intros
6:15p to 7:00p: Lightning Talks
Understanding nature risk for global supply chains from Alex Logan: CEO, Cecil
A walk through of geospatial datasets (raster and vector) being used by large corporations to assess nature risk across their supply chain. The walk through will include location mapping, dataset acquisition, and combining datasets to understand risk.Closing critical geospatial data gaps: Generative AI for gap-filling, entity matching, and verification in emissions modeling and supply chain data from Daniel Sheehan: Director, Data Engineering, Open Supply Hub
This talk explores how Generative AI can address critical geospatial data challenges through gap-filling, entity matching, and data moderation, with applications in both climate modeling and global supply chains. It draws on two real-world implementations: augmenting U.S. building stock attributes for CO₂ emissions modeling through the AWS Generative AI for Geospatial Challenge with the Taylor Geospatial Institute, and deploying production-grade AI for data moderation and verification at Open Supply Hub to support global supply chain mapping. Leveraging AWS Bedrock and LangChain to transform and improve incomplete datasets and data processes, the session will cover practical techniques for dynamic web content augmentation, strategies for validating data and matching entities, and the critical importance of maintaining trust through guardrails, observability, and traceability.Using Apache Airflow, Iceberg and Wherobots to analyze flash floods from Matt Forrest, Wherobots
Flash floods have had an impact around the world and the United States as climate issues have continued to expand. Even in the New York area we have seen this issue continue to expand. This talk will focus on how a modern tech stack can identify at risk areas and understand flooding even in an urban environment.Panel with Speakers
7:00p to 8:00p - Networking and Discussions
What to expect:
Networking with NYC’s geospatial community — from longtime veterans to newcomers
Lightning talks on cutting-edge projects in GIS, Earth observation, and climate data
A chance to learn how geospatial tools are powering climate solutions and beyond
Whether you’re a GIS analyst, data scientist, urban planner, climate advocate, cartographer, or just curious about the geospatial world, this is your chance to plug back into the NYC community and help shape the next chapter of GeoNYC.