Climate & Environmental Data Day
Climate and environmental data underpins trillions of dollars in decisions. But the systems that produce and sustain the data are more fragile than they appear. The ecosystem has long been fragmented, and current pressures are now disrupting the decades of specialized expertise, investments, and networks that hold it together.
Join experts during DC Climate Week for Climate & Environmental Data Day, which will explore how organizations are responding to these disruptions, building new coordination mechanisms, and reimagining what a climate and environmental data ecosystem can look like. Co-organized by the Data Foundation, the Impact Project, Open Environmental Data Project (OEDP), the Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP), the Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC), and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI), this full-day event features leaders from academia, government, the private sector and civil society at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Keck Building.
Attendees will have the chance to connect with others working on climate and environmental data and learn how a community of like-minded organizations are coordinating to move the field forward. This is a drop-in event, so feel free to come and go throughout the day. The program runs from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM, with confirmed speakers listed below and more to be announced.
9:30 AM | Plenary Speaker
9:45 AM | Rapid Response in Action: How Organizations Are Keeping Critical Information Flowing
Brittany Janis, Executive Director, Open Environmental Data Project (OEDP)
Gretchen Gehrke, Cofounder and Web Governance Program Leader, Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)
University of Maryland, Center for Global Sustainability
Tom DiLiberto, Media Director, Climate Central
Melanie Klein, America’s Essential Data / Data Index.us
The Strengthening Human Infrastructure Project, Aspen Global Change Institute
10:45 AM | Building More Resilient, Interconnected Systems Across Networks, Scales, and Sectors
Sonia Wang, Senior Advisor, Data Foundation
Kasey White, Director, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate and Polar Research Board, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Katie Hoeberling, Deputy Director, Open Environmental Data Project
Megha Mehdiratta, Senior Innovation Associate, The New York Climate Exchange
Liz Crocker, Director, Thriving Earth Exchange, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
11:30 AM | Former Federal Leaders on Implementation Realities, Success Stories, and the Challenges You Don't See
Steve Volz, Former Assistant Administrator, NOAA Satellite and Information Service
Bill Hohenstein, Former Director, USDA Office of Energy and Environmental Policy
Christa Peters-Lidard, Former Director, Sciences and Exploration Directorate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Tim Stryker, Former Director, U.S. Group on Earth Observations, OSTP; Former Chief, Outreach and Collaboration Branch, USGS National Land Imaging Program
1:15 PM | How Political Leaders Connect Climate and Environmental Data to Action
Daniel Bresette, President, Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI)
Hannah Safford, Associate Director for Climate and Environment, Federation of American Scientists
Kate Konschnik, Democratic Chief Counsel, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
2:00 PM | Building Resilient Data Systems Beyond Federal Government
Leanne Spaulding, Resilience and Data Lead, Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Suzanne Dorsey, Deputy Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment
Puneet Kollipara, Data Translation and Outreach Lead for HIFLD Next, Fulton Ring
Mikel Maron, Product and Operations Lead, Earth Genome; Vice Board Chair, The Commons
Betsy Hnath, Deputy Executive Director, RISE Resilience Innovations
3:00 PM | Building Toward Connectivity: The Technical Choices That Get Us There
Jonathan Gilmour, Co-Executive Director, The Impact Project
Annmarie Eldering, Senior Fellow, Data Foundation
Sarah Craft, COO & Head of Partnerships, JustAir Solutions
John Dawes, Executive Director and Co-founder, The Commons
DC Climate Week is not responsible for this event. It is organized by the organizing group, and being listed on the DCCW calendar is not an endorsement of content or partners.