Former Vice President Al Gore is the cofounder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, and the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit d...
Kenneth Roth is the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world's leading international human rights organizations, which operates in more than 90 countries...
Will Marshall is the Co-Founder and CEO of Planet. He leads the overall company strategy and direction. Prior to Planet, Will was a Scientist at NASA/USRA where he was a s...
Robbie Schingler is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Planet. As CSO of Planet, Robbie leads the company’s long-term strategic trajectory and manages Plan...
Referred to as “the most famous astronaut since Neil Armstrong,” Colonel Chris Hadfield is a worldwide sensation whose video of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” – seen by over...
Achim Steiner became UNDP Administrator on 19 June 2017 and will serve for a term of four years. The United Nations General Assembly confirmed his nomination on 19 April 2...
Dr. Stacey A. Dixon is the eighth Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). In this role, she assists the director in leading the agency and in...
A landscape architect by training, Jack Dangermond founded Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) in 1969 with a vision that computer mapping and analysis could h...
Michael Bloomberg has long been a global leader in the fight against climate change. As three-term mayor of New York City, he implemented a groundbreaking strategic sustai...
In July 1960, Jane Goodall began her landmark study of chimpanzee behavior in what is now Tanzania. Her work at Gombe Stream would become the foundation of future primatol...
As Planet’s senior vice president of Product, Martin is responsible for helping to guide product vision and strategies moving forward. Before joining Planet, Van Ryswyk wa...
Andrew oversees Global Impact Initiatives at Planet, working to ensure that the company’s data, products and services achieve their highest humanitarian, sustainable devel...
Dave Winnacker has been in the fire service for 16 years in Fresno City, Alameda County, and Moraga-Orinda Fire District. Since becoming the fire chief in 2017 he has deve...
As an urban techno-ecologist, Nadinè Galle is on a mission to increase urban tree longevity and now designs and deploys the technology to make it possible. Nadinè is the c...
Dr. Erik Lindquist is currently a Forestry Officer with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization based in Quito, Ecuador. He has 23 years of experience in remo...
Tara is passionate about realigning natural and human systems to forge more sustainable models of economic development, and has worked across the academic, nonprofit, fina...
As the Meteorology Program Manager, Chris has full managerial and technical responsibility for the provision of weather products and forecasts that enable situational awar...
As the Geospatial Manager at The Stanford Geospatial Center I provide support and collaboration to the Stanford research community in capturing and making sense of the “wh...
Jenna Mukuno is Senior Manager, Product Marketing, where she’s responsible for leading go-to-market strategy for and positioning of Planet’s core products. She previously ...
Justin Davis is a Senior Product Manager at Planet, focused on developing Analytic Feeds which leverage deep learning to identify objects and features of interest from Pla...
Asa Strong is a Product Manager at Planet working on data integrations and developer relations. Prior to Planet, Asa helped engineer and manage products for the Global For...
As part of the Professional Services team at Planet, Torben develops custom solutions for customers where Planet's standard offerings don't quite fit their requireme...
Louis Rousmaniere is a Senior Product Manager of Imagery Products at Planet. With 10+ years experience in satellite imaging, he spent the past six years working with the S...
Josef Aschbacher is the ESA Director of Earth Observation Programmes and Head of ESRIN, ESA’s centre for Earth Observation, located in Frascati (near Rome), Italy. Born in...
Agnieszka Lukaszczyk is the Senior Director for European Affairs at Planet. A Polish/American national, has worked at the European Commission, Directorate General for Inte...
Mike Berzinis is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Registered Forester in North Carolina (NCRF 1513) and a forest technology expert. He has led the creation and growth of t...
Bob Russell has been the Deputy Director for Humboldt County’s Planning and Building Department for the past three years. He has previously worked for Raytheon Company as...
Hannah Kerner is part of the University of Maryland Harvest Hub, providing research support for Harvest activities. Hannah works on developing machine learning solutions f...
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at CNS. Before coming to CNS, he was the director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation ...
Doreen's work focuses on the application of remotely sensed data (from proximal through to space borne platforms) to better understand pressing environmental and societal ...
Margaret's work combines remotely sensed data from field spectroscopy, UAV and airborne platforms along with satellite imagery to investigate environmental research questi...
Catherine Nakalembe is part of the University of Maryland Harvest Hub, providing support and coordination for Harvest activities in East Africa, working in Kenya, Tanzania...
Agnes Pyrchla is a Product Manager at Planet, focusing on web apps. Her mission is to enable people of all skill levels to engage with geospatial data and collaborate effe...
Ariel is a Product Manager focused on Planet’s search and data delivery experiences, helping customers access, analyze, and build on more than 200M+ square kilometers of i...
Jonathan Evens lives to build ground-breaking products in various exciting domains such as space and energy and specializes in applying machine learning to solve industry ...
Samapriya Roy has a Ph.D. in remote sensing and geospatial applications. His background in geospatial applications with a focus on complex system interactions allows for t...
Işıl is Director of Mission Systems at Planet, where she has worked for the last 5 years, building Mission Control systems to fully automate large constellation satellite ...
Since 2015 Creon has worked at Planet Labs, where he is the Chief Technologist, Director or R&D, and a Planet Fellow. Prior to that, he worked at NASA Ames Research Center...
Matthew McCabe is a Professor of Remote Sensing and Water Security at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. McCabe and his team research topi...
Charcey Petersen is from Des Moines, Iowa where she works as a Remote Sensing Software Engineer for Granular Inc. Her formal training is in Geographic Information Systems ...
Leland is a Geospatial Analyst in the Tailings, Crushed Leach, and Water Department at Freeport-McMoRan. He is a trained ecophysiologist and geographer, who uses multidisc...
Johoner leads the Geomatics team of the Colombian National Authority of Environmental Permits and Licenses (Autoridad Nacional de Licencias Ambientales - ANLA). He`s cadas...
Ricardo Bastidas is a Senior Geospatial Engineer who leads the observation geospatial team at the Colombian National Mining Agency. His team works on developing new approa...
Rachel is a Senior Product Manager on Granular's Remote Sensing team, which supports Corteva's Digital Services with satellite imagery that farmers use to optimize profita...
Betul is a seasoned GIS and Remote Sensing Specialist with B.S. in Geomatics Engineering and M.Sc. GIS & Remote Sensing from Istanbul Technical University at Doktar. She m...
Jose Crummet has been the GIS Manager for El Dorado County in California for nearly 30 years. Experience with aerial imagery includes: the use of publicly available imager...
Jin Wu is a broadly trained ecosystem ecologist. His lab is now working to develop rigorous multi-sensor fusion techniques to integrate high resolution Planet data with MO...
Marek Mlčoušek is a director of the regional branch of the Forest Management Institute (FMI) which deals with the development remote sensing products in forestry. The FMI...
Thomas Jarzombek is the Economic Affairs Ministry’s Commissioner for the Digital Industry and Start-ups. Further to this, he is also the Federal Government Coordinator of ...
Dr. Kaiyu Guan is a Blue Waters Assistant Professor in ecohydrology and remote sensing in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES), College of...
Chris leads Salo’s technical and visual design while pursuing his Ph.D. in Biology at the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. At Salo, he’s the residen...
Geospatial Solutions and Imagery Product Consultant, Geoplex Brittany is a Geospatial Consultant based in the Geoplex Sydney office with more than 5 years’ experience de...
Oswando Nenquimo, better known as Opi, is a member of the Waorani Nation. He is an activist, spokesperson for the Waorani resistance in Pastaza (Ecuadorian Amazon), and a ...
Rasmus Houborg is a Geospatial Systems Engineer and Scientist leading the sensor data fusion work at Planet. He has a M.S. and Ph.D. in Physical Geography from the Univers...
Tim has an educational background in remote sensing and has made a career developing geospatial solutions with open source software. Tim is enjoying working with teammate...
Aaron is a geographer and experienced remote sensing scientist. His career in natural resources and satellite image analytics has taken him from the arctic circle to the A...
Timiebi Aganaba works in global space governance law and environmental advocacy. Aganaba’s work promotes regional collaborations among countries to maximize the presence o...
Dheeraj Mehra is the Founder and CEO of Micronet Solutions, a GIS and remote sensing solutions provider that pioneered cadastral/parcel mapping in India. With two decades...
Dr. Tanya Harrison is the Manager of Science Programs for Planet Federal. She works with applied science in the research community across federal civilian science agencies...
Mr. Pete Muend is the Director of the National Reconnaissance Office’s Commercial Systems Program Office (CSPO) where he leads the NRO’s strategy for full integration of m...
Ms. Susan Kalweit is the Director of the Analysis Directorate at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. As the Director of Analysis, she is responsible for leading N...
Benjamin Koetz works as Senior Application and Mission Scientist in the Earth Observation Directorate of the European Space Agency. His tasks focus on the development of E...
Theresa Hitchens is the Space & Air Reporter at Breaking Defense as of April 2019. Previously, she spent three years as a Senior Research Associate at Center for Internati...
Rosanne Saccone is Planet’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). She leads Planet’s marketing team, and is focused on helping Planet scale, accelerate revenue growth and amplify...
Dr. Dembo has had a distinguished academic research career at Yale University and as a visiting professor at MIT. He was also the Founder and CEO of Algorithmics Incorpora...
Margarita Mora started her career working on land titling of Indigenous and Afro-descendent territories in Northwestern Ecuador, where she learned firsthand about the stru...
Matt is a Managing Director and co-head of Carbon Tracker’s Power & Utilities Team. Matt was previously an analyst at Jefferies, an American investment bank, where he was ...
Dr. Anna Winters is the co-founder and CEO of Akros. She leads the open-source spatial intelligence platform, Reveal which creates impact by using satellite imagery and sp...
Dr. Hugh Sturrock is Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Locational, a startup dedicated to making spatial analysis more accessible. A spatial epidemiologist by traini...
Emily is the Executive Director and Founder of Digital Democracy and is passionate about leveraging technology to empower marginalized communities. Beginning her career as...
David Jensen is the coordinator of the Digital Transformation Task Force at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In this capacity, he is responsible for develo...
Dr. Lucas Joppa leads sustainability at Microsoft, as the company’s first Chief Environmental Officer. In this role, he works to advance Microsoft’s core commitment to sus...
Professor Danielle Wood serves as an Assistant Professor in Media Arts & Sciences and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at the Mass...
Alex Otake is a Senior Sales Manager in NTT DATA. NTT DATA is a leading IT services provider and global innovation partner headquartered in Tokyo, with business operations...
Dr. St. Germain is the Division Director of the Earth Science Division, in the Science Mission Directorate at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Head...
Jim Thomason is VP of Imagery Products at Planet, where he oversees a world-class team building innovative imagery and data solutions that make global change visible, acc...
Marshall Burke is associate professor in the Department of Earth System Science and Center Fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University...
Zachary Cohen is a writer and reporter for CNN Politics, where he focuses on the national security beat in Washington, covering the Pentagon, US State Department, White Ho...
Samuel Myers, MD, MPH studies the human health impacts of accelerating disruptions to Earth’s natural systems, a field recently dubbed Planetary Health. He is a Principal ...
Jen Marcus is the Vice President, US Government Strategic Partnerships at Planet. She has spent the last 10+ years contributing to revenue growth of the Defense and Intell...
Austin is a Sales Engineering Manager at L3Harris with 10+ years of experience in algorithm development, custom software solutions engineering, and product management. Aus...
Nate is responsible for all customer-facing and partner functions, and drives the go-to-market strategy for Planet’s data and analytics. With 20 years experience in the en...
Xiaoxiang Zhu is the Professor for Signal Processing in Earth Observation at the Technical University of Munich, the head of the department of Earth Observation Data Scien...
Jesse Hamlin joined HALO in 2014. He is responsible for supporting all HALO programs with GIS, database, and information management. He holds a bachelor’s degree in GIS f...
Beau Legeer is a solutions manager at Esri focused on Imagery and Remote Sensing based data and analytics. He has over 25 years of experience working with commercial and gov...
Previously a product manager at Microsoft, Expedia, Google, and Co-Founder of PicMonkey, Charlie now leads the development and partnership of the AllenCoralAtlas.Org for V...
David Kroodsma leads Global Fishing Watch’s Research Program, which is a collaboration between Global Fishing Watch and a network of over 10 research institutions. He is r...
Dr. Joe Mascaro is a tropical ecologist and remote sensing scientist, and director of Planet’s Education and Research Program. He works with other scientists to build scie...
Daniel Barcay is VP of Platform Products for Planet Labs, where he focuses on enabling users to extract novel, actionable insights from daily global satellite imagery thro...
Dr. Justin Huntington is a the founder and chief scientist at Climate Engine and is a research professor of Hydrology at the Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada. His r...
Greg Asner is the Director of the Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science at Arizona State University. He also serves as a Professor in ASU’s School of Geogr...
As an Associate Vice President, Programs, Jamie’s primary responsibility is the management and oversight of a portfolio of investments that assist focus countries in reach...
Antha Williams leads the Environment Program at Bloomberg Philanthropies, supporting Michael Bloomberg's personal efforts to combat climate change as well as initiatives t...
Ashley Fieglein Johnson is Planet's Chief Financial Officer. She is an expert in corporate strategy, business development and finance, and has extensive experience buildin...
Erika works as a researcher at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. She works closely with the teams’ analysts on data management and coordination, finding inf...
Lorenzo Bernasconi is a Managing Director within the Innovative Finance team at The Rockefeller Foundation. His responsibilities include managing the Zero Gap portfolio, a...
Oswando Nenquimo, better known as OPI, is a member of the Waorani Nation. He is an activist, a political spokesperson of the Waorani resistance in Pastaza (Ecuador), and d...
Tui Shortland (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Raukawa ki te tonga) hails from Aotearoa (New Zealand). Tui has worked with Indigenous authorities, leadership, and land trusts in environ...
John Mulcahy is Vice President of Sustainability for Georgia-Pacific. In this role, John is responsible for the company’s overall sustainability efforts. This includes wor...
Glenn Hurowitz is the founder and CEO of Mighty Earth, a global environmental organization. Glenn leads campaigns to protect forests, conserve oceans, and solve climate ch...
Aparna works on the Business Development team at Planet, with a focus on strategic partnerships and the stereo/3D market. She is a passionate environmentalist and part of ...
John Atkinson is the Global VP of Partnerships at Planet. In this capacity, he is responsible for building and nurturing relationships with ecosystem partners so we can be...
Harun Dogo is an Executive Director in the Global Sustainable Finance group at Morgan Stanley, where he leads the Firm’s ESG data efforts and quantitative integration of s...
Throughout her 20 years at the World Bank, Vivien has played a variety of leadership roles and contributed to client dialogue, as well as advisory and lending engagements,...
Aarathi Krishnan specializes in strategic foresight for the humanitarian and development sector. A seasoned expert with over 15 years experience globally, she works at the...
Dr. Lilian Pintea brings more than twenty-five years of experience in adopting and using satellite imagery and GIS to the job of conserving chimpanzees and their vanishing...
James Manyika is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), and a member of McKinsey’s board of directors. Based in Silicon V...
Rebecca Dalrymple is the business unit manager and product owner for Livestock Improvement Corporation’s satellite sourced pasture measurement service SPACE™. Rebecca join...