SELECT TALKS & MEDIA APPEARANCES
Risk Foresight and the Promise of AI in Food Safety and Security. International Association for Food Protection Annual Meeting. Long Beach, CA, July 2024
Geographic Arbitrage. The HC Commodities Podcast, June 2024. (Listen on Apple or Spotify)
Data, Climate and Real Estate: Overcoming Challenges with Cutting-Edge Technology. Meet the Visionaries – Massachusetts Institute of Technology CRE Podcast. (Spotify Link here) Recorded onsite at MIT, Cambridge, MA, December 2023
Material Movement Through the Biosphere: Climate, Technology & the Agriculture Value Chain. Keynote Plenary Address at the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Conference. Washington, DC. December 2023
Investing in a Complex World. PREA 33rd Annual Institutional Investor Conference. Boston, MA, October 2023
The Data Driven Community. Future Place. Tampa, FL, October 2023
Climate Change and AI: Understanding Economic Impact. Techstrong TV interview with Bonnie Schneider (Video Link). August 2023
Climate Risks and Real Estate Markets. MIT Center for Real Estate Roundtable. (Video Link). Cambridge, MA (virtual), April 2023
Digital Agriculture Opportunities: Identification, Management and Insight for Climate, Water and Food Security. The Future of Food Forum: Transforming Food Systems with Artificial Intelligence. The University of Florida Global Food Systems Institute, Gainesville, March 2023
The Digital Agriculture Opportunity: Applying Machine Learning to Identify and Manage Water Risk. ICRISAT International Conference on Innovations to Transform Drylands. Hyderabad, India, February 2023
From Climate Change to Climate Opportunity. Fireside Chat – Jefferies Real Estate Conference. Miami, December 2022
Water: The Enabling and Limiting Factor Underlying Global Food Security, Geography2050: The Future of Food. New York, November 2022
How Material ESG Issues Impact Company Performance – The Sustainable Finance Podcast. June 2022
Artificial Intelligence in Action – AI Mentors Podcast. February 2022
AI & ESG: Separating Signal from Noise. The New York AI Summit. New York, December 2021
Thoughts on Data Ethics – Geospatial AI, Materiality & ESG. Data Leaders Executive Lounge, Domino Data Labs. New York (virtual), July 2021
What IS Data Science? The Journey to Digital Fluency. Plugin2020 Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Analytics India Virtual Summit, May 2020
The Journey to Digital Fluency. Syngenta North America Summit. Des Moines, February 2020
Alternative Data and Portfolio Management Integration. AI & Emerging Tech for Finance. New York, November 2019
Uncovering Signals in your Data – and what you may be missing. AI & Emerging Tech for Finance. New York, November 2019
Innovation Leadership for a Flourishing World. Setting Goals for a Flourishing World. Wharton IGEL12th Annual Conference. Philadelphia, November 2019
AI Mentors Podcast. Listen on Apple Podcasts. April 2019
Technology solutions for a sustainable water future. The Resource Revolution of Water. Wharton IGEL/Suez Commercial Technology Conference. San Francisco, February 2019
DataSpace Challenges and Opportunities: Agriculture & Natural Resources. DataSpace 2019. Glasgow, Scotland, January 2019
Satellite Applications to the Energy Industry. Space 2.0 Summit, Silicon Valley, Milpitas, CA, April 2017
Location, Weather and the Internet of Things. Big Data Innovation Summit. San Francisco, CA. April 2017
Advances in Data Analytics and global Agricultural Sustainability. National Center for Atmospheric Research. Boulder, CO. March 2017
Next Generation Predictive Analytics. Predictive Analytics Summit. San Diego, CA. March 2017
Data Science, Machine Learning and Global Agriculture (w/AMA session). Mu Sigma Data Science Summit. Bangalore, India. September 2016
Big Data, Predictive Analytics and IoT. CYPHER2016 India Analytics Summit. Bangalore, India. September 2016
The Future of Data Science at The Weather Company/IBM. Interview with Analytics India Magazine. June 2016
Predicting Market Behavior from Geospatial Data. Space 2.0 Summit, Silicon Valley, Milpitas, CA, April 2016
Supply Chain Risk and Sustainability. The Wharton School/University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership. Philadelphia, November 2015
FUEL: Feeding the World at Scale in 2050. Solve@MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 2015
Weather Means Business. WeatherGeeks (The Weather Channel). Episode air date: July 26, 2015
Climate Analytics and Commodity Risk Management. ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India, May 2015
Big Data and Climate Informatics. SugarAsia 2015. New Delhi, India, May 2015
Climate Informatics Lightning Talk. Agriculture Innovations Global Conference. Abu Dhabi, March 2015
From Local to Global: How Do We Think and Feel About Scale? At: ReThink Food. The Culinary Institute of America, St. Helena, CA. November 2014
Commercial Sector Utilization of Advancements in Weather/Climate Informatics. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Boulder, CO, October 2014
Big Data and Agriculture Analytics. BioTech Summit. Zurich Switzerland, October 2013
Global Climate and Agriculture Risk. Future Farm/Agricultural Investment Summit. Singapore, October 2012
Weather, Climate and the World Sugar Market. SugarAsia. Bangkok, Thailand, May 2012
Climate Science and Big Data. American Institute of Engineers Big Data Conference. Arlington, VA, May 2012
Weather Impacts on Agricultural Commodities, 2011. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. New Orleans, January 2012
Atmospheric Analytics. Strata/O’Reilly Media. New York, September 2011
Climate and Global Commodities. Standard Chartered Client Commodity Conference. Hong Kong, June 2011
Personalized Weather: Startup Showcase at Strata Conference, presented by O’Reilly Media. Santa Clara, CA, February 2011
Hydrologic Forecasting for the Alternative Energy Industry. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. Seattle, January 2011
Weather, Climate and Global Food Supply: 2010 Summary. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. Seattle, January 2011
Seasonal Agricultural Prediction for Sugarcane. DataGro seminar, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 2010
Global Climate and Sugar Production. AICA Annual Sugar Conference. Guatemala City, Guatemala, May 2010
Climate, Energy and Agriculture. Syngenta Roundtable. Basel, Switzerland, March 2010
Climate and Food Security. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations seminar. Geneva, Switzerland, March 2010
Climate and the Global Agricultural Supply Chain. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. Atlanta, January 2010
Climate and Food Security. University of Colorado Natural Hazards Annual Conference. Boulder CO, July 2009
Climate Patterns and Threats to Agriculture. SugarAsia09. New Delhi, India, July 2009
Exploring Relationships between Weather and Agricultural Commodities. Africa International Soft Commodities Conference, London, April 2009
US Weather Expectations for the 2009 Grains Complex. Bloomberg Agricultural Commodities Seminar. New York, March 2009
Modeling Future Fraser River Summer Temperature with a Global Climate Model (with J. Miller, G. Russell, D. Patterson,& M. Hague). American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2008
Weather and 2008/09 Sugar Production. SugarAsia08, New Delhi, India, July 2008
New Developments in Long Range Weather Forecasting. Weather Risk Management Association Annual Meeting. Miami, June 2008
Global Weather Visualization: Utilizing Sensor Networks to Monetize Realtime Data. Where 2.0/O’Reilly Media. San Francisco, May 2008
Do Something About the Weather. Money:Tech 2008/O’Reilly Media. New York, February 2008
Extending the Definition of Biogeochemical and Ecophysiological Provinces using Physical Climatology and Biophysical Remote Sensing. Genomes, Medicine and the Environment, Hilton Head, SC, October 2007
Global Climatologically Referenced Spatial Biogeochemical Provinces – A Study of the Atlantic Basin. Metagenomics 2007. UCSD, San Diego, July 2007
Synthetic Biology and Global Climatology – The Future of the Grand BioGeoChemical Cycles. Genomes, Medicine and the Environment. Hilton Head, SC, October 2006
Circumpolar Remote Sensing Applications and the Implications for US Agriculture. 9th Bi-Annual Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium, Seward, Alaska, May 2006
Applied Biometeorology – Utilizing Atmospheric Data Towards the Advancement of Environmental Genomics. Seminar at the J. Craig Venter Institute. Rockville, MD, January 2006
Applied Aerobiology: Utilizing Remote Sensing and Atmospheric Data towards the Advancement of Urban Air Genomics. Genomes, Medicine and the Environment conference. Hilton Head, October 2005
Climate Change and Human Health. Rutgers University Climate Science Symposium. New Brunswick, NJ, March 2004
Seasonality and Agricultural Risk Management. Frontiers in Agriculture and Biology. Brussels Belgium, October 2003
Climate Trends in West Africa. USGS/FEWS annual conference, Sioux Falls, SD, September 2003
Seasonal Climate Prediction for Agricultural Disease Risk Management. New Technologies in Agricultural Risk Management conference, Sydney Australia, February 2003
Seasonal Climate Prediction for Agricultural Disease Risk Management. Chinese Agricultural Ministry Breeders conference, Beijing China, January 2003
SELECT MEDIA
ODSC: Open Data Science Conferences
MIT Podcast Series
Alldus Artificial Intelligence Mentors
Analytics India
WeatherGeeks, The Weather Channel
Weather Brains
CNBC Fast Money, Agricultural Commodities discussions
WIRED
FastCompany
Knowledge@Wharton
Wharton Magazine
BRINK
Project Syndicate
Think Global Health
Energy Central Forums
O’Reilly Conferences & O’Reilly Media
Bloomberg Investor Forums
Talk Radio (WHYY, WAEB), weather & commerce discussions
Jefferies Institutional Investor Forums
Techstrong TV
Standard Chartered Institutional Investor Forums
