SELECT TALKS & MEDIA APPEARANCES

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