FedGeoDay 2026 Program
FedGeoDay is on
April 22-23, 2026
Events will be held at Census Bureau in Suitland, MD.
April 22 - Day 1
8:00 AM
Census Bureau
Registration & Networking
9:00 AM
Census Bureau
Welcome
Dr. Ron Jarmin
Deputy Director
U.S. Census Bureau
9:15 AM
Census Bureau
Keynote: Delivering on the Full Potential of Federal Open Geospatial Data
Denice Ross
Senior Fellow
Federation of American Scientists
9:45 AM
Census Bureau
The Future of Open Data for Federal Programs
Eddie Pickle
Sr. District Manager, US Public Sector
Snowflake
Denice Ross
Senior Fellow
Federation of American Scientists
Timothy Stryker
Principal
Hudson Passage, LLC
John Crowley
Head of US Partnerships
MapAction
Andrew Turner
Director & CTO
Esri R&D Center DC
11:00 AM
Census Bureau
Evolving Non-Federal Data Services: New Ways to Think of the National Data Ecosystem
Puneet Kollipara
Geospatial Data Science and Communications Consultant
Maggie Cawley
Executive Director
OpenStreetMap US
Joel Gurin
President & Co-Founder
The Center for Open Data Enterprise
Nagendra Singh
Group Leader, Geospatial Data Modeling Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Frank Donnelly
Head of GIS & Data Services
Brown University Library
12:00 PM
Census Bureau
Lunch
1:00 PM
Census Bureau
Lightning Talks
David Monday
Precisely
Preparing Open Geospatial Data for AI-Driven Decision Making
Shane Brennan
RGi
Classifying Point Clouds with Segment Anything
Ghermay Araya
New Light Technologies
From Startup to Enterprise-Grade Federal Provider of Geospatial & AI Innovation
Jerry Johnston
Deloitte
Earth Observation Foundation Models
Leo Thomas
DevSeed
Building LLM-powered Agents for GeoAI Applications: Lessons Learned
Xan Fredericks
USGS
The Emergency Response Ecosystem of the USGS National Geospatial Program
Maggie Cawley
OpenStreetMap
OSM: Behind the Base Map
Jason Gilman
Element84
Agentic Context Engineering with Large Federal Datasets
Josh Sisco
Xentity
Public, Private and Open Data: Building Authoritative Data Stewardship
Shane Brennan
RGi
Classifying Point Clouds with Segment Anything
Andrea Aime
GeoSolutions
GeoServer 3
Matthew “Hutch” Hutchinson, PhD.
Woolpert
Ontology-Driven Agentic Orchestration of Geospatial Workflows for Interoperability
2:00 PM
Census Bureau
Cloud Hosted SDI: FOSS4G Use Cases
Robert Pitts
Executive Director, Commerce Programs
ActioNet
Ryan Burley
Director of Sales and Business Development
United States and Canada
GeoSolutions USA
Jason Newmoyer
Chief Executive Officer
NGS LLC
2:30 PM
Census Bureau
Adapting to a Data-Rich World: Reimagining Federal Statistical Products for Today’s Environment
Erika Becker-Medina
Senior Leader for Statistical Information Product Development and Use
U.S. Census Bureau
Dr. Sallie Keller
Chief Scientist and Associate Director
U.S. Census Bureau’s Research and Methodology Directorate
Dr. Lori Zehr
Senior Technical Lead
Frames, US Census Bureau
Chase Sawyer
Technical Lead
Data Product Development, U.S. Census Bureau
Dr. Carla Medalia
Senior Technical Advisor
U.S. Census Bureau
3:45 PM
Census Bureau
Open Data Meets Artificial Intelligence - Insights from Federal Executives
Dr. Nadine Alameh
Founder
LunateAI
Katie Baynes
Earth Data Officer and Senior Agency Official for Geospatial Information
NASA
David Carter
Chief Data Officer
Department of the Interior
Dr. Mike Tischler
Acting Associate Director of the Core Science Systems Mission Area
USGS
5:00 PM
Adjourn - Head to Jackie for Happy Hour Social
5:30 PM - 7:00PM
Happy Hour Social
Jackie | Navy Yard Restaurant
FedGeoDay Venue
U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters
4600 Silver Hill Rd, Suitland, MD 20746
Presenters
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Dr. Ron Jarmin
Deputy Director
U.S. Census Bureau -
Denice Ross
Senior Fellow
Federation of American Scientists -
Eddie Pickle
Sr. District Manager, US Public Sector
Snowflake
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John Crowley
Head of Partnerships
MapAction -
Andrew Turner
Director & CTO
Esri R&D Center DC -
Timothy Stryker
Principal
Hudson Passage, LLC -
Puneet Kollipara
Geospatial Data Science and Communications Consultant
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Joel Gurin
President & Co-Founder
The Center for Open Data Enterprise -
Maggie Cawley
Executive Director
-
Nagendra Singh
Group Leader, Geospatial Data Modeling Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory -
Frank Donnelly
Head of GIS & Data Services
Brown University Library
-
Rob Pitts
Executive Director, Commerce Programs
ActionNet
-
Ryan Burley
Director of Sales and Business Development
GeoSolutions -
Jason Newmoyer
Chief Executive Officer
NGS LLC -
Erika Becker-Medina
Senior Leader for Statistical Information Product Development and Use
U.S. Census Bureau -
Dr. Sallie Keller
Chief Scientist and Associate Director
U.S. Census Bureau’s Research and Methodology Directorate -
Dr. Lori Zehr
Senior Technical Lead
Frames, US Census Bureau -
Chase Sawyer
Technical Lead
Data Product Development, U.S. Census Bureau -
Dr. Carla Medalia
Senior Technical Advisor
U.S. Census Bureau -
Dr. Nadine Alameh
Founder
LunateAI
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Dr. Mike Tischler
Acting Associate Director of the Core Science Systems Mission Area and Director of the National Geospatial Program
USGS
-
David Carter
Chief Data Officer
Department of the Interior
-
Katie Baynes
Earth Data Officer and Senior Agency Official for Geospatial Information
NASA