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Pre-Summit Virtual Meetings

Summit attendees have the opportunity to learn about AI methodologies that are available to tackle environmental challenges and how to apply them in their own research and communities. Pre-Summit training events prepare attendees for the goals and theme of the Summit.

All attendees must attend the following virtual trainings (recordings and materials available for asynchronous participation):

Navigating CyVerse and Github: A Gateway to Advanced Computation for Science - Wednesday, April 22, 1-3 pm MT

Creative Data Exploration in the Cloud with AI: Innovating with Open Science - Thursday, April 28, 1-3 pm MT

Science Jam: Aligning participants around topics, products, and AI tools - Thursday, April 30, 1-3 pm MT

Summit Training Opportunities:

ESIIL will provide trainings on the following topics at the Summit. You will have the opportunity to attend 2 trainings, 1 on Day 1 and 1 on Day 2. Choose 2 (you may attend the same training 2 times):

  • Earth Embeddings: Introduction to Earth embeddings and encoding earth data into vector representations

  • Digital Twins: AI and CI tools for continental-scale near-real-time data stream, predictions, and forecasting systems

  • LLMs for robust application in environmental sciences

  • AI for causal inference

Please visit our Key Focus Areas page to learn more about these topics.

Leadership Program Invitees:

Date/Time TBD - Leadership Program Launch

Monday, May 11, 1-4 pm MT - Leadership Program (in person)


Last update: 2026-03-19