CNG Zürich
A CNG community gathering in Zürich, Switzerland.
Join us in Zürich for an afternoon of talks, demos, and community with cloud-native geospatial practitioners at the Meta Offices, from 2 to 6 PM, followed by a reception at a nearby venue from 6:30 PM.
CNG Zürich is part of the 2026 CNG global event series. To support the series, please see the CNG 2026 Community Partner Program.
Agenda
| Opening | ||
| 13:30 | Doors open, check-in & coffee | |
| 14:00 | Welcome & Introduction | Jed SundwallRadiant Earth |
| 14:10 | Welcome from our hosts | Meta Zürich |
| Session 1: Open infrastructure, built in the open15-minute talks, joint Q&A at the end | ||
| 14:15 | From Tiles to Trust: Operating a National Near-Real-Time Sentinel-2 / Aerial Imagery Pipeline on COGs and STACLessons from two years of running swisstopo's serverless pipelines that publish analysis-ready imagery to a national STAC catalogue within hours of acquisition. | David Oeschswisstopo |
| 14:30 | Mapterhorn Terrain and ImageryAggregating open terrain and aerial imagery from government platforms, and distributing it as PMTiles on Source Cooperative and Cloudflare R2. | Oliver WipfliMapterhorn |
| 14:45 | Serverless Spatial Data Infrastructures with PortolanWhat if a spatial data infrastructure could just be files in a bucket? An open spec, toolkit and registry for publishing catalogs on object storage. | Nissim LebovitsRadiant Earth |
| 15:00 | The Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) Atlas: Accelerating Energy Access through Geospatial DataThe architecture behind settlement-level energy access analytics for 58 countries, published in cloud-native formats on Source Cooperative. | Giorgio BasileVIDA.place |
| 15:15 | Q&A with Session 1 speakers | |
| 15:25 | Coffee break | |
| Session 2: Cloud-native at scale15-minute talks, joint Q&A at the end | ||
| 15:40 | From ArcGIS to Cloud Native: Rebuilding Geocoding for Catastrophe ModellingHow Swiss Re moved from a six-month desktop GIS update cycle to automated cloud-native pipelines for global reference data. | Jan WinklerSwiss Re |
| 15:55 | Terrazarr: Multiscale GeoZarr at Planetary ScaleAn open-source library for lazy, resumable GeoZarr pyramids, used to build a global 10 m settlement raster in about three hours. | Federico OldaniMindEarth |
| 16:10 | Lancelot: Millisecond-Speed Similarity Search on Commodity Hardware at Global ScaleSearching ~7 billion Earth observation embeddings in tens of milliseconds on a single node and plain object storage. | Hutch IngoldEarth Genome |
| 16:25 | Earth Engine in a Cloud-Native, Agent-Driven WorldHow the Earth Engine team is thinking about open standards, cloud-native formats, interoperability and AI agents. | Michael DeWittGoogle |
| 16:40 | Q&A with Session 2 speakers | |
| 16:50 | Break | |
| Lightning talks & sprint readout5 minutes each | ||
| 17:00 | Exploring a Zarr 3D Cube with SQL in the BrowserLive demo. | Gjore MilevskiDevelopment Seed |
| 17:05 | Equal Earth Maps Using Cloud-Optimized Formats | Pirmin KalbererSourcepole |
| 17:10 | From Parquet Files to an Evolving Cloud-Native Climate-Adaptation Analysis | Stephan HeuelResilens |
| 17:15 | Geo Embeddings Sprint readoutResults from the two-day sprint at IBM Zürich, 27–28 October. | Michelle RobyRadiant Earth |
| Panel discussion | ||
| 17:25 | Making the Shift: Cloud-Native Inside Swiss InstitutionsWhat actually changed when teams moved to open formats on object storage, and what's still missing. Moderated by Jed Sundwall. | David OeschswisstopoJan WinklerSwiss ReStephan HeuelResilensMichael DeWittGoogle |
| Closing | ||
| 17:50 | Closing | Jed SundwallRadiant Earth |
| 18:30 | ReceptionAt a nearby venue, to be announced. Until ~21:00. | |