Tuesday, January 27, 9 to 10:30 a.m.
Opening Plenary: Partnerships, Resilience, and Reflecting on Indigenous Relations in Open Science
- Chad Berginnis, executive director, Association of State Floodplain Managers
- Rachael Dempsey, deputy assistant administrator for Navigation, Observations, and Positioning, NOAA’s National Ocean Service
- Keynote Speaker: Katie Jones, research scientist, National Science Foundation’s National Ecological Observatory Network and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Nation, “Reflecting Indigenous Relations in Open Science, Coastal Management, and Geospatial Analyses”
Wednesday, January 28, 9 to 10:30 a.m.
A Data Sovereignty Panel Discussion
- Jean Tanimoto, Pacific regional director, NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management
- Tony LaVoi, chief data officer, NOAA’s Chief Information Office
- Beth Roach, campaign manager, Sierra Club’s National Water Conservation and vice chair, Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia’s Tribal Council
- Garet Coach, president and chief executive officer, National Tribal Geographic Information Support Center
- Nathan Lillie, special assistant to the Deputy Director of Trust, Bureau of Indian Affairs (invited)
This panel will discuss issues around data sovereignty including: what data are we talking about, what are the challenges that communities, including Indigenous communities and tribes, are facing, and what are our ways forward.