An interactive talk delivering 3D, place-based stories on biodiversity loss, climate pressures, finite resources, and urban growth through three-dimensional storytelling. The audience will witness end-to-end workflows for telling place-based stories at the Anthropocene scale creating powerful narratives that reveal how energy demand interacts with planetary boundaries.

Bonny P. McClain Geospatial Data Scientist and Quantitative Storyteller

This workshop introduces geospatial embeddings – compact numerical representations that encode what's in an image – and shows how they can transform Earth imagery into a searchable, analysis-ready dataset. Using LGND's API, participants will run similarity searches to scan broad areas for features of interest, perform change detection and export results into existing GIS tools.

Noam Rosenthal Head of GTM at LGND AI

PlacePulse is CARTO’s geospatial foundation model, built in collaboration with Applied Geographic Solutions (AGS). It represents every location in the United States as a 256-dimensional embedding that captures its structural characteristics, combining hundreds of demographic, business, economic, health, and environmental variables into a single vector. These embeddings enable workflows such as similarity search, clustering, segmentation, and predictive modeling.

This hands-on workshop introduces PlacePulse Embeddings and shows how they can be used to accelerate geospatial analysis. We will start with the fundamentals of how the model is trained, then move into practical workflows including finding structurally similar areas, screening markets nationwide, filling data gaps, and applying models beyond the regions where they were originally trained. The session will also demonstrate how PlacePulse can be exposed to an AI agent through CARTO for Agents, enabling users to go from a question to a map, analysis, and working application built on the embeddings.

Lucía García-Duarte Data Scientist at CARTO

Gary Menger President at Applied Geographic Solutions, Inc.