Franco Amalfi is the Head of Sustainability Strategy, Global Public Sector for Google Cloud. In this capacity, Franco is responsible for the go to market strategy for climate insights solutions globally. He is focused on advising governments to effectively use modern cloud based solutions and emerging technologies to analyze earth observation data at scale to inform adaptation strategies.

In addition to working with customers, Franco authors and publishes whitepapers and articles on leveraging technology to drive business value for governments. He is also a frequent speaker at government conferences. He is a graduate of McGill University and has completed an advanced certificate for executives in Management, Innovation, and Technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francoamalfi/
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Lucas Joppa is Senior Managing Director and Chief Sustainability Officer for Haveli Investments, a technology focused private equity company, where he helps a growing portfolio of companies achieve net zero carbon operations while also investing in companies building software solutions to sustainability challenges.

Michael C. Morgan, Ph.D. is the assistant secretary of commerce for environmental observation and prediction. In this role, Dr. Morgan is responsible for providing agency-wide direction with regard to weather, water, climate, and ocean observations, including in situ instruments and satellites, and the process of converting observations to predictions for environmental threats.

Dr. Dominique David-Chavez is Director of the Indigenous Land & Data Stewards Lab and Assistant Professor of Indigenous Natural Resource Stewardship at Colorado State University. She works as an Associate with the Native Nations Institute at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at University of Arizona, where she partners with the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, and is a co-author on the 5th National Climate Assessment Tribes and Indigenous Peoples Chapter currently underway. Dr. David-Chavez draws from her experiences as a multicultural Caribbean Indigenous (Arawak Taíno) community member, research scientist, educator, and learner in her scholarship and practice. In doing so, she holds an intergenerational commitment towards supporting culturally grounded community members as researchers and science leaders, restoring pathways for knowledge regeneration with the original stewards of Indigenous knowledge systems and lands in which they are embedded.

Dr. Amy McGovern is a Lloyd G. and Joyce Austin Presidential Professor in the School of Computer Science and School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma.  She is also the director and principal investigator for the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography, also known as AI2ES.  AI2ES is one of the inaugural NSF AI institutes funded nationwide, with $20M of funding over 5 years dedicated to creating a convergent, multi-sector approach to creating trustworthy AI for weather, climate, and oceanography.  We bring together researchers in AI, atmospheric science, ocean science, risk communication, and education. Dr McGovern also founded and directs the Interaction, Discovery, Exploration and Adaptation (IDEA) lab, also at the University of Oklahoma.

Dr. McGovern is a fellow of the AMS and the chief editor for AMS’s new journal focusing on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for the Earth Sciences, AIES.  This journal started in October 2021 and has already published ground-breaking research in AI/ML for all of the AMS sciences.  

Dr. McGovern received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2002, her MS in Computer Science in 1998 also at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and her B.S. (Honors) in Math and Computer Science with a minor in Spanish in 1996 from Carnegie Mellon University. 

Mona Behl is the associate director of University of Georgia’s Sea Grant college program where she also holds public service and academic appointments. She was formerly a visiting, and then a non-residential policy fellow with the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) policy program. Through her many administrative, pedagogical, and editorial roles, Behl promotes the co-production and use of scientific knowledge for improved decision-making. Her research interests include building the adaptative capacity of local communities to manage the impacts of weather and climate, preparing people for the future of work, and broadening participation in geosciences.

Behl is passionate about improving participation, retention, and leadership development of women and minorities in science. She is the founding member of AMS Early Career Leadership Academy, and Sea Grant’s Community Engaged Internship program. She currently co-chairs the Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention program, and serves on the leadership board of Earth Science Women’s Network.

A national award-winning teacher, Behl earned her bachelor’s and master’s degree in physics from Panjab University in India, and doctorate in physical oceanography from Florida State University.