Jed Sundwall

Radiant Earth

Executive Director

Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs

Teaching a course called "Planetary-Scale Data Institutions: Maximizing Access to Environmental Data for the Public Interest" (GLBL 5085). Questions we will explore include: What does the democratization of technology and data access mean for institutions tasked with environmental governance? How do technological limitations, economics, and political systems influence what environmental data we gather, how data are made available, and how data are used to inform decision making? What are strategies to change these constraints? We will also explore how power has been accrued by large technology companies and if we can learn from them to design durable 21st century public interest institutions.

Lecturer

Flickr Foundation

Technical Advisor

Taylor Geospatial Engine

Industry Fellow

PLACE

Member of the Licensing & Pricing Working Group and Technical Working Group. Provide guidance on data governance, ethics, pricing, and product strategy.

Board Advisor

The Center for Open Data Enterprise

Strategic Advisor

NatureServe

Working to maximize the potential of NatureServe data to maintain species diversity and sustain healthy ecosystems.

Member Board Of Directors

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Created and managed operations for new global AWS sustainability business development team.

Technical Business Development Manager

Amazon

Developed data product strategy for Amazon's social responsibility team.

Senior Technical Product Manager

Amazon Web Services

Created and led the global open data program at Amazon Web Services, which researches ways the AWS cloud can make data easier to discover, access, and use. The AWS open data program has democratized access to over 100 petabytes of data, including satellite imagery, climate models, and cancer genomes.

- Created the Registry of Open Data on AWS, which makes 10s of petabytes of scientific data openly 
available on the AWS cloud. Data shared through the Registry of Open Data on AWS has led to 
publication of over 700 tutorials, publications, tools, and applications by AWS customers.
- Hired and managed a team of experts in genomics, Earth science, transportation, and meteorology.
- Created new patterns for efficient sharing of satellite imagery that have been adopted by USGS, NASA, Geosciences Australia, Esri, and the Brazilian Space Agency.
- Created the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative in collaboration with Amazon’s worldwide sustainability organization, which democratizes access to the data Amazon uses to meet its sustainability goals.
- Relocated to Munich from 2017-2020 to create partnerships with the European Space Agency, Group on Earth Observations, and several European meteorological agencies.

Open Data Global Lead

Technology executive working at the intersection of data, product development, cloud computing, economics, and policy. I’m a pragmatic (never dogmatic) technologist trying to use the Internet to improve human cooperation on global challenges.

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