Executive Summary

AI may have read every book in existence, but it does not yet understand geography. This is changing rapidly with advances in geospatial AI, creating opportunities that span both the commercial and government worlds. In this fireside chat, Brian McClendon, CTO of Niantic Spatial and Javier Castellar, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Aechelon Technology, discuss the role of digital twins and geospatial AI in simulation and training, as well as the role of geospatial AI models to help people and machines understand and interact with the physical world. Brian, a pioneer of digital mapping who first attended I/ITSEC for the private launch of SGI's Infinite Reality in 1995, is working closely with Javier and Aechelon on a groundbreaking new initiative that will integrate best-of-class technology solutions to create a live digital twin of the Earth. The session will be moderated by Gastao De Figueiredo, VP, GTM Operations at quantum computing company D-Wave Quantum.