Roundtable: Who’s Building the Data Behind Climate AI?

Climate Data, AI, and the Next Open Dataset

ProgramEarth, CitSci.org, and CU Sunstainbility Innovation Hub invite you to a roundtable to answer:

What would it look like to build an open climate data ecosystem that connects community monitoring, scientific datasets, and AI?

Topics we may explore

Open Climate Intelligence — datasets that can support AI-driven climate researchCommunity monitoring data — watershed, soil, and Indigenous-led environmental observationsOpen-source climate tools — how developers can help structure and analyze environmental dataConnecting regional efforts — universities, Tribal partners, and monitoring networks

Why this matters

Two challenges keep coming up:

Communities often have environmental data but lack tools to interpret itDevelopers building climate tools don’t know which datasets they can trust

We’re curious if Colorado Climate Week could be the place to start connecting these pieces.

Join the conversation

If you're working on environmental data, climate tech, community monitoring, or open-source tools, come share what you're building and help shape what an Open Climate Data Initiative could look like.

What participants will walk away with

A clearer picture of the climate data landscape — what datasets already exist and where the biggest gaps areExamples of community and Indigenous-led monitoring efforts that could inform research and AI toolsIdeas for open-source tools and collaborations that help structure, verify, and analyze environmental dataNew connections with researchers, developers, and organizations working on climate data and AIEarly input into a potential Open Climate Data Initiative connecting universities, community monitoring networks, and open-source communities

Organizers

ProgramEarthProgramEarth works with Indigenous and local communities to advance nature-based climate solutions, including biochar, soil restoration, and watershed monitoring. Through partnerships with Tribal Nations stewarding over 2.6 million acres, the organization helps surface community environmental datasets and build open tools that support ecosystem restoration and climate resilience. Current projects span Souther Colorado, Utah, Northern Arizona, California, Washington, the Great Lakes, and international collaborations in Brazil and India.

CitSci.org (Citizen Science Association)CitSci.org supports global citizen science and community monitoring efforts by providing tools and platforms that help communities collect, manage, and share environmental data. Their work connects community-generated observations with researchers and environmental decision-makers.

CU Sustainability Innovation HubThe Sustainability Innovation Hub at the University of Colorado brings together interdisciplinary research, data science, and climate innovation. The Hub is exploring how aggregated environmental datasets can support sustainability research and emerging AI and LLM applications for climate intelligence all things Colorado.