Moderator: Steven Ramage - GEO Secretariat

Opening Prayers

• Phil Two Eagle, (Sicangu Lakota) Executive Director of the Sicangu Lakota Treaty Council

Welcome Session

• James Rattling Leaf Sr., (Rosebud Sioux Tribe, South Dakota US) Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance
• Titus Letaapo, (Samburu Tribe, Kenya) Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance and Managing Director of the Sarara Foundation
• Mario Vargas Shakaim, (Shuar Nation, Ecuadorian Amazon) Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance
• Diana Mastracci, GEO Secretariat consultant, GEO Indigenous Alliance
• Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
• Gilberto Camara, Director of the Group on Earth Observations Secretariat

Moderator: James Rattling Leaf Sr.

Speakers

• Indigenous-led response to Covid-19
  Galina Angarova, Executive Director of Cultural Survival
• COVID-19 in the Amazon
  Mario Vargas Shakaim, Shuar Nation, Ecuadorian Amazon, Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance, COICA
• Minnie Degawan, Indigenous Peoples and COVID19 Coping Mechanisms and Moving Forward
• Helping Indigenous Communities to Become More "Visible"
  Douglas Mbura, GIS Developer for Team Visibility
• COVID-19 Response for the Navajo Housing Authority
  Nadine Clah, IT Analyst/GIS Coordinator for the Navajo Housing Authority

Lightning Talks

• Deforestation in Brazil is spreading COVID-19 to Brazil's Indigenous peoples
  Humberto Laudares, Ph.D., University of Geneva
• Terrastories: mapping indigenous place-based oral histories
  Rudo Kemper, Digital Democracy
• Making Culture Visible and Tracking the Exchange of Value
  Leif Grünewald, PhD. UFPR/Indigeniza/United Nations Innovation

Moderator: Steven Ramage - GEO Secretariat

Speakers

• Gordon Ikayuak Brower, Inupiaq Whaling Captain and Director of Planning in the Planning Department of the North Slope Borough, Alaskan Arctic
• Satellite imagery in support of improved disaster risk reduction for indigenous communities
  Einar Bjørgo, Director, Division for Satellite Analysis and Applied Research Manager, UNOSAT
• Shuar women, decisions and actions as entrepreneurs of sustainable tourism for territorial defense and mitigating climate change
  Yanua Vargas Tanchimia, Indigenous reporter and film-maker from the Ecuadorian Amazon
• Free high resolution satellite data for the guardians of the forests
  Leif John Fosse, Senior adviser with the Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative in the Ministry of Climate and Environment and Sveinung Rotevatn, Minister of Climate and Environment, Norway

Lightning Talks

• Hunting on thin ice
  Bradley Brower, Young Inupiaq subsistence hunter from the Alaskan Arctic
• Using satellite radar to assist legal action by Colombia forest peoples against illegal gold mining: the Rio Atrato basin, Colombia
  Richard Teeuw, University of Portsmouth
• EO4E - Access to renewable energy for remote indigenous communities
  Valerie Graw, Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB)
• Keepers of the Flame: (Re)vitalizing Indigenous Cultural Fire as Climate Action and Land Stewardship in California
  Melinda M. Adams, Ph.D student, Department of Native American Studies The University of California Davis
• Wildfire Monitoring in Madagascar
  Christian Langer, Dipl.-Ing.(FH) , Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Moderator: Caroline Otiwa

Opening Ceremony

Speakers

• A Storyteller With Data
  Robbie Hood, Native American atmospheric scientist who was the first Director of NOAA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program
• Maria Azhunova, 2020 Stanford Bright Award winner, Director Elect of the Land of Snow Leopard Network & Executive Director of the Baikal Buryat Center of Indigenous Cultures
• Framing agreements for the use of traditional and scientific earth observation data in indigenous land management
  Gwen Bridge, Principal, Gwen Bridge Consulting Ltd.
• Titus Letaapo, Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance, Managing Director Sarara Foundation

Lightning Talks

• Transfer of Knowledge - Gender and Intergenerational Considerations in Indigenous Communities
  Minnie Degawan, Indigenous Kankanaey-Igoro activist from the Cordillera, Philippines
• Empowering Women in Planetary Health: Lessons from Traditional Indigenous Knowledge
  Nicole Redvers, ND, MPH, Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota, Deninu K'ue First Nation, Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation
• Observations to Support Indigenous-led Land Management
  Karyn Tabor, Senior Director, Ecological Monitoring, Moore Center for Science

Moderator: Catherine Nakalembe

Speakers

• Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Environmental Activist, Coordinator of the Association of Peul Women and Autochthonous Peoples of Chad (AFPAT)
• Titus Letaapo, Samburu Tribe, Kenya
• Yon Fernández-de-Larrinoa, Chief, Indigenous Peoples Unit (PSUI) Partnerships and UN Collaborations, PSU FAO
• Arnold Brower Jr, Executive Director of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, Inupiaq subsistence hunter, Alaskan Arctic

Lightning Talks

• Desertification Gradient Influences on the Livelihood Vulnerability of Wayuu Indigenous Communities of La Guajira, Colombia
  Douglas DaSilva, University of Zurich
• The Namunyak App/ Symbols Map App
  Yoanna Dimitrova
• Scaling up EO for community-based forest management under ESA's EO4SD Forest Management initiative
  Andy Dean, EO4SD Forest Management Project / Hatfield Consultants
• Smart Agriculture Innovative Hub - SMARTAFRIHUB - for Smart Agriculture Capacity Building in Africa
  Karel Charvat, Plan4all

Moderator: James Rattling Leaf Sr.

Opening Ceremony

• Ripo Lenkokwai, is a Samburu elder, among the key decision makers in the Samburu community.

Speakers

• SIKU: The Indigenous Knowledge Social Network and Mapping Platform
  Candice (Pedersen) Sudlovenick
• Virtual Capacity Building with Indigenous Communities and NASA
  Cindy Schmidt, Associate Program Manager for NASA’s Earth Science Applied Science Ecological Forecasting Program
• Indigenous Mapping Workshops
  Steve DeRoy, co-founder, director of the FireLight Group

Lightning Talks

• Adapting educational / research tools to strengthen the livelihood of the Maya local communities
  Luc Zwartjes, Prof. Dr. Philippe De Maeyer, Dr. Mario Hernandez Ghent University, Geography Department
• Citizen Science with the CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow) Network
  Ulyana Horodyskyj, Dr. Martin Stuefer, University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Using Drones for Monitoring and Mapping Indigenous Territories
  Nina Kantcheva Tushev, Co-founder, Tushevs Aerials; Senior Policy Adviser for Indigenous Peoples and Local Community Engagement, Global Program for Nature for Development, UNDP
• Sharing observations of coastal Arctic Alaska Change
  Olivia Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
• Online Training in Earth Observations for Indigenous Peoples Land Management
  Ana Prados, Karyn Tabor, Amber McCullum, David Hunt, Jenny Hewson, Eddy Mendoza, Christian Martinez, and Mariano Gonzalez-Roglich, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Moderator: Steven Ramage - GEO Secretariat

Speakers

• IDSov, GIDA, CARE Principles
  Stephanie Carroll, Assistant Professor Public Health, Associate Director Native Nations Institute, Chair Global Indigenous Data Alliance
• Enacting Indigenous Data Governance, Traditional Knowledge/Biocultural Labels/Notices
  Maui Hudson, Associate Professor and Director, Te Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato & Jane Anderson, Associate Professor, ENRICH New York University
• Presentation Bridging from Research to Community
  Dominique M. David-Chavez, Post Doctoral Indigenous Data Sovereignty Fellow, Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Dept, Colorado State University; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Science Foundation
• Thomas Kenote, Geoscience Project Director, College of Menominee Nation and the Sustainable Development Institute located on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin

Moderator: Yariwo Kitiyo

Lightning Talks

• Preserving Indigenous knowledge with decentralized data collaboratives
  Graise D. Lee Jenni, MS., PhD. Partner and Co-Founder, & Maria Baron Palamar, DVM., PhD. Nick Bryne. Scott Veirs, PhD. Resolve Conservation
• Mapping Digital Sovereignty
  Towagh Behr, Principal Anthropologist, Deborah Demers, Digital Services and Research Support & Media and Sarah Boivin, Digital Services Manager, Kwusen Research
• OpenTEK: recognizing traditional ecological and indigenous knowledge in international climate policy
  Ramin Soleymani, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
• Implications of High Resolution Satellite Imagery for Indigenous Data Sovereignty
  Lea Shanley, PhD, Senior Fellow, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz, University of Mississippi; Merv Tano, International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management; and Steve Ventura, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Moderator: Steven Ramage - GEO Secretariat

Closing remarks

• Gilberto Camara, GEO Secretariat Director
• Titus Letaapo, Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance
• James Rattling Leaf Sr., Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance
• Mario Vargas Shakaim, Co-Founder of the GEO Indigenous Alliance
• Nikhil Seth, Executive Director of UNITAR

Closing prayers

• Gemma Lockhart, (Sicangu Lakota) Journalist, filmmaker and owner of a small production company