Live event: GEOINT and world models with Mark Munsell
Kicking off 2026 with a bang
Event link: LinkedIn, Calendly.
Date: Monday, January 5th, 2026.
Time: 2:30pm US Eastern Standard Time, 8:30pm Central European Standard Time.
You are invited to a live online event with Mark Munsell. See links above. He is Distinguished Fellow of Artificial Intelligence at Lindenwood University and Executive Director at GeoSTL. He is also Former Chief AI Officer at the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
As such, he has rich experience for us to mine. We will use it to navigate the AI hype and transition from LLMs to world models.
If you want to get an impression of him before this event, here he is at SC25 talking about Pixels, Petabytes, Predictions (and Possibilities!) - from 47 minute mark:
He was also recently published in The Cypher Brief.
AGENDA:
What Mark achieved as an inventor.
His reflections on hype cycles after a career in geospatial.
Using this experience to examine the meaning of world models.
Notable achievements by world model companies.
GEOINT use cases.
Geospatial in agriculture*.
Geospatial for ad tech.
Mark's ambitions for St Louis: GeoSTL.
How the World Model 500 can help.
Looking forward to hosting you all for this live event. Come prepared with questions at the end. It will be recorded and posted on YouTube not long afterward.
*The agriculture item continues a theme started in Nadine Alameh’s episode:
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