Steven Brumby

Steve Brumby is the Co-Founder and CEO of Impact Observatory, a mission-driven technology company bringing geospatial AI for environmental, climate, and sustainability risk analysis. Impact Observatory produced the world’s first fully automated, 10m/pixel land use and land cover map using deep learning at global scale in commercial cloud, released as a digital public good, and the world’s first series of annual, global 10m/pixel maps of land use and land cover (2017-present). Impact Observatory's maps are available via the UN Biodiversity Lab, Esri Living Atlas, and all major commercial clouds.

Prior to Impact Observatory, Steve founded and directed the Geographic Visualization Lab at National Geographic Society, was a Senior Fellow at World Resources Institute supporting the Global Forest Watch program, and was the Co-Founder/CTO of Descartes Labs, a venture-backed start-up using AI and space data to forecast global agriculture. Steve started his career at Los Alamos National Laboratory developing machine learning algorithms for image and signals datasets. His work at Los Alamos included co-authoring the GENIE machine learning system that won an R&D Magazine R&D100 award in 2002. Steve received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics at the University of Melbourne (Australia) in 1997, and has authored over 100 scientific publications. He works and lives in Washington, DC, with his family and N+1 cats.