Andrew Zolli
Chief Impact Officer
Planet
October 28–30 · Vancouver
Andrew Zolli, chief impact officer at Planet. He’ll talk about what it means to photograph the entire surface of the Earth every day, and what all that seeing is actually worth when the hard part is getting people to act on what they can already see.
About Andrew Zolli
As Chief Impact Officer, Andrew oversees the sustainable development, humanitarian, ethics and human rights portfolio at Planet, a breakthrough geospatial imaging organization that has deployed the largest constellation of Earth-observing satellites in history. Together, these satellites image the entire surface of the Earth, every day, in high resolution. When analyzed with advanced AI techniques, this imagery has transformational value for addressing a host of global challenges, including monitoring peace and conflict, improving agriculture, delivering sustainable development, ensuring human rights, predicting food insecurity, assessing climate change, delivering disaster response, and improving conservation, among many others. Andrew is also the author of Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back, which has been published in more than a dozen countries worldwide.