The Geospatial Forum will host a lecture by Ted Wong, a data scientist and research associate on the Urban Analytics team at the World Resources Institute's Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) is a large environmental nongovernmental organization that provides geospatial data and analyses to local governments to support sustainable urban planning. This talk will examine how WRI builds and deploys data products supporting city-level planning and decision-making for extreme heat, urban biodiversity and decarbonization. We will discuss theories of change, user research, project-level business models, strategies for mainstreaming, representation of uncertainty and all the technical considerations behind our data products.