Will Marshall
Planet Co-Founder | Pioneering Commercial Satellite Imaging
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Will Marshall is the Co-Founder and CEO of Planet, a pioneering satellite imaging company that provides daily satellite data to disrupt industries ranging from agriculture to energy. Under Marshall's leadership, Planet has rapidly grown to operate the largest fleet of Earth-observing satellites, capturing global imagery that fuels innovative analytics and insights.
With a background in astrophysics, Marshall has dedicated his career to leveraging space technology to address complex challenges on Earth. His keynotes explore how the democratization of geospatial data is empowering businesses, governments, and communities to make more informed decisions.
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The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface
What if you could search the surface of the Earth the same way you search the internet? Will Marshall and his team at Planet use the world's largest fleet of satellites to image the entire Earth every day. Now they're moving on to a new project: using AI to index all the objects on the planet over time -- which could make ships, trees, houses and everything else on Earth searchable, the same way you search Google. He shares a vision for how this database can become a living record of the immense physical changes happening across the globe. "You can't fix what you can't see," Marshall says. "We want to give people the tools to see change and take action."
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