Our Events
Beyond our research and teaching activities, we actively build communities around AI and Earth observation through international symposia, workshops, hackathons, and open challenges. Over the years, these events have brought together researchers across remote sensing, machine learning, and Earth sciences, with a particular emphasis on exchange, collaboration, and young-researcher development.
2026
2nd Workshop on Advances in Representation Learning for Earth Observation (REO) @ NeurIPS 2026
Paris, France · Organizing Committee
International workshop bringing together the Earth observation and machine-learning communities around representation learning, multimodal learning, and foundation models.
2nd ESA–NASA Workshop on AI Foundation Models for Earth Observation
Programme Committee
International ESA–NASA workshop dedicated to the development and use of foundation models for Earth observation.
2025
AI4EO Symposium 2025
Rennes, France · General Co-Chair
The fourth edition of the AI4EO Symposium and the first hosted outside Munich, marking its development into an internationally hosted community event.
AI4EO Workshop: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions
General Chair
A dedicated workshop bringing together researchers to discuss current challenges, methodological advances, and future directions in AI for Earth observation.
2024
AI4EO Symposium 2024
Munich, Germany · General Chair
The third edition of the AI4EO Symposium in Munich.
ML4Earth Foundation Models Workshop & Hackathon
Munich, Germany · Main Organizer
Workshop and hands-on hackathon exploring foundation models and their emerging role in Earth observation.
2023
AI4EO Symposium 2023
Munich, Germany · General Chair
ML4Earth Physics-aware Machine Learning Workshop & Hackathon
Munich, Germany · Main Organizer
Bringing together researchers working at the interface of physical knowledge, Earth observation, and machine learning.
2022
AI4EO Symposium 2022
Munich, Germany · General Chair
The inaugural edition of the AI4EO Symposium. We initiated the symposium in Munich and organized its first three editions from 2022 to 2024, which together attracted approximately 600 participants.
ML4Earth Explainable AI Workshop & Hackathon
Munich, Germany · Main Organizer
ESA AI4FoodSecurity
Organizing Committee
International activity exploring AI and Earth observation approaches for food-security applications.
2021
DynamicEarth Challenge @ CVPR EarthVision 2021
Main Organizer
An international open challenge designed to engage the computer-vision and Earth-observation communities in learning from large-scale EO data.
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning @ ICML 2021
Workshop Organizer Team
An interdisciplinary workshop connecting machine learning with climate-change research and applications.
2020
Enhanced Sentinel-2 Agriculture Open Challenge
International open challenge focused on machine learning and Sentinel-2 imagery for agricultural Earth observation.
2018
IEEE WHISPERS 2018
Amsterdam, The Netherlands · General Chair
IEEE Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing.
Alibaba Cloud German AI Challenge – AI for Earth Observation
Co-Chair
One of our early large-scale open AI4EO challenges, bringing machine-learning researchers to real-world Earth observation problems.