Dan Pilone

Dan Pilone

Dan Pilone is CEO of Element 84, a software development firm specializing in large scale geospatial data systems and remote sensing, and oversees strategy and development for Element 84’s commercial and government clients including NASA, USGS, NOAA and Ursa Space. He has supported NASA’s Earth Observing System for over 15 years; currently acting as Chief Technologist for the NASA EOSDIS Evolution and Development contract. He has supported transitioning NASA’s Petabyte scale archive to the cloud, contributed to metadata standards, led multiple working groups on data services and cloud architectures, authored studies on architecture and transition plans for cloud-native data management solutions, and helped shape software development processes for both government and commercial clients. Mr. Pilone has authored multiple books on software development and taught Software Engineering at Catholic University in Washington DC.

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    Element 84
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    CEO
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In person
9 July 2026
15:00 - 15:30
EST - New York
CST - Beijing
PST - Los Angeles
AWST - Perth, Australia

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