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Willa Ng

Willa Ng

Aug 13, 2026

1:17
What are some of the needs and uses that cities, state governments, federal governments would have of some of your products like Google Earth?
1:28
Sure, I think the number one thing that we hear all the time is data.
1:32
With our imagery, with our street view cars, with our understanding of movement patterns.
1:40
And then now beginning with a lot of these foundational models that our research teams and different sister companies are building.
1:49
But we also hear a lot about the ability to analyze and gain insights from the data.
1:55
And then in particular, we hear a lot about collaboration.
2:00
and the need to bring people in to the project that you're working on.

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11:13
So does this mean we talked a little bit before the show about education and how this is going to transform or should transform education? Are we going to see all these kids who have grown up with Minecraft becoming like transportation planners when they're in their teens and playing around with all sorts of simulations and scenarios and being able to go into these worlds?
6:02
From your experience, what are the biggest levers that allow a city to make meaningful ... action once they unlock geospatial sustainability data.
6:12
I'll come back to that collaboration piece.
6:16
Um, I think we all sort of know that, um, the geospatial analysis itself is just one small step of the many, many steps that it takes to get to a completed project as a, a public sector agency.
6:32
Um, there's the funding that you have to get, there's the buy-in that you have to get.
6:37
And so I think that as we're thinking about AI, you know, it can be used for things like data cleaning, data analysis, interrogating the data.
6:49
It can also be used for things like generating reports and sharing things with your colleagues.
6:54
So I really think that those are, um, the things that be- can be unlocked once you get past the step of using AI for geospatial analysis.
11:39
[laughs]

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