Environmental Tipping Points & Transformations

Important Announcement: Thank you for your interest in attending the 2025 ESIIL Innovation Summit. Due to unforeseen circumstances, we must postpone this event to the fall. Please mark your calendars for the new dates: September 23-25, 2025. We will be reaching out to those who applied to attend the Summit with more information soon.

When: September 23-25, 2025

Where: This is an in-person event located at the SEEC building on the University of Colorado Boulder’s East Campus in Boulder, Colorado.

The 2025 ESIIL Innovation Summit will focus on environmental tipping points and transformations, bringing together scientists, managers, data analysts, and other thought leaders to address environmental challenges. 

Environmental  tipping points—also known as state changes, regime shifts, or type conversions—can occur gradually or suddenly, at varying scales, and significantly alter the ecosystems that sustain life on Earth. Understanding these past and future  transformations, and the ecological contexts that shape them, is critical for predicting, managing, and mitigating their impacts on both nature and society.

The 2025 Summit will offer a unique, data-driven opportunity to explore environmental tipping points and transformations through big data. You will work alongside a  group of peers to identify and understand the factors driving these changes and advance data-informed strategies for responding to them.

Goals

The goals of the 2025 ESIIL Innovation Summit are to: 

• Explore big data to understand environmental tipping points and transformations by identifying data synthesis opportunities and utilizing ESIIL cloud-compute capabilities. 
• Promote best practices in ethical, open science by supporting accessibility and usability of environmental data by all stakeholders. 
• Champion ethical practices in environmental science, and encourage the responsible use of AI. 
• Support teams by establishing collaborations around data-inspired themes across different disciplines, sectors, and career stages.

Please visit our event website for more information: https://cu-esiil.github.io/Innovation-Summit-2025/.