
About NOAA's Emerging Technologies Workshop
Partnerships for Our Earth System Observing Enterprise
October 25-28, 2021
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Emerging Technologies Workshop (ETW) is an event showcasing the latest innovations designed to collect, analyze, and synthesize environmental data.
The 2021 virtual workshop highlighted a wide variety of innovative technologies. Workshop attendees represented all six NOAA Line Offices in addition to stakeholders from other federal agencies, academia, and the private sector. This event aimed to improve the impact of emerging technologies through the end-to-end processes of:
- Discovery
- Development, and
- Deployment/Transition
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Emerging Technologies Workshop (ETW) is an event showcasing the latest innovations designed to collect, analyze, and synthesize environmental data.
The 2021 virtual workshop highlighted a wide variety of innovative technologies. Workshop attendees represented all six NOAA Line Offices in addition to stakeholders from other federal agencies, academia, and the private sector. This event aimed to improve the impact of emerging technologies through the end-to-end processes of:
- Discovery
- Development, and
- Deployment/Transition
Read the 2021 ETW Report |

NOAA Emerging Technologies Workshop
October 25-28, 2021
The workshop brought together partners from across NOAA and beyond to discuss challenges and solutions to meeting Administration priorities using observing technologies. For the 2021 workshop, the emerging technologies of interest were focused on monitoring and observing:
Climate
Extreme Weather
Fire Weather
Great Lakes & Oceans
View the 2021 ETW Dashboard |
Background: First held in 2016, the event aims to identify new technology with the potential to advance NOAA’s capabilities to monitor, assess, and predict the environment. The workshop features presentations and technical posters highlighting projects funded by NOAA and external stakeholders, representing academia, private industry, and other federal government agencies. The previous ETW, held in 2019, was a 2-day in-person event attended by nearly 400 people.
View the ETW One-pager |
Questions or Inquiries Agenda, Sessions, and Speakers |
Contact Meredith Wagner |
Questions or Inquiries Attendance and Logistics |
Email etw.logistics@noaa.gov |
The NOAA Emerging Technologies Workshop (ETW) is sponsored by the NOAA Observing Systems Council (NOSC), and the NOAA Science Council. It is overseen by the NOAA Observing Systems Committee (OSC) with support from the Office of Strategic Architecture and Advanced Planning (OSAAP) at NESDIS.
2019 NOAA Emerging Technologies Workshop Archive
2017 NOAA Emerging Technologies Workshop Archive