The IFRC launched the Global Crisis Data Bank (Montandon) — the world's largest repository of natural hazard and impact data, enabling evidence-based decisions for financial and operational crisis planning. This talk covers how we're building a harmonized data repository using open standards like STAC for fast, reproducible analysis.

We continue to see exponential growth in the volume of data available to understand the planet. Now, with Agentic systems, we are on the cusp of understanding this data as fast as we collect it.

The key to this success will be Cloud-native geospatial. Agents want to discover data, query it, transform it, and hand back an answer. If your data isn't in a format they can reach, you're no longer part of the conversation. This talk unpacks that shift: why predictable machine access patterns favor cloud-native formats like STAC, COGs, GeoParquet, and Zarr; how agentic interfaces are quietly retiring the static dashboard; and what it means for data providers, services companies, and analysts.