Brightband will be at the annual AMS conference from January 25-29th 2026 in Houston, TX.
The American Meteorological Society advances the atmospheric and related sciences, technologies, applications, and services for the benefit of society. Their annual meeting is probably the world’s largest gathering of the Weather Enterprise, from scientists, policy makers, businesses to other organizations.
Brightband’s mission is to make AI weather forecasting tools available to all, to help humanity adapt to increasingly extreme weather. Our mission is very aligned with that of AMS, and with the amazing advances in AI weather forecasting, we are excited to meet up with friends, learn, show off what we have been working on, and give back to the community. We look forward to seeing you in Houston!
Here is where you can catch Brightband presentations, see AI Weather sessions we are helping put on, and the event we are sponsoring:
Presenting
- Monday, January 26, 20268:30 AM - 9:30 AM322A
2026 Update on the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES)
Amy McGovern
- Monday, January 26, 202611:00 AM - 11:15 AM320A
AIDA: Operational AI Data Assimilation from Level 1 Observations
Ryan Keisler
- Tuesday, January 27, 20262:15 PM - 2:30 PM372A
NNJA-AI v1: A Multi-modal, AI-ready Archive of Atmospheric Observations for ML Applications
Hans Mohrmann
- Tuesday, January 27, 20264:30 PM - 4:45 PM330A
ExtremeWeatherBench 1.0: A Flexible Evaluation Framework for Extreme Weather Events
Amy McGovern
- Tuesday, January 27, 20264:45 PM - 5:00 PM330A
Applications of Extreme Weather Bench 1.0: Case Studies of High Impact Weather Events
Taylor Mandelbaum
- Wednesday, January 28, 202611:30 AM - 11:45 AM362C
Operationalizing Modular End-to-End Machine-Learning Data Assimilation and Weather Prediction Systems
Drew Bollinger
Town Halls
- Monday, January 26, 202612:15 PM - 1:15 PM351A
Data AI-ssimilation: The Next Frontier in AI Weather Prediction
Mike Eilts (Spire), David Ryglicki (Demex), Thomas Auligne (UCAR), Ryan Keisler (Brightband), Jonathan Poterjoy (University of Maryland), Michael Pritchard (NVIDIA)
- Wednesday, January 28, 202612:15 PM - 1:15 PM352D
The Emerging Role of AI in Weather Forecasting Operations and Weather Services: As a Co-Pilot, Not an Auto-Pilot
Stephen Mango (NOAA), Paolo Ruti (EUMETSAT), Amy McGovern (AI2ES/Brightband), Cihan Sahin (ECMWF), Peter Battaglia (Google DeepMind), Monica Youngman (NWS)
Chairing
Daniel Rothenberg (Brightband Co-Founder and Head of Data and Weather) will be chairing the following sessions:
- Wednesday, January 28, 20268:30 AM - 10:00 AM330A
Session 9A Data-Driven and Machine Learning Weather Prediction I: Developments at Operational Centers
Daniel Rothenberg
- Wednesday, January 28, 202610:45 AM - 12:00 PM330A
Session 10A - Data-Driven and Machine Learning Weather Prediction II: Frontiers of Global Prediction
Daniel Rothenberg
- Wednesday, January 28, 20261:45 PM - 3:00 PM330A
Session 11A - Data-Driven and Machine Learning Weather Prediction III: Predictability, Theory, and Physics
Daniel Rothenberg
- Wednesday, January 28, 20264:30 PM - 6:00 PM330A
Session 12A Data-Driven and Machine Learning Weather Prediction IV: Additional Topics - Frameworks, Case Studies, and High-Impact Applications
Daniel Rothenberg
Sponsoring
See you in Houston!