From Soil to Scale: Key Takeaways from AWS Summit London 2025
May-14-2025
At this year’s AWS Summit London, our Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Jacqueline McGlade, joined a panel of leading nature tech innovators to explore how Earth-centric data systems are unlocking scalable solutions for climate and land stewardship.
Her core message was clear: soil is the largest driver of change on the planet, and it’s where we can see the clearest local-to-global impacts of our actions. But understanding and responding to this change demands more than good intentions—it requires dense, high-frequency data, advanced earth tech, and collaborative innovation.
At Downforce Technologies, we’ve built a digital twin of the land that provides 10m resolution insights every 10 days—capturing critical signals for crop impacts, carbon dynamics, and sustainable land use. We’re now scaling this to countries and continents, unlocking solutions for everything from field-level optimisation to commodity-level Net Zero claims.
Jacquie also reflected on the power of partnership. “We believe in building an ecosystem of nature tech companies to unlock investment in nature-based solutions. AWS is helping to streamline this journey by providing the shared infrastructure to scale impact, cost-effectively and transparently.”
Whether it’s verifying carbon credits, enabling traceable supply chains, or improving farmer incomes through premium market access, trustworthy environmental intelligence is the engine behind it all.
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