Mike Spaeth is Global Vice President at US Artificial Intelligence Institute (https://www.usaii.org/). He has a career in environmental, sustainability and governance analytics at Moodys before moving on to Maxar then Earth Daily Analytics. Here he gained experience in geospatial foundation models. We are privileged to have him on regarding his latest role at USAII where he talked about the possibility of standing up a certification for the geospatial profession in GeoAI.