Lloyd Treinish has his head and his supercomputers in the clouds. On a mission to regain public trust in weather forecasting,Treinish shares how better data modeling can do everything from reduce flight delays to save lives in the face of natural disaster.

Dr. Gregory Trencher is an associate professor at Tohoku University specializing in energy policy and smart cities in Japan. A graduate of the University of Tokyo, he has spent 10-years in Japan and recently completed a two-year post at Clark University in the U.S.A. Not intimidated by the high walls of other academic disciplines, Gregory delves...