TIME: 9:30 am — 3:00 pm
VENUE: Environmental Futures & Big Data Impact Lab, Met Office HPC Complex, Upper Richardson, Exeter Science Park, Exeter, EX5 2FS
PRESENTED BY: University of Exeter
The University of Exeter is delighted to invite you to our regional ‘Space Innovation’ event, at the Environmental Futures & Big Data Impact Lab, on Wednesday 23 January 2019.
This networking event will give businesses, individuals and academia an excellent opportunity to:
- Engage with the rapidly growing UK Space Industry
- Gain valuable insights on key topics around Space
- Find out more about diverse Space-related challenges & funding opportunities
- Develop space-related capabilities
- Foster project consortia and bid proposals
- Help to nurture a regional space community
Inspirational Keynote Speakers include:
- Miles Carden – Director, Spaceport Cornwall
- Ian Jones – Chief Executive, Goonhilly Earth Station
- Donna Lyndsay – Regional Ambassador, European Space Agency
- Andy Bennett – KTN Manager for Space, Innovate UK KTN
- Maria Kalama & Josie Gough – Innovate UK
- Daniel Smith – Director of Business Development, Skyrora
- Mark McCaughrean – Senior Advisor for Science & Exploration, European Space Agency (TBC)
Key Funders
- European Space Agency (ESA)
- Innovate UK (IUK) & Industrial Strategy Challenge Funds
- Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN)
- Satellite Applications Catapult
- SETsquared
- UK Space Agency (UKSA)
Outline Agenda
- 09.30 – Arrival, registration and coffee reception
- 10.00 – Upstream challenges and opportunities (Design, Materials, Manufacturing, Electronics & Systems)
- 12.30 – Networking buffet lunch
- 13.30 – Downstream challenges and opportunities (Data, AI, Communication, Location and Navigation)
- 15:00 – Close
