Who: Giuseppe Borghi leads the Φ-lab (Phi-lab) division at the European Space Agency (ESA), an open innovation lab in Italy which focuses on accelerating the future of Earth observation. The Φ-lab encompasses 45 members across 14 different nationalities, including around 20% of ESA staff, in combination with ESA research fellows, visiting professors and visiting researchers from academia and industry.
Topic: How ESA Φ-lab approaches innovation and the role it is playing in New Space.
Quote: “Exciting New Space and scientific opportunities are opening for digital entrepreneurs and data scientists driven by a growing volume of increasingly rich Earth observation data, growing computational power in space and the untapped potential of game-changing technologies such as AI, quantum and Edge computing.”
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