Plenary Speakers

Professor Joan Serra-Sagristà

Talk Title:
"Recent contributions from UAB-GICI research group to remote sensing data compression: CCSDS standards, compact data structures, point-cloud geometry, astronomical data, and deep learning techniques".

Talk Description:
This talk will survey several recent proposals for compressing remote sensing data, including our participation in the CCSDS Working Group on Data Compression, helping define and develop several standards; compact data structures, which allow accessing the data in the compressed domain without needing to decompress it; point-cloud geometry compression, which achieve promising results when compared to current JPEG standard; astronomical data compression, which is a growing demand due to the increasing size of the acquired volumes; and deep learning techniques, which are lately receiving much attention, highlighting their challenges and limitations.

Biography:
Joan Serra-Sagristà received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Universitat Autònoma Barcelona (UAB), Spain, in 1999. He is currently a Full Professor at Department of Information and Communications Engineering, UAB.

From September 1997 to December 1998, he was at University of Bonn, Germany, funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and by Catalan Savings Bank "La Caixa". His current research interests focus on source coding / data compression, with special attention to image coding for remote sensing.

He serves or has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging and as Program Committee co-chair for IEEE Data Compression Conference.

He has co-authored over 150 publications. He was the recipient of the Spanish Intensification Young Investigator Award in 2006.

Dr. Athanasios Potsis

Talk Title:
"Space Industrial Activities. A Strategic Development Initiatives for National Economic Growth".

Talk Description:

Biography:
Athanasios Potsis was born at Mainz – Germany, on 1974.

He holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He also holds a Diploma in Electrical & Computer Technology from the University of Patras- Polytechnic School. Graduate of EU European Defense Agency SERA-27 (EU Armament Expert) IHEDN.

Dr. Potsis has worked at German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Institute of Radar Systems, from 1998 to 2001 as a Member of Scientific Staff in the Digital Signal Processing Department and he was involved in the fields of Radar electronics, Radar signal processing and Electronic Warfare Systems. He has worked at AIRBUS from 2001 to 2003 as external technical consultant. He has worked for INTRACOM Defense Electronics from September of 2003 up to September of 2006 as Product Marketing Engineer.

Since September 2006, Dr. Potsis holds the position of Business Development Director- Offsets & Industrial Cooperation, in the EFA Ventures Group (https://efagroup.eu/) where he is responsible for the development of new business opportunities for Industrial cooperation. He is providing consulting services to several Governments all over the world (including: Greece, Finland, Portugal, India, Israel & Indonesia) supporting local Aerospace & Defence Industry to utilize offset market.

Since 2008 he is the President of the Hellenic Industrial Space Association and was participating in the core of the team developed the first industrial space cluster in Greece (called “Si-Cluster”). Since 2013 he is a member of the board of the Si-Cluster.

From March 2017 to August 2019, he was member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Space Agency.

Since 2006 he gives lectures at the Hellenic Air Force School of War as well as to the Supreme National School of War.

Jorge-A. Sanchez-P.

Talk Title:
"The Greek Space Ecosystem".

Talk Description:

Biography:
Jorge-A. Sanchez-P. holds Dipl.-Ing. & Dr.-Ing. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering (NTUA) and a Master's Certification in Professional Program & Project Management (Stevens Institute of Technology).

Jorge is the co-founder and Chief Strategy & Financial Officer of Corallia (corallia.org) since its establishment in 2005 and a co-founder and partner at JNP (jnp.gr) since 2006. He is also the Director of the ESA Business Incubation Center Greece (esa-bic.gr) and the Director of the Start A Business Programme (startab.gr). He is a Member of the Steering Board and Task Force of the Accelerator egg (theegg.gr), the Co-founder of three Business Incubation Centres: the α1-innohub established in 2007, the π1-innohub in 2011 and the α2-innohub inaugurated in 2014. He is the Chairman of the Board of the Space Technologies and Applications Cluster (si-Cluster.gr), the organiser of Cassini Hackathons in Greece, ActInSpace and various Space related events and fora. He is also a founding member of two other business clusters: the mi-Cluster (nano/microelectronics-based systems and applications), and gi-Cluster (gaming technologies and creative content). He assesses around 300 business plans every year from individual entrepreneurs, startups, scaleups looking for funding and entrepreneurial support.

He has received several national and international awards while studying and working in the industry. He has more than 30 articles in journals and conferences and more than 50 invited speeches.