PRELIMInary programme

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DAY 1 Tuesday 11 February 2025
8:30-9:30Registration and Morning Coffee

9:30-10:00ESA's Earth Observation - today and tomorrowJuliette Lambin (Head of Future Missions & Architecture Department)
Live Streaming
10:00 -10:30Crafting the European Earth Observation Ecosystem 2040+Craig Donlon (ESA Head of Earth Observation System Architect Office)
Live Streaming
10:30 -10:50The new ESA Earth Observation Science Strategy
Rune Floberghagen (ESA Head of Climate action, Sustainability and Science Department)
Live Streaming
10:50 - 11:10European Commission - Future perspectives for time horizon 2040+ 

Live Streaming
11:10 - 11:30ECMWF - Future perspectives for time horizon 2040+
Stephen English (Deputy Director of Research, ECMWF)
Live Streaming
11:30 - 12:00Coffee Break

12:00 -12:20EDA - Future perspectives for time horzion 2040+ 
Eleni Patouni (EDA Project Officer)

Live Streaming
12:20 -13:00
Future Science - Perspectives for time horizon 2040+ 

Mark Drinkwater (ESA Head of Earth and Mission Science Division)
Live Streaming
13:00 -14:15Lunch

14:15 -14:35Future perspectives for time horizon 2040+ - Eumetsat vision and future needs
Paul Counet (Head of Strategy and International Relations)
Live Streaming
14:35 -15:301st Panel discussion – Users needs perspective “Setting the vision: Future users needs/ perspectives is at the core of all”
Moderator: Giuseppe Ottavianelli (ESA)

Samy Djavidnia (Senior Project Officer , EMSA)
Antonio Reppucci (Coordinator of Earth Observation Data, MERCATOR OCERAN)
Stephen English (Deputy Director of Research, ECMWF)
Michelle Hermes (Policy Officer, EARSC)
Johanna Tamminen (Professor at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Head of Earth Observation Research Unit)
Rosemary Munro (LEO programme scientist, EUMETSAT)
Peter Strobl (Principal Scientist, EC-JRC, representing the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service)
Live Streaming
15:30 -16:00Coffee Break

16:00 -16:402nd Panel discussion – Commercial end-to-end perspective “From missions to data to actionable information”
Moderator: Eleni Paliouras (ESA)

Emmanuel Pajot (Secretary General, EARSC)
Joanna Bojanowska (PMO, CloudFerro)
Viney Jean-Francois Dhiri (Head of Business Development – Advanced Services, D-Orbit)
Giovanni Sylos Labini (CEO, Planetek)
Axel Roenneker (Chief Commercial Officer, OroraTech)
Live Streaming
16:40 -17:203rd Panel discussion – Constellations, Backbone missions and vision for future calibration
Moderator: Gordon Campbell (ESA)

Pierre Joachim (Head of Space Projects, AerospaceLab)
Daniel Spengler (VP for Data & Analytics, ConstellR)
Yvan Baillion (Director of European Business and Ground Segment & Altimetry Business, TAS)
Marzia Migliorelli (Commercial Director, SITAEL)
Tom Greenwood (Missions Sales Business Development Manager, Iceye)
Live Streaming
17:20 -17:30Getting ready for tomorrow
Craig Donlon (ESA Head of Earth Observation System Architect Office)
Live Streaming
19:30 -23:30
Non-Hosted Dinner at Prentenkabinet (Leiden)
Please apply for the dinner in the registration page. We would like to see you there!

TimeSession NameDescriptionLive Streaming
DAY 2 Wednesday 12 February 2025
8:30 - 9:00Wake-up Coffee

9:00 - 11:30Splinter discussions with coffeeThere will be four parallel splinter discussions:
1. The European EO Ecosystem in 2040+ - System-of-Systems view
2. User expectations and requirements for synergies within the European EO ecosystem
3. The role of FRM and reference measurements for performance certification and monitoring within the European EO Ecosystem
4. The role of a constellation within the European EO ecosystem 
No Live Streaming
11:30 -13:00Lunch
13:00 -15:00Splinter reporting (20min each reporting + 10min each discussion)
Live Streaming
15:00 -15:30Rap-up and next stepsVanessa Keuck and Armin Loescher
Live Streaming
15:30 -16:00Goodbye Coffee