Conference Agenda

Session Chair: Rune Floberghagen, ESA
Session Chair: Inge Jonckheere, ESA


10:05 – 10:20: Ms. Simonetta Cheli, ESA
10:20 – 10:30: Mr. Tidiane Outtara, President of the African Space Council
10:30 – 10:40: Ms. Alessandra Zampieri, JRC
10:40 – 10:50: Ms Ariane Labat, Head of Unit F5/Science, Technology, Innovation and Digitalisation at the Directorate-General for International Partnerships, European Commission
10:50 – 10:55: Mr. Christoph Kautz, Director - DG-DEFIS, (5min video)
10:55 – 11:05: Mr. Thomas Wagner, Associate Director for Earth Action - NASA
11:05 – 11:15: Ms. Vivianna Meta, CEO, LocatelT - Kenyan private company
11:15 – 11:25: Ms. Carrie Stokes, USAID, Chief Geographer and GeoCenter Director
11:25 – 11:35: Mr. Kamal Labbassi, President of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment

What Africa Needs - Continental Scale
Session Chair: Benjamin Koetz, ESA
Session Chair: Alex Madden, ESA

• Tidiane Outtara, President of the African Space Council
• Thandikile Chisala Mbvundula, Vice President of the African Space Council
• Amine Mestar, member of the African Space Council
• Aboubaker Hassan member of the African Space Council
• Rakiya Abdullahi Baba-ma'aji member of the African Space Council

What Africa Needs - National Level
Session Chair: Zoltan Szantoi, ESA
Session Chair: Thomas Weissenberg, ESA

• Sherif Sedky, Egypt Space Agency
• James Godstime, NASRDA
• Humbulani Mudau, SANSA
• Aboubakar Ndjoungui Mambimba, AGEOS

Session Chair: Dr Diana Chavarro Rincon Faculty ITC, University of Twente
Session Chair: Dr. Ashutosh S. Limaye SERVIR Global Chief Scientist/NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Session Chair: Prof Elhadi Adam, University of The Witwatersrand
Session Chair: Dr Abdelhakim Amazirh, ESA

Session Chair: Meshack Kinyua Ndiritu, AUC
Session Chair: Giusepe Ottavianelli, ESA

• Ariane Labat | DG-INTPA
• Stefano La Terra Bella | DG-DEFIS
• Mahaman Bachir Saley | AUC
• Carrie Stokes | USAID
• Vincent Gabaglio | EUMETSAT
• Benjamin Koetz | ESA
• Thomas Wagner | NASA

Session Chair: Dr Anastasia Mumbi Wahome, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Session Chair: Dr Silke Migdall, VISTA

Session Chair: Dr Jean Homian Danumah, CURAT
Session Chair: Dr. Gebeyehu Zeleke, ESA

Session Chair: Dr Michael Thomas Marshall, University of Twente (UT-ITC)
Session Chair: Prof Adriaan Van Niekerk, Stellenbosch University

Session Chair: Dr Cletah Shoko, University of the Witwatersrand

Session Chair: Ouafae Karim, AFEOS
Session Chair: Hamdi Kacem, TAT-AUC

• Ashutosh Limaye, NASA
• Cecilia Donati, EC-INTPA
• Marco Clerici, EC-JRC
• Luis Evence Zoungrana, OSS
• Alex Chunet, ESA

Session Chair: Prof Adriaan Van Niekerk, Stellenbosch University
Session Chair: Silke Migdall, VISTA

Session Chair: Dr Alina Blume, ESA
Session Chair: Dr. Javier Concha, Serco

Session Chair: Michel Massart, EC-JRC
Session Chair: Stefano La Terra Bella, EC-DEFIS

• Benjamin Koetz, ESA
• Lillian Diarra, MERCATOR Ocean International - CMEMS
• Andreas Brink, EC-JRC
• Laurence Rouil, ECMWF - CAMS/C3S

Session Chair: Larissa Mengue, AGEOS
Session Chair: Dr. Cheick Mbow, CSE

• Vincent Gabaglio, EUMETSAT
• Ashutosh Limaye, NASA
• Luca Battistella, EC-JRC
• Ganiyu Ishola Agbaje, African Regional Centre for Space Science & Technology Education (ARCSSTE-E)
• Ruud Grim, the Netherlands Space Office

Session Chair: Dr Gohar Ghazaryan, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
Session Chair: Dr Chiara Corbari, POLIMI

Session Chair: Dr Zoltan Vekerdy, University of Twente
Session Chair: Dr Marta Sapena-Moll, DLR

Session Chair: Prof Mejdi Kaddour, University of Oran
Session Chair: Dr Chiara Corbari, POLIMI

Session Chair: Dr. Odunayo Adeniyi, ESA
Session Chair: Dr. Terefe Hanchiso Sodango, Wolkite University

Session Chair: Zaynab Guerraou, ESA
Session Chair: Odunayo David Adeniyi, ESA

• Kamal Labbassi, AARSE
• Diana Chavarro-Rincon, University of Twente
• Felix Rembold, EC-JRC
• Cheick Mbow, CSE
• Nancy D. Searby, NASA
• Zoltan Szantoi, ESA

Session Chair: Dr. Pierre C. Sibiry Traore, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Session Chair: Dr. Erlinda Biescas, Telespazio

Session Chair: Dr Berhan Gessesse Awoke, Ethiopian Space Science and Geospatial Institute
Session Chair: Dr. Terefe Hanchiso Sodango, Wolkite University

Session Chair: Meshack Kinyua Ndiritu,AUC
Session Chair: Sandile Bethuel Malinga,CSIR

Emmanuel Pajot, EARSC

Temidayo Oniosun, Space in Africa

Imraan Saloojee, RIIS, SA

Kizito Odhiambo, AgriBora GmbH

Vivianne Meta, LocateIT Ltd

Session Chair: Dr. Erlinda Biescas, Telespazio
Session Chair: Dr. Ashutosh S. Limaye SERVIR Global Chief Scientist/NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Session Chair: Dr Beatrice Asenso Barnieh, ESA
Session Chair: Dr. Ganiyu Agbaje, ARCSSTE-E

Session Chair: Catherine Gyhoot, DG-INTPA
Session Chair: Cecilia Donati, EC-INTPA

• Hamdi Kacem, TAT-AUC
• Kwame Agyekum, UoG
• Evence Louis Zoungrana, OSS
• Sives Govender, CSIR
• Amadou Sall, CSE
• Kamal Labbassi, AARSE
• Asanda Nombulelo Dawn Sangoni, SANSA
• Rakiya Abdullahi Baba-ma'aji, NARSDA
• Mahaman Bachir Saley, AUC