Midlands Space Networking (online)
Event Information
About this Event
Midlands Space Networking is back for an online networking session via Zoom.
We hope that you are all taking care in these unprecedented and uncertain times. The Coronavirus pandemic has affected life substantially but we still hope to keep the space community connected.
We seek to build and strengthen the UK space community by organising a regular meetup to connect businesses, academics, organisations and individuals interested in space.
Do you work/aspire to work in the space sector? Are you looking to meet people from across the space industry? Come along to our virtual networking event to share and discuss the latest space news/industry trends.
Ad astra,
Ryan Bradley-Evans and Ryan Laird
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Schedule TBC:
- 17:00 Welcome
- 17:05 Introductions
- 17:15 Paul Bhatia - UK Regional Ambassador Platform - Midlands and North East England (RAP-MNE)
- 17:20 Ross Burgon – Head of Programme – SPRINT - SPace Research and Innovation Network for Technology
- 17:25 Speaker TBC
- 17:30 Networking in breakout rooms
- 19:00 End
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Speakers
PAUL SINGH BHATIA - UK REGIONAL AMBASSADOR PLATFORM - MIDLANDS AND NORTH EAST ENGLAND (RAP-MNE)
Paul has over 15 years of experience working with the space sector, 11 of which have been spent leading the work of the Geospatial Research and Applications Centre of Excellence (GRACE) at the University of Nottingham. He is an experienced member of the geospatial community and has assisted many organisations and businesses to take advantage of geospatial and GNSS technologies through the provision of consultancy, training, testing and business incubation & acceleration. Paul was co-founder of Geomatic Ventures Limited, and has an MSc in Engineering Business Management.
The East Midlands region is recognised as being already very strong in the space sector. RAP-MNE will have a regional office in Nottingham, with collaborative links to business support organisations based in Leeds and Durham.
The ESA RAP-MNE is hosted by the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the University of Nottingham.
ROSS BURGON - HEAD OF PROGRAMME - SPRINT - SPACE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NETWORK FOR TECHNOLOGY
Ross has spent the last 15 years at the interface between research, management and knowledge exchange between academia and industry in the UK’s growing space sector. He is currently Head of the national SPRINT programme, based at the University of Leicester.
With technical domain expertise in spacecraft engineering and project management, Ross has worked on some of space science’s most innovative missions including Gaia, SMILE and WFIRST, and the UK Space Agency’s first sponsored cubesats; UKube-1 and AlSat-Nano.
Ross has many years’ experience managing technical space projects within multi-party teams of universities, industry and government and, previous to SPRINT, managed the Centre for Electronic Imaging (a collaboration between the Open University and high-tech space company, Teledyne e2v) and was an STFC Innovations and Partnerships Fellow.
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