Mr Andres Sutt is the minister of entrepreneurship and information technology since 26 January 2021. He was elected to Riigikogu on March 3, 2019 as a member of the liberal Reform Party. He served as a member of the Finance Committee and Anti-Corruption Select Committee of Riigikogu and as the chairman of Estonia-France and Estonia-USA parliamentary groups.

Prior to his role in public office, Mr Sutt worked for 17 years in the Bank of Estonia, for the last 8 years as a Deputy Governor responsible for financial stability (2001-2009). He has extensive experience in bank restructuring and crisis management. Mr Sutt has also served as a member of the supervisory board of the Estonian Financial Supervisory Authority. He was also a member of the Banking Supervision Committee of the ECB. Mr Sutt was a Member of the Executive Board at Eesti Energia (the largest energy utility in Estonia) in charge of client services, IT and government affairs (2017-2018). Mr Sutt has also worked for the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) in Luxembourg as Head of Banking (2013-2016). He joined ESM’s predecessor European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) as Senior Advisor to the CEO of the EFSF in June 2012. Before joining the ESM, Mr Sutt was Senior Advisor to Executive Director and member of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C.

Mr Sutt serves as a board member of non-profit organizations SOS Children Village Estonia, Estonian Maternity Hospitals Foundation and University of Tartu Foundation. He has master’s degree in economics and finance (cum laude) from Tartu University, Estonia and has studied management in INSEAD, France.

Frank Max Schubert graduated in 2007 in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. From 2007 until 2011 he was member of the scientific staff at the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). He worked partly in the Wave Propagation and Interaction Section at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. He obtained the Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University, Denmark, in wireless communications in 2012. Subsequently he joined Airbus Defence and Space as system engineer and developed secure satellite navigation receivers. In 2018 he joined Airbus CyberSecurity and is the Head of Defence and Strategic Programs Germany.

I’m representing Airbus CyberSecurity, a European specialist in cyber security. Our mission is to protect governments, military, organizations and critical national infrastructure from cyber threats.

Tim Flohrer leads ESA’s Space Debris Office since 2020. He joined the office as an engineer in 2007, and became analyst in 2009, senior analyst in 2018.

Since 2014 he is working for ESA’s Space Situational Awareness Program (SSA) and Space Safety Programme (S2P) and leads activities addressing the monitoring of space debris. In parallel he is supporting operational collision avoidance activities for ESA and third party missions, re-entry predictions, mitigation analyses, long-term predictions of the space debris environment, and space debris risk assessments.

Before he moved to Darmstadt, Germany, Tim was a research associate at the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern, Switzerland, where he mainly worked on ground- and space-based optical space surveillance, and related planning and processing software. Tim is an ESA delegate to the IADC, where he is deputy chair to WG1 (measurements) and he was chairing WG2 (environment and database). He is a member of the IAA Committee on Space Debris, the ECSS Space Debris Working Group, the CCSDS Navigation Working Group, and CEN/CENELEC TC5 WG2. Tim holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD; Dr. phil.-nat.) from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and a Diplom-Ingenieur in Geodesy from the Dresden University of Technology, Germany.

Tim has been working on space debris and space surveillance topics for more than 20 years.

Dr Beyza Unal is the deputy director with the International Security programme at Chatham House. Dr Unal covers science, technology, security and defence portfolio, specializing in the interaction between emerging technology applications and security.

Her research includes nuclear weapons policy, cyber, space, and critical national infrastructure security, quantum technologies, and artificial intelligence applications. Beyza also leads on NATO’s security and defence policy at Chatham House.

She formerly worked in the Strategic Analysis Branch at NATO Allied Command and Transformation, taught International Relations, transcribed interviews on Turkish political history, and served as an international election observer during the 2010 Iraqi parliamentary elections.

She has been given various fellowships for her achievements – most notably she is a William J Fulbright Alumni. She has also received funding from the US Department of Energy to participate workshops in Brookhaven National Laboratory, the James Martin Centre for Nonproliferation Studies, and Sandia National Laboratory.

Shri A. S. Kiran Kumar is Vikram Sarabhai Professor at ISRO, Bangalore.  During 2015-2018, he has served as Secretary, Department of Space and Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation.

Shri Kiran Kumar, born on October 22, 1952 in Karnataka (India), holds M.Sc. Degree in Physics (Electronics) from Bangalore University and M.Tech. Degree in Physical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

He has steered the implementation of the applications oriented Indian Space Programme, which has facilitated rapid development of the country in many important spheres of earth observation, communication, navigation, meteorology and space science, as well as the development of indigenous launch vehicles and related technologies for providing assured access to space.

Shri Kiran Kumar has been the Chair of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) in 2012. He has made valuable contributions to Coordination Group of Meteorological Satellites (CGMS), Expert Team on Satellite Systems – World Meteorological Organisation (ETSAT of WMO) and Indo-US Joint Working Group on Civil Space Cooperation.  He has co-authored 85 publications in various national/international scientific journals/conferences/symposiums.

In recognition of his contributions, he was conferred Padma Shri by the President of India in 2014.  Other notable honours conferred on him include, Rajyostava Award by for 2015, `Sir M. Visvesvaraya Senior Scientist State Award’ for 2013 by Government of Karnataka, Lifetime Achievement Award from Karnataka Science and Technology Academy in 2016,  IISc Distinguished Alumnus Award for 2015, Gujarat Ratna `Life for Innovation’ Award conferred by Gujarat Innovation Society in 2014, Lifetime Achievement Award by Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences in 2016,  Bharat Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya Centenary Award by University of Mysore in 2016, G.M. Modi Science Award in 2016, H K Firodia Vijnan Ratna Award in 2017, Santokbaa Award instituted by SRKKF Surat in 2018 and ISRO Lifetime Achievement Award 2018.  He has been conferred with the prestigious 2018 International von Karman Wings Award instituted by the Aerospace Historical Society, together with the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at the California Institute of Technology, in 2018 and the Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’Honneur – the highest civilian honour by the Government of France in 2019.

Dr. Brian Weeden is the Director of Program Planning for Secure World Foundation and has more than 20 years of professional experience in space operations and policy.

Dr. Weeden directs strategic planning for future-year projects to meet the Foundation’s goals and objectives, and conducts research on space sustainability issues. He is a member and former Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Space Technologies, a former member of the Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES) to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the current Executive Director of the Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations (CONFERS). Prior to joining SWF, Dr. Weeden served nine years on active duty as an officer in the United States Air Force working in space and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) operations.

Dr. Weeden holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University, a Master’s Degree in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Public Administration from George Washington University in the field of Science and Technology Policy.

Helen Tung is a barrister and consultant.  She has over 13 years of international law experience and has previously researched piracy of the high seas.  Helen has previously studied at the NATO School of Excellence on the Tallinn Manual and has spoken widely on international public and commercial law matters.

She is a contributor to the Courts of the Future – and Space Courts in Dubai and is the Co- Chair of Space Debris & Space Operations at the International Aeronautical Federation, and Vice Chair of the Enterprise Risk Management.

Matthew Scholl is the Chief of the Computer Security Division in the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).  His responsibilities include cryptographic standards used by the US Government and internationally, Cybersecurity Research and Development at NIST, and Cybersecurity Standards and Guidelines for Federal Agency Security Programs.  He also leads NIST participation with Cybersecurity National and Internationals Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) and associated conformance testing programs.

Mr. Scholl has a Masters in Information Systems from the University Of Maryland and a Bachelors Degree from the University of Richmond.  He is a US Army veteran and currently has over 20 years of federal service.

MSc, Lt Cdr (Ret) Tero Vauraste is a Regional Director Europe of ICEYE. ICEYE is launching and operating a constellation of small radar imaging satellites, providing access to timely and reliable Earth observation data. ICEYE is the first company that has successfully miniaturized a SAR satellite, making it possible to launch more units to reliably image any location on Earth, every few hours, every day. With its growing SAR satellite constellation, ICEYE offers its partners a set of unprecedented satellite imaging capabilities, accessing any area of interest faster, more frequently, and at a lower cost.

Since ICEYE’s initial start in 2012, Vauraste has supported the founders in terms of market approaches and platforming the technology tests. Officially joining ICEYE  since Oct. 2020, Vauraste is the Regional Director Europe, responsible for the European clients including co-operation with the European Space Agency and Business Finland.

Prior to ICEYE, Vauraste has served as a Naval and Coast Guard officer and held various CEO and Senior Executive positions within security, aviation, automotive, maritime, rail, logistics and Arctic industries. He has also held a long-term position of Chair/Vice Chair of the Arctic Economic Council. He is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center Polar Programme in Washington DC.

Marc Becker is a policy officer in the Department of Space Situational Awareness (SSA) at the German Space Agency, situated within the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). He chairs the European Space Surveillance & Tracking (EU SST) consortium’s Security Committee since 2019, dealing in particular with security and policy requirements for the handling and sharing of SST data. Prior to this, Marc worked with the German Ministry of Defence’s Directorate General for Security and Defence Policy as a desk officer for space security policy.

Wolfgang Röhrig is the Head of Unit Information Superiority in the Capability, Armament and Planning Directorate of the European Defence Agency (EDA). Born 1966 in Germany, he entered the German Navy in 1985. After completing his studies at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg with the degree of MBA in 1990, he served in several officer’s positions in the German Navy and the German Joint Services, including several operational deployments and service in NATO. March 2012, he joined EDA as Project Officer and became Programme Manager Cyber Defence beginning of 2014.  In this position he developed and shaped the EDA Cyber Defence Programme, being inter alia responsible for the identification of capability gaps with respect to cyber defence in EU-led military operations, and the development and implementation of solutions for closing these gaps through cooperative projects with EU Member States. In February 2018 he returned to the German Armed Forces becoming a staff member of the new Cyber and Information Domain Services Headquarters dealing with International Cooperation in Cyber Defence. Since November 2018 he is leading the EDA Information Superiority Team in EDA. The EDA Information Superiority Team pools the EDA expertise on Capability Development in the Cyber Domain and the Space Domain as well as on C4ISR topics.

Marily Hendrikson is leading Estonian Cyber Security startup ecosystem development at Startup Estonia. Startup Estonia is a governmental institution with the aim to enhance the growth of Estonian startup ecosystem. Her mission is to support and accelerate the speed of new CyberTech startups creation in Estonia, so that cyberspace would be more secure and trusted. She is thrilled to work on securing the cyberspace for all of us.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marily-hendrikson/

Mr. Szymanski has 47 years’ experience in all fields related to space control: policy, strategy, simulations, surveillance, survivability, threat assessment, long-range strategic planning, and command and control. In addition, he has a comprehensive experience base, having worked directly with multiple services (Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines), civilian agencies (NASA, DARPA, FEMA), and from the Pentagon (Secretary of the Air Force) to systems development (Space and Missile Systems Center – SMC/ASP/XRJ), technology development (Air Force Research Lab) to operational field test (China Lake Naval Test Center). This gives a unique perspective in understanding the divergent issues associated with each step of the DOD procurement process.

He developed a private discussion group consisting of 18,182 hand-picked members interested in outer space warfare whose members consist of: 1,732 General officers and Admirals, 58 current and former Under/Assistant Secretaries of Defense (including one former Secretary of Defense), 284 from the Joint Chiefs of Staff (including three former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), past and current Commanders of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, Pacific, and Korea Naval fleets, 628 Congressional House & Senate staffers, 180 diplomats, 306 from White House and National Security Council staffs, and 58 astronauts, among others.

Simon Plum is the Head of Mission Operation Department in European Space Agency ESOC (ESA). In 2012 Simon was a Deputy Department Head at the Project Management Agency of DLR in Cologne, providing consultancy to the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research as well as industry in the area of international research and development (R&D) projects. In addition, Simon has been leading the Technical Controlling, Planning and Risk Management for several DLR entities such as the German Space Operations Center (GSOC), the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) or the Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF) to name a few. Subsequently he joined as a Managing Director Spaceopal GmbH  Under his leadership, Spaceopal won the GSOp (Galileo System Operator) tender for managing the operations of the European Galileo satellite positioning and navigation programme. A bit more than 10 years after his first assignment at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen as Operations Engineer, Simon returned as Managing Director of the organisation in 2017 where he excelled as Head of the Galileo Control Center and Chair of shareholder committee to Spaceopal GmbH.

Dr Ingo Baumann is co-founding partner of BHO Legal, a boutique space and technology law firm based in Cologne and Munich, Germany.

Ingo has more than 20 years of professional experience in the space industry. He wrote his PhD at the Cologne Institute of Air and Space Law on the international law of satellite communications. Before establishing BHO Legal, he was legal adviser within the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), later becoming later the Head of the DLR Galileo Project Office, and administrative CEO of DLR GfR mbH, the operating company of DLR for the German Galileo Control Centre. Ingo is advising public and commercial stakeholders in the space industry across all application areas. He also advises clients from geospatial, R&D and defense sectors. Dr Ingo Baumann is member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL), the Space Law Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) and various other professional organisations. He is editor of the ”GNSS & the Law” column in InsideGNSS and author of numerous space law publications.

Managing Partner at NordicNinja – a Japanese VC fund investing in Nordic & Baltic companies focusing on deeptech, digital infrastructure, and sustainable transformation.

Rainer is an investor, entrepreneur, engineer, and a community builder from Estonia, with 20 years of experience in building data-driven technology businesses in Silicon Valley, Europe, and Japan. Prior to NordicNinja, Rainer served as GM & VP of Data Platforms at Intertrust, focusing on IoT data ecosystems in renewable energy, parametric insurance, and climate tech. In 2012, Rainer founded and led Planet OS, a US-Estonian geospatial big data company focused on interoperability, virtualization, visualization, and analytics of distributed data sets until its acquisition by Intertrust in 2017. Prior to founding Planet OS, Mr. Sternfeld led new business initiatives and operations at ABB across Baltic States, including designing the world’s first nationwide fast-charging infrastructure for electric cars, deployed in Estonia.

Some notable organizations Rainer has been a part of:

• Member of the White House Open Data Round Table (2015-2016)
• Board member at the World Ocean Council

Co-founder of Kood, a tuition free modern coding school in Jõhvi, Estonia

David Evans is the Advanced Operations and In-Orbit Validation Project Manager at the European Space Agency. He initiated and now manages ESA’s innovative OPS-SAT Space Lab missions.

Dave started his career at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in 1992, working as a mission planner, flight control engineer and simulation officer on EURECA, ERS-2 and CLUSTER-1. In 1997 he joined EUTELSAT as their satellite control centre manager. There he oversaw a period of intense expansion of the fleet with 20 launches. 5 re-orbitings and the company privatisation.  In 2007 he returned to ESOC, specializing in small spacecraft missions and advanced technology. He is the holder of several patents on housekeeping telemetry compression and the author of the popular “Ladybird Guide to Spacecraft Operations” lecture courses.

Mr Paul Liias is Head of Space policy at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communication. Paul has created the Estonian Space Policy and Program 2020-2027. Today he is working on Estonian national space legislation and a decentralized e-government solution for Space Traffic Management. Paul is part of the Estonian delegation to the European Space Agency and European Union Space Programme.

He has been engaged in various roles in the space sector for the past 13 years. In 2008 Paul joined the first Estonian satellite project ESTCube-1 and lead the development of mechanical systems. After the successful launch of ESTCube-1 in 2013 Paul continued as an entrepreneur in the space sector until 2016 when he joined the ministry.

Colonel Jaak Tarien is the Director of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) based in Estonia since September 2018. CCDCOE is a NATO-accredited cyber defence hub focusing on research, training and exercises. Prior to joining CCDCOE Colonel Jaak Tarien served as Commander of Estonian Air Force from August 2012 to July 2018. Among other assignments he has also served as Staff Officer with NATO’s Supreme Allied Command Transformation (ACT), as Deputy Director of the Regional Airspace Surveillance Coordination Centre and as Commander of the Estonian team at the BALTNET Regional Airspace Surveillance Co-ordination Centre in Lithuania. Colonel Tarien, a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, earned his Master’s degree from the Air Command and Staff College of the USAF Air University. He recently also acquired Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy at the U.S. National Defence University.

Bogdan Gogulan has 20 years of experience in finance, product and business development. Before initiating NewSpace Capital he had accumulated a unique combination of cross-border experience in communication, security and defense industries. He served as VP of international operations and business development for AT Communication (Switzerland), Defendec (Baltics) and Katmerciler (Turkey), managing breakthrough projects for security and defense agencies in the Middle East and Central Asia. For years, he managed alignment and cooperation with UN agencies (BOMCA/UNDP, BOMNAF, UNODC, UNHCR, IOM) and security organizations (NATO, OSCE, ISAF). Prior to that, Bogdan worked for American Express (USA, UK) and Deutsche Bank (UK). As global sales development Program Manager and Head of Industry Analytics at American Express he was responsible for global partnerships development with top tier clients. Since 2010, Bogdan has been actively involved with UN Alliance of Civilization’s (UNAOC) participating as an OYW Ambassador in the UN Sustainable Development Goals’ initiative.

Bogdan holds a BSc in Financial Economics from University of Essex and graduated from Abingdon & Whitney College. He is acting as CEO of NewSpace Capital GP S.A.

NewSpace Capital is a space-focused Private Equity firm. It was founded by industry experts with over 150 years of cumulative investment, commercial and technical experience across €15+ billion in space and technology-related deals. The firm leverages the surge of the commercial space industry to invest in leading growth-stage technology companies with a unique position in the supply chain and applications’ segments of the market.

Ann Väljataga joined NATO CCD COE in December 2016 as an international law researcher. During the first year of working at the CCD COE, her primary area of expertise was the comparative analysis of national cyber security strategies. Ever since the array has expanded to include domain-specific issues of cyber law, election security and human rights in cyberspace.

Her prior professional experience has predominantly focused on human rights in the digital sphere. In addition to that, she has conducted research on various legal issues regarding migration and equal treatment for UNHCR and Estonian Human Rights Centre and served as a legal counsel for asylum seekers in Estonia. From 2014 – 2016 she was part of research teams studying the fundamental rights implications of biometric border systems and untargeted surveillance at the FRA (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights). She continues to contribute to the Estonian Human Right Centre´s annual report on Human Rights in Estonia, where she analyses national developments in privacy and data protection.

Ann Väljataga holds a BA in Law from the University of Tartu and an LLM in Law and Technology from Tallinn University of Technology, besides that she has obtained additional training in IT Law from the University of Tartu.

Ignacio Chechile is the Chief Technology Officer at ReOrbit. ReOrbit is a startup established in 2019 and headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. ReOrbit designs and manufactures modular space systems prepared for the next decades of space exploration by adding autonomy, high-availability and broadband connectivity as built-in features.

Jyrki Huusko is a research team leader at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, leading the 5G and Beyond Networks research focusing especially on secure mission-critical networks and intelligent network resource management for future wireless and wired networks, including the satellite communications and satellite-terrestrial network integration. He has over 20 years of experience in applied telecommunication research, having several different positions in research and research management at VTT Ltd. He is also the responsible manager of VTT’s secure and connected society research infrastructure and 5G and beyond test network facilities. Jyrki Huusko has contributed also on several EU and national research roadmap and technology foresight whitepaper working groups on mobile network technologies, IoT and media & content distribution, as well as on research program definitions. He is also involved in European 6G Industry Association (6G IA) and its working group such as Trials WG where he is acting as a stream champion for smart city related 5G trials. He is a vice-chair of NetworldEurope the European Technology Platform’s Expert Advisory Group, which is the leading working group for building up the European strategic research and innovation agenda for telecommunication and networks.

Stefano Serva is the Space Programme Accreditation and Security Engineering Manager at the European Space Agency. His main duties, within the ESA Security Office, deal with the security of the Space Programmes of the Agency, assuring they implement an adequate security risk assessment process to keep security risks under control and proper security measures to achieve the needed security assurance level. He has experience in the Defence sector, where he worked for more than 10 years in the space field – being technical responsible for the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation system – and in the Galileo Competent PRS Authority, where he was Deputy of the Italian Head.

Agnieszka Lukaszczyk is Vice President, Government Affairs – Europe, Middle East and Africa at Planet. A Polish/American national, has worked at the European Commission, Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Space Data for Societal Challenges and Growth Unit. She also worked at the Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry, Space Policy and Research Unit. Before she joined the Commission, Agnieszka was the Brussels Office Director for the Secure World Foundation. In addition, she is the former Chairperson and the former Executive Director of the Space Generation Advisory Council in Support of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications. Agnieszka also worked at the European Space Policy Institute as a research fellow. Agnieszka serves as the Vice President – Europe for the World Space Week And Sits on the Board Of Directors for the Women in Aerospace-Europe. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Space Security at the Polish Defence Academy. She holds a Master’s degree from the Warsaw School of Economics in Management of Space in New Economies and a Master’s degree from the American University School of International Service in International Politics plus a Bachelor degree in Political Science from the University of Tennessee. She also studied at the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Brussels, Belgium; the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland and the World Trade Institute in Berne, Switzerland. She gained professional experience at the Political Section of the Polish Embassy in Washington DC, American Electronics Association in Brussels, European Department of the Polish Senate in Warsaw and the Warsaw Business Journal

DG  AGRI is one of the European Commission’s most proficient users of Earth Observation data, for example, in the context of precision farming technologies, crop yield forecasting and CAP controls ensuring that agricultural subsidies are attributed correctly. With the emergence of Copernicus satellites, and in particular the free-of-charge availability of Sentinel 1 and 2 imagery, a game changer appeared. In 2018, DG AGRI introduced the legal framework necessary for Member States to make use of Copernicus satellites as an alternative to sample-based on-the-spot-checks. By 2021, ten Member States use this so-called ‘Checks by Monitoring’ approach which can be highly automated, offers cost reductions for both national administrations and farmers, and increases the assurance of a correct spending of EU funds. In the recently agreed CAP reform, the role of Earth Observation has been further strengthened with the introduction of a mandatory Area Monitoring System (AMS).

Jean-Luc Widlowski has a PhD in three-dimensional radiation transfer modelling in vegetation canopies from the University of Fribourg, CH. He is with the European Commission since 2002, initially at the Joint Research Centre where his work focused on the quality assurance of biophysical information derived from satellite observations and the benchmarking of models used for the interpretation of remote sensing data. Jean-Luc Widlowski is the author/co-author of 50+ publications in the peer-reviewed literature. Since 2018, he joined DG AGRI where he is working on the uptake of new technologies (Copernicus, Galileo, etc.) to monitor, control and evaluate the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy.

Charles Villie has been working as senior GNSS project manager for the GSA/EUSPA and for the European Commission for the last 14 years. Charles is the Galileo PRS Service Manager at EUSPA.He was before the EGNOS Project Manager who successfully prepared the declaration of the 3 EGNOS services (OS in Oct 2009, SoL in March 2011, and EDAS in July 2012). Prior to joining EGNOS and Galileo in the EU Institutions, he has been working in Industry as Satellite Technical Manager for few satellites in Europe and in Canada, covering all engineering satellite cycles from development to launch and operations.

Having lived and studied in different countries, Anett has learned to appreciate living in a digital society. Anett believes that all processes and structures of public services should be accessible and simple for every single citizen. Based on her academic background in political science, Anett focuses on enhancing good cooperation between the public and private sector to create a comprehensive and supportive environment. Her goal as a Digital Transformation Adviser at the e-Estonia Briefing Centre is to explain the Estonian digitalisation experience and thus inspire leaders and decision-makers alike to create a better tomorrow.

Specialities: e-Governance, Smart City solutions, public speaking, diplomatic relations, cyberspace and security, EU foreign relations, i-Voting

Education:
European Studies, MA. University of Tartu, Estonia.
French and European Studies. Sciences Po Lyon- Institut d’Etudes Politiques, France.
Political Sciences and GovernmentBA. Tallinn University, Estonia.

Eric Jackson holds an MSc in e-Governance Technologies and Services from TalTech University. He’s a former E-Governance Academy alum and was a Fulbright Fellow in the Republic of Georgia (2015-16). Currently, Eric is a second year PhD candidate at Next Generation Digital State Research Group where his research interests involve understanding interoperability dynamics in public sector digital transformation and cross-border e-services implementation.

Marika Popp is Head of Space Solutions at Guardtime, a leading global enterprise blockchain company, where, as we say it, “Google’s mission is to organise the world’s information and make it universally available. Guardtime’s mission is to validate that information and make it universally reliable”.

In her job, Marika applies cutting edge blockchain technology to define and overcome space sector’s cybersecurity challenges. She has extensive management experience of leading and participating in collaborative research and innovation projects, including with European Space Agency for establishing trust in space data and systems, incl applying Distributed Ledger Technologies in ground station and mission control. In 2019-2021, she was leading the study and prototype development on secure distributed ledger (blockchain) for Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) data. The aim of the prototype development was to ensure integrity, add resiliency and allow for SST data users to reach consensus on shared data in SST data catalogues and investigate secure exchange mechanisms between space operators by enforcing rules for acknowledgement of collision risks and subsequent negotiated maneuver execution.

Marika has experience working across governmental, interinstitutional, and commercial communities on space data security and digitalisation for establishing trust in space data systems and applications. Previously to Guardtime, Marika has served in various management positions for the Government of Estonia and both private/non-government sectors, including leading space policy dossier during Estonia’s 2017 Presidency of the EU Council and as an acting Head of Innovation at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications.

Marika is a graduate of Tallinn University of Technology (MSc) and College d’Europe (MA).

Priit Anton is program manager and business analyst at Guardtime dealing with customers specific requests and business development to solve challenges they are facing. Priit manages also different R&D projects and Proof of Concepts for key customers. His responsibility is to bring Guardtime technology to new emerging business sectors, such as energy, logistics and space technology.

Priit Anton skills that are relevant to Space sector are business development in particularly utilizing blockchain technology for security purposes, Mapping customers’ requirements to propose technology match with end users challenges and Project management.

His previous work experience is being Vice president of Reach-U and responsible for company’s business development and export in Earth observation and GIS in Forestry and Agriculture sector.

In past years Priit Anton has been managing in multiple Space, Energy and Defence sector projects: Project lead and business analyst BC4SA for Space activities project with ESA;  Project lead and business analyst in H2020 project SOFIE – Secure Open Federation for Internet Everywhere; H2020 project SYSFLEX – Pan-European system with an efficient coordinated use of flexibilities for the integration of a large share of Renewable energy source; Project lead and business analyst for ESA project Second call for outline proposals under the Plan for European Cooperating States (PECS) in Estonia – Biomass and Timber Mapping for Innovative Forestry Management; Business analyst in NATO Space domain project “Improvement and automation of processing, exploitation and dissemination”. Duration 2015.

Technology visionary with 25 years of international experience, with a deep understanding of diverse cultural and business practices (lived in USA, Finland, India, and China before settling in Estonia). Very passionate about different technologies and the work he is doing, from cybersecurity to video editing, from tinkering with hardware to flying in the sky (with or without a simulator), from chip making to software architecture design. He is very problem solving oriented and prefers to setup a demo with a Raspberry Pi rather than only plan things on a PPT.

About the company

Skudo is focusing on hardware-based encryption and authentication of data communication. We developed an Hardware Security Module (HSM) on a single FPGA chip. The HSM is made in Europe and fully verifiable (no back-doors). We provide ready-made or custom solutions for end2end hardware encrypted data links. We have experience with space applications (e.g. CCSDS TC/TM/SDLS protocol) and also for drone apllications (e.g. MAVlink protocol).

KappaZeta is Earth Observation services company concentrating on radar technology and agricultural applications. Besides the agricultural and agri-insurance services vertical we are working to make the use of Sentinel-1 analysis ready data layers very easy to use for other companies ang government organisations. Together with CGI Estonia and Tartu Observatory we developed the first operational country-wide agricultural subsidy checks system in Europe, which is saving hundreds of thousands every year.

Aare Reintam is the Chief Operating Officer and a Member of the Executive Board of CybExer Technologies since June 2018. and a co-chair of the European Cyber Security Organisation sub-working group on cyber ranges and technical exercises. Aare is responsible of building up Cyber Ranges all over the world and providing different cyber related services like Exercises, Trainings and Security Operations Services.

Previously, he worked as the Cyber Defence Exercise Manager of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence where he planned, executed and/or oversaw several iterations of world-leading cyber defence exercises (Locked Shields, Crossed Swords, Cyber Coalition) between 2014 and 2018.

Silver Lodi is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Spaceit, an Estonian spacetech company providing a single platform and accompanying services for satellite operations, ground station services and cybersecurity. Spaceit’s offering includes a cloud-based mission operations platform consisting of a mission control system, aggregated marketplace for ground station services and satellite operations simulator.

Previously, Silver has worked in different positions in Swedbank and SEB for over 12 years. He has BSc and MSc of Business Administration from Tallinn University of Technology.

Baldur Kubo has over 30 years of experience in international consulting, project management and IT.

At Cybernetica Baldur works with a wide portfolio of international clients that have the highest requirements for confidentiality and privacy. He manages the implementation of innovative data protection and machine learning solutions that use Cybernetica’s bleeding-edge technologies.

Recently, he successfully managed the “De-risking Machine learning to support threat & vulnerability management” research project, financed by the ESA General Support Technology Programme (GSTP). The project investigated how machine learning can help lighten the burden of cybersecurity specialists in identifying and prioritising ongoing cyber threats.

Before Cybernetica he has held leading and consulting roles, including the position of CEO of a business intelligence software development company Resta Ltd for 17 years. He received his MSc in applied mathematics from  University of Tartu and an MBA in international management from the joint program of Weatherhead School of Management Case Western Reserve University (USA) and CEU Graduate School of Business (Hungary).

Cybernetica – known as one of the original creators of the e-Estonia ecosystem – has nearly 25 years of experience in building future-proof products that rely on research and development. Currently Cybernetica’s technologies are used in 35 countries around the world.