09:00-09:10
Ole Dokka
Executive Director, Spaceport NorwayChief Strategy Officer, Conventor

SHORT BIO
Ole Dokka is a multidisciplinary leader and strategist, working in the intersection of innovation, design, technology and digital business, since the beginning of the internet economy in 1995. He has held leadership positions in several big companies in Norway, among them Telenor and the global energy company, Statoil.
In Statoil he was responsible for developing and implementing digital and media strategies, new visual and interactive brand identity and a new global marketing programme. This work received multiple Norwegian and international awards. From 2012 he joined the corporate innovation team and headed up Statoil´s open innovation efforts, globally.
He left Statoil in 2014 to take up a new position as Strategy Director in We Are Int., a digital business design & development company based in Oslo and Stavanger. In March 2016 he left We Are Int, in order to develop a new meeting arena and cross-industrial conference, Spaceport Norway. The yearly conference was arranged for the first time in 2017 and is now the biggest space business meeting arena and event in the Nordics. The next conference will be arranged in Trondheim, Norway, 4 and 5 September 2019.
In addition to the position as Executive Director for Spaceport Norway, he also took up a position as Chief Strategy Officer in the strategic event company Conventor in 2018.
Ole Dokka is based in Stavanger, Norway, where he lives with his family of 5 + 2 cats and a lot of surfboards, skateboards, snowboards, golf clubs and tennis rackets.
Welcome to Spaceport Norway 2019!
09:10-09:30
Christian Hauglie-Hanssen
Director General, Norwegian Space Agency

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Christian Hauglie-Hanssen is the Director General of the Norwegian Space Agency, a position he has had since June 2018.
Mr. Hauglie-Hanssen was previously Director of Space & Surveillance at Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace. He has more than 30 years of experience in management and business development within defence programmes, civilian products and space. He has also held the presidency of NIFRO, the advocacy group for the Norwegian space industry.
Mr. Hauglie-Hanssen was educated at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, earning a degree in civil engineering. In addition he acquired a Master of Science degree in physics at the University of South Florida.
In his spare time Mr. Hauglie-Hanssen is an active mountaineer. Mount Kazbek in Georgia, Ama Dablam in Nepal and Denali in Alaske are some of the peaks he has climbed.
Space strategies for a changing world
09:30-09:50
Simonetta di Pippo
Director, United Nations Office For Outer Space Affairs

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Simonetta Di Pippo is Director of UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). Prior to joining UNOOSA, she served as Director of Human Spaceflight at ESA, and Director of the Observation of the Universe at ASI. She is an Academician of IAA and member of its Board of Trustees. She is member of WEF Global Future Council on space technology since 2016. She co-founded Women in Aerospace Europe in 2009. In 2017, she became a UN International Gender Champion. She holds a Master’s Degree in Astrophysics and Space Physics from University “La Sapienza”, and Honoris Causa Degree in Environmental Studies, and an Honoris Causa Degree of Doctor in International Affairs. In 2008, IAU named asteroid 21887 “Dipippo” in honour of her contribution to space activities.
A strong space infrastructure - the key to a more sustainable world
09:50-10:10
Juan Garces de Marcilla
Director, Copernicus Services, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

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Juan Garces de Marcilla has been since 2015 Director of Copernicus at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECWMF). Prior to that, Juan hold the position of CEO of Thales Alenia Space Spain, a company that designs and manufactures satellite systems and equipment. Previously, Juan held the role of Director of Satellite Engineering and Procurement at Eutelsat of Paris, a worldwide leading telecommunication satellites operator, and spent his early carrier years with the European Space Agency in The Netherlands (ESA/ESTEC). He holds a degree in engineering and a MBA.
The future of climate services - CO2 emissions monitoring for a green economy
10:10-10:30
Maurice Borgeaud
Head OF EO Department, European Space Agency

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Maurice Borgeaud is Head of Department at the European Space Agency (ESA), responsible for science, applications, and climate activities in the Earth Observation (EO) Directorate. His main tasks are to interact with both the scientific community and industry in order to propose new and innovative EO satellite missions. He also participates in the definition of the long-term EO exploitation strategy to be realized via a coherent programmatic framework that addresses the full spectrum of EO user communities. He is managing the ESA effort on climate change including the development of essential climate variables, promotes the use of EO data to monitor the UN SDG’s, and represents ESA in the Board of the International the International Charter Space and Major Disaster.
Borgeaud earned an Engineer Degree from EPFL, Lausanne and a Ph.D. Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and associate Editor for the “IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing”.
Climate change - how Earth observation brings undisputable facts.
PANEL
10:30-11:00
Christian Hauglie-Hanssen, NOSA
Simonetta di Pippo, UNOOSA
Maurice Bourgeaud, ESA
Juan Garces de Marcilla, ECMWF
How can increased investments in space programs and space infrastructure create value for other industries? Will a strong space sector enable more climate resilience in industry and society?
MODERATED BY DAG ANDERS MOLDESTAD, NORWEGIAN SPACE AGENCY
11:00-11:15 COFFEE BREAK & EXPO
PARALLEL ONE, 11:15-12:15
Managing the Earth´s resources, empowered by space tech, data and science
11:15-11:35
Øyvind M. Jakobsen
Senior Researcher, CIRiS

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Mr. Jakobsen is a senior researcher at CIRiS, working on closed regenerative life support systems for space, with strong synergies to sustainable food production on Earth. He was recently the Exploitation and Dissemination Manager (EDM) of the Horizon 2020 project “TIME SCALE”. Before he joined CIRiS he worked as a researcher at NTNU and SINTEF in Trondheim, Norway. In addition, he has several years of experience facilitating cooperation between R&D institutions and industrial partners within the agricultural sector. He is now involved in projects spanning hardware development, monitoring and control systems and resource utilization in bio-based production systems on Earth.
Gisela Detrell
Dr.ing , University of Stuttgart

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Dr. Gisela Detrell graduated in Aerospace Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC, Spain) in 2009. She finished a PhD on reliability analysis of Life Support Systems for long duration space missions, at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) and the Technical University of Catalonia in 2015.
She is currently leading the research group Life Support and Energy Systems at the Institute of Space Systems, at the University of Stuttgart. Her main research focus is on the use of microalgae to produce oxygen and food for long duration human spaceflight, which includes the experiment Photobioreactor currently ongoing in the International Space Station.
From life support systems for Space to improved resource utilization on Earth
11:35-11:55
Brage W. Johansen
CEO, Desert Control

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Brage W. Johansen, M.Sc, 20 years of work within cleantech, sustainability and spacetech. Head of New Energy Hydrogen in Equinor, where he surprisingly produced Norways first hydrogen sportscar. Cofounder and ceo of startup companies: electric car charging Zaptec, smartgrid Heimdall Power and terraforming Desert Control. Johansen has parallell to earthbound startups worked with tech transfer between space and other industries, and for a decade been board member of Mars Institute which is at SETI in Palo Alto, CA. He is a board member of companies doing drone systems (KVS Tech) and autonomous mobility (Kolumbus).
Making the Earth green again
11:55-12:15
Anders Gundersen
CEO, Sensonomic

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Anders Gundersen is the founder and CEO of Sensonomic. He holds an MBA from the University of Oxford, and a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Bergen. Whilst leading a consulting project in rural Kenya, in-between fending off hyenas and walking into elephants at night, he formed the idea of what was to eventually turn into Sensonomic.
Sensonomic predicts productivity and optimises logistics for global agriculture. Through data capture from satellites and other sources, coupled with computational simulations we show how humans, the environment and the economy interact on a daily basis. We are working with the United Nations, international agriculture businesses, and several nation states - work that has taken us from Mauritania to Fiji. At the core of all our work is the realisation that land management issues are incredibly complex - and that big data and computational simulations are a very good help in making the best possible decisions.
Finite resources, infinite problems: Dynamic resource allocation in global agriculture.
PARALLEL TWO, 11:15-12:15
Small satellites - many opportunities
11:15-11:25
Evelyn Honoré-Livermore
Project Manager, HYPSO; PhD Candidate, NTNU

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Evelyn Honoré-Livermore holds a master’s degree in Electronic Engineering from NTNU here in Trondheim, and a master of Business Administration from Yonsei University in Seoul, South-Korea where she lived for two years. She worked for several years at Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace, where she managed projects developing optical pyrotechnic systems for launchers and satellites.
She is currently the project manager of HYPSO, a CubeSat being built at NTNU, while researching for her PhD in systems engineering. Her focus is looking at what processes and methods can be used to reduce the time from concept to launch for small satellite development. The first satellite, HYPSO, will image the ocean with a hyperspectral camera. It will collect data on ocean color and detect algal blooms to help the aquaculture industry and protect ocean resources.
The Big Potential in Small Satellites
11:25-11:35
Sivert Bakken
PhD Candidate, NTNU

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Sivert Bakken is pursuing his PhD in Engineering Cybernetics at NTNU, on how to process images taken with the hyperspectral imager on-board the HYPSO satellite. He did his master’s degree in Engineering Cybernetics, working with target detection and image classification from space. Figuring out how we best can identify and classify different biological substances from space, while dealing with cloudy covered Norway and dark seasons is a big challenge in Earth Observation. In his spare time, he volunteers at Studentersamfundet in Trondheim, in the video committee. In the HYPSO team, Sivert also takes overall responsibility for the software development for HYPSO.
HYPSO – a Norwegian research mission to protect the oceans
11:35-11:55
Tore André Bekkeng
PhD. Design Engineer, EIDEL

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Tore André Bekkeng did something many students dream of – he built something that is now flying on multiple satellites around the world. He holds a master’s degree and PhD in space physics from University of Oslo. His master’s project went on to become a doctorate research project, and then commercialized together with EIDEL (Eidsvoll Electronics). This couldn’t have happened without his fellow researchers and supervisors, and hard work. The m-NLP system is also a great example of what is possible to do on small satellites – you don’t need to be large to make a big impact.
From an ambitious M.Sc. and Ph.D. project to Norway's operational Space Weather instrument in Low Earth Orbit
11:55-12:15
Jędrzej Kowalewski
CEO and founder, Scanway

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CEO and founder of Scanway company, which focuses on optical payloads for science, aerospace and industry. Innovator of several space measurement solutions such as DREAM experiment measurement method, ScanSAT main orbital scanner and various concept of remote data collection especially with use of laser and scanning. Space community enthusiast. Coach and trainer of student space experiment teams. Specialist in the space industry and remote measurement systems.
Together with Scanway, he is currently implementing ScanSAT – microsatellite to demonstrate multispectral high resolution imaging and laser telecommunication capabilities in one agile space optical payload. Leading joint project between Scanway and German Orbital Systems of Moon orbiting Cubesat.
From Moon to Earth
12:15-12:30 COFFEE & EXPO
PLENARY, 12:30-14:00
Industry trends: From new launch base to autonomous ships
12:30-12:45
Odd Roger Enoksen
CEO, Andøya Space Center

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Odd Roger Enoksen, President/CEO Andøya Space Center
Age: 64
Member of The Storting (The Norwegian Parliament) 1993 – 2005
Minister of Local Government and Regional Development 1999 – 2000
Minister of Petroleum and Energy 2005 – 2007
CEO Andøya Space Center 2007 –
Andøya Spaceport: Developing a premium launch facility for Europe
12:45-13:00
Ane Aanesland
CEO & Founder, ThrustMe

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Ane Aanesland, co-founder and CEO of ThrustMe, is a recognized expert in plasma physics and electric propulsion. She holds a PhD in physics from the northernmost university in the world, The Arctic University of Norway, and since 2006 she worked at the Ecole Polytechnique in France where she grew up a research team on innovative electric propulsion. She was nominated director of research at the CNRS in 2017. In 2017, she co-founded the startup ThrustMe, enabling a sustainable space industry by developing and commercializing space propulsion systems for next generation satellites. ThrustMe has raised close to 5 M€ in private capital and subventions, employs ~20 people, and their first commercial products enter the market in 2019.
Next generation satellite propulsion technology
13:15-13:30
Karstein Ringjord
International Sales Manager, KSAT

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Karstein joined the Norwegian Navy in 2006 and served until 2017. In the Norwegian Navy, he graduated from the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in military studies with a specialisation in leadership and nautical science. Karstein has served onboard the Skjold Class Corvettes as well as the Norwegian Coast Guard, held the role as the subject matter expert for the Norwegian Corvettes and worked with recruitment and selection for the armed forces.
Also, Karstein has study psychology at the University of Bergen and Economics at the University of Tromsø before he joined KSAT in 2017. He now holds the position as International Sales Manager at Energy, Environment and Security in Kongsberg Satellite Services.
Detecting and understanding change - the future potential of earth observation
PANEL
MODERATED BY BJØRN OTTAR ELSETH, NORWEGIAN SPACE AGENCY
14:00-15:00 LUNCH & EXPO
PARALELL ONE, 15:00-16:15
Disruption tech: Robotics and AI - are we (finally) getting somewhere?
15:00-15:30
Aksel A. Transeth
Senior Scientist, SINTEF Digital

SHORT BIO
Dr. Aksel A. Transeth received his PhD in robotics from the Department of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2008. His PhD thesis was entitled "Modeling and control of snake robots". During his PhD he was a visiting researcher at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA, and at the University of Zürich (ETH Zürich), Switzerland. After his PhD, Dr. Transeth has worked at a Norwegian research institute, SINTEF, with projects on robotics ranging from the subsea to the space domain – and with applications within petroleum, space, manufacturing and search and rescue. Within snake robotics, Dr. Transeth has been a key resource in two research projects on snake robot locomotion, as well as two ESA projects on snake robots for space applications. Other areas of expertise and interest include motion estimation, modeling and business development.
Trends in robotics and autonomous systems – what will we see next?
15:30-15:50
Arne Kjørsvik
CEO, Eelume

SHORT BIO
Graduated M.Sc. in Engineering Cybernetics (1994) from NTNU (previously NTH). Background from Marine Cybernetics (acquired by DNV GL in 2014) as Chief Market Officer, where establishment of the market for third party testing of control software in the oil and gas was the primary objective. Spent several years at SINTEF MARINTEK developing control systems and simulator technology. Spent the first years at Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace developing one-shot mine disposal underwater vehicle for mine counter measures.
Snake robots in ocean space
15:50-16:15
Harald Martens
Founder & research leader, Idletechs ASProf. emerit., NTNU Trondheim

SHORT BIO
Prof. Martens has worked as method developer in multivariate soft modelling for more than 40 years, particularly wrt spectroscopy and other multichannel instrumentation types. His holds a MSc in industrial biochemistry and a dr.techn in chemometrics. He has done R&D in a wide range of fields, in universities and companies around the world (https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=60HNWsYAAAAJ&hl=no ). As professor he currently participates in building the new field of Big Data Cybernetics at NTNU. As entrepreneur he heads a development team in the startup company Idletechs AS, concerning new methods in edge computing, hybrid modelling and interpretable machine learning, for industrial and aerospace applications.
Machine learning: Better approximately right than precisely wrong
PARALELL TWO, 15:00-16:15
Start-up Zone:Space as platform for innovation & entrepreneurship
15:00-15:10
Dr. Stefan Gustafsson
Technology Transfer Officer, European Space Agency

SHORT BIO
Stefan Gustafsson has more than twenty years of experience in technology and applications development. Since 2009 he is working for the European Space Agency, initially in the Business Applications programme where he was responsible for activities aiming at developing innovative services using earth observation, satellite navigation, and satellite communication. Currently he holds the position of Technology Transfer Officer, being responsible for ESA’s business incubation and technology transfer activities in a number of ESA’s member states.
Prior to joining ESA, Stefan was active as project manager and consultant in the telecom industry, working for several of the major European telecom operators as advisor on new wireless communication technologies. He also contributed to the standardisation of 3rd generation mobile networks. The methods he has developed for mobile network design and optimization have been patented worldwide and been applied in several European countries.
Stefan holds a Master of Science from Linköping University (Sweden) in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, and a PhD from Aachen University of Technology (Germany) in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.
ESA BIC: The space you need to get your business off the ground
15:10-15:20
Kristine Løvflaten Koslung
Project Manager, ESA BIC Norway

SHORT BIO
Kristine Løvflaten Koslung is the project manager of European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre Norway (ESA BIC Norway), and the Norwegian Ambassador for ESA’s Business Application Platform. She scout for startups with potential for participating in the BIC, facilitate for collaboration between Norwegian industry and ESA, gives business advice to entrepreneurs and is responsible for the daily operation of ESA BIC Norway. Employed by Kjeller Innovasjon, she works as a business developer with startups and young entrepreneurs spinning out of universities, research institutes and existing industry. Ms. Koslung is also an experienced journalist with a history of working in the media production industry. In addition to her bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism, she holds a master's degree in the field of Innovation and entrepreneurship from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
Former enthusiast of communicating hard news to the world, current enthusiast of exposing startups for the opportunities beyond and outside of mother earth.
ESA BIC Norway update - one year after launch
15:20-16:15 Booster Stage Presentations: Norwegian Space Start-ups
MODERATED BY KRISTINE LØVFLATEN KOSLUNG, ESA BIC NORWAY