Oxford | 28th Nov + Dinner

A one day summit on preparing the UK for the future with space-tech, satcomms, AI and autonomy.

Civil resilience is key for ensuring the safety and wellbeing of UK citizens in the future. Help shape a roadmap for a CSS cluster in the UK and a community invested in its delivery. 

Convening supply and demand for Space and AI in the UK around civil resilience.

You are invited to join us at Rhodes House in Oxford on the 28th of November. The Futureproof summit will convene leaders from industry, academia, and government agencies for a deep discussion on what it will take to prepare our country and partners for the challenges of the coming century. 

Focusing on challenges with disproportionate risk: 

Our discussions will focus on future risks to the UK and Europe that combine a high-likelihood (10-25%) with severe impact (> 1B-1T GBP). All of these risks can be planned for and ameliorated with advanced Earth observation, sat comms, AI and autonomy. How these technologies can be matured into a sustainable, orchestrated and trusted resilience ecosystem will be the focus of the discussions. . 

The summit will feature a structured agenda designed to cover the case for amplifying coordination and acceleration between the private space sector, NGOs and academic labs, exploring how much already is effectively done in the UK and the potential value of an ESA led initiative in terms of resilience, economic uplift, soft power and sustainability.

Key objectives: 

  • Understand the demand side from individuals already doing it

  • How the UK space tech ecosystem can better supply civil resilience solutions

  • Clarify the opportunity and how it might amplify existing civil resilience functions in the UK and Europe

This summit is supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) in partnership with Oxford University and Trillium Technologies.

Agenda

    • ESA’s Civil Resilience vision

    1. All Boats Rise

    2. Building an ecosystem

    3. Crossing the chasm: Instant insight, precision foresight, smarter systems

    • Operational Realities: Instant insight, precision foresight, smarter systems

    • Roundtables brief

    1. Generating insight; Build a UK proposition

    2. Generating insight; Build a UK proposition

    • Operational vision

    • Roundup and report back

    • Next steps

    • Dinner

Explore key propositions being discussed

The form linked above will allow you to contribute to the study, we’d love to hear form you!