Expert of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Open Data. He has several years of experience on designing of GIS and on processing of spatial data, both for the Public Administration and for companies. He is currently a consultant to Almawawe, for specialist support on open data for the Sicilian Region.

He is the president of OnData, an association that promotes the opening of public data to make it accessible to everyone.

Da più di venti anni nel campo dell’uso dei dati da satellite per numerosi ambiti applicativi. Dopo la laurea in Fisica, si è specializzata in Elaborazione del Segnale con una tesi applicata all’analisi dei dati per lo stato del mare. Nel corso degli anni ha acquisito competenze come Project Manager e Technical Manager per numerosi programmi dell’ESA, dell’ASI, della Commissione e nazionali. Ha seguito il programma Copernicus sin dalla sua nascita e ha lavorato in diversi ambiti quali progetti di ricerca per lo sviluppo di nuove soluzioni (FP4, FP5, FP6, H2020, HE), attività di promozione e identificazioni di nuovi utenti (Copernicus User Uptake), formazione (ERASMUS+) ed infine nei programmi di supporto alla espansione del mercato (COSME). Ha esperienza nei servizi core e downstream di Copernicus.

Appassionata di geografia, cartografia e del mondo dello spazio in genere, le piace lavorare in progetti in cui si incontrano persone provenienti da diverse nazioni, culture e competenze perché si arricchisce di nuove conoscenze e coniuga i propri interessi e competenze per studiare la complessità del nostro affascinante pianeta e dei suoi incredibili fenomeni.

Open Innovation & Growth Hacking Consultant - Seguo spin-off di multinazionali che vogliono lanciare in modo lean prodotti innovativi alla scoperta di nuovi mercati e Startup nella validazione della loro idea di business e le supporto per una solida pianificazione del Go To Market.

Product Specialist - Government & Security SBU.Formazione: Laurea in Informatica e Comunicazione Digitale presso l'Università degli Studi di Bari. Lavora come sviluppatore web per diversi anni, si specializza in "Sistemi Informativi Geografici" con un corso di specializzazione presso l'Ente Dinamica srl di Bologna e grazie alle attività di gestione e manutenzione del GeoPortale della Regione Emilia-Romagna presso la sede del cliente.Lavora dal 2012 come Product Specialist occupandosi dell’elaborazione delle richieste di dati satellitari e del contatto con il cliente.

Nasco Sviluppatore, mi innamoro della Data Analysis e cresco a Business e Marketing. Imprenditore e Growth Marketing Specialist con 15 anni di esperienza sul campo e una indomabile curiosità.

After a solid experience in a Commercial Bank where he held the roles of Risk Analyst and then Sales, he left the permanent position to work as Customer Success Manager in a Growth agency. 

Among the winners of the Copernicus 2020 hackathon with the project Fishalytics, today he holds the role of Business Developer in g-nous, innovation-driven company skilled on Deep Tech and Space Businesses.

Strong experience in hacking hackathons with more than 15 attended in the last years.

Latitudo 40

Gaetano Volpe, with more than 20 years of experience in Space and Telecommunications, is a business coach with extensive experience in strategy development, business model design and business planning applied in coaching activities for companies, startups and SMEs. He has consolidated experience in business development, technological innovation/R&D and designing growth strategies in international markets. Currently Founder & CEO of Latitudo 40, startup in the downstream EO sector, and Founder & CFO of Esferatros, Luxembourg-based startup focused on a new satellite carrier for small sats. 

Gaetano is constantly focused on supporting companies and organisations in their digital transformation, putting data-driven insights at the heart of every decision for the development and validation of innovative business models, using structured methodologies based on Lean Organisation and Design Thinking concepts, to transform visions and innovative ideas into business successes, through simulations and field validation (validated learning). Highly diversified professional experience, consistently characterised by achieving results through teamwork and strong personal commitment with a proven track record of defining and developing complex projects, driving execution and change management to deliver results. For Gaetano, space is not just a job, but a passion that he has cultivated since he was a child and dreamed of becoming an astronaut.

Indicative list of specialties: ICT, Business Models, Maritime, Satellite Telecommunications, Space and Earth Observation, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, Cloud Solutions, IoT integrated projects.

Passionate about business and developing innovative and high impact projects on the territory for 10 years. In 2016, he co-founded Spazio S.P.IN., a brand that accompanies teams, start-ups and companies in the realization of innovative ideas and projects, thanks to facilitation and co-design methodologies and supporting them in accessing public and private financing. It contributes to the creation of more than 20 startups in Puglia, providing consultancy on the development of effective and sustainable business models and on the construction of validable on the market prototypes.

Dr. Jaime Almonacid-Caballer has developed the main part of his career in the Dept. Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry. Where he obtained the PhD in December of 2014. His Bachelor and PhD Thesis are related to coastal management, concretely on the subpixel automated coastline extraction from Landsat imagery, which includes automated georreferenciation, evaluation and analysis derived from those lines.

Other works have been related with the development of a low cost aerial photogrammetric tools, the mathematical development of terrestrial photogrammetric constraints oriented to coastal management.

He worked with point clouds derived both from Photogrammetric techniques and LiDAR to obtain derived products needed for the coastal managements (DTMs, DSMs etc). He also co-worked in the development of LiDAR tools in ENVI/IDL.

During 2016 he worked as Quality Control manager in the LiDAR group of Aerodata International Surveys placed in Utrecht (The netherlands). After getting into the LiDAR processing workflow (mainly developed with RiEGL systems/software and TerraScan) he was responsible of the Quality of the delivered data and on fixing any complaint from older deliveries. He was in charge on finding simpler and faster ways to improve the workflow. As a matter of research, he was in charge of spreading the point of view to detect automatically any geometric problem (mainly working with Tie Lines and vertical surface mismatches) trying always to work with freeware and simple but usable tools.

Nowadays he is developing he is part of the CGAT team co-working in several fields. He is working in the analysis and filtering of time series, researching the potential uses and limitations of radar data in coastal environments and developing some improvements in coastal close range photogrammetry.