On Monday 7th of November FabSpace 2.0 Darmstadt was presented to more than 80 attendees with numerous backgrounds eg. industry, science, politics and society. To read the official local press release, please click here (German only). The event was hosted at TU Darmstadt in cooperation with cesah GmbH /ESA Business Incubation Centre.
The moderator Sascha Heising welcomed several special guests for their speeches. Welcome speeches were given by the Vice-President of TU Darmstadt Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mira Mezini, Hans Weigandt (Ministry of Economics in Hesse), Michael Kolmer (City of Darmstadt), Prof. Dr.-ing. Kutterer (President of the federal ministry of cartography and geodesy) and Juan Miró (European Space Agency – ESA). The event became more delighted because of the presence of Dr. Hansgerd Terlinden (President, Hessischen Landesamtes für Bodenmanagement und Geoinformation), John Lewis (former CEO of Telespazio VEGA), Dr.-Ing. Ralf-H. Borchert (Managing director, InGeoForum), Dr.rer.pol. Jürgen Born (Managing director, SBI GmbH) and Prof. Dr. Peter Buxmann (HIGHEST, TU Darmstadt). FabSpace Darmstadt has been successfully launched with a great acceptance in the grand Opening ceremony.
Sascha Hising explains about the strategic overview of FabSpace Darmstadt (photo: cesah)
Bayzidul Islam explaining technical overview of FabSpace Darmstadt (photo: cesah)
Prof. Dr.-ing. Matthias Becker (Institute of Geodesy, TU Darmstadt) and Dr.-ing. Frank Zimmermann (cesah GmbH/ESA BIC) welcomed everyone in the name of the two responsible partner institutions of FabSpace. They also highlighted the importance of the project and their involvement, while Bayzidul Islam and Sascha Heising revealed more about the project details and its local strategic and technical aspects.
Panel discussion on the topic “Darmstadt is the right place for Earth Observation EO Start-ups” (photo: cesah)
In addition to that, FabSpace Darmstadt also had the participation of Daniel Mesples from ESOC for the Keynote of the evening about “The Highlights of ESA Earth Observation”. There was an outstanding demo presentation from invited earth observation start-up “spacenus” in the field of Machine Learning & Agriculture. The official part was over after the panel discussion about “Darmstadt is the right place for earth observation start-ups”. In conclusion everyone was invited to stay for the get together on the occasion of 10 years of cesah GmbH.
FabSpace is a multidisciplinary team work and the door is just opened for potential users. FabSpace Darmstadt believes “Together we can make changes, together we can create breakthroughs”. To stay connected please join the online Geo-platform here “https://fab-server.ipg.verm.tu-darmstadt.de/” and also visit our websites.
