How does space exploration help the economy and businesses? The new space economy will benefit just about every industry imaginable.

Precision agriculture, contemporary agriculture, and agricultural innovation can all benefit from space technologies. Farmers, agronomists, food producers, and agricultural officials that want to increase productivity and profitability can benefit from space-based technology. Learn about these innovation opportunities from experts on the new space economy.

Luís Filipe Lages (Ph.D., Warwick University) is a Full Professor and Director of the VCW Lab at Nova SBE (powered by the VCW method). He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, LBS, and MIT Engineering School and a Visiting Faculty at MIT Sloan School of Management.

The VCW Lab has been involved in developing numerous projects in Innovation, Decision Making, Value Creation, and Sustainability. Space Business and Earth Observation. He is the creator of the VCW-Value Creation Wheel (www.ValueCreationWheel.com), which was applied in several projects and across a wide range of firms, from award-winning start-ups to Fortune 500 companies (www.openVCW.com) to solve their daily challenges. He received several prestigious awards, including the ""2018 American Marketing Association Research in Excellence Award"".

Emir Sirage, is the General Manager of the NewSpace Portugal Agenda and Programme Director Space for Business at Nova. He holds an MBA, Master’s degrees in engineering and industrial Management and in Management of Information Systems from the following universities: EPFL and HEC Lausanne - Switzerland, UTAustin Texas - USA, University of Minho and Lisbon School of Economics and Management in Portugal.

His professional experience spans from working as a Quality Management consultant for SMEs, to working in international Technology Transfer, Industrial Policy and Government relations for international organizations: CERN, ESA, ESO, ESRF.

Further, he led a technology management office at a National Science Funding Agency in Portugal called FCT, responsible for International science-industry programmes with renowned academic and scientific institutions: MIT, UTAustin, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard Medical School, Fraunhofer Portugal, NASA. He also worked in the Space Industry as Director of the Space business department of Thales company in Portugal and recently worked as CEO and COO at the Atlantic International Research Centre (AIR Centre), an organization involving 21 countries in the Atlantic.