24-25 FEBRUARY 2027
London ExCeL

24-25 February 2027
London ExCeL

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Innovate uk geoai festival

ExCel Center - March 4th 2026

Innovate UK GeoAI Festival @ Space Comm:
Combining orbital intelligence and AI for commercial advantage'

In partnership with

Where Earth Data Becomes a $700bn Business

Earth Observation (EO) is hitting its commercial inflection point. By 2030, EO data is projected to exceed $700 billion in global value.

Yet most teams still struggle to move beyond proofs of concept, integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into real workflows, or reach customers who need decision‑ready insights today.

The Innovate UK GeoAI Festival changes that. Created by Innovate UK in partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the below partner ecosystem, this programme brings innovators, public sector, researchers and industry together to build, validate, and showcase deployable EO+AI products.

From sprint development to Space‑Comm stage pitches, this is where ideas become pilots, procurement, partnerships, and market‑shaping impact.

Supporting Partners

What Is Being Covered

Agri-Food and Climate Resilience

Smarter Infrastructure Planning

Unlocking Nature-Based Markets

Critical Sector Challenges, Solved

Discover EO+AI projects that are transforming real‑world decisions, from resilient agri‑food systems to next‑generation land and ocean planning, and scalable MRV for nature‑based markets.

Our mission is to spotlight cloud‑native, user‑ready solutions with clear customers, operational relevance, and immediate pathways to adoption.

Discover Synergies

Latest Initiatives

Access Opportunities

Scaling the GeoAI Community

Hear from our partners about new competitions, funding and accelerator programmes that would help to develop and launch your next cutting-edge GeoAI innovation.

Find out what other possibilities there may be for project partnerships and collaboration both in the UK and internationally.

Prototype to Pilot

Buyer-Ready

Stage Momentum

Build & Pitch: GeoAI in Action

Experience the GeoAI Festival showcase, where sprint‑tested teams reveal working prototypes shaped through intensive development, expert mentorship, and access to EO datasets and cloud infrastructure.
Winning cohort teams will also pitch on the Space Data Theatre stage for the chance to accelerate their route to customers, pilots, and commercial scale.

Innovate Uk geoai festival cohort members

Deep Planet is an Oxford University spin-out and ESA-backed geospatial AI leader transforming satellite data into intelligence for sustainable agriculture. Deep Planet’s world models deliver integrated intelligence on soil and crops.

x10AI is a UK-developed digital assurance and environmental intelligence platform for livestock farming and agri-food supply chains. It uses AI-enabled digital twins to turn everyday farm activity into continuous, verifiable evidence of nutrient, carbon, water and nature performance at farm and catchment scale.

AgriBot.ai is an agritech and space-data analytics company that uses high-resolution satellite imagery, artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver precision insights for agriculture and environmental monitoring. By combining remote sensing data with state-of-the-art AI models, AgriBot.ai helps farmers, agribusinesses and land managers optimise crop health, improve yield predictions, detect stress factors and make data-driven decisions at scale. The company’s platform transforms complex Earth-observation data into intuitive, actionable recommendations that enhance productivity, resource efficiency and sustainability. At SpaceComm Europe, AgriBot.ai is relevant because it exemplifies how satellite communications and space-derived data can be harnessed to address real-world challenges in food production, climate resilience and land-use management—bridging space technology with practical impact on the ground.

RSAC produces satellite-derived agricultural land cover layers including UKCEH Land Cover® plus Crops, an annual parcel-level crop map of the whole of Great Britain with a 10-year history. Crop Map Explorer is our new online platform that provides insights derived from these layers for users seeking intelligence on agricultural practices to inform their own activities and ensure that interventions with farmers and landowners, particularly relating to threats to river water quality, are targeted, appropriate and effective.

Barefoot Lightening supports livestock farmers to improve animal health and nutrition whilst enhancing their natural capital to build a more profitable and sustainable business.

EarthSavvy makes getting unique insights from satellite data for supply chains, energy, agriculture and more as easy as asking a question and getting an answer.

VeLinkX combines AI-driven connectivity with Earth intelligence across terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks with the aim to build smarter, more resilient digital infrastructure.

Ergodic AI develops world models to enable a more sustainable and resilient future by simulating future scenarios, predicting risk, and recommending mitigation strategies. 

Pemberton is a female founded, bootstrapped deep-tech startup transforming biodiversity monitoring with patent pending, explainable AI and fractal arrays. Fresh from graduating the Lloyd’s of London Accelerator, we are now progressing to become a policy cover holder (MGA) with two of the world’s largest insurers, leveraging three routes to market through established brokers with substantial client books. Along the way, we won ESA’s Best Feasibility

Study and were recently got agreement from ARUP and other ecologists to trial our new EcoAssistant’  technology which we have built as part of the innovate UK, Geo AI Accelerator, developing AgTech products and MRV solutions for both the agricultural community and hopefully UK GOV itself. Having just completed an £800k TRL7/8 project at scale, our IP technology is now proven and ready for full platform development through commercial deployment, positioning Pemberton to scale rapidly while building a high performing team.

Calterra aims to help on-the-ground nature developers turn restoration projects into standardised and finance-ready assets with frontier geospatial AI technologies for project origination, monitoring and reporting.

Native Squared helps people and companies protect our planet, one Square at a time, and is developing a tool that integrates EO and public datasets to enable rapid onboarding and low-cost analyses of nature projects removing barriers to entry and allowing millions of nature projects worldwide to access nature finance.

Gentian combines high-resolution imagery and advanced AI to deliver precision biodiversity monitoring, providing fast, site-specific insights into nature-related risks and opportunities. By analysing satellite and aerial data at scale, Gentian enables organisations to measure biodiversity, track environmental change and understand ecological impact with a level of accuracy and speed not possible through traditional methods. Their platform supports informed decision-making across sectors such as infrastructure, finance, energy and land management, helping organisations meet regulatory requirements, manage sustainability commitments and identify opportunities for positive nature outcomes. By turning complex Earthobservation data into clear, actionable intelligence, Gentian demonstrates how space-enabled technologies can drive better environmental stewardship and responsible growth.

OceanOS provides predictive marine intelligence for o^shore infrastructure development. We automate ecological baseline characterisation and environmental risk assessment by combining AI with decades of oceanographic data. Our species distribution models deliver on-demand species maps, habitat analysis, and mitigation scenarios, dramatically reducing the time and cost of work currently done manually by developers and consultancies. Supporting marine infrastructure development such as offshore energy, ports, cables, and defence across UK and European waters.

Orbiventure delivers spatially resolved, predictive insights across fishing activity and monitored marine ecosystems. Co-designed with people at sea, our mission is to analyse future fishing viability while building e^ective feedback loops protecting both industry and planet.

This team tackles adaption to climate change head-on by pioneering a platform based on unmanned remote sensing and leveraging geospatial reasoning artificial intelligence with the aim to map, identify, and monitor pests and diseases in woodlands.

NetZero Protocol is a City of London firm building climate risk infrastructure for regulated financial institutions. The industry problem is simple: climate risk is widely discussed, but rarely usable. Exposure is often inferred from sector or country averages, scenarios stay narrative, and results don’t survive challenge, validation, or audit. Our platform, Lucis X, links issuers to real-world assets and locations, quantifies physical risk in financial terms, and translates transition pathways into credit and valuation impacts that fit existing risk and capital processes. We aim to be deliberately boring: outputs you can defend in committee.

Incubated at ESA BIC and supported by Chainlink, Google and NVIDIA. UN PRI signatory.

SpaceD develops GeoAI-driven tools to identify optimal urban sites for sustainable urban data centres. By combining spatial and energy modelling, the company accelerates the deployment of low-carbon, distributed digital infrastructure to support edge computing and smarter, more resilient cities.

ViableSite is a data-driven, AI-assisted feasibility platform bridging early site assessment and delivery of small housing developments. Serving SME developers and land investors, the platform integrates Earth Observation data with geospatial analysis, planning policy, construction and market data to transform a traditionally slow, multi-consultant process into a rapid, holistic assessment. Using advanced AI models, ViableSite determines whether a site should be developed, predicts likely profit, identifies the optimal construction pathway, including suitability for Modern Methods of Construction, and connects feasibility outputs directly to deliverable solutions. All pre-acquisition, this enables faster, more confident investment decisions and unlocks overlooked small sites capable of delivering homes quickly and at scale.

Mini Theatre agenda

  • John Trionfo
  • President, Defense Solutions
  • Antaris Space

Explore Taiwan’s Space Industry at Space-Comm Expo: Unlock Opportunities for Global Collaboration. Join us at the Taiwan Country Showcase at Space-Comm Expo, where we unveil Taiwan’s dynamic role in the global space industry and highlight concrete opportunities for collaboration with UK and European partners.

Discover how Taiwan’s world-class supply chain, renowned for its efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and rapid development cycles, is accelerating innovation in space components and related technologies and supporting international programmes across the global space ecosystem.

Building on these strengths, the showcase provides a focused platform for international companies to explore pathways into the Taiwan market. It highlights how evolving policies, industry coordination, and cross-border collaboration can enable smoother market entry and strengthen long-term partnerships. We will also examine how Taiwan’s unique international operating environment shapes business strategies and creates new opportunities for growth.


Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, collaborate, and innovate with Taiwan’s thriving space sector.

  • John Trionfo
  • President, Defense Solutions
  • Antaris Space

Getting to orbit should be faster, more predictable, and less costly than it is today. Yet complex procurement cycles, endless non-recurring engineering (NRE), and mismatched components still bog down projects and inflate budgets.

There’s a better approach: fly first, build second.

High-fidelity mission simulation lets you design and test complete spacecraft configurations—bus, payload, power requirements, comms links, and more—before hardware is purchased or built. Engineers can validate subsystem performance, model orbital dynamics, and identify design gaps long before integration, eliminating costly surprises before ever purchasing the first component. This session will also examine the risks of custom-built flight software, which can create complexity and distract teams from mission objectives, versus deploying modular, proven off-the-shelf systems that work seamlessly with a wide range of hardware and mission designs.

Attendees will learn practical strategies to design faster, buy smarter, and reach orbit with confidence—accelerating timelines and freeing teams to focus on mission outcomes, not integration headaches

  • John Trionfo
  • President, Defense Solutions
  • Antaris Space

Getting to orbit should be faster, more predictable, and less costly than it is today. Yet complex procurement cycles, endless non-recurring engineering (NRE), and mismatched components still bog down projects and inflate budgets.

There’s a better approach: fly first, build second.

High-fidelity mission simulation lets you design and test complete spacecraft configurations—bus, payload, power requirements, comms links, and more—before hardware is purchased or built. Engineers can validate subsystem performance, model orbital dynamics, and identify design gaps long before integration, eliminating costly surprises before ever purchasing the first component. This session will also examine the risks of custom-built flight software, which can create complexity and distract teams from mission objectives, versus deploying modular, proven off-the-shelf systems that work seamlessly with a wide range of hardware and mission designs.

Attendees will learn practical strategies to design faster, buy smarter, and reach orbit with confidence—accelerating timelines and freeing teams to focus on mission outcomes, not integration headaches

  • John Trionfo
  • President, Defense Solutions
  • Antaris Space

Getting to orbit should be faster, more predictable, and less costly than it is today. Yet complex procurement cycles, endless non-recurring engineering (NRE), and mismatched components still bog down projects and inflate budgets.

There’s a better approach: fly first, build second.

High-fidelity mission simulation lets you design and test complete spacecraft configurations—bus, payload, power requirements, comms links, and more—before hardware is purchased or built. Engineers can validate subsystem performance, model orbital dynamics, and identify design gaps long before integration, eliminating costly surprises before ever purchasing the first component. This session will also examine the risks of custom-built flight software, which can create complexity and distract teams from mission objectives, versus deploying modular, proven off-the-shelf systems that work seamlessly with a wide range of hardware and mission designs.

Attendees will learn practical strategies to design faster, buy smarter, and reach orbit with confidence—accelerating timelines and freeing teams to focus on mission outcomes, not integration headaches

  • John Trionfo
  • President, Defense Solutions
  • Antaris Space

Getting to orbit should be faster, more predictable, and less costly than it is today. Yet complex procurement cycles, endless non-recurring engineering (NRE), and mismatched components still bog down projects and inflate budgets.

There’s a better approach: fly first, build second.

High-fidelity mission simulation lets you design and test complete spacecraft configurations—bus, payload, power requirements, comms links, and more—before hardware is purchased or built. Engineers can validate subsystem performance, model orbital dynamics, and identify design gaps long before integration, eliminating costly surprises before ever purchasing the first component. This session will also examine the risks of custom-built flight software, which can create complexity and distract teams from mission objectives, versus deploying modular, proven off-the-shelf systems that work seamlessly with a wide range of hardware and mission designs.

Attendees will learn practical strategies to design faster, buy smarter, and reach orbit with confidence—accelerating timelines and freeing teams to focus on mission outcomes, not integration headaches

  • John Trionfo
  • President, Defense Solutions
  • Antaris Space

Getting to orbit should be faster, more predictable, and less costly than it is today. Yet complex procurement cycles, endless non-recurring engineering (NRE), and mismatched components still bog down projects and inflate budgets.

There’s a better approach: fly first, build second.

High-fidelity mission simulation lets you design and test complete spacecraft configurations—bus, payload, power requirements, comms links, and more—before hardware is purchased or built. Engineers can validate subsystem performance, model orbital dynamics, and identify design gaps long before integration, eliminating costly surprises before ever purchasing the first component. This session will also examine the risks of custom-built flight software, which can create complexity and distract teams from mission objectives, versus deploying modular, proven off-the-shelf systems that work seamlessly with a wide range of hardware and mission designs.

Attendees will learn practical strategies to design faster, buy smarter, and reach orbit with confidence—accelerating timelines and freeing teams to focus on mission outcomes, not integration headaches

  • Robert Hill
  • Northern Ireland Space Office

Northern Ireland has a strong and distinguished aerospace and defence heritage, spanning over a century. It is underpinned by a highly skilled workforce, supported by two world class universities, Queens University Belfast and Ulster University and an extensive network of further education colleges. Key investments and facilities including the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre (AMIC), Momentum One Zero- aiming to drive and substantially increase digital innovation in the region and the UK’s Digital Twin Centre in Belfast are supporting and driving regional innovation. The region’s small size is an advantage, fostering a joined-up network across industry, academia, and government, working seamlessly to accelerate space technology innovation.

Northern Ireland is the only region in the world able to trade goods freely with both Great Britain and EU markets.

In March 2025, Dr Caoimhe Archibald, the Minister for the Department for Economy NI launched the Matrix NI Science Industry Panel report ‘Building on our Strengths: Northern Ireland’s Growing Space industry’ highlighting key recommendations to support the growing space sector in the region.

This presentation will explore some of these key strengths in Northern Ireland and how this capability is being pivoted and aligned with the national and global space sector development.

  • John Trionfo
  • President, Defense Solutions
  • Antaris Space
  • John Trionfo
  • President, Defense Solutions
  • Antaris Space

Getting to orbit should be faster, more predictable, and less costly than it is today. Yet complex procurement cycles, endless non-recurring engineering (NRE), and mismatched components still bog down projects and inflate budgets.

There’s a better approach: fly first, build second.

High-fidelity mission simulation lets you design and test complete spacecraft configurations—bus, payload, power requirements, comms links, and more—before hardware is purchased or built. Engineers can validate subsystem performance, model orbital dynamics, and identify design gaps long before integration, eliminating costly surprises before ever purchasing the first component. This session will also examine the risks of custom-built flight software, which can create complexity and distract teams from mission objectives, versus deploying modular, proven off-the-shelf systems that work seamlessly with a wide range of hardware and mission designs.

Attendees will learn practical strategies to design faster, buy smarter, and reach orbit with confidence—accelerating timelines and freeing teams to focus on mission outcomes, not integration headaches

  • John Trionfo
  • President, Defense Solutions
  • Antaris Space

Getting to orbit should be faster, more predictable, and less costly than it is today. Yet complex procurement cycles, endless non-recurring engineering (NRE), and mismatched components still bog down projects and inflate budgets.

There’s a better approach: fly first, build second.

High-fidelity mission simulation lets you design and test complete spacecraft configurations—bus, payload, power requirements, comms links, and more—before hardware is purchased or built. Engineers can validate subsystem performance, model orbital dynamics, and identify design gaps long before integration, eliminating costly surprises before ever purchasing the first component. This session will also examine the risks of custom-built flight software, which can create complexity and distract teams from mission objectives, versus deploying modular, proven off-the-shelf systems that work seamlessly with a wide range of hardware and mission designs.

Attendees will learn practical strategies to design faster, buy smarter, and reach orbit with confidence—accelerating timelines and freeing teams to focus on mission outcomes, not integration headaches

  • John Trionfo
  • President, Defense Solutions
  • Antaris Space

Getting to orbit should be faster, more predictable, and less costly than it is today. Yet complex procurement cycles, endless non-recurring engineering (NRE), and mismatched components still bog down projects and inflate budgets.

There’s a better approach: fly first, build second.

High-fidelity mission simulation lets you design and test complete spacecraft configurations—bus, payload, power requirements, comms links, and more—before hardware is purchased or built. Engineers can validate subsystem performance, model orbital dynamics, and identify design gaps long before integration, eliminating costly surprises before ever purchasing the first component. This session will also examine the risks of custom-built flight software, which can create complexity and distract teams from mission objectives, versus deploying modular, proven off-the-shelf systems that work seamlessly with a wide range of hardware and mission designs.

Attendees will learn practical strategies to design faster, buy smarter, and reach orbit with confidence—accelerating timelines and freeing teams to focus on mission outcomes, not integration headaches

  • John Trionfo
  • President, Defense Solutions
  • Antaris Space

Getting to orbit should be faster, more predictable, and less costly than it is today. Yet complex procurement cycles, endless non-recurring engineering (NRE), and mismatched components still bog down projects and inflate budgets.

There’s a better approach: fly first, build second.

High-fidelity mission simulation lets you design and test complete spacecraft configurations—bus, payload, power requirements, comms links, and more—before hardware is purchased or built. Engineers can validate subsystem performance, model orbital dynamics, and identify design gaps long before integration, eliminating costly surprises before ever purchasing the first component. This session will also examine the risks of custom-built flight software, which can create complexity and distract teams from mission objectives, versus deploying modular, proven off-the-shelf systems that work seamlessly with a wide range of hardware and mission designs.

Attendees will learn practical strategies to design faster, buy smarter, and reach orbit with confidence—accelerating timelines and freeing teams to focus on mission outcomes, not integration headaches

  • John Trionfo
  • President, Defense Solutions
  • Antaris Space

Getting to orbit should be faster, more predictable, and less costly than it is today. Yet complex procurement cycles, endless non-recurring engineering (NRE), and mismatched components still bog down projects and inflate budgets.

There’s a better approach: fly first, build second.

High-fidelity mission simulation lets you design and test complete spacecraft configurations—bus, payload, power requirements, comms links, and more—before hardware is purchased or built. Engineers can validate subsystem performance, model orbital dynamics, and identify design gaps long before integration, eliminating costly surprises before ever purchasing the first component. This session will also examine the risks of custom-built flight software, which can create complexity and distract teams from mission objectives, versus deploying modular, proven off-the-shelf systems that work seamlessly with a wide range of hardware and mission designs.

Attendees will learn practical strategies to design faster, buy smarter, and reach orbit with confidence—accelerating timelines and freeing teams to focus on mission outcomes, not integration headaches

Who should attend the innnovate uk geo ai Festival

Don't miss your chance to take advantage of one of Space's biggest commercial opportunity

Founders

Turn prototypes into pilots, meet real buyers, and validate GeoAI products with sector‑specific feedback.

Engineers

Explore cloud‑native architectures, multimodal AI, and EO pipelines that accelerate build speed and solution performance.

Government

See how EO+AI can strengthen policy, service delivery, and evidence‑based decision‑making across departments.

Investors

Identify high‑potential teams solving real‑world challenges with validated prototypes, market signals, and public‑sector demand.

Data & Geospatial

Discover operational GeoAI tools ready for workflow integration, smarter planning, and trusted spatial intelligence

Sustainability & Environment

Find scalable MRV, biodiversity insights, and climate‑resilient intelligence powered by EO and AI.

Innovation Leads

Spot emerging technologies and partnership opportunities that strengthen product roadmaps and market positioning.

Research & Academia

Connect with industry and government to translate research into deployable, commercially relevant GeoAI solutions.

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The GeoAI festival is accessible with all ticket types. If you would like to attend our 4 conferences, you must purchase a Conference Pass.

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