Nuno Vilaca
Manager, International Sales and Business Development
Planet Labs
United States

Biography
Nuno Vilaca heads up international sales at Planet Labs, and is part of the International Business Development team. Nuno's role is to set up value added partners in Europe and Africa. Nuno started his career at Trimble Navigation where he was involved in the airborne laser scanning, airborne imagery and land mobile mapping systems worlds. His technical know-how made Nuno well suited to provide training and product demonstrations. He later transitioned to sales and became the EMEA and Brazil Regional Sales Manager for the High End products from the Imaging Division. During his tenure at Trimble Navigation, Nuno travelled throughout the globe to support Trimble's customers and to engage in business development activities. Nuno holds BSc and Licentiate degrees in Environmental Engineering from the Technical Agricultural University of Coimbra in Portugal, an MSc degree in Geo-Information Science from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, was a Visiting Scholar at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, and is currently pursuing his MBA at the Vienna University of Business and Economics in Austria. Nuno was born in Portugal, has lived in five different countries, speaks five languages and has worked in every permanently inhabited continent.

Abstract
Agile Aerospace and the Space Eco-system

In 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts took a photo of Earth that ignited the hearts and imaginations of people across the globe. Since that time, satellite imagery has evolved and completely changed humans' understanding of their planet. Where once a satellite ? commissioned by the government and designed and built by contractors ? took a decade to build, start-ups like Planet Labs are building satellites more efficiently, in a fraction of the time and can iterate on satellites in real-time, responding to change and new information. In the software industry this is called agile software. For the space sector, we call it agile aerospace, and it is revolutionizing the way we explore space and understand our planet. In this presentation, Planet Labs founder and president Robbie Schingler will introduce his company's miniature satellites ? no bigger than 10x10x30 centimeters ? that, when in orbit, provide high-resolution images of the entire planet, on a daily basis. He will detail the evolution of the space industry eco-system that has brought about the agile aerospace movement, as well as highlight its many benefits.