Programme

8:15 > 8:45 | WELCOME & COFFEE BREAK

8:45 > 9:05 | INTRODUCTION PROTOCOLE

AI4Copernicus Organizer
Mr Yves DUPONT, Vice-Amiral at Royal Military Academy, Belgium
Mr Thomas DERMINE, State Secretary for Scientific Policy, Recovery Program and Strategic Investments at the Belgian Federal Government
Mr Mathieu MICHEL, State Secretary for Digitalisation, in charge of Administrative Simplification, Privacy and Building Administration, attached to the Prime Minister of Belgium

9:05 > 9:30 | INSPIRING KEYNOTE TALKS

Nathanael ACKERMAN, AI4Belgium | AI4Belgium – A Vibrant Ecosystem fostering national and international collaborations on AII
Pierre-Philippe MATHIEU, ESA-ESRIN | State of the Art in AI & EO

9:30 > 9:50 | AI&EO CROSS-INITIATIVES

Annekatrien DEBIEN, Spacetec Partners | AI4EO: Building a bridge between the AI and EO communities
Benoit MACQ, TRAIL | AI Research in Wallonia
Sabine DEMEY, AI Research Flanders – IMEC | AI Research in Flanders·
Stefaan SONCK THIEBAUT, INNOVIRIS | AI in the innovation strategy of the Brussels-Capital Region

9:50 > 10:00 | POTENTIAL AI&EO INITIATIVE IN BELGIUM (Q/A)

Pierre-Philippe MATHIEU, Nathanael ACKERMAN, Jean-Christophe SCHYNS (Belspo)

10:00 > 10:10 | KEYNOTE TALK AS INTRODUCTION TO THE ROUNDTABLE

10:10 > 11:00 | ROUNDTABLE ADDRESSING THE AI & EO CHALLENGES FOR SECURITY AND DEFENCE

Nicolas STASSIN, European External Action Service | View from Europe
Nicolas GÉRÔME, Head of Space Office at Belgian Defense | View from Belgium Defense
Pierre-Alain BOSC, AIRBUS Defence and Space | View from an industrial player
Jean-Daniel TESTE, OTA | View from France

11:00 > 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK

11:30 > 12:30 | EXAMPLES IN AI & EO FOR A SAFER WORLD (PART 1)

Dominique TILMANS, Switch to Space | Presentation of Switch to Space & the New Talents for EO & AI
New Talents for EO & AI – Mingshi LI, KULeuven | Dynamic inference and efficient segmentation
New Talents for EO & AI – Abderrazzaq KHARROUBI, ULiège | Mapping change using 3D point clouds
Nicholus MBOGA, ULB / UA | Deep learning for mapping urban areas: challenges and opportunities
Nancy VAN CAMP, Information Flanders | Asbestos suspect roofs from aerial imagery
Jonathan DEBILDE, Preligens | Strategic Site Monitoring: Russian’s ZAPAD 21

12:30 > 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK

14:00 > 15:30 | EXAMPLES IN AI & EO FOR A SAFER WORLD (PART 2)

New Talents for EO & AI – Dimitri GRAUR, Kapernikov| Smart Airports: Object detection and pose estimation for airport activity monitoring
New Talents for EO & AI – Seppe LAMPE, VUB | Forecasting Extreme Thunderstorms over Lake Victoria through Earth Observation and Machine Learning
Stef LHERMITTE, TU Delft | The (un)limited potential of machine learning for Earth Observation
Marc PROESMANS, KULeuven | Situational awareness from the perspective of an autonomous vehicle
Benoît MACQ, UCLouvain | Coalitional active learning for satellite imaging
Eyyup CELIK, ASL | Data: “How good is good enough” (end to end AI simulators)
Rodrigo CAYE DAUDT, ETH ZURICH |Mapping Vulnerable Populations with AI

15:30 > 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK

16:00 > 17:00 | EXAMPLES IN AI & EO FOR A SAFER WORLD (PART 3)

New Talents for EO & AI – Arno LEENKNEGT, KULeuven | Deep learning-based mapping of tree density and species diversity in Flemish forests
New Talents for EO & AI – Anthony CIOPPA & Renaud VANDEGHEN, ULiège | Semi-Supervised Training to Improve Detection for Satellite Images
Jie ZHAO, LIST | Floodwater detection in urban areas powered by AI and SAR data
Tanja VAN ACHTEREN, VITO | AI based compression on Sentinel 2 data
Thomas-Louis DE LOPHEM, ConstelIR | Digital agriculture: can hyperspectral imagery change the game?
Pietro CECCATO, Spacebel & Matthieu DUVAL, Multitel | IADAS: project to identify individual tree and tree species based on EO and AI

17:00 > 17:10 | CONCLUSIONS & WHAT’S NEXT?

17:10 > 18:00 | DRINK & NETWORKINGicolas