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Phil Cooper

Global Geospatial Lead
Amazon Web Services
Participates in 1 Session

Established Business and Technical Professional in the technology sector supporting growth of and use of satellite, space and cloud technology in both large aerospace industry whilst at Airbus for 9 years but also when he built and ran a technology startup for 8 years before working for Indian based company Cyient for nearly 2 years managing sales teams across EMEA and India.

With a 24 year history in the Earth Observation and Geospatial industry, Phil has witnessed the change from research and development with EO, into daily operational exploitation of this rich and rapidly expanding data source. Phil has worked across platforms and in different environments witnessing the value and importance of accurate, reliable and repeatable geospatial content. His customers have included The World Bank, Inmarsat, OneWeb, ICEYE, Rural Payments Agency and National Infrastructure Survey programmes.

Today, Phil is the Global Geospatial Lead for the Aerospace and Satellite Division of AWS, having worked at AWS for nearly 6 years in the Ground Station team and then the AWS Space team. He is working with some of the biggest earth observation projects and fastest growing EO startups on AWS.

Phil holds a Masters Degree in Earth Observation Science and MBA in Business Administration. 

Sessions in which Phil Cooper participates

Wednesday 14 May, 2025

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
12:15 PM
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM | 30 minutes
Advancements in Earth Observation

The convergence of generative artificial intelligence and geospatial technology is transforming how we validate and ensure the quality of location-based data. This talk explores how AWS is enabling new approaches to geospatial data validation through the power of generative AI, which helps public and private sector organizations achieve their sustainability missions.As we operate in a world with more earth observation data being generated everyday, the planet is imaged daily and, with ...