Conveners
TDM16 - Facilitating Innovation in Space Weather Service Development
- Alexi Glover
- Quentin Verspieren
- Sacha Bressollette (ESA)
Description
This TDM will focus on a lively discussion of current innovation models and their application to the Space Weather domain building on real case studies and lessons learned.
The TDM builds on the outcomes of the panel event held during ESWW2024 titled “Towards Space Weather Operational Governance in Europe: Lessons Learned from Natural Hazard Management”. Among the key takeaways highlighted by the panel of experts was the importance of finding a middle ground between open and directed innovation and the clear need for boosting commercial dynamics.
Building on these conclusions, this year ESA has launched several initiatives: an Innovation Journey, starting with an ESA Hack (Hackathon) offering a structured two-day programme to drive innovation and develop proof-of-concepts targeting the domain of space weather services for Spacecraft Operations; and an enabling study geared towards assessing market readiness and opportunities for commercial downstream services in other maturing domains.
This TDM will discuss these initiatives along with other innovation models being successfully deployed in different sectors to accelerate the use of space data in downstream contexts. It will assess how such models may further contribute to the development of relevant, tailored space weather services along with service adoption by end-users. In this context, the Innovation Journey winning team will be invited to present their experience and their planned next steps. Discussions will then focus on assessing the value of such innovation-oriented initiatives and considering what role they may play in supporting development of the space weather service landscape in Europe.
