Meet our two speakers for our event on 29th January at IET London: Savoy Place


Bernardo Martins and Lucy EdgeLucy Edge

Biography

As Chief Operating Officer of the Satellite Applications Catapult Lucy is responsible for supporting enterprises across the UK in understanding and exploiting the potential of space and satellites to create opportunities and transform businesses.

With a background in Physics and Engineering, Lucy’s career highlights include launching two satellites that now provide communications for much of Europe, the Middle East and Africa and building a satellite operations centre in West Cornwall that operates a fleet of communications satellites.

Lucy serves as a non-executive director on the boards of the Eden Project, Truro & Penwith College and the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership.  She is an accomplished athlete.

Lucy is an ardent believer in the Catapult vision “To innovate for a better world, empowered by satellites”. Many see the growing space industry as a potential source of economic growth; Lucy also sees it as a way of improving the future for everyone, and of building connections between people and communities that will transform the way we relate to each other.

Synopsis

The world is in the early stages of a new digital revolution, with space technology increasingly at its heart. Satellites are now critical infrastructure, as fundamental to the global economy as the energy grid or internet, and space is a UK success story. In 2016, it contributed £13.7bn to our economy, and through the joint actions of organisations like the UK Space Agency and the Satellite Applications Catapult it is targeted to grow to £40bn by 2030.


The UK leads the world in key disciplines including satellite manufacture, earth observation and communications. As the success of the sector grows, it is vital that the industry maintains confidence and momentum at a time when it is experiencing headwinds around UK involvement in the European space programme. To that end, this year the government announced its plans to create spaceports in the UK for the first time, and the industry has proposed a ‘Space Sector Deal’, aligned to the UK Industrial Strategy, which sends a strong signal that the UK means business.


Lucy Edge will talk about the changing nature of the space industry, discussing the opportunities for business, the revolution in technology, and how the sector must evolve new ways of working to prosper in this new space age.


 
Bernardo Martins

Biography

Bernardo is a Senior Project Manager with 15 years’ experience in the Aerospace industry. Currently, he is Navigation Business Manager at Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) where he has been leading integrated project teams across the whole lifecycle of satellite missions, delivering programmes such as OTB-1 (USA), FORMOSAT-7 (Taiwan/USA), OptiSAR (Canada) and thirty-four British made Galileo navigation payloads (EU). Before that, he spent four years at Airbus Defence and Space, working on large telecommunication satellite programmes. He started his career as a Graduate Engineer at Rolls-Royce plc after a master in Manufacturing Management from Loughborough University. On Saturday mornings, you will invariably find Bernardo on his mountain bike, exploring the Surrey Hills trails. Bernardo is originally from Portugal and is married with two young daughters.

Synopsis

Projects take all forms, some change processes, some build infrastructure and some introduce new products. The latter also takes many forms, from introducing a new chocolate bar to be produced by the million to a new car produced by the thousands. Automakers use a lot of virtual tools, but still might make 30 prototypes at different stages of development.


What if your product is more complex than the car, cannot be serviced during its lifetime and you are making just one. The risks are higher. Space exploration vehicles and satellites are high value products produced in very low volumes and so are high risk projects. This year’s Project Controls Prestige Lecture examines what controls need to be in place and how they are used in such projects.


SSTL has been changing the economics of space since the 1980s. With a pragmatic approach to project delivery could there ever be shortcuts when it comes to providing the ultimate quality for the least possible cost? SSTL’s Bernardo Martins will present the controls used in projects made by this British space-pioneering company and how it compares to the more traditional space industry.


We hope to see you there.   More information about the event and how to register can be found online