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Quentin Van Der Geer
Airbus, VP Engineering - Space Digital, Airbus Defence & Space
Speaker Bio
Vice President Head of Engineering for Space Digital as part of the Connected Intelligence business line. Quentin leads a multi-disciplinary team of over 550 engineers operating out of all of the Airbus Defence and Space home countries.
Space Digital enables trusted space-related information superiority to support national security and business-critical operations through the provision of end-to-end solutions, delivering:
- Systems Integration
- Satellite Ground Segments
- Imagery & Analytics
- Advanced geospatial and communications solutions
Quentin started his career as a Research Officer of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation initially working on developing feature extraction algorithms for satellite imagery. From there he moved on to a long career with Thales primarily in Naval systems starting in Australia and then moving permanently to France in the late 9O’s. During this time, he worked in a variety of areas starting in Sonar Signal processing and moving to complex end-to-end systems engineering
Prior to taking on his current role of Head of Engineering Space Digital, he led the Engineering activities related to secure communications with a specific focus on Military Satcom ground segment solutions for the major national projects in Europe as well as some key export programmes.
Quentin also established a laboratory specialised in Artificial intelligence and Quantum communication in the Paris region.