On 13 March, ESA opens its doors to those interested in leveraging applied AI in mission operations.  Hosted at ESOC, this event serves as a prime opportunity to familiarise yourself with the potential of AI for ground systems engineering, mission operations, and space safety. 

On the agenda:

• Exciting presentations on current and future AI activities at ESA.
• Live demonstrations of the developed applications.
• … and finally a three-hour hackathon on the theme of “Anomaly Detection”.

The hackathon aims to promote the ESA-ADB dataset within the community and encourage researchers from academia, space agencies, and the space industry to propose new algorithms that can improve the automation of anomaly detection in space operations. 

The Anomaly Detection Challenge hosted on the data science competition platform Kaggle using the publicly available ESA-ADB dataset: https://zenodo.org/records/12528696 

The event is open to both internals and externals.

In summary:

• What: AI Symposium on Ground Segment Engineering, Operations, and Space Safety
• When: 13 March 2025
• Where: ESOC Conference Centre (H.I-H.VI), Darmstadt, Germany or online 

The event starts from 09:00 CET on Thursday 13 March in the ESOC Conference Centre (H.I-H.VI). Our venue has a limited capacity and we need to know how many attendees to prepare catering for, so please, kindly register to attend by 26 February 2025.

This event is open exclusively to ESA member states’ citizens. Any in-person attendees who do not hold an ESA badge are kindly asked to provide information about their nationality/citizenship to assure their security clearance to ESA premises. If you hold more, pick the one corresponding to the ID you are able to present at the gate on the day of the event.