GRAVITY 05

OCTOBER 2022 - MARCH 2023

AUSTRALIA | AUSTRIA | CANADA | CZECH REPUBLIC | FRANCE | GERMANY | HUNGARY | JAPAN LUXEMBOURG | POLAND | ROMANIA | UNITED KINGDOM | UNITED STATES

GRAVITY Challenge is a global technology innovation program for corporates, entrepreneurs and universities to design and build solutions to real industry, social and environmental problems using space data and capability.

In 2022 Challengers and Innovators come from participating countries such as Australia, UK, US, Germany, Japan and several countries in Central Europe and all Challengers and Innovators will be able to work together to create new solutions, regardless of geographic location.

Who are our Champions?

GC05 Innovators collaborated with six Challenge Providers across agriculture, electric vehicles, space traffic management, financial services, and biodiversity conservation. Find out which teams have been selected as Challenge Champions, Finalists, and Award Winners, and the phenomenal work they have achieved together.

Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT)

World Wetland Watch: Large-Scale Wetland Monitoring via Remote Sensing

Treasury Wine Estates (TWE)

Informing Irrigation Scheduling Decisions using Satellites for Soil Moisture Capacities

Deloitte Canada

Estimating Economic Activity and Behaviour based on Satellite Imagery of Parking Lots

Serasa Experian

Removing the Bottleneck: Better Crop Data and Models to Unlock Access to Agrifinancing for Millions of Brazilians

Saber Astronautics

Open-Source Spacecraft Monitoring and Characterization for Intelligent Space Traffic Management

  • Helyx

NSW Treasury

Developing an Efficient EV Fleet Charging Infrastructure based on Multiple Data Sets

GRAVITY 05 Award Winners

Challenges

We gathered private and public organisations from Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada in key sectors of the economy, who had compelling business problems where space data could assist in providing a solution.

Solutions and Awards

Learn about the awardees for the individual challenges plus the innovators who took out our special Investment NSW Award.

Thank you to our GRAVITY 05 Sponsors, Challengers & Supporters

Amazon Web Services

South Australian Space Industry Centre (SASIC)

Hear from our GC05 Champions & Finalists

  • Gareck Packer, Founder and Solution Architect, GP One Consulting

    Champions for the Deloitte Canada Challenge.

    “The knowledge we have gained and the product and service offerings we have developed as part of the proof of concept phase was profound, with weekly conversations prompting us to evolve our thinking and approach over time.”

  • Anneley Hadland, Head of Remote Sensing, Helyx

    Champions for the Saber Astronautics Challenge.

    “The most rewarding part of the challenge for us is being welcomed into the fold of space domain awareness. To be invited to the international space traffic management trials and to be developing a prototype that will be tested at the next one.”

  • Prateek Srivastava, Co-founder and CEO, Terraview

    Champions for the Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) Challenge.

    “It's been a revelation for us that a large producer is so open to technology innovation. Usually in the Agri space there is always conflict about tradition versus what technology can bring. I think the challenge was able to bring the best of both worlds together to overcome the problems that food producers will face for the next decades.”

  • Dr. Bo Du, Senior Lecturer and Leader of Future Trasnport & Mobility at the Uni of Wollongong SMART Infrastructure Facility

    Champions for the NSW Treasury Challenge.

    “The most rewarding and important part in this journey was the efficient and effective collaboration and communication, not just within the team but also with all the stakeholders.”

  • Torsten Bondo, Business Development Manager, DHI Group

    Champions for the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) Challenge.

    “We have learned quite a lot since participating in GRAVITY, mostly through this continuous dialogue - a series of meetings have been set up and we had the chance to work with the right people throughout this period.”

  • Alex Coville, Sales Executive, PlanetWatchers

    Champions for the Serasa Experian Challenge.

    “It’s been fascinating to learn the nuances of growing food in Brazil compared to the US. Up until this point, we’ve been very specific about our ideal customer profile - crop insurers in the United States. Through GRAVITY, we got exposure to further financial use cases where our existing technology can be modified to solve new business challenges.”

  • David Carter, Chief Executive Officer, Deep Planet

    Finalists for the Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) Challenge.

    “We joined the GRAVITY Challenge as it was an immense opportunity to collaborate with leaders in the industry and come up with impactful solutions that could really change the way things are done around irrigation and sustainability in the wine sector.”

  • Gaetano Volpe, Chief Executive Officer, Latitudo 40

    Finalists for the Deloitte Canada Challenge.

    “During the program, we learned so much. Not only technological and business concepts but we also had the opportunity to learn strategical and operational vision from our Challenge owner and technological partners mainly Spire and AWS.“

  • Gareth Harris, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Consultant, Helyx

    Finalists for the NSW Treasury Challenge

    “The GRAVITY Challenge for Helyx was quite a natural choice because Helyx prides itself in its innovative solutions. Therefore, going to a GRAVITY Challenge where we can really push ourselves and have new problem sets where we can adapt new solutions to is really at the forefront of our missions.”

  • Jawwad Hasan, CEO & Co-founder, Agrilift

    Finalists for the Serasa Experian Challenge.

    “The most rewarding aspect was navigating through some of the problems that we faced during the project and seeing the dedication of the team as they went above and beyond to find solutions and collaborate, as the overall success was dependent on each individual component.”