Phil Cooper

Established Business and Technical Professional in the technology sector supporting growth of and use of satellite, space and cloud technology in both large aerospace industry whilst at Airbus for 9 years but also when he ran his own technology start up Sterling GEO for 8 years before working in a consulting role for 2 years and then joining Amazon Web Services in 2019. With a 25 year history in the Earth Observation and Geospatial industry Phil has witnessed the change from research and development with EO, into daily operational exploitation of this rich and rapidly expanding data source. Phil has worked across platforms and in different environments witnessing the value and importance of accurate, reliable and repeatable geospatial content. His work includes delivering to organisations including the UK MOD, The World Bank, OneWeb, Inmarsat, Network Rail and operating National Survey programmes. As well as advocating for the value of space in our everyday lives Phil is a science and technology ambassador. Today Phil is the Global Geospatial lead for Public Sector at AWS, having worked at AWS for over nearly 7 years in the Ground Station team and then the AWS Aerospace and Satellite team and now the Global Geospatial lead for AWS Public Sector. Phil holds a Masters Degree in Earth Observation Science and MBA in Business Administration from The University of Leicester, graduate of the Said Business School at Oxford University Phil is currently a Visiting Fellow at University of Leicester Physics and Astronomy Department in support of the Space Park Leicester.