PANEL: Dual Use by Design: Bringing Defence Grade GeoAI to Commercial Markets

Today, around four fifths of earth observation revenue still comes from defence and government, even though the potential commercial market across utilities, insurance, agriculture, energy and finance should be far larger. This panel explores the defence paradox, how defence budgets have enabled powerful satellite and GeoAI capability while locking many providers into tasking driven architectures, delivery models and licences that do not scale to thousands of business users. We will ask what needs to change in system design, automation and commercial strategy so that continuous, AI driven earth observation could become an operating input for banks, insurers, utilities and supply chains.