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Kumar Navulur, PhD

CEO at Synspective USA, Inc.

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Dr. Navulur is CEO of Synspective USA, Inc. and it's parent company Synspective Inc. designs, builds, and operates a constellation of X band SAR satellites. He has over 30+ years experience in the commercial remote sensing industry. Dr. Navulur received his PhD from Purdue University and was recognized as 2019 Distinguished Purdue ABE Alumnus. Dr. Navulur is a member of board of directors of Open Geospatial Consortium and Common Space. His interests include satellite technology, use of AI/ML, GenAI and Agentic AI technologies for the entire life cycle of earth observation satellites.

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  • Satellite State of Play

    Nov. 18 '26, 09:00am Plenary Press Hall

    State of Satellites

    State of the Data

    State of GeoAI

    State of Capacity

    State of Applications

    Where we stand across satellites, data, AI, capacity, and applications? Hear the latest on the full stack of this ecosystem from the leaders that know it best. Five talks from the people operating the constellations, running the data pipelines, developing the AI models, scaling impactful applications, and developing trust with people to use it all.

    Speakers

    1. Hannah Kerner, PhD
    2. Catherine Nakalembe, PhD
    3. Karl Wurster, PhD
    4. Kumar Navulur, PhD
    5. Maggie Cawley
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  1. LGND

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  1. Development Seed

  2. Common Space

  3. Taylor Geospatial

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