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From a student team to the space startup: Interview with Awais Ahmed, CEO and co-founder of Pixxel

Today we introduce you to Yonatan Geifman, CEO and Co-Founder of the deep learning company harnessing AI to build AI, Deci. This Deep Learning Development Platform called Deci was founded in 2019 by the man of the hour, Yonatan Geifman, Ph.D., and by Prof. Ran El-Yaniv, both of them being top AI researchers with advanced academic degrees from prestigious universities.

Biofriendly began in 1999 as the passion project of the Carroll Brothers, three Australian inventors and businessmen, who sealed their place as environmentalists when they invented the Vortoil Oil/Water Separator, which helped to protect countless marine species affected by contamination from offshore oil platforms.

In the freelancing world, work can be very lonely or boring. Remote roles especially experience the little human interaction on a daily basis. Some freelancers experience burnout from the lack of socialization, and with the wide variety of odd jobs or small-scale projects that the gig economy has to offer, freelancers often have trouble attributing meaning to their work.

Nestled between Europe, Asia and the Middle East, Kazakhstan holds many interesting opportunities for airlines, none more so than its flag carrier Air Astana. As CEO Peter Foster explains, the airline is in rude health and has bold plans for the future, including branching out into low-cost carrier operations, reinforcing the business strategy, and standing up in the battle against climate change.

I have over 20 years of experience in the IT market, in technical and managerial positions of many IT projects and companies. Currently, in the position of Global Chief Executive Officer of the IT Services Competence Platform, I’m participating in the most exciting project in my professional life.

We started our journey in 2014 with the obsession of making data access as simple as searching for a restaurant on Google. We are radically changing how people can interact with data on a daily basis. In order to do that we have to overcome different technical challenges from Data Science and user experience points of view.

We’ve created the #knowyouroptions series to feature NewSpace entrepreneurs and inspire more people to join the space race. This time our guest is Awais Ahmed from Pixxel, the former student whose team is currently preparing for the launch of the first in-house built EO satellite. The whole constellation is to come.

Dangerous climate change is with us now and we only have a short time window to get the planet back on a sustainable basis.

Sustainability is a business opportunity for us. We won’t be the only bank doing this – but we do want to be a front runner.