Space and artificial intelligence – an online conference

On 4 September 2020 an online conference on the topic of space and artificial intelligence took place. The event was organised by CLAIRE and the European Space Agency (ESA) in association with ECAI2020. The program included five keynote talks, a panel discussion, and 17 contributed presentations on topics concerning different AI methods and different areas of space technology, including space operations and earth observation. The five keynotes provided an excellent summary of some of the recent and ongoing exciting work in the field. Kiri Wagstaff talked about machine learning for space and planetary exploration.