Satellites, Sensing, and Spaceports – extraterrestrial tech changing life on Earth

Sophie Hackford

Sophie Hackford is a futurist, co-founder of Oxford’s 1715Labs, and on the board of two growth-stage startups. Her clients include Adobe, Deep Mind, Bank of New York and Vogue. Sophie previously worked at WIRED Magazine, at Singularity University on the NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley, and Oxford University where she raised $120m for frontier-bending research. Despite very real threats, Sophie is an optimist about the future.