#71Leading the Nano-Satellite IoT Revolution - A Conversation with Flavia Tata Nardini

Summary: Flavia Tata Nardini is the CEO and Co-founder of Fleet.Space, a startup based in Adelaide, Australia focused on delivering satellite-powered communications networks that enable true IoT solutions across multiple industries – energy, agriculture, environmental and other areas.  She shares her experience working for the European Space Agency, and how the evolution of technologies relating to communications and low earth orbit satellites pave the way for a new generation of connectivity solutions.  She shares how Fleet is leveraging the LoRaWAN standard, nanosatellites and edge computing to enable a rapidly growing ecosystem of customers and partners to build out intelligent solutions that were previously cost prohibitive and impossible for non military or government users.  Finally she shares some of the challenges that the space industry faces near-term, along with the strategy for Fleet Space following its recent capital raise.