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Space, Technology,
and Entrepreneurship
for a Better World

Richard Folly is the Founder and CEO of African Geospace, an aerospace company on a mission to democratize access to high-resolution satellite imagery and analytics, empowering individuals and organizations across Africa to make informed decisions that drive sustainable development and innovation.

Richard’s entrepreneurship journey began over ten years ago. He contributed to projects across Africa, United States, Europe, and Asia, and is passionate about leveraging science, technology, and entrepreneurship to address global pressing challenges. Richard has collaborated with a number of organizations, Ministries, and NASA, where he worked on disaster risk management and environmental monitoring.

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Richard is a public speaker who believes that storytelling is a genuine tool to share ideas, change minds, and inspire people. Richard speaks about Space, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership. He has addressed various conferences, including the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. Richard was also invited to speak at the recent World Investment Forum, on the potential of space technology to shape cities and the role partnerships play in creating strong business ecosystems and scaling solutions.

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Inspiring the next generation

The best reward I ever had was when those young students excitedly asked me: ‘How was electricity invented?’, ‘Are there people in space to fix satellites when there’s a problem?’, ‘What do astronauts eat in space?’. These are proof that when we expose young people to innovation and inspire them, we never know what curiosity and positive change we can spark. It encourages them to ask the right questions and eventually find the right answers that would benefit humanity.

The illiterate of the future will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot understand and speak the languages of computers. Recognizing this, Richard is actively helping to democratize the future by teaching today’s youth these crucial skills. By empowering young people with coding, data literacy, and technological tools, Richard ensures they are not just passive consumers of technology but active creators and innovators. His efforts are helping to build a generation that can harness the power of technology to solve global challenges and drive progress in the digital age.

He is also actively engaging young students in space technology, with the hope that, in the future, they will use these skills to save lives and protect the planet. His vision is to inspire a generation that will be ready to tackle critical global challenges, from climate change to disaster management, through innovations in space technology. By empowering these young minds today, Richard believes they will not only contribute to safeguarding the Earth but also take humanity into the stars, pioneering new frontiers in space exploration and leading us toward our multi planetary future.

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Would we celebrate Leonardo da Vinci as we do if he had confined himself to painting alone? Would Brian May’s music resonate as deeply if his soul hadn’t also reached for the stars as an astrophysicist? What about astronaut and violonist Sarah Gillis? I don’t claim to have the answers to these questions, but I do know this: music is math, and polymaths walk among us. Music has been woven into my life since the very beginning, a melody threading through every moment. For this gift, I am profoundly grateful—grateful to share it with you, to inspire and uplift, and to let it harmonize the rhythms of our lives.

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Democratizing access to high-resolution satellite data and analytics, empowering individuals and organizations to make informed decisions that drive sustainable development.

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