Show notes
Today, I am speaking with Mila Luleva from Rabobank, a multinational banking and financial services company, where Mila heads the remote sensing team.You might wonder what a bank is doing with Earth observation data and how they are going about integrating this technology into their processes. That's exactly why I wanted to have Mila on the podcast.In this episode, we talk about Rabobank and their business, how they use remote sensing, how they make decisions of developing EO solutions in-house vs outsourcing the development, the state of EO and how they benchmark different EO providers, how we can improve the adoption of EO and more.It was a great discussion and very different from the typical conversations you might have heard here on this podcast - mostly from the EO industry. It was insightful to get the views from the user side and hopefully, you enjoy this as much as I did.And now, I bring you Mila Luleva.Rabobank's Website: https://www.rabobank.comRabobank ACORN: https://acorn.rabobank.com/en/They are hiring: https://rabobank.jobs/en/Mila's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mluleva/---[ 01:18 ] Mila's background and overview of Rabobank[ 04:02 ] What does Rabobank has to do with Earth observation?[ 09:21 ] An example use case and the EO adoption process[ 14:35 ] In-house development vs outsourcing EO solution development [ 24:17 ] Focusing on data quality and processes - idealistic or necessary?[ 26:21 ] Roadmap for use of EO within Rabobank[ 28:32 ] Thoughts on the state of EO - focusing on satellite companies[ 31:53 ] Growth in downstream EO product companies and how Rabobank engages with them[ 34:50 ] Benchmarking the different service providers[ 39:36 ] How to make a case for the adoption of EO [ 43:01 ] Wrap-up questions---