“People often optimize for the role or for the company. The first thing I optimize for is who I will work with. Don’t bet on companies, bet on people,” Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, told students at today’s View From The Top event. Khosrowshahi discussed his departure from Expedia and his approach to shifting company values at Uber to focus on diversity and inclusion. “An important factor in our change was setting a new culture and new norms,” he said. “We crowdsourced those norms and asked people – what kind of company do we want to be?”

More than ever, Information Technology and Communication are globally changing all aspects of society. Their exponential evolution is allowing the development of applications and increasingly interactive specialized tools. The Drone-based Earth Observation systems sector is where this evolution has had one of his greatest impacts. These drones appear as a new tool that complement previously existing platforms, satellites and manned aerial means (helicopters, light aircraft). Currently there exists a growing number of specific systems and applications, given the large number of advantages they present in terms of investment and operation costs, spatial resolution, agility and temporal resolution, etc. Within this field, fixed-wing drones have higher productivity (due to their greater autonomy) than multicopters, which makes them more suitable for studying large areas.