January 21, 2026 14:00 CEST
Live on Microsoft Teams.
On 21 January at 14:00 CEST, the ESA Φ-Lab Collaborative Innovation Network will host a new Φ-talk. Details are below.
Meet the speakers
- Nicolas Longépé, Earth Observation Data Scientist at ESA
- Yassine El Ouahidi, AI Applied Scientist at Mistral
- Àlex Ramírez Atrio, Senior Deep Learning Scientist at Pi School
Talk abstract
EVE (Earth Virtual Expert) is an open-source domain-specific large language model designed to democratize access to Earth Observation (EO) and Earth Science (ES) knowledge. Backed by the European Space Agency and developed by Pi School, Imperative Space, and Mistral, EVE bridges AI and EO through domain-adaptive pre-training, instruction tuning, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation. It supports multiple user groups: from scientists and students to journalists and decision-makers, by enabling factual, source-grounded, and explainable interactions with EO content. This talk outlines EVE’s development and usage, general discussion on the current status of LLMs, and a live demonstration of the system.
Agenda
- EVE general overview - Nicolas Longépé, Earth Observation Data Scientist @ ESA (10 minutes)
- Recent advances in LLMs - Yassine El Ouahidi, AI Applied Scientist @ Mistral (15 minutes)
- EVE technical overview - Àlex Ramírez Atrio, AI Scientist @ Pi School (15 minutes)
- EVE demonstration - Nicolas Longépé, Earth Observation Data Scientist @ ESA (10 minutes)
- Q&A
Register here!