During the 38th Annual Small Satellite Conference, they will explore how automation is being integrated into small satellite systems across the space, launch, ground, and user segments, making them smarter and more effective. With automation a key tech in data processing, analysis to enable decision making it looks to be a very interesting conference and one I will be peeking into to see how this can push the growth of small satellites in providing new cost effective models for wider access for end users to apply to our most pressing challenges.