Accenture is a Fortune 500 services and consulting company.

It helps organizations improve operations and implement strategies to grow businesses

with a big focus on using tech to do so.

Accenture releases an annual technology vision and just recently announced a $3 billion investment in artificial intelligence over the next three years.

With a workforce of 732,000 operating across 120 countries,

the firm is on the front lines of new trends and is paid to identify

and implement the innovations that are changing industries, which is why Accenture's

take on space is significant.

And I'll just say within the next 10 years, we think every business is going to be a space business.

And what does that mean?

Well, in our definition, that means that every business is going to do some element

of either research, development, manufacturing, or providing service to their

customers using space based.

And we feel like that is something where Accenture could play a very unique role.

It's all about data, capturing it, secure transmission, computing and processing, and ultimately distribution.

Paul Thomas is the Managing Director leading space innovation and technology, and John

Schmidt is Senior Managing Director of Aerospace and Defense globally at Accenture.

On this episode, we talk the business cases for space, which range from monitoring methane

emissions for utilities to quantum computing from the cosmos.

I'm Morgan Brennan and this is manifest space. Paul and John John thank you so much for joining me today. It's great to have you on the

podcast. Thanks Morgan's good to be here with you. Pleasure to be him.

So the last time you and I sat down and spoke you told me a little bit about

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