Programme

Gold Hall
Silver Hall
Agora

all rooms

09:00 - 09:10

Welcome Address - Gold Hall

Andrius Kubilius

Commissioner for Defence and Space

European Commission

all rooms

09:10 - 09:20

Keynote Address - Gold Hall

Nicodemos Damianou

Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy

Republic of Cyprus

all rooms

09:20 - 09:30

Keynote Address - Gold Hall

Josef Aschbacher

Director-General

ESA

all rooms

09:30 - 09:40

Keynote Address - Gold Hall

Marco Fuchs

President

ASD-Eurospace

Gold Hall

09:40 - 10:30

A conversation between Heads of National Agencies

Francois Jacq

Chairman and CEO

CNES

Teodoro Valente

President

Italian Space Agency (ASI)

Walther Pelzer

Director General

German Space Agency at DLR

Paul Bate

Chief Executive Officer

UK Space Agency

Silver Hall

09:40 - 10:10

A pragmatic approach to building programmes and capabilities: User perspectives

Fiammetta Diani

Head of Market, Downstream and Innovation

EUSPA

Agora

09:55 - 10:30

EUMETSAT

Silver Hall

10:10 - 10:30

GOVSATCOM: Meeting the needs of governmental users

Juan Ramón López Caravantes

Head of Secured Communications Department

EUSPA

Jérémie Godet

Acting Head of Unit for Secure Connectivity and Space Surveillance

DG DEFIS, European Commission

Colonel Luigi Riggio

Office of the Military Advisor, Presidency of the Council of Ministers

Italian Republic

all rooms

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee Break

Gold Hall

10:45 - 12:05

European Space Competitiveness and Readiness: A Make-or-Break Decade Ahead

Timo Pesonen

Director-General

European Commission - DG DEFIS

Josef Aschbacher

Director-General

ESA

Rodrigo da Costa

Executive Director

EUSPA

Industry Representatives

Agora

11:10 - 12:00

Space, Oceans and Security

Intro

Costas Kadis

Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans

European Commission

Andrius Kubilius

Commissioner for Defence and Space

European Commission

Pierre Bahurel

Chief Executive Officer

Mercator Ocean International

Silver Hall

11:15 - 12:05

European GNSS Services Facing New Challenges

Paul Flament

Head of Unit Satellite Navigation

European Commission - DG DEFIS

Ennio Guarino

Head of Galileo and EGNOS Programme Department

ESA

Miguel Romay

General Manager Navigation Systems

GMV

Agora

12:00 - 12:45

Connecting the Dots: Industry, Space Defence, and Multilateral Space Security

Marjolijn van Deelen

Special Envoy for Space

EEAS

Brian Weeden

Systems Director for the Center for Space Policy and Strategy

The Aerospace Corporation

Louis Reitmann

Research Fellow

VCDNP

Gold Hall

12:05 - 13:05

Transforming Europe's Space Industrial Base: Scaling Production, Resilience, and Economic Security

Lorena Boix Alonso

Deputy Director-General

DG DEFIS, European Commission (Incoming)

Industry Representatives

Silver Hall

12:05 - 13:05

Evolving needs and capabilities for Earth Observation

Simonetta Cheli

Director for Earth Observation Programmes and Head of ESRIN

ESA

Mauro Facchini

Head of Unit of Earth Observation

European Commission - DG DEFIS

Phil Evans

Director-General

EUMETSAT

Pierre Bahurel

Chief Executive Officer

Mercator Ocean International

Rafal Modrzewski

Chief Executive Officer

ICEYE

Eric Even

Head of Space Digital for Connected Intelligence

Airbus Defence and Space

Agora

12:45 - 13:15

Reclaiming Europe's industrial edge in space ESPI

all rooms

13:05 - 13:15

Keynote Address - Gold Hall

Costas Kadis

Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans

European Commission

all rooms

13:15 - 14:30

Lunch Break

all rooms

14:30 - 14:40

Afternoon Opening Address - Gold Hall

Silver Hall

14:40 - 16:00

Europe's Multi-Orbital Advantage: the expanding role of space connectivity from broadband to security

Laurent Jaffart

Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications

ESA

Jérémie Godet

Acting Head of Unit for Secure Connectivity and Space Surveillance

DG DEFIS, European Commission

Jean-François Fallacher

Chief Executive Officer

Eutelsat Group

Miguel Angel Panduro

Chief Executive Officer

Hispasat

Elodie Viau

Senior Vice-President, Telecommunication and Navigation

Airbus Defence and Space

Enrique Fraga

General Manager Space Systems

GMV

SES Representative

Deutsche Telekom Representative

Gold Hall

14:50 - 15:30

Building the EU Space Act for Safety, Sustainability and Sovereignty

Elena Donazzan

Vice-Chair, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)

European Parliament

Ekaterini Kavvada

Director for Secure and Connected Space

European Commission - DG DEFIS

Agora

15:20 - 16:10

A Lunar Communication and Navigation Infrastructure: The Moonlight Initiative

Gold Hall

15:30 - 16:00

Access to Space: Towards a European Strategy

Christoph Kautz

Director for Space Policy, Satellite Navigation and Earth Observation

European Commission - DG DEFIS

Toni Tolker-Nielsen

Acting Director of Space Transportation

ESA

Agora

16:00 - 16:30

EURISY

Gold Hall

16:15 - 17:00

Access to Space: Industry Readiness

Toni Tolker-Nielsen

Acting Director of Space Transportation

ESA

David Cavaillolès

Chief Executive Officer

Arianespace

Giulio Ranzo

Chief Executive Officer

Avio

Silver Hall

16:15 - 17:15

Securing Space-based Infrastructure and Signals

Florian Guillermet

Executive Director

European Union Aviation Safety Agency

Philippe Bertrand

Chair of the Security Accreditation Board, EUSPA

Charlotte Neyret

Chief Executive Officer

European Satellite Services Provider (ESSP)

Jean-Luc Trullemans

Head of the European Space Security and Education Centre (ESEC)

ESA

Agora

16:30 - 17:00

Startup Spotlight

Gold Hall

17:00 - 18:00

Access to Space: Market Realities and Tomorrow's Challenges

Géraldine Naja

Director of Commercialisation, Industry and Competitiveness

ESA

Christian Hauglie-Hanssen

Director General

Norwegian Space Agency

Maria Fernandez Molinero

Head of Unit Space Policy

European Commission - DG DEFIS

Isar Aerospace Representative

Xavier Llairo

Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer

Pangea Aerospace

Silver Hall

17:15 - 18:00

From Supply Chains to Cloud: Building Europe's Digital and Industrial Sovereignty

Dietmar Pilz

Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality

ESA

Deutsche Telekom Representative

CGI Representative

Gold Hall

18:00 - 18:30

Flexible Launch & Manufacturing Ecosystems for Europe's needs

Silver Hall

18:00 - 18:30

From LEO Boom to NTN: Modernising Spectrum Access at the next WRC-27

OQ Technologies Representative

Gold Hall

18:30 - 18:40

In conversation with

all rooms

18:45 - 18:55

Closing Address - Gold Hall

Gold Hall
Silver Hall
Agora

all rooms

09:00 - 09:10

Welcome Address - Gold Hall

Vanessa Matz

Minister of the Modernisation of the Public Administration, in charge of Public Enterprises, Property Management of the State, Digitalisation and Science Policy

Kingdom of Belgium

all rooms

09:10 - 09:20

Keynote Address - Gold Hall

all rooms

09:20 - 09:30

In conversation with - Gold Hall

Josef Aschbacher

Director-General

ESA

Gold Hall

09:30 - 10:50

A pragmatic approach to space and defence

Herald Ruijters

Deputy Director-General and Head of SAFE Task Force

European Commission - DG DEFIS

Hervé Derrey

President and Chief Executive Officer

Thales Alenia Space

Rolf Skatteboe

Chief Executive Officer

KSAT

François Lombard

Head of Connected Intelligence

Airbus Defence and Space

Juan Tomás Hernani

Chief Executive Officer | President

Satlantis | YEESS

Jens Franzeck

Chief Industrial Officer

ArianeGroup

INDRA Representative

Silver Hall

09:30 - 10:20

International Space Cooperation: the European Public and Private Stakeholders continuum

Eric Morel de Westgaver

Director of Strategy, Legal and External Affairs

ESA

Agora

10:00 - 10:30

A Guide for Transatlantic Partnership to Leverage Commercial Space (ESPI)

Silver Hall

10:20 - 10:50

Commercial EO: Building Sustainable Business Models in Europe

Agora

10:30 - 11:00

CASSINI 2.0

all rooms

10:50 - 11:05

Coffee Break

Silver Hall

11:00 - 11:30

Space Exploration: a driver of European Industrial Competitiveness

Didier Schmitt

Head of Future Preparation

ESA

Mariella Graziano

Director of Science, Exploration and Transportation strategy

GMV

Agora

11:00 - 11:30

ESEIS

Gold Hall

11:05 - 12:00

Conversation between Space Commanders

Major General Vincent Chusseau

Commander

French Space Command

Major General Michael Traut

Commander

German Space Command

Major General Isaac Crespo Zaragoza

Commander

Spanish Space Command

Agora

11:30 - 12:00

Startup Spotlight

Gold Hall

12:00 - 13:00

Enabling Defence Readiness: Space Connectivity, Ground Architecture, and Mission Data Access

Major General Michael Traut

Commander

German Space Command

Laurent Jaffart

Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications

ESA

Nicolas Lefort

Head of New Markets

MBDA

Sopra Steria Representative

Silver Hall

12:00 - 13:00

Setting priorities for Space Research and Innovation in the next funding cycle

Carole Mundell

Director of Science

ESA

Zuzana Mazanova

Head of Unity Space Single Market

European Commission - DG DEFIS

Michal Brichta

Director

Slovak Space Office

Agora

13:00 - 13:15

Parliamentary Dialogue on European Space Policy (ESPI)

all rooms

14:00 - 14:10

Welcome Address - Gold Hall

Gold Hall

14:10 - 14:20

In conversation with

Andrius Kubilius

Commissioner for Defence and Space

European Commission

Gold Hall

14:30 - 16:10

From Space to the Battlefield: Earth Observation Enhancing Military Readiness and Decision Making

Rear Admiral Louis Tillier 

Director

EU Satellite Centre

Guillaume de la Brosse

Head of Unit Defence Policy

European Commission - DG DEFIS

Joost Elstak

Vice-President Missions

Iceye

Giampiero Di Paolo

Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Senior Vice-President of Observation, Exploration and Navigation

Thales Alenia Space

Francisco Vilhena da Cunha

Chief Executive Officer

GEOSAT

Pierre Bertrand

Chief Executive Officer

Skynopy

EUSI Representative

Silver Hall

14:30 - 15:30

Sustainably Securing orbits: space surveillance and in-orbit capabilities

Ekaterini Kavvada

Director for Secure and Connected Space

European Commission - DG DEFIS

Rolf Densing

Director of Operations

ESA

Chiara Manfletti

Chief Executive Officer

Neuraspace

Alberto Agueda

Director of Space Surveillance and Traffic Management

GMV

Exotrail Representative

Agora

15:00 - 15:30

A Layered Security Architecture approach integrating VHA and Space Assets

Silver Hall

15:30 - 16:15

Capital and Competitiveness: Investment pathways to finance the European Space Industry

Tobias Gotthardt

State Secretary

Bavarian State Government

Giancarlo Granero

Head of Unit for Space Economy

European Commission

Luca del Monte

Head of Commercialisation department

ESA

Sandra Budimir

General Partner

Expansion Ventures

Gold Hall

16:10 - 16:55

Space as a Pillar for an Autonomous European Shield

Lubos Fedora

Senior Sales & Business Development Manager

Mynaric

Sateliot Representative

Gold Hall

16:55 - 17:25

From Defence to Counterspace and Deterrence: Hard Power on Earth and in Orbit for European Space Security

Timo Pesonen

Director-General

European Commission - DG DEFIS

Benedikta Von Seherr-Thoss

Managing Director for Peace, Security and Defence

EEAS

all rooms

17:25 - 17:30

Key Takeaways - Gold Hall

all rooms

17:30 - 17:35

Closing Remarks - Gold Hall

Hermann Ludwig Moeller

Director

ESPI