Changes in the program may occur at the last minute.
DAY 1
09:00 - 10:00: Welcome coffee
10:00 - 12:00: Opening speeches and general information
- Grégoire Bourban, Head of Space Exchange Switzerland (SXS): general information
- Renato Krpoun, Head Swiss Space Office at State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI): Switzerand as a leading space nation / Space law?
- Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA Director of Human and Robotic Exploration at: ESA Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration
- Kam Gaffarian, CEO Axiom Space: Keynote Axiom Space
- Geraldine Naja, ESA Director of Commercialisation, Industry and Competitiveness: ESA Commercialisation
- Johann Richard, Head of ESA ESDI (European Space Agency): ESDI- ESA presence in Switzerland
- Carole Mundell, ESA Director of Science: ESA science directorate
- Ludovic Monnerat - Col. EMG head of space domain Swiss Armed Forces: Peace in space!
12:00 - 13:30: Lunch and 1:1 (B2B) meetings
13:30 - 15:30: Collaboration between science and industry
- Stéphane Paltani, Professor UniGE and president CSR : The scientific perspective - report from Commission on Space Research (CSR)
- Didier Manzoni - Deputy CEO APCO Technologies and President SSIG: The industrial perspective - report from the Swiss Space Industry Group (SSIG)
- Martin Rubin, Professor UniBE: Comet Interceptor
- Elisabetta Rugi, CEO Thales Alenia Space Switzerland: Industry presentation
- Stéphane Udry, Professor UniGE : NCCR PlanetS 12 years discoveries and outcome
- Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General: ESA Vision 2040
15:30 - 16:30: Break and 1:1 (B2B) meetings
16:30 - 18:30: ESA 50 Years Celebration 🎉
Starting at 15:30:
- Doors open for the celebration
- Exhibition by 7 EPFL student associations
- Display of 3 models: Ariane 6, CHEOPS and Solar Orbiter
DAY 2
08:00 - 09:00: Welcome coffee
09:00 - 12:00: Space for business (Earth Observation, Telecommunication, Navigation)
- Julien Bonnaud, SXS Technology Adviser & Deborah Müller, SXS Industrial Relations: SXS support to the ecosystem
- Pierre Lionnet (TBC), Research and Managing Director Eurospace: Space market insights (trends and perspectives)
- Pascal Vock (TBC), Head of Innovation Projects and Portfolio: Challenges faced by SBB
- Ludovic Monnerat, Swiss Army J5 / Head of Space Domain: Opportunities with the Swiss armed forces
- Victor Maier (TBC), Lead Germany and Central Europe Business & Helene Huby (TBC), Founder and CEO: The Exploration Company
10:30 - 11:00: Break
11:00 - 12:00: Keynotes on expanding horizons
- Emile de Rijk, CEO & co-founder of Swissto12: How to commercially succeed with ESA?
- Grégory Moura (TBC), Business Development | Manager Business Line Atomic Clocks: Safran
- Lukas Ambühl (TBC), Co-Founder: Transcality
- Martina löfqvist (TBC), Head of Strategy & Partnerships: Picterra
12:00 - 13:30: Lunch and 1:1 (B2B) meetings
13:30 - 16:00: Innovation in the space domain
- Michael Gschweitl, Technical Lead: ESA BIC CH
- Timothy Llewellynn, Euresearch National Contact Point of Digital Technology: Update on EU programs opportunities
- Marc Gruber, Professor EPFL: Keynote "Where to play"?
- Julie Böhning (TBC), Chief Executive Officer: PAVE Space - Anywhere in orbit within 24H
- Claudia Röösli (TBC), Group Leader Earth Observation Application and Services: Genes from Space – Leveraging EO to report on Genetic Diversity Indicators
- Ullrich Kübler, Sales Direcor Space Exploration at Airbus Defence and Space & Achim Seidel, Project Manager at Airbus Defence and Space & Lee Birch, Materials and Processes Expert for RF and High Speed Applications at Airbus Defence and Space: Starlab collaboration opportunities
- Luc Piguet, CEO ClearSpace: Lessons learned Clearspace
- Lessons learned / Failure and come-back (Astrocast, Lightly, Bcomp, Clearspace, Versics)
