This year’s theme for the European Space Conference, organised by Business Bridge Europe, is ’Consolidating Europe’s Space Ambition: Towards a Competitive, Secure, and Autonomous Future’.
The two-day conference agenda features keynote addresses and main sessions covering topics such as Earth observation, navigation and secure telecommunications.
EU Commissioner for Defence and Space, Andrius Kubilius and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher will hold a joint press point on the opening day of the conference, highlighting European collaboration on space activities.
Media representatives are invited to register for this two-day event including the joint press point as well as conference panels and keynote speeches.
Accredited journalists will also be able to request on-site interviews.
Programme highlights (Times subject to change)
Tuesday 28 January (CET)9:10 - 9:20 (Gold Hall)
Keynote Address by Josef Aschbacher, Director General, ESA. (Streamed on ESA Web TV1).
9:30 - 9:50 (European Commission stand)
Joint ESA-European Commission press point with Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space and Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General, followed by Q&A. (Streamed on ESA Web TV1).
9:50 - 10:45 (Gold Hall)
Panel ’Solving the Competitiveness Equation for a Sovereign and Secure Europe’ with Josef Aschbacher, Director General, ESA.
11:00 - 12:00 (ESA stand)
ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Directors available for interviews at the ESA stand.
9:45 - 10:45 (Silver Hall)
Panel ’Unlocking the potential of Copernicus and European Earth Observation capabilities’ with Simonetta Cheli, Director of Earth Observation, ESA.
11:15 - 12:15 (Silver Hall)
Panel ’Galileo - The Next Generation: Addressing the Challenges of PNT for a Secure and Reliable Future’, with Francisco-Javier Benedicto Ruiz, Director of Navigation, ESA.
12:15 - 13:00 (Gold Hall)
Panel ’Launching Europe into 2030. Ensuring Europe’s autonomous Access to Space’ with Toni Tolker-Nielsen, Acting Director of Space Transportation, ESA.
12:15 - 13:00 (Silver Hall)
Panel ’From Concept to Reality: Implementing IRIS2’ with Laurent Jaffart, Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications, ESA.
12:45 - 13:10 (The Agora)
Panel ’Space and Ocean Dialogue. Copernicus: A unique platform for Space and Ocean experts to collaborate’, with Simonetta Cheli, Director of Earth Observation, ESA.
17:15 - 18:00 (Silver Hall)
Panel ’Scenarios for sustainable and autonomous European space exploration to the Moon and beyond’, with ESA Director of Human and Robotic Exploration Daniel Neuenschwander, and ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano.
Wednesday 29 January (CET)
9:30 - 10:00 (Gold Hall)
Panel ’The future of Space R&D’, with ESA Director General Josef Ascbacher and ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano.
9:30 - 10:30 (Silver Hall)
Panel ’Space Science: Pursuing research & development efforts and cooperation for Europe’s competitive edge’ with Carole Mundell, Director of Science, ESA.
10:15 - 10:45 (ESA stand)
’EVAs : From training to mission challenges’, with Luca Parmitano, ESA Astronaut.
11:00 - 11:15 (The Agora)
’A conversation with’... Luca Parmitano, ESA Astronaut.
11:00 - 11:30 (ESA stand)
Space Safety, with Quentin Verspieren, Space Safety Programme and Protect Accelerator Coordinator, ESA.
11:20 - 12:10 (Gold Hall)
Panel ’International Cooperation: An exchange of views between Agencies’, with Eric Morel de Westgaver, Director of Strategy, Legal and External Affairs, ESA.
ESA participants
Director General, Josef Aschbacher
Director of Connectivity and Secure Communication, Laurent Jaffart
Director of Earth Observation Programmes, Simonetta Cheli
Director of Strategy, Legal and External Affairs, Eric Morel de Westgaver
Acting Director of Space Transportation, Toni Tolker-Nielsen
Director of Science, Carole Mundell
Director of Navigation, Francisco-Javier Benedicto Ruiz
Director of Human and Robotic Exploration, Daniel Neuenschwander
Head of Industrial Policy and Auditing Department, Directorate of Commercialisation, Industry and Competitiveness, Christine Klein
ESA Astronaut and former International Space Station Commander, Luca Parmitano
Media registration
Media representatives can register to attend the European Space Conference via: https://spaceconference.eu/#mediaFull programme: https://spaceconference.eu/programme
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More on ESA DG visions and ambitions: https://vision.esa.int/
