More than one hundred participants joined the third event of the ESA Commercialisation Days series, this time focused on Green Energy, at the European Space Agency - ESA HQ in Paris!
Two days full of speeches, startup pitches, panel discussions and networking opportunities around the topics of energy sustainability and energy resilience and how the commercialisation of space-based technologies can support the renewable energy sector for the energy transition and ensure continuous and affordable energy supply.
The event featured keynotes by distinguished speakers such as:
- Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General
- Geraldine Naja, ESA Director of Commercialisation, Industry and Competitiveness
- Anthea Evelina Comellini, ESA reserve astronaut
- Brendan Reidenbach, Policy Analyst at IEA
- Rita Rinaldo, Head of Applications Projects and Studies Division at ESA
- Sanjay Vijendran, Lead for the ESA SOLARIS initiative
- Alfonso Martinez-Felipe, Hydrogen Champion at University of Aberdeen
- Davide Coppola, Head of Space Applications Initiatives Section at ESA
- Zoltan Bartalis, Climate Action, Sustainability & Science Department at ESA.
Here the several startups that pitched their innovative ideas during the event:
- Camilla Taylor, CFO at SatVu
- Carolina Gomez Rodriguez, CEO at Flucto
- Frano Cetinic, CEO at EDInsights AS
- Simon Prüller, CEO at 2nd Cycle
- Max Aragón, CEO and Co-founder at Termatics
- Andreas Salentinig, CEO and Founder at ubicube
- Lukas Prenner, CEO and Founder at energyfamily
- Andrea Gulisano, CEO and Founder at MESPAC
To read the highlights of the event, watch the recordings and read the presentations, click here: https://lnkd.in/dksD6gYa
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1yLooking forward to joining the next General Meeting. Space is definitely a limitless and overexpanding area of economic and commercial opportunity.