Space 4.0 – Building Space Entrepreneurship Ecosystems

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 16:30 – 17:30
Location: Adelaide Convention Center – Hall D

Create the future while investing in it – ESA’s Director General, a NASA Program Executive and the founder of a booming venture capital in Asia will gather on stage to discuss and share disruptive ideas on space investment. The Space Agencies play a key role enabling innovation and the development of the space industry. The space companies create groundbreaking technologies meant to solve our challenges in space and with a strong potential commercial market. How to support the deployment of those technologies and its conversion in a profitable business is a fundamental question in which Venture Capitalist are also involved. There is an on-going discussion in the venture industry on the importance of space with these strong panelists the discussion will evolve around the Space 4.0 concept, the importance of innovation and the role of the private investors on the future of space.

Moderator

Frank M. SALZGEBER

Managing Director, Space Sector, Saudi Space Agency (SSA)

Saudi Arabia

Speakers

Jan WOERNER

Former Director General, European Space Agency (ESA)

France

Kira A. BLACKWELL

Program Executive, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Tytus MICHALSKI

Managing Partner, Fresco Capital

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