Space technologies are increasingly becoming drivers of innovation across multiple industries. In this session, Dr. Gianluigi Baldesi will present how ESA supports the commercialisation of space-enabled solutions by fostering collaboration between startups, corporates, investors, and institutional actors. The masterclass will provide insights into ESA programmes and initiatives designed to help deep-tech innovations move from research to sustainable business growth.

Europe's most influential Space innovators on stage. Max Gulde, Daniel Seidel, and Ezequiel Sánchez will be joined on stage by Kristina Wagner (CTO & CDO, OHB), Josef Fleischmann (CTO & Co-Founder, Isar Aerospace), and Philipp Herkelmann (CEO Germany, ICEYE).

Most HPC startups do not fail because the technology is wrong. They fail because the go-to-market is. This masterclass dissects what separates the breakthroughs that scale from those that stall — PoC traps, deployment dilemmas, buyer ecosystems, and the metrics that move deep tech investors. Bring your questions.

Europe's space ambitions are only as strong as the engineering and quality standards underpinning them. As ESA's Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality, Dietmar Pilz sits at the intersection of frontier R&D, industrial capability, and mission assurance. In this keynote, he shares ESA's perspective on what it takes to translate deep space technology into reliable, scalable systems — and what the agency expects from the next generation of European space startups and primes looking to build at pace without compromising on rigor.

European Moonport to Launch the Lunar Economy

Space is the invisible backbone of Europe’s economy, resilience and defence. Dr Walther Pelzer, Member of the DLR Executive Board and Head of the German Space Agency, sets out what this means for founders, corporates and policymakers — and the three levers DLR is pulling to build Europe’s space economy: technology de-risking, anchor customer, access to markets.

A quantum-computing PhD and an aerospace engineer built an autonomous electric tractor from scratch in under 1 year with a skeleton crew in Valencia. Now Voltrac is scaling a dual-use robotics platform for European agriculture and defence. Extantia's Carlota Ochoa unpacks the founder journey and what it means to build a deep tech company outside one of the tech hubs -- from first-principles design to frontline deployment.

NewSpace represents a distinct and fast‑growing ecosystem that is driving industrial transformation far beyond the space sector itself. NewSpace is not about niche technologies alone, but about enabling scale, speed and operational capability for industry as a whole. As space becomes a critical infrastructure for resilience, security and sovereignty, NewSpace plays a key role in translating strategic requirements into deployable industrial solutions. This session explores how NewSpace is reshaping industrial value chains and why its development has become strategically relevant for Europe’s entire industrial base. Hosted by Matthias Wachter, the session will conclude with an open Q&A exploring concrete use cases and collaboration opportunities between industry and the space sector.

Europe's top early-stage Space founders compete for a finals spot.

300 enterprise innovation leaders with budgets meet deep tech founders and vendors — PoCs, projects, partnerships are the result.