ESA BUSINESS APPLICATIONS ANNUAL CONFERENCE

3rd - 5th JUNE 2019 TOULOUSE, FRANCEbusiness.esa.int/smart-space

→ PROGRAMMEDAY ONE - 3 JUNE 201913:00 - 13:30 Registration and Coffee

13:30 - 15:30 Welcome to Smart Space by CNES and ESA

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break and Expo

16:00 - 17:10 ESA Business Applications and Space Solutions: Funding Opportunities and Tools

• ESA Business Applications and Space Solutions: Introduction to funding opportunities Rita Rinaldo, Head of Institutional Projects Office, ESA

• Role of an Ambassador Donna Lyndsay, UK Regional Ambassador Platform

• How can an ESA Business Incubation Centre (BIC) help you? - ESA BIC Sud France

• How can the Innovation Partner Network help you? - Verhaert

• Opportunities in the Rail Sector: Space4Rail Initiative - Amar Vora, ESA

• SpaceBrain foundation – Elia Montanari and Nathalie Dorval, ESA

17:10 - 17:40 Coffee Break and Expo

17:40 - 18:30 Panel Session - What are investors looking for?

• Fabrice Testa, EBAN Space and Luxembourg Space Tech Angels

• Nitan Pathak, European Investment Fund

• Seraphim Capital

DAY TWO - 4 JUNE 201909:00 - 10:15 Session 1 - SMART FINANCE Presentations about insurance and financial services

• Sofyane Thabet, Principal, Five Capital 

• Steve Wilcockson, Geospatial Insight

• Michel Bénet, Diginove

• Kalle Loimula, Cloud Asset

10:15 - 11:00 Coffee Break and Expo

11:00 - 12:10 Session 2 - SMART TECHNOLOGIES Presentations about artificial intelligence, big data, virtual reality and 5G

• Rita Rinaldo, Head of Institutional Projects Office, ESA

• Thanh-Long Huynh, QuantCube Technology

• Tiago Carvalho, VisionSpace Intelligent Systems U.G.

• Nicolas Capet, Anywaves

• Francois Civet, VR2Planets

12:10 - 12:30 Pitches of the demo corners: Solar Foods, Cloud Asset, Tiwari, Space 800X, Collective Crunch, Gisaia, Next4, Rezatec and AutoNaut

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and demo corners

14:00 - 15:00 Session 3 - SMART MOBILITY Presentations about drone services, automatic delivery services and autonomous vehicles

• “No Smart Mobility without Space” Roger Pagny, Senior ITS-GNSS Expert and Vice President, ATEC-ITS France

• Petr Janous, Esc Aerospace

• Xenia Scholl, Teleretail

• Michel Seyrac, IIDRE Automate

• Philippe Badia, Syntony

• Romain Legros, Geoflex

15:00 - 15:45 Coffee Break and Expo

15:45 - 15:55 ESA Downstream Gateway – Donatella Ponziani, ESA

15:55 - 16:05 Copernicus and Galileo Masters – Daniela Dobreva-Nielsen, AZO

16:05 - 17:00 Panel Session - New Space Economy

• “New Space Economy - setting the scene” Fabrice Testa, Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, EBAN Space, Luxembourg Space Tech Angels

• Rafael Jordá Siquier, Open Cosmos

• Yann Guichoux, Eodyn

17:00 - 17:40 Workshop: How to convince investors – Nitan Pathak, European Investment Fund

19:30 - 22:30 Smart Space Dinner

DAY THREE - 5 JUNE 201909:00 - 09:50 Workshops:

• How to write a good proposal / Activity Pitch Questionnaire (APQ) Norbert Huebner, Head of Feasibility Studies section, ESA

• ESA Patents for Smart Business - Mercedes Sanchez Alvarez, ESA

09:50 - 10:35 Session 4 - SMART HEALTH – Presentations about health technology and risk areas detection

• “UK Space Agency and National Health Service (NHS) joint initiative” Emily Gravestock, Head of Applications Strategy, UK Space Agency

• Ana Cristinna Galhego Rosa, Dipteron

10:35 - 11:20 Coffee Break

11:20 - 12:20 Session 5 - SMART RESOURCES - Presentations about agriculture, environment, food, water management and infrastructure monitoring

• Philip Briscoe, Rezatec

• Peter Fröhlich, Agricircle

• Helga van der Vegt, HydroLogic

• Rolf Schmitz, Collective Crunch

• Daniel Rotko, Solar Foods

• Ruben Hallali, HD Rain

12:20 - 12:30 Final wrap-up and end of the event Nick Appleyard, Head of ESA Business Applications and Space Solutions

12:30 - 13:30 Light Lunch