Keynote Theatre
 

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09:15
  1. Opening Remarks and Welcome Address
    Keynote Theatre
    15 mins
09:30
  1. Ministerial Keynote Address
    Keynote Theatre
    10 mins
09:40
  1. From Policy to Production: What Europe's Space Industry Must Do Next
    Keynote Theatre
    15 mins
    The need to move from defence reliance to defence resilience, the cost of fragmentation across Europe's space and defence industries, and the urgency of securing autonomous access to space, these are …
09:55
  1. Fireside Chat: Building a Unified UK Space Enterprise
    Keynote Theatre
    15 mins
    A national space ambition only works if the people delivering it are pulling in the same direction. In this fireside chat, the UK Space Agency's co-directors discuss what it takes to align government, …
10:10
  1. Operational Lessons from Ukraine's Use of Space During Full Scale Conflict
    Keynote Theatre
    15 mins
    Satellite communications and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance have been central to Ukraine's defence since the full-scale invasion began. This keynote offers a first-hand account of how t …
10:25
  1. Sovereign or Fast? Why Europe Cannot Have Both
    Keynote Theatre
    40 mins
    Europe is in a race it did not choose. The threat timeline, late 2020s, early 2030s, is real, and the capabilities needed to meet it will take years to build if they are built in Europe, or months to …
11:15
  1. Making the EU Space Act Work for Competitiveness and Security
    Keynote Theatre
    40 mins
    The EU Space Act sets out to do two things at once: strengthen Europe's security, resilience and sustainability in orbit, and keep its space economy competitive enough to grow. As trilogue negotiation …
12:05
  1. The Alliance Question: Europe's Space Advantage in a Multipolar World
    Keynote Theatre
    40 mins
    Space is no longer a two-power race. As new national programmes emerge, old alliances evolve, and strategic competition intensifies, Europe faces a defining question - not just how to build capability …
13:10
  1. Beyond the Dual-Use Label: The Case for Defence Space Investment
    Keynote Theatre
    35 mins
    The "dual-use" label has had its day. For too long it's been political cover and a way for investors to back defence assets while keeping civilian LPs comfortable. The honest thesis is simpler: the ur …
13:45
  1. Investment Panel TBC
    Keynote Theatre
    40 mins
14:35
  1. Securing Europe, Serving Europe: Turning EU Space Data into Strategic and Commercial Reality
    Keynote Theatre
    10 mins
    The commercialisation gap in Europe's space infrastructure is not a technology problem, or a funding problem. It is a signal problem. The system integrators, defence primes and investors who must buil …
14:55
  1. The Next Frontier for Pharma: Can Europe and its Allies Lead In-Orbit Drug Manufacturing?
    Keynote Theatre
    40 mins
    Microgravity is quietly transforming pharmaceutical development: purer protein crystallisation, more realistic tissue modelling, and drug formulations simply impossible to replicate on Earth. Research …
15:45
  1. Space Debris: From Environmental Problem to Strategic Threat
    Keynote Theatre
    40 mins
    In November 2021, an anti-satellite missile test generated over 1,500 trackable debris fragments and forced the ISS crew to shelter, a stark reminder that debris in orbit carries strategic as well as …
16:35
  1. Competing in an Era of Astro-Politics
    Keynote Theatre
    10 mins
16:45
  1. Astro-Politics in Practice: A Global Space Command Panel
    Keynote Theatre
    40 mins
17:25
  1. Closing Remarks
    Keynote Theatre
    5 mins
09:45
  1. Opening and Housekeeping
    Keynote Theatre
    5 mins
09:50
  1. Welcome Address
    Keynote Theatre
    10 mins
10:00
  1. Space Race 2.0 and the Decline of the Rules Based Order
    Keynote Theatre
    40 mins
    The ultimate 'high ground' is now an arena in which geopolitical competition and tensions are played out. This keynote looks at how we got here, and where we are going. Private enterprise, and new tec …
10:50
  1. Expanding Europe's Space Manufacturing Capacity
    Keynote Theatre
    40 mins
    Demand for European space hardware is rising across both commercial and defence markets, and the question is whether the industry can build it fast enough. Scaling production takes more than added cap …
11:40
  1. Launch and Beyond: Creating a Competitive and Resilient Market for Europe's Next Ambitions
    Keynote Theatre
    40 mins
    Europe's ambitions in defence, commercial services and exploration all depend on one thing: reliable access to orbit. Demand for launch is growing fast, but capacity is limited and Europe still leans …
12:30
  1. 100,000 by 2030: Where Are the Space Engineers Europe Needs Going to Come From?
    Keynote Theatre
    40 mins
    Europe has ambitious plans for space, but does it have the workforce to deliver them? With the sector looking towards 100,000 skilled workers by 2030, the challenge is not simply finding more people, …
13:20
  1. Innovation to Operations: Delivering Advantage Through the Commercial Space Industrial Base
    Keynote Theatre
    40 mins
    Commercial space services have been indispensable in all recent major conflicts, but in Ukraine they were a critical part of the Order of Battle. Alongside the rapid adaptation of drones, AI and other …
14:10
  1. The Accidental Space Economy: The Industries That Already Run on Space
    Keynote Theatre
    40 mins
    Ask most insurers, shipping companies, telecoms providers, emergency services or cloud businesses whether they're part of the space industry, and the answer will almost certainly be no. Yet many of th …
15:00
  1. The Downstream Question: Data Rights, Liability and Access for Non-Space Companies
    Keynote Theatre
    15 mins
    The EU Space Act is designed with satellite operators in mind, but its consequences reach much further. Insurers, energy majors, telecoms and cloud providers are all now core users of space-derived da …
15:25
  1. Panel TBC
    Keynote Theatre
    40 mins
16:05
  1. The Decade That Decides: Europe's Space Endgame
    Keynote Theatre
    15 mins
    Space-Comm does not exist to host conversations. It exists to change things. Over two days, this programme has brought together the people shaping Europe's space advantage, government, military, indus …
16:20
  1. Closing Remarks
    Keynote Theatre
    5 mins

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