The European Space Agency together with Harwell Campus and Metalysis are delighted to invite you to the Global Space Economic Workshop@UK to be held on July 18th at the European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT) in Harwell Campus, United Kingdom.
The Workshop will bring together major space and non-space stakeholders from the energy, advanced material, biomedical and space domains, to discuss potential cooperative initiatives. This reflects the three clusters that have formed at Harwell in the domains of Space, HealthTec and EnergyTec.
Several high profile panels and splinter working sessions will be organised with the participation of leaders from industry, academia and European institutions, to discuss new cross-disciplinary partnerships and to promote disruptive innovation and commercial opportunities. Working sessions will address diverse challenges related to such topics as:
- advances in battery technology and how they can benefit both space exploration and the interworking of autonomous vehicles and renewable energy;
- advanced manufacturing and materials and in-situ resource utilisation, both for habitat construction on the moon or other planets and for use in the construction of satellites, spacecraft and down-to-earth applications and
- the perspectives brought forward by new biomedical research conducted in micro-gravity to protect or improve life both in space and on Earth.
Participants from institutional and commercial parties and the communities and actors in the domains of energy, materials, space and biomedical are invited to attend the event. For further information about the GSEW, please click here.
To register, click HERE.
AGENDA:
09.00 – 09.30 Guests registration and welcome coffee
09.30 – 09.55 Institutional welcome
Barbara Ghinelli, Director, Clusters and Campus Development, UKRI-STFC
Geraldine Naja, Head of Industrial Policy and Auditing Department,
ESA Dion Vaughn,CEO,Metalysis
09.55 – 10.00 Setting the stage and reminder of the objectives and dynamic of the day
Luca del Monte, Head of Industrial Policy and SME Division, ESA
10.00 – 10.20 Introduction to ESA-RAL Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory
Andrew Barnes, Senior Technology Engineer, ESA
10.20 – 10.35 Inspirational Talk
Martina Caironi, Paralympic Athlete and ESA Grand Challenge Ambassador
10.35– 10.50 Coffee Break
10.50 – 12.20 New Materials and Energy Industrial Panel Discussion
Moderator: Alan Brunstrom, ESA
- Angus Horner, Partner and Director, Harwell Campus Partnership
- Parth Mehta, Business Development Manager, Siemens
- Alex Brinkmeyer, Space Materials Engineer, Oxford Space System
- Tim German, Government and Regulator Relationships, Energy Stems Catapult
12.20 – 12.30 Q&A
12.30 – 14.00 Networking Lunch
14.00 – 14.15 Key-note Speech
Nick Cox, Head of Space Technology Strategy, UKSA [TBC]
14.15 – 14.45 Metalysis – ESA Grand Challenge Presentation
Luca del Monte, Head of Industrial Policy and SME Division, ESA
Melchiorre Conti, Director of Technology, Metalysis
Afternoon working session
Addressing challenges through creativity and innovation
Participants will be split into different working tables. Through several working tables the objective will be to discuss and creatively co-design future cross-domain partnership opportunities in the domain of new materials and energy
14.45 – 16.00 Further exploration of morning’s reflections [working groups]
16.00 – 16.15 Coffee Break
16.15 – 17.00 Restitution of working groups
17.00 – 17.30 Conclusions
