Highlights of ESA’s Trade Area Days 2024

This can be a key occasion for many firms concerned in area in Europe, they acquire insights into ESA’s close to and long-term actions and procurement wants. 1000’s of one-on-one prescheduled conferences between firms may have marked the beginning of helpful enterprise collaborations and elevated their possibilities in future ESA procurements and business actions.

An exhibition corridor with 170 stands was a invaluable method for firms to find, focus on or showcase applied sciences and make helpful contacts.

There have been greater than 2300 registered individuals representing 1100 firms from 42 international locations at ISD 2024. For a lot of of those firms, this occasion is a vital a part of their enterprise technique.

Key takeaways and particular occasions

After a welcome from the top of ESTEC, Dietmar Pilz and the Director of Commercialisation, Trade and Competitiveness, Géraldine Naja, ESA Director Common, Josef Aschbacher and ESA administrators spoke about ESA’s future objectives and the alternatives for trade.

The Zero Particles Constitution was signed by 23 firms and organisations dedicated to becoming a member of the European area trade’s personal call-to-action to forestall and mitigate area particles. The brand new whole of 87 signatures is ready to rise on 14 October 2024 on the opening day of the Worldwide Astronautical Congress in Milan.

ESA offered three prestigious awards to firms profitable within the Company’s provider analysis course of and innovation actions. Airbus Defence and Area (France) acquired the Excellence Award (prime contractor) and ASP Techniques (Germany) acquired the Excellence Award (sub-contractor). KP Labs (Poland) acquired ESA’s Innovation Award.

Participant suggestions

C-CORE, a small firm based mostly in Canada specialises in distant sensing and has attended the ISD occasion since its inception in 1999. Desmond Energy, Vice President stated: “ISD brings us to the guts of area enterprise in Europe. We’ve had back-to-back enterprise conferences at our sales space at the moment. It’s a really cost-effective method to meet with as many potential prospects and enterprise companions as attainable.”

Vincent Bathtub, Key Account Supervisor at giant system integrator, OHB Bremen defined that on the ISD, OHB makes direct contact with new and present suppliers and discovers progressive applied sciences that may enhance OHB’s competitiveness. OHB in flip affords small firms business alternatives and its expertise in making certain these progressive options are area compliant.

Begin-up firms showcased their applied sciences within the ESA BIC Village and spoke about the advantages of ESA’s assist via ISD 2024.

Nation cubicles gathered dozens of firms from Member States and gave them a chance to current their actions. Elisabeth Klaffenboeck from the Austrian IPC delegation to ESA stated: “One will get the sensation that the whole European area trade is right here – an ideal alternative for networking, so I’m happy that Austria is so nicely represented. Along with Brimatech, we had been in a position to entice 20 gamers to our ‘Austria in Area’ sales space on the primary day already. We additionally see Austrian firms with their very own stands. Superb, a hit on each stage.”

Like a lot of his ESA colleagues, Optical and Quantum Innovation Engineer, Christopher Vasko was happy to fulfill firm representatives face-to-face in fruitful advert hoc conferences.

ISD in footage

Images from Day 1 of the occasion are in ESA’s ISD 2024 Flickr album. Extra images through this hyperlink might be added quickly. Spot your organization and share your images utilizing the hashtag #ISD2024ESA.

Shows

ISD2024 was a busy occasion. For these unable to attend all of the shows, a range might be made obtainable through a hyperlink right here quickly.

The following Trade Area Days is in 2026.