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    Title

    Space Entrepreneurship and Investment: The Practitioners' Perspectives

    type

    oral

    Description

    This session contains a broad spectrum of entrepreneurship, innovation, finance and investment presentations from the practitioner's perspective. Suggested topics suitable for this session can be at any level of analysis, including (from macroscopic to microscopic) the space sector, industries (e.g., propulsion), industry segments (e.g., chemical propulsion), individual firms, a portion of or a group of individuals within a firm, or an individual. Example entrepreneurship and innovation topics suitable for this session include descriptions related to entrepreneurship and innovation such as new market sectors, new businesses, new business plans, new projects, recent experiences of start-up companies. Suitable finance or investment topics apply to large programmes, new firms, the analysis methodologies of markets, or new developments in the finance and investment communities (including angel investors, venture capital organizations, and investment banks).

    Date

    2026-10-08

    Time

    15:00

    Room

    Hall 29

    IPC members
    • Co-Chair: Mr. Joerg Kreisel, JOERG KREISEL International Consultant (JKIC), Germany;

    • Co-Chair: Ms. Daria Stepanova, Germany;

    • Rapporteur: Prof. Michele Cristina Silva Melo, Ideia Space, Brazil;

    papers

    Order

    Time

    Paper title

    Mode

    Presentation status

    Speaker

    Affiliation

    Country

    1

    15:00

    Blockchain-Based Satellite Image Trading Platform and Secondary Market Model

    10

    confirmed

    Mr. Ökkeş Enes Kaymaz

    Türkiye

    2

    15:10

    Financing the Valley of Death: Credit Intelligence as the Missing Infrastructure for Institutional Capital in the Space Economy

    10

    confirmed

    Ms. Hauwa Umaru

    Germany

    3

    15:20

    New Trend for Sustainable Space Investment in Japan

    10

    confirmed

    Ms. Misuzu Onuki

    Space Access Corporation

    Japan

    4

    15:30

    The First Private Brazilian Educational Constellation: Technical Development, In-Orbit Operations, and Business Viability

    10

    Mr. Leonardo Souza

    Ideia Space

    Brazil

    5

    15:40

    Building Africa's space entrepreneurship pipeline through the Africa Earth Observation Challenge’s 5-stage innovation funnel

    10

    confirmed

    Ms. Nandi Mtethwa

    The Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (RIIS)

    South Africa

    6

    15:50

    Analysis of Optimism Bias in Business Plan Projections for Space Startups and its Effect on Survival Rates Following the Seed Investment Phase

    10

    confirmed

    Ms. Rosario Yulisa Huayanay Flavio

    Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

    Peru

    7

    16:00

    A Capital Allocation Framework for Roadmap-Driven Space Innovation: Unlocking Private Capital through Staged Investment and Multidimensional Readiness

    10

    confirmed

    Mr. Giulio Marano

    Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC)

    Denmark

    8

    16:10

    Mobilizing Global Capital: A Multi-Sovereign Fund Framework for Accelerating Space Technology Commercialization

    10

    confirmed

    Ms. Saba Hussain

    United States

    9

    16:20

    Venture Capital Funding of Lunar Technology Entrepreneurship

    10

    confirmed

    Mr. Jonas Tobiassen

    International Space University

    Norway

    10

    16:30

    Space Postman and ATLAS: Enabling Startup Participation in the Orbital Logistics Economy

    10

    confirmed

    Dr. Omer Burak Iskender

    Nanyang Technological University

    Singapore

    11

    16:40

    Space Data Centres vs Edge Computing - 2026 Landscape Survey of Claims, Players, and Economics

    10

    confirmed

    Mr. Erik Kulu

    Estonia

    12

    16:50

    Counting What Counts: A Comparative Analysis of Space Startup Investment, Technology Readiness Outcomes, and Commercial Returns Across US and European Accelerator Models

    10

    confirmed

    Mr. Gigi Dinut

    United Kingdom