session 1
- 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
- Room
- 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;
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 | 10 | confirmed | Ms. Hauwa Umaru | Germany | ||
3 | 15:20 | 10 | confirmed | Ms. Misuzu Onuki | Space Access Corporation | Japan | |
4 | 15:30 | 10 | Mr. Leonardo Souza | Ideia Space | Brazil | ||
5 | 15:40 | 10 | confirmed | Ms. Nandi Mtethwa | The Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (RIIS) | South Africa | |
6 | 15:50 | 10 | confirmed | Ms. Rosario Yulisa Huayanay Flavio | Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos | Peru | |
7 | 16:00 | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Giulio Marano | Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) | Denmark | |
8 | 16:10 | 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 | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Gigi Dinut | United Kingdom |
