India

Indo-Swiss Space Week 2024

Riding on the success of ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, for the first time we’re hosting a week full of all things space where a seven-member Swiss delegation will visit Bengaluru and New Delhi to understand the Indian space ecosystem and explore ways to strengthen collaboration in spacetech.

What and Why?

For a week from June 23 to June 28, the Swiss delegation comprising startup founders, incubators, innovation centres, representatives of education institutions, and space and spacetech researchers will meet and liaise with Indian space professionals from the public and private sectors, and industrial institutions. Their goal will be to delve into the latest trends and all that India’s fast moving space economy and research developments have to offer and find ways to work together in research and innovation. This includes the possibility of expanding the presence of Swiss startups in the Indian market.

 

We are planning a few invite-only discussions and others that will be open to the public, but the event to look out for is the Indo-Swiss Space Mixer, which we are co-hosting with the deeptech-focussed VC fund Speciale Invest and KickSky, which is India’s first VC-backed space startup. The Space Mixer is for anybody interested in space, spacetech and affiliated sectors. You’ll have the opportunity to interact with all the Swiss delegates, startup founders, investors and other movers and shakers in the space industry. The evening promises engaging and insightful discussions as well as icebreaker conversations that will encourage you to broaden your understanding of space, widen your professional network and apply your neural network.

 

If you can’t make it this time around, you could also meet the Swiss delegation on June 27 at the India Space Congress in New Delhi.

Speakers

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    Edgar Fernandes

    Co-Founder, Menhir Photonics

    Menhir’s research efforts have given birth to a femtosecond laser capable of measuring up to 2.5 GHz with unprecedented accuracy and reliability. They are experts in industrial-grade lasers vital for time-synchronisation electronics, precision radars and telecommunication systems suitable for space environments. It is the first industrial-grade femtosecond laser of its kind that is suitable as a very accurate clock for an outside-the-lab environment.

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    Alberto Hernando

    Founder, Kido Dynamics

    Kido Dynamics is a provider of a Data-as-a-Service platform that integrates Mobile Network Operator Data with satellite imagery to deliver insights to sectors like mobility, retail, real estate, tourism, government, defence and marketing.

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    Agnes Chan

    Co-Founder, Re-CAE

    Re-CAE are developers of autonomous software for end-to-end space-craft-management software that is platform agnostic and offers real-time ground visualisation as well as orbit-to-ground end-of-life management and operation, and promoting independence from ground control.

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    Rafael Pennese

    Business Development Manager, CSEM

    CSEM is a non-profit innovation centre with a lead in international instrumentation projects (space and astrophysics). They are reliable ESA partners for atomic clocks such as navigation and exploration, and for LiDAR applications.

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    Michael Gschweitl

    Technical Lead, ESA BIC Switzerland / ETH Zurich Space

    ESA BIC Switzerland is a startup support programme led by ETH Zurich and powered by the European Space Agency. The incubator offers extensive support packages to startups that exploit technologies related to space for application on Earth or technologies from Earth adapted for usage in space. ETH Zurich Space is Switzerland’s leading academic spacetech research and education institute under the leadership of former NASA Science Director Thomas Zurbuchen. The institute endeavours stronger global partnerships and exchanges with leading space innovation agencies.

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    Oliver Dörr

    Field CTO, Microsoft

    Oliver Dörr serves as a Field CTO for Microsoft, focussing on space-related applications of the cloud computing platform Azure. He leads strategic technical guidance and advocates for the integration of Azure technologies in the space sector and is eager to understand the challenges of startups in their most important period of growth and scaling.

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    Stéphane Paltani

    Full Professor at the Department of Astronomy in University of Geneva

    Stéphane Paltani represents Switzerland’s planetary research community with a focus on a tri-partite research cluster including astrophysics (University of Geneva), planetary exploration (University of Bern) and sun/solar environments (PMOD Davos).

Partners

Contact

    Adrien Mérillat

    Project Manager, Space Week
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