19 - 20 MAY 2022

RIGA, LATVIA

19.05.
10:00 Opening
10:20 - 10:50 The Fifth industrial revolution and commercialization of space
Inma Martinez - Digital and AI Pioneer
10:50 - 11:10 Agriculture and Bio-Inspired Engineering for Earth and SpaceAngelo Vermeulen - Space systems researcher, biologist, and artist
11:10 - 12:15 What technologies to bet on: Innovation trends and opportunities
Liene Briede; Dr. Tonino Greco; Jekaterina Novikova; Nikita Kazakevics; Madara Kalniņa-Kalnmale

Scientificexcellence
into marketsuccess

12:15 - 13:00 Lunch
Olga Barreto Goncalves
Deep-tech Stage HostArtis OzoliņšSmart-tech Stage Host

13:00 - 13:30 Ask me anything session withInma Martinez
13:30 - 13:40 Klara Brandstätter;
Ferdinand Rudolph-Bartels;
Mikko Korhonen;
Magdalena Jabłońska;Arno Langwieser; Toby Moore
Deep Tech Start-up competition
13:40 - 14:15 Startup competition 1-5 pitch
14:15 - 14:25 Break
14:25 - 15:10 Startup competition 6-10 pitch
15:10 - 15:20 Break
15:20 - 16:20 Ilona Gulchak; Vaido Mikheim;
Dr. Lars Frølund; Dr. Thomas
Kostka; Vaido Mikheim;
Ieva Jansone - Buka;
Klara Brandstätter
Potential of deep tech investing expectations management
16:20 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 17:15 Startup competition 11-16 pitch
17:15 - 18:00 Startup competition
jury discussion
18:30 - 20:30 Startup competition Results &Awards

13:00 - 13:15 Madara Kalniņa-Kalnmale
Lightspace: Transforming augmented
reality market in healthcare
13:15 - 13:30 Vanessa Rexin
More than just beautiful: Combining
design and technologies in jewelry
13:30 - 13:45 Break
13:45 - 14:00 Dr.sc.ing. Zane Grigale-Soročina
Science at your fingertips: R&D
challenges developing innovative
nail coatings
14:00 - 14:15 PhD Andris AnspoksPhotonics and smart materials inLatvia. Overview.

Program will be updated!

Diana Lapkis
Space-tech Stage Host
13:00 - 13:15 Anita MuižnieceESA Days Latvia opening
13:15 - 13:30 Nathalie Tinjod
ESA Agenda 2025, upcoming
meeting at ESA Ministerial Council.
Practical aspects of supporting
Latvia’s international cooperationin the space domain
13:30 - 13:35 Pauls Irbins
Space & Humans – segment intro
13:35 - 13:40 Nikolai Adamovitch
Prospects of creating ESA BIC
in Latvia

14:15 - 14:30 Ainārs Knoks
Materize: bridging the gap between
science and industry

13:40 - 13:55 Petr Boháček
The prospects of unlocking the newhorizons – building the next lunar
mission14:30 - 14:45 Dr. Lennart B.M. Svensson
A photonics overview and its
applications as an enabler forindustrial and societal development

13:55 - 14:10 Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli
Case study: encouraging study
STEM education & talent growthfor space industry

14:45 - 15:00 Juha Purmonen
Key photonics competences in Finland
15:00 - 15:30 Beyond the Northern lights:
Photonics in the Nordics
15:30 - 15:45 Break
15:45 - 16:00 Bob CoeckeQuantum natural language processing
16:00 - 16:15 PhD Andris Ambainis
Software for a quantum computer:story of Latvian research
16:15 - 16:30 PhD Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs
Single-electron quantum technolgies
16:30 - 16:45 Dr. Charlotte Ovenden
A route to creating next-generation
quantum communication networks:
Single photon sources and integrated
quantum photonic platforms
16:45 - 17:15 Quantum = game-changer
17:15 - 17:30 PhD Andris Freimanis
Getting from lab to the market:
Integrated computational materials
engineering (ICME)

14:10 - 15:15 Space & Humans: lowering barriers,
creating opportunities
15:15 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 15:35 Diana Lapkis
New Space Economy: future trends &opportunities for Latvian businesses
15:35 - 15:50 Mauro Piermaria
Building Space innovation ecosystem
15:50 - 16:10 Karol Brzostowski
The Associate Member RPA Funding
Scheme - Who is it for and how to use it
16:10 - 16:30 Dr. Georgios Tzeremes
Space Lidar Systems explained what it
is & what possibilities exist for Latvian
industry and institutes/academia
16:30 - 16:45 Speakers TBC
Cooperation with Large system
integrators and OHB
16:45 - 17:00 QA session - New Space Economy.
What's next?
17:00 - 18:00 Latvian Space Start-up pitches - what
the industry can do.
18:00 - 18:05 ESA 1st Day wrap-up

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19 - 20 MAY 2022

RIGA, LATVIA

20.05.
Olga Barreto Goncalves
Deep-tech Stage Host
10:00 - 10:00 Opening
10:10 - 11:30 Opportunities for Deep-techstartups: new initiatives andfunding
11:30- 12:15 What big industrial players are
doing? Industry reversepitches
12:15 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:15 Gatis Mozoļevskis
Organ on chip: Future of drug
development
13:15 - 13:30 Nikolas TrutiakHeat transfer in electronics heard but not seen
13:30 - 13:45 Kristina Oļševska;
Krišjānis Nesenbergs
Motion capture as an everyday
fitness product?
13:45 - 14:00 Toms Slapjums
Lithium-ion batteries. The past,present and future.
14:00 - 14:10 Break
14:10 - 14:25 Dr.sc.ing. Andris ŠutkaTiO2 quantum dot based
photochromic materials for
smart window application
14:25 - 14:40 Pavels Razmajevs
Why and where high precision
technologies are important.
Latvian Hight precision
technologies
14:40 - 14:55 Dr. phys. Mārtiņš Rutkis
Development story ofultra-fast thermo-electricradiation sensor
14:55 - 15:05 Break
15:05 - 15:50 Ignition Event Pitch Session 1Artis Ozoliņš
Smart-tech Stage HostDiana Lapkis
Space-tech Stage Host

10:00 - 10:15 Jordan Bozmarov
Liquid crystal based antennas in theera of 5G

10:00 - 10:10 Diana Lapkis
Opening - Spatial data & Earth observation (EO) as business opportunity

10:15 - 10:30 Lev Lapkis
Microelectronics in Latvia: From
concert halls to aerospace

10:10 - 10:35 Chiara Solimini
Spatial data as a business opportunity.
Copernicus activities and synergies
including Cassini.

10:30 - 10:45 Jānis Astahovs
Conveying ideas more effectively:
Importance of visual communication
10:45 - 11:00 Dr. Ing. Holger Schlüter
Modern industrial laser applications
11:00 - 11:30 Consumer electronics & lighting
11:30 - 11:45 Vishal Rajendra Kumar
AI, Self Driving and UX: Researchefforts towards effortless driving
11:45 - 12:00 Robert Holzer
Photonic Sensing (NDT & PAT)
for various industries
12:00 - 12:15 Paul Cobee
Composite design andmanufacture for F1
12:15 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:30 Smart city: Urban solutions andchallenges

10:35 - 10:50 Michele Castorina
EO market and business opportunities
at ESA
10:50 - 11:10 Grega Milcinski
Establishing a sustainable business in
EO by selling free data
11:10 - 11:25 Inese Suija – Markova
Institute for Environmental Solutions- developing exportable services of EO data
11:25 - 11:40 QA session - EO as a business
opportunity
11:40 - 11:45 Diana Lapkis
Space as inspiration
11:45 - 12:05 Yasu YamazakiSpace Entertainment - segment trends& key learnings building space entertainment business
12:05 - 13:00 Lunch

13:45 - 14:00 Andris Grabovskis
Sneak-peek into future devicesfor non-contact skin diagnostics

13:00 - 13:15 Niklas Österberg
Arctic Business and space start-ups –building team, business, and financing
models13:15 - 13:30 Dr. Anja Nakarada Pečujlić
From zero to one of the hottest New
Space companies in the nanosat
segment. Endurosat’s story

14:00 - 14:15 Blaž Cugmas
What can optics do for animalhealth?

13:30 - 13:45 Dr. Donatas Mishkinis
Allatherm – Lunar gateway program.
A successful ESA collaboration project

14:15 - 15:00 Advanced healthcare:
Making medical care more efficient

13:45 - 14:00 Artem Axelrod
Misson Space. From side project tospace launch

13:30 - 13:45 Bernhard Nußbaumer
A novel concept for multifocal
chip-on-tip endoscopy

15:50 - 16:00 Break

14:00 - 14:15 Break

16:00 - 16:50 Ignition Event Pitch Session 2

14:15 - 14:30 Dr. Ing. Errico Armandillo
Advance in photonic technologies forobservations from space

17:00 - 18:00 Conference closing remarks

14:30 - 14:35 Diana Lapkis
ESA Days in Latvia wrap-up
14:35 - 16:10 Mission Sea 2030 Panel discussion“Space and Sea synergy:
life support and data sharing– for the benefit of both”
Pavillion10:00 - 11:30 Workshop with Prof. Jyrki Saarinen: Startup mindset – the tool for commercializing innovations
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13:00 - 13:45 Workshop with Holger Schlüter: Modern Scanning Systems for Laser Machining