RIGA, LATVIA

20 - 21 APRIL 2023
20.04.
10:00 - 10:20 Opening by Ilze Indriksone (EM), Kaspars Rožkalns (LIAA) and Geraldine Naja (ESA)
10:20 - 10:40 Super-Entrepreneurship to Shape a Better World | Fabrice Testa, Serial Tech Entrepreneur
10:40 - 11:00 From Deep Tech to Deep Space: The Future of the Space Economy | Raphael Roettgen, Founder of E2MC Ventures; Co-founder of Prometheus Life Technologies
11:00 - 11:20 EU Funds & Investments | Prof. Zohar Ben-Asher
11:20 - 11:50 How to start commercialization if you are not business people? | Ella Kalnina, Simona Rataj, Ph.D. Andris Anspoks, Dóra Marosvölgyi, Kristaps Jaudzems
11:50 - 12:00 Deep-Tech Future in The Metacity | Madara Kalniņa - Kalnmale
12:00 - 12:10 Welcome to Deep Tech | Commercialization Reactor | Anton Adamovitch
12:10 - 12:15 Building dual-use deep tech ecosystem with NATO | Zoe Stanley - Lockman

Deep stage

Space stage

13:00 Importance of Deep Tech:
Academy | Tālis Juhna
13:05 Startup Demo Pitches |Industrial Tech & New
Materials

13:00 ESA Director General Opening Speech | Josef Aschbacher

14:10 Creating YOUR Deep Tech
Startup from scratch. How itworks? | Ilona Gulchak,Anton Adamovitch,
Dr. Nikolaos Georgopoulos,
Aline Santa Izabel, ArnisPūciņš, Matej Peretin
14:40 Break

13:20 Sustainable Space Economy for the Future | Timo Mustonen

15:10 Importance of Deep Tech:
Government | RaimondsLapiņš

14:10 National Support Programmes for Space Change of Space Procurement
Approaches | Pieter van Beekhuizen

15:20 Panel: Overcoming the“Valley of Death” specificallyfor Deep Tech. Government
strategies and steps tosupport emerging
Deep-Tech Startups | PeterMogyorosy, Sigrid Rajalo,
Marko Koski, AntonAdamovitch, RaimondsLapiņš
15:50 Building Deep-tech Ventures
to Solve Our Society
Challenges | Lars Frolund
16:00 VCs and CVCs Helping
Creating Value in Deep techStartups | Ilona Gulchak,Lars Frolund, Bernhard
Munzig, Szymon K
wiatkowski, Lars Boehnisch16:30 Startup Demo Pitches |Biotech, Medical& Health Tech

13:05 Space for industry | Pauls Irbins
13:10 Earth Paradigma in Zero Gravity: Success, Time and Nations as Understoodin Space | Elad Sagi
13:30 Space for ICT: Quantum for Next Generation Communications| László Bacsárdi
13:40 Business & Finance | Diana Lapkis, Pauls Irbins
13:43 ESA Support & ESA Programms | Stephen Airey
14:00 European Innovation Council (EIC) in NewSpace & EIC Funding | StellaTkatchova

14:20 Break
14:40 The Private Space Market and Review of Israeli Technologies | Maya Schwartz
15:00 Thales Alenia Space Challenges & Cooperation Opportunities | Freddy Geyer
15:15 Discussion: Attracting Investment to Space Industry | Pauls Irbins,Stephen Airey, Maya Schwartz, Stella Tkatchova, Mārtiņš Bičevskis,
Pieter van Beekhuizen
15:35 Baltic Space Sector Showcases | Paus Irbins
16:30 Astrolight Success Story & Key Learnings | Laurynas Mačiulis
16:35 Lightcode Photonics Success Story & Key Learnings | Jan Bogdanov
16:45 Act in Space - The Idea & Further Plans | Monika Aija Vainiņa
16:55 Case Studies of Satellite Imagery Applications in Forestry, Agriculture,
Utilities and Municipalities | Ilze Bargā
17:00 Space Grade Fiber Optical Gyroscopes and Systems | Yury Korkishko
17:05 Earth Observation Data Based Innovations | Dainis Jakovels
17:10 Development of Radiation Hardened Integrated Circuits for ESA SpaceMissions | Ļevs Lapkis
17:15 Space Altimeter for HERA asteroid study mission | Adam Adamovitch
17:25 New Technologies for Spacecraft Thermal Control & Propulsion | Donatas
Mishkinis

NOP Industrial stage
13:00 Innovative fused end fiber
bundle technology forhigh-brightness, irregularbeam profiles | Kalvis Alps
13:20 From inertial navigation to
optical communication links
in space | Dr. Clément Guyot
13:40 Why fiber lasers has disrupted
quantum optics | Asger
Jensen
14:00 Fiber Bragg grating based
solutions to industrial
problems | Ph.D. Krister
Fröjdh14:20 Break & Poster Session
15:00 New application for opticalfibers outside of opticalcommunication | Ph.D. Krister
Fröjdh, Dr. Regina Gumenyuk,
Kalvis Alps, Dr. Clément
Guyot
15:40 Security (re)design | EvijsTaube
16:00 Poster Session& Neworking break

Scientific excellence
into market success

NOP Academic stage
13:00 Fiber lasers: harnessing thepower of light | Dr. Regina
GumenyukGrowht stage

13:00 Opening by Labsoflatvia.com| Julia Gifford
13:05 Pathways to impact - whyshould scientists communicate
13:25 Manufacturing and testing ofand which formats are
all-silica fibers resistant to UV
available? | Arko Orleskand Gamma radiation | Andrejs
13:50 Increasing Impact - How to
Griscenko
Communicate Science to
13:40 What are specialty fibers andNon-expert
how do they make an impact in| Tobias Maier
industrial sensing |14:30 BreakÅsa Claesson
15:00 How to communicate with
14:05 Bio-based optical fibers:
media | Krista Krūmiņa
Environmental sensing and15:35 Enabling enthusiasts toshort-range communication |become ambassadors of yourJani Patrakka
research | Mikelis Grivins
14:20 Break & Poster Session
16:15 Writing Science for Your
15:00 New application for optical
Audience | Miranda Vinay
fibers outside of optical
17:00 Maximize the impact of yourcommunication | Ph.D. Krister
research | Martins Zaumanis
Fröjdh, Dr. Regina Gumenyuk,
Kalvis Alps, Dr. Clément
Guyot
15:40 Poster Session& Neworking break21.04.

Deep stage
10:00 Plug and Play Japan & Commercialization Reactor: Next Level
Deep-tech| Masahiro Morizumi; Ilona
Gulchak; Ferdinand Bartels
11:30 Importance of Deep Tech:
Industry | Ilmārs Osmanis
11:35 Panel: Deep-Tech - The Journeyof Self-Growth for Mission-Driven People | Liene Briede; Anton
Adamovitch; Verneri Välimaa;
Rein Lamberpuu; Erick Pastor;
Marcel Gasser
12:05 Clean Hydrogen
Pēteris Lesničenoks
12:15 Break
13:00 Panel: HydrogenNow– What Baltics Can Do
Kaspars Liepiņš; Sven Parkel; Dr.
ŠarūnasVarnagiris; Pēteris
Lesničenoks; Ivars Pinkulis
13:30 Startup Demo Pitches | Environment, Energy & Circular Economy
15:10 Promoting the Longevity Biotech
Ecosystem
Internationally| Ilia Stambler
15:30 Baltics - the next Cleantech
powerhouse | Imants Martinsons
15:40 How can a deep-tech start-up
prepare for the scale-up stage? |Ilona Gulchak; Oliver Hasse;
Lauren Covetta; Alessandra
Scotti
16:10 Startup Demo Pitches | Space,Computing & Electronics
17:00 ClosingSpace stage
10:00 Session intro: Space Law | Kristaps Banga
10:05 Space Law: Putting in Place Common Rules on Safety, Security& Space Sustainability | Gustavs Zilgalvis
10:15 Discussion: Latvia is looking into ways to define the national space law
concept | Prof. Dr. Mahulena Hofmann; Paul Liias; Gustavs Zilgalvis;
Kristaps Banga; Nikolai Adamovitch
11:20 ESA BIC Estonia: From Zero to Space Heroes | Andrus Kurvits
11:35 Lithuania’s ESA BIC Road Map | Geda Daškevičiūtė-Lazauskienė
11:45 ESA BIC Latvia - Concept, Status Quo & Aspirations | Angelina
Bekasova
11:55 Panel discussion: What’s in for Start-ups in ESA BICs? | Angelina
Bekasova; Andrus Kurvits; Geda Daškevičiūtė-Lazauskienė;Andrejs Berdņikovs
12:15 Break
13:00 Reach for the Stars - Astrophotography | David "Deddy" Dayag
13:30 Space for Bioeconomy: Earth Observation to Protect Earth’s Health| Gordon Campbell
13:45 Space for Engineering & Optics: Bringing Industries Together toObserve the Earth | Tali Arava Bachar
14:00 Space for Engineering: ESA from Europe to the Moon: Europe andLatvia at the Moon Orbiting Station Lunar Gateway | Luca Stagnaro
14:15 Space for Biomed: MELiSSA Project | Sandra Ortega Ugalde
14:30 Break
15:00 Space as a Gateway to New STEM Human Capital | Anton Pozdnyakov
15:05 STEM: Human Capital Development via Space, Career Opportunities| Frank Danesy
15:20 Career Opportunities within the EU Space Programme | Sjurdur
Djurhuus
15:30 How to Become a Space Nation via Education | Eyal Ben-Ze'ev
15:40 Inspiration for Education and Careers in Space Industry | Anna
Grinberg
15:50 Discussion: What Does it Take to Educate & Keep Young Professionals
in their Homeland? | Elīna Gaile-Sarkane; Eyal Ben-Ze'ev; FrankDanesy; Anaïs van Wynsberghe; Pauls Irbins; Anna Andersone
17:00 Closing

NOP Industrial stage

NOP Academic stage

10:00 Exploring the Future of Photon- 10:00 Exploring the Future of Photonic
ic Technology: Innovation,
Technology: Innovation, AppliApplication, and Nanomaterials
cation, and Nanomaterials| Oskars Teikmanis; Ph.D.
| Oskars Teikmanis; Ph.D. Arturs
Arturs Bundulis; Ph.D. Julien
Bundulis; Ph.D. Julien Zichi;
Zichi; Ph.D Hannah Joyce
Ph.D Hannah Joyce
10:40 Break
10:40 Break
10:55 Novel approach to Ammonia
10:55 Biophotonic techniques for raredetection | Valters Slava
disease diagnostics and evaluation of antibacterial resistance
11:15 CMOS LIDAR for Space Explora| Emilija Vija Plorina
tion | Ph.D. Anders H. Hansen
11:20 A portable sub-ns pulsed MIR
11:35 Optical Measurement
laser source for sensing
Technologies for Weather| Max Widarsson
Monitoring Applications| Ph. D Grant Aivazian
11:35 Semiconductor nanowires for
optoelectronics | Ph.D Hannah
11:55 How Hamamatsu enables novelJoyce
optical gas sensing applications| Ph.D. Julien Zichi
12:00 Polymer Photonic Platform:
application centered photonic
13:00 Imaging for displays andplatform | Ph.D. Arturs Bundulis
augmented reality - Quo vadis?
| Ph.D. Ainars Ozols
13:00 Fundamentals of photonic
quantum technologies
13:20 Imaging Sensors of Modern
Battlefield | Juha Falck
Ph.D. Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs
13:40 Optical motion capture
technology | Fredrik Müller
14:00 Novel optical concept for
pre-operative assessment ofmultifocal intraocular lenses| Bernhard Nußbaumer
14:20 The beauty of imaging- a wide range of applications
Ph.D. Ainars Ozols; Bernhard
Nußbaumer; Fredrik Müller;Kim Grundstrom
15:10 Best Poster Awards | Nordic
Photonics and Electronics
Forum | Ph.D. Andris Anspoks;
Ph.D. Caroline Amiot;
Dr.Lennart B.M. Svensson;
Ph.D. Cord Arnold; ValtersJekabsons
17:00 Closing

13:25 Vector magnetometer based on
NV centers in diamond| Reinis Lazda
13:40 Quantum Photonics using
Structured Photons| Robert Fickler
14:05 Quantum applications withdiamond needles | Mariam
Quarshie
13:20 Panel discussion - Quantum| Ph.D. Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs; Reinis Lazda; RobertFickler; Andis SupeGrowht stage
11:00 Opening remarks NorwayGrants | Ine Måreng; KasparsRožkalns; Magnar Ødelien
11:20 Progammme Business
Development address| Laura Štrovalde
11:30 Technology Business center– a way to your own
technology company| Andrejs Berdņikovs;Viesturs Sosārs;
Vanda Voikiva
12:00 Break
13:00 From Idea to the Product(Workshop) | Anders Mellberg
13:15 Project Stories & Videos 1Aigars Lauzis (BeTRITON)
Juris Vencels (Trafolo)
Armands Jurjevs (ABLabs)
Anete Grosberga(ForQueenBee)
Sandris Mūriņš (entrepreneur)Jānis Upmanis (getUgo)
Deniss Gradalevs (soundengineer & musician)
Linda Zeltiņa (VIZULO)
15:00 Project Stories & Videos 2
Ph.D Kaspars Grīnbergs(Industrial Engineering)Richard Fomrats(Vanilla travel)
Gundars Rusovs (REHAD)
Janis Olins (CastPrint)

15:55 Panel discussion: Innovations
within Norway Grants
accelerate the path to
15:10 Best Poster Awards | Nordic
the Green Deal
Photonics and Electronics Forum| Magnar Ødelien,| Ph.D. Andris Anspoks; Ph.D.
Ph.D Kaspars Grīnbergs,
Caroline Amiot;
Viesturs Sosārs,
Dr. Daniel Bengtsson Blücher
Dr.Lennart B.M. Svensson; Ph.D.
Cord Arnold; Valters Jekabsons
17:00 Closing
17:00 Closing

Side Events
Panel discussion: Navigating the Complexities of Intellectual Property Protection for Entrepreneurs | Ieva Zvejsalniece; Māra Rozenblate; Mārtiņš Kokalis; Toms Slapjums
EIC Accelerator proposal writing master class at conference room Sigma | Silver Toomla
Accelerating Your Path to Market: Strategies for Deep Tech Start-ups at room Gamma | Rolands Ozolinsl; Andrejs Juscenko
Baltic Session on EIC Pathfinder and Transition challenges | Liene Briede; Stella Tkatchova
Biotech Breakfast by Biocatalyst Foundation | Andrii Shekhirev; Igors Berkovics; Tālis Juhna; Rolando Delgado
Horizon Europe Survival Kit: how to navigate through the European funding opportunities? | Marija Plotniece, Dr.sc.ing. Jūlija Asmuss, Liene Ekša
Gain clarity to solve your most urgent challenges - Mastermind group session | Farhad Ansis Lipenitis
From Idea to the Product (Workshop) | Anders Mellberg

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