Opening Ceremony
Monday July 10 | 10h00
Doyle Knight
Master of Ceremony
Martin Vetterli
EPFL President
Raphael Conz
Canton de Vaud - Managing Director of the Economic Affairs & Innovation (SPEI)
Alain Merlen
EUCASS President
Franco Bernelli Zazzera
CEAS President
Renato Kproun
ESA Chair of Council at delegate level & Head of Swiss Space Office
Chryssa Kouveliotou
Member of the ERC Scientific Council
Peter Grognard
Managing Director - von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Pascale Ultre-Guerard
Deputy Director for Programs – Strategy Directorate – CNES
Stefan Schleichtriem
DLR
Hervé Gilibert
CTO – ArianeGroup
Urs Thomann
Pilatus – Director Technologies and Processes
Plenary 1
Monday July 10 | 14h30 - 15h00
"JUICE : the first European mission to Jupiter and its Icy Moons is flying"
Giuseppe Sarri
JUICE Project Manager - ESA - ESTEC
Monday July 10 | 15h00 - 15h30
"Structural Health Monitoring in aeronautics from the academic perspective: are there still opportunities for short- and mid-term implementation in maintenance operations."
Helge Pfeiffer
Secretary General - EASN (European Aerospace Science Network)
Plenary 2
Tuesday July 11 | 12h00 - 12h30
"Making the Aerospace Future Real!"
Dan Dumbacher
Executive Director - AIAA
Tuesday July 11 | 12h30 - 13h00
"EREA – mission and achievements"
Paweł Stężycki
Chairman - EREA (European Research Establishments in Aeronautics)
Plenary 3
Tuesday July 11 | 14h30 - 15h00
"Space Science and Exploration with Commercial and International Partnerships: Lessons Learned"
Thomas Zurbuchen
Former NASA Associate Administrator
Tuesday July 11 | 15h00 - 15h30
"Clean Aviation – The ticket towards Zero-Emission flight"
Sébastien Dubois
Head of Unit - Programme Development and Communications – Clean Aviation
Plenary 4
Wednesday July 12 | 12h00 - 12h30
"Opening the road to future European human space transport capabilities"
Marco Prampolini
ArianeGroup
Wednesday July 12 | 12h30 - 13h00
"Ultra-high by-pass ratio engine Limits and Perspectives"
Raul Vazquez-Diaz
Chairman - EUROTURBO (European Turbomachinery Society)
Plenary 5
Wednesday July 12 | 14h30 - 15h00
"How to Establish a Culture for women visibility in Aerospace"
Anastasia Pesce
Woman in Aerospace – Lead Engineer Product Quality - ESA
Wednesday July 12 | 15h00 - 15h30
François Alter
CNES Strategy Directorate - Deputy Director Industry and Ecosystem
Plenary 6
Switzerland : delivering aerospace business growth from the centre of Europe with a focus on Vaud
Thursday July 13 | 12h00 - 13h00
Frédéric Dubois
Canton de Vaud et écosystème d’innovation
Emmanuelle David
Executive Director - eSpace EPFL Space Center
"Space@EPFL"
Luc Piguet
CEO - ClearSpace
Fabrice Rottmaier
Technical & Commercial Director - Almatech
Urs Thomann
Director Technologies and Processes - Pilatus
"Certification programme for operation from unimproved runways of our PC-24 business jet"
Plenary 7
Thursday July 13 | 14h30
George Symeonidis
Project Adviser-Scientific Officer - European Research Council ERC
"ERC funding opportunities and insights offered by ERC grantees"
Camilla Colombo
ERC Consolidated Grantee
Tobias Schneider
ERC Consolidated Grantee