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The conference Future Space, aims to bring the Swedish and international space community together to grow knowledge exchange as well as to explore space related opportunities.

The conference sessions and exhibitions cover both commercial and institutional, as well as defense-related topics.

We are also pleased to offer the opportunity to meet our Swedish astronauts and listen to their insights around space exploration and how Sweden and Europe may contribute to its future.

Join us at Linköping Konsert & Kongress in Sweden on September 16-17 2024!

September 16

09:00 – 11:30 Optional city tour of Linköping 
Start at Linköping Konsert & Kongress

11:00 Registration opens 
11:30 Lunch and networking

13:00 – 13:10 Welcome to day 1
Jenny Gardner, Sr Director Future Capabilities, Innovation Strategy & Portfolio, Saab (Moderator)
Conference room Musikalen 

Part 1 Earth observation
13:10 – 13:35 Legion, a very high resolution EO constellation – and the Globe in 3D
Per Lundblad, Managing director of Maxar Int. Sweden AB and Head of Maxar 3D Data Engineering, Maxar
13:35 – 14:00 Climate change observed by decades of meteorological satellites
Abhay Devasthale, Associate Professor and Research Leader, SMHI
14:00 – 14:25 Deep learning in remote sensing
Yonghao Xu, Assistant Professor, Linköping University
14:25 – 14:55 The future of earth observation
Panel debate with Per Lundblad, Asst. Prof. Abhay Devasthale and Prof. Yonghao Xu

14:55– 15:20 Coffee break

Part 2 Defence and security
15:20 – 15:45 The military perspective on space 
Lt Col Johan Nyström, Chief Space Plans & Capability Development and Swedish Army Space Coordinator, Swedish Space Force
15:45 – 16:10 Space and Sweden’s civil defence 
Dr. Åke Holmgren, Director of Cybersecurity and Secure Communications at the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) 
16:10 – 16:35 The war in Ukraine and its effect on military space development 
Christian Hedelin, Chief Strategy Officer at Saab Group
16:35 – 17:00 Space and future conflicts 
Panel debate with Lt Col Johan Nyström, Dr Åke Holmgren and Christian Hedelin
17:00 – 17:15 Closing remarks
Jenny Gardner, Sr Director Future Capabilities, Innovation Strategy & Portfolio, Saab (Moderator)

18:30 Dinner and showcase
Anders Ynnerman, Professor of Scientific Visualization, Linköping University
Visualiseringscenter in Norrköping (Bus transport provided 18:00 from Konsert & Kongress) – find out more about Visualiseringscenter here.

In this unique interactive journey in space, you will be immersed in images and data from space in fulldome 3D

This live dome presentation will show OpenSpace which is a scalable software platform that paves the path for the next generation of public outreach in immersive environments such as dome theaters and planetariums and at the same time enables research in space physics and astronomy. We will demonstrate OpenSpace features such as: globe browsing which contextualizes extreme resolution imagery of planetary surfaces, interactive visualization of large star fields, and volumetric rendering of MHD simulations of coronal mass ejections and operational space weather forecasting. We will also visit the ISS in orbit and relive the Apollo missions to the moon using LRO images and surface reconstruction. Our journey into deep space will show recently discovered exoplanets and then continue all the way to the origin of the cosmic background radiation. The OpenSpace project builds on a collaboration between Linköping University, The American Museum of Natural History, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, New York University, University of Utah.

September 17

08:30 – 08:40 Welcome to day 2
Jenny Gardner, Sr Director Future Capabilities, Innovation Strategy & Portfolio, Saab (Moderator)
Conference room Musikalen

Part 3 Space Commercialization
08:40 – 09:00 The future of global broadband access 
Martijn van Delden, Head of Business Strategy – Europe Consumer for Project Kuiper, Amazon Kuiper
09:00 – 09:20 GEO Telecom Satellites made agile
Dr. Peter Guggenbach, Chief Growth Officer, Swissto12
09:20 – 09:40 Connecting the world’s critical missions via satellite
Kristofer Alm, Chief Marketing Officer, Ovzon
09:40 – 10:05 Market drivers for space commercialization
Panel debate with Martijn van Delden, Dr. Peter Guggenbach and Kristofer Alm and Magnus Engström, Senior Manager Business Development at Beyond Gravity

10:05 – 10:25 Coffee Break

Part 4 Space Exploration
10:25 – 10:35 Setting the direction for Sweden   
Kristine Dannenberg, Head of Space Exploration and Access to Space, Swedish National Space Agency
10:35 – 10:55 Human and robotic exploration in Low Earth Orbit
Julia Weis, ISS Utilisation Planning and Integration Team Lead, European Space Agency
10:55 – 11:15 Humans in space, physiological challenges of space exploration
Lars Karlsson, Senior Researcher, Karolinska Institutet
11:15 – 11:35 Esrange, a spaceport dedicated to space exploration
Armelle Frenea-Schmidt, Business Development Director, Science Services, Swedish Space Corporation
11:35 – 11:50 Surface tension on fluids in a microgravity environment
Albert Jonsson and Julia Magnusson Björk, Linköping University
11:50 – 12:05 What do we need to know to better design spaceships and space stations?
Michail Magkos, Research Engineer, KTH
12:05 – 12:10 Closing remarks
Jenny Gardner, Sr Director Future Capabilities, Innovation Strategy & Portfolio, Saab (Moderator)

12:15 – 13:00 Space exploration, possibilities and challenges for the future
Marcus Wandt, ESA Astronaut and Chief Innovation Officer at Saab and Christer Fuglesang, Director KTH Space Center, Former ESA Astronaut 
Conference room Crusellhallen

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch and networking

14:00 – 17:00 Optional facility tours of Beyond Gravity, Maxar and Saab.

Marcus Wandt, ESA Astronaut and Chief Innovation Officer at Saab
Christer Fuglesang, Director KTH Space Center, Former ESA Astronaut

Seize the opportunity to discover more of Linköping before and after the conference! Look out for our exclusive City Tours.

Questions? Don’t hesitate to reach out. Contact us for any inquiries or further information about the conference, futurespace@eventreg.se.