Symposium Workshops & Networking | September 21

Pre-registered workshops at Energy Discovery Centre (building connected to the main venue)

14:00 - 15:30

Autonomy Workshop: “Trusted AI & Autonomy Roadmap”. Curated by AI & Robotics Estonia (AIRE)

Duration: 90 min

Panel: Data readiness, testing/certification, safety, counter-autonomy, integration

Keynote speech by Dr. Katrin Franke

Principal Engineer, KONGSBERG AI Centre of Excellence

Christophe Muratet

Chief Product Officer of Milrem Robotics

Martin Karkour

CRO of Quantum Systems

Fujitsu Estonia

Arnaud Castaignet

Skeleton Technologies

16:00 - 17:00

Space Workshop: “Doing Business with the European Space Agency: First Steps”. Curated by Space Estonia

Duration: 60 min

Keynote: Stephen Airey

Head of Country Capability and Support. European Space Agency (ESA)

Co-Speech by Silver Lodi

Silver Lodi, CEO and Co-Founder of Spaceit

17:00 - 17:30

Questions & Answers

Duration: 30 min

18:00 - 19:30

Industry Workshop: What are the government’s expectations of the defence industry and what does industry need for rapid production scaling? Curated by EDIA

Duration: 90 min

Task Force for European Defence Readiness: An Airbus Defence and Space initiative

Task Force for European Defence Readiness: An Airbus Defence and Space initiative to create a unique mission-driven coalition bringing together European Defence Industry primes, agile newcomers, and operational end users to share insights, sharpen strategies, and accelerate collective action.

Panel:Predictable demand from the government, multi-year procurement contracts, long-term supply chain resilience, funding mechanisms.