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

Keynote speech by Dr. Katrin Franke

Principal Engineer, KONGSBERG AI Centre of Excellence

Sharing Ukrainian Experience: Anastasiia Ostrovska

Virtual Routes European Cybersecurity Fellow

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

Christophe Muratet

Chief Product Officer of Milrem Robotics

Martin Karkour

CRO of Quantum Systems

Arnaud Castaignet

Skeleton Technologies

Moderator: Marko Kaseleht, Nortal

Defence Tech Executive, Nortal

16:00 - 17:00

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

Duration: 60 min

Keynote speech: Stephen Airey

Head of the Country Capability Division in ESA

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

Keynote: Siim Sukles

Ministry of Defence, Undersecretary for Defence Industry and Innovation

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.