Programme
| Wednesday, 3 December 2025 | |
| 08.30 09.30 | Registration & Welcome Breakfast |
| 09.30 10.00 | Opening of AI STAR 2025 |
| Session: Agentic AI | |
| 10.00 10.20 | When AI learned how to think Cohere - Nils Reimers |
| 10.20 10.40 | Agentic Autonomy in Orbit: Lessons from ASTREA TAS - Alejandro Mousist |
| 10.40 11.00 | Bringing agentic AI to AIOps on AWS AWS - Vincent Vandomme |
| 11.00 11.20 | Agentic AI in Manufacturing Processes Arsenalia Group - Riccardo Zamana |
| 11.20 - 11.40 Coffee Break | |
| Session: Smart Assistants | |
| 11.40 12.00 | Towards Specialist LLMs for Efficient Knowledge Base Population in Specialized Domains expert.ai - José Manuel Gómez Pérez |
| 12.00 12.20 | Operations Assistant for Root Cause Analysis and Procedure Generation CS Sopra - Arnaud Le Carvennec |
| 12.20 12.40 | AI-Driven Solutions in Food Safety: Challenges and Opportunities Nestle - Ugo Gentile |
| 12.40 - 14.00 Lunch & Networking | |
| 14.00 14.30 | Keynote Artificial intelligence ON world, OFF world & IN world Nvidia - A. Lowndes |
| Session: Scaling AI | |
| 14.30 14.50 | Charting the Future with Disruptive AI: Users, Operations, and Beyond Eumetsat - Paolo Ruti |
| 14.50 15.10 | Our journey from MANUfacturing to SMARTfacturing – Miss the shift, miss the future Merck - Michelangelo Canzonieri |
| 15.10 15.30 | Rebuilding Industry with Intelligence: Fast, Flexible, and Scalable AI in Manufacturing and Logistics, Locus Robotics |
| 15.30 15.50 | Implementetion of AI & ML in start up ecosystems to accelerate technical innovation in Europe EVEWAVE - Teodor Petrov |
| 15.50 - 16.05 Coffee Break | |
| 16.05 16.50 | Panel Towards scalable and commercial AI-based products |
| Session: AI Software | |
| 16.50 17.10 | Building Space-Grade AI Systems: From Ground Control to Onboard Intelligence Red Hat - Tony James |
| 17.10 17.30 | Building a Secure Supply Chain System for Satellites Neo4j - Irina Loghin |
| 17.30 17.40 | Wrap-up Day 1 |
| 17.40 - 19.10 Networking Drinks | |
| Thursday, 4 December 2025 | |
| 08.15 09.00 | Registration & Coffee |
| 09.00 09.20 | Introduction to the ESA AI strategy and the AI Competence Center |
| 09.20 09.50 | Summary of ESOC AI competitions and introduction to the Hackathon Agata Kaczmarek - Warsaw University of Technology, Krzysztof Kotowski - KP Labs |
| 09.50 10.20 | Keynote AI for Maintenance Prof. Enrico Zio - Politecnico di Milano |
| Session: Safe and Responsible AI | |
| 10.20 10.40 | Trustworthy AI in Space CRIM - Jérémie Blanchard, Tatiana Ruiz |
| 10.40 11.00 | Safe and Responsible AI Prof. Katarzyna Malinowska - Kozminski University |
| 11.00 - 11.15 Coffee Break | |
| Session: Safe and Responsible AI | |
| 11.15 11.35 | Federated Intelligence for Critical Infrastructures: Sustainable, Secure and Scalable AI for Complex Systems CERN - Luigi Serio |
| 11.35 11.55 | IABG |
| 11.55 12.40 | Panel Operationalising Trust: Securing the AI Lifecycle in Critical Space Systems |
| 12.40 - 14.00 Lunch & Networking | |
| Session: Enabling organizations innovation with AI Parallel Session 14:30-17:30: Hackathon | |
| 14.00 14.30 | Keynote AIDA, unleashing NATO’s knowledge through Generative AI NATO - Dr. Arnau Pons |
| 14.30 14.50 | Luggage Recognition with AI on the Edge Daniel Kull - Fraport, Dr. Alen Berta - CGI |
| 14.50 15.10 | Open source as your launchpad for AI exploration Amir Abdel Baki - Canonical |
| 15.10 15.55 | Panel Breaking the Mold: Overcoming Barriers to AI Adoption in Large Organizations |
| 15.55 - 16.10 Coffee Break | |
| Session: Digital Twins | |
| 16.10 16.30 | Digital Twins for Electric Vehicles Porsche - Nicole Neis |
| 16.30 16.50 | AI-Driven Digital Twins and Industrial Data Interoperability for Satellite Lifecycle Prediction Jotne Connect - Aditya Gupta |
| 16.50 18.20 | Elevator pitches |
| 18.20 18.30 | Wrap-up Day 2 & Announcement of the Hackathon Winners |
| 18.30 - 20.00 Networking Drinks | |
| Friday, 5 December 2025 | ||
| 08.30 09.00 | Registration & Coffee | |
| 09.00 09.30 | Closing Day Ceremony | |
| 09.30 09.50 | How to work with ESA (Funding tracks) | |
| 09.50 10.20 | Keynote TBA Siemens - Dirk Hartmann | |
| 10.20 10.40 | AI for Manufacturing: From Generative Models to Transfer Learning for Intelligent Space Manufacturing PoliMi - Bianca Maria Colosimo | Empowering Growth: Scale Fast. Build Smart. Connect Value As Consulting - André Seidel |
| 10.40 - 10.55 Coffee Break | ||
| Session: Materials Design & Discovery | Session: Flying AI - Hardware Session | |
| 10.55 11.15 | Trust Without Breaking: Advanced Non-Destructive Inspection in Modern Manufacturing Xnovo - Frank Niessen | In-Orbit Demonstration of GPU-Accelerated AI Inference on NVIDIA Jetson TX2i Using Klepsydra Software Klepsydra - Dr. Pablo Ghiglino |
| 11.15 11.35 | Accelerating sustainable materials innovation through AI and ICME VTT - Napat Vajragupta | TBA |
| 11.35 11.55 | COMMET: Fast and scalable finite element analysis with AI material models TU Delft - Sid Kumar | TBA |
| 11.55 12.40 | Panel How far does GenAI take us in Design of products? | Fireside Chat AI Sovereignty and Onboard Intelligence: Scaling Inference and Autonomy in Space Axelera AI - Jean Vieville, AIKO - Alessandro Benetton |
| 12.40 - 13.40 Lunch & Networking | ||
| 13.40 14.10 | Keynote Autonomous Materials Design MPIE - Jan Janssen | Keynote Improving turbulence control through explainable deep learning MU/ KTH - Ricardo Vinuesa |
| Session: Smart Manufacturing | Session: Deep Learning for Engineering Systems and Component Design | |
| 14.10 14.30 | From Intelligent Machines to the Factory of the Future: AI and GenAI Driving Operational Excellence Rewire - Philipp Diessinger | TBA Robots-4-People - Marcin Gwóźd |
| 14.30 14.50 | Bridging AI and Quantum Computing for Next-Generation Aerospace Manufacturing Nebumind - Oliver Heilmann | TBA Siemens Energy - Astrid Walle |
| 14.50 15.10 | Data-Driven Qualification: Accelerating Space Component Certification in Additive Manufacturing Amsight GmbH - Peter Lindecke | Software-Defined Spacecraft Design Driven by Geometrical Deep Learning DLR Institute of Software Technology DLR - Philipp Rosauer |
| 15.10 15.20 | Closing & Wrap-up | Closing & Wrap-up |
