Programme
Please note that on Friday 5 December, there will be 2 parallel sessions:
AI for Smart Manufacturing > Main Room H5
AI for Complex Systems > Room H1
| Wednesday, 3 December 2025 | |
| 08.00 09.30 | Registration & Welcome Breakfast |
| 09.30 09.50 | Opening of AI STAR 2025 |
| 09.50 10.10 | Address from the French Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) Mr. Victor Delavaud, Head of Institutional Relations for AI |
| Session: Agentic AI | |
| 10.10 10.30 | When AI learned how to think Cohere - Nils Reimers |
| 10.30 10.50 | Agentic Autonomy in Orbit: Lessons from ASTREA TAS - Alejandro Mousist |
| 10.50 11.10 | Bringing agentic AI to AIOps on AWS AWS - Jose Rui Teixeira Nunes |
| 11.10 11.30 | Agentic AI in Manufacturing Processes Arsenalia Group - Riccardo Zamana |
| 11.30 - 11.50 Coffee Break | |
| Session: Smart Assistants | |
| 11.50 12.10 | Towards Specialist LLMs for Efficient Knowledge Base Population in Specialized Domains expert.ai - José Manuel Gómez Pérez |
| 12.10 12.30 | Operations Assistant for Root Cause Analysis and Procedure Generation CS Sopra - Arnaud Le Carvennec |
| 12.30 12.50 | AI-Driven Solutions in Food Safety: Challenges and Opportunities Nestle - Ugo Gentile |
| 12.50 - 14.10 Lunch & Networking | |
| 14.10 14.40 | Keynote Artificial intelligence ON world, OFF world & IN world Nvidia - A. Lowndes |
| Session: Scaling AI | |
| 14.40 15.00 | Charting the Future with Disruptive AI: Users, Operations, and Beyond Eumetsat - Paolo Ruti |
| 15.00 15.20 | Our journey from MANUfacturing to SMARTfacturing – Miss the shift, miss the future Merck - Michelangelo Canzonieri |
| 15.20 15.40 | Rebuilding Industry with Intelligence: Fast, Flexible, and Scalable AI in Manufacturing and Logistics Robots-4-People - Marcin Gwóźdź |
| 15.40 15.50 | RoboTUM Demonstration RoboTUM - Andres Gonzalez |
| 15.50 - 16.10 Coffee Break | |
| 16.10 16.55 | Panel Towards scalable and commercial AI-based products |
| Session: AI Software | |
| 16.55 17.15 | Building Space-Grade AI Systems: From Ground Control to Onboard Intelligence Red Hat - Tony James |
| 17.15 17.35 | Building a Secure Supply Chain System for Satellites Neo4j - Irina Loghin |
| 17.35 17.45 | Wrap-up Day 1 |
| 17.45 - 19.15 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 Centre ESA - Christophe Honvault | |
| 09.20 09.50 | Summary of ESOC AI competitions and introduction to the Hackathon Warsaw University of Technology - Agata Kaczmarek, KP Labs - Krzysztof Kotowski | |
| 09.50 10.20 | Keynote AI for Maintenance Politecnico di Milano - Prof. Enrico Zio | |
| 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 Kozminski University - Prof. Katarzyna Malinowska | |
| 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 | safeAI: Independent Verification for AI You Can Trust and Launch IABG - Dominik Eisl | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 Fraport - Daniel Kull, CGI - Dr. Alen Berta | |
| 14.50 15.10 | Open source as your launchpad for AI exploration Canonical - Abdelrahman Hosny | |
| 15.10 15.55 | Panel Breaking the Mold: Overcoming Barriers to AI Adoption in Large Organizations NATO - Dr. Arnau Pons DINUM - Victor Delavaud Merck - Michelangelo Canzonieri Thales Alenia Space - Anthony Mollier moderated by ESA - Christophe Honvault | |
| 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 | AI
for Materials by Design workshop |
| 18.20 18.30 | Wrap-up Day 2 | |
| 18.30 - 20.00 Networking Drinks | ||
Please note that on Friday 5 December, there will be 2 parallel sessions:
AI for Smart Manufacturing > Main Room H5
AI for Complex Systems > Room H1
| Friday, 5 December 2025 | ||
| 08.30 09.00 | Registration & Coffee | |
| 09.00 09.30 | Closing Day Ceremony & Announcement of the Hackathon Winners | |
| 09.30 09.50 | How to work with ESA (Funding tracks) | |
| 09.50 10.20 | Keynote AI in CAE: Hype, Hope, and Realities Siemens Digital Industries Software, TU Darmstadt - Dirk Hartmann | Keynote AI for Manufacturing: From Generative Models to Transfer Learning for Intelligent Space Manufacturing PoliMi - Bianca Maria Colosimo |
| 10.20 10.40 | Data-Driven Acceleration of Materials Discovery with ExoMatter Exomatter.ai - Sebastian Caicedo-Dávila | 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 | The Trusted AI Platform of the Future: HW/SW Co-Design as Key Enabler OpenChip - Michael Marien |
| 11.35 11.55 | COMMET: Fast and scalable finite element analysis with AI material models TU Delft - Sid Kumar | AI-Driven Simulation to Accelerate Complex Engineering Workflows |
| 11.55 12.40 | Panel How far does GenAI take us in Design of products? Siemens Digital Industries Software Dirk Hartmann Philipp Diessinger Jan Janssen Bianca Colossimo | 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 Software-Defined Spacecraft Design Driven by Geometrical Deep Learning DLR Institute of Software Technology DLR - Philipp Rosauer DLR - Fabian Hoppe |
| 14.10 14.40 | Keynote From Factories to Space: Leveraging AI and Big Data for Intelligent Manufacturing Bundesministerium für Forschung Technologie und Raumfahrt - Dr. Marcus Pleyer | Keynote From Factories to Space: Leveraging AI and Big Data for Intelligent Manufacturing Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt - Dr. Marcus Pleyer |
| Session: Smart Manufacturing | Session: Deep Learning for Engineering Systems and Component Design | |
| 14.40 15.00 | From Intelligent Machines to the Factory of the Future: AI and GenAI Driving Operational Excellence Rewire - Philipp Diessinger | AI-Enabled Digital Health for Space: The Urgent Need for Model-Guided Medicine University Freiburg - Mario Cypko |
| 15.00 15.20 | Bridging AI and Quantum Computing for Next-Generation Aerospace Manufacturing Nebumind/PlanQC - Oliver Heilmann, Lorenzo Pastori | Design Assistants: Capturing and Reusing Engineering Knowledge from CAD Models Siemens Energy - Astrid Walle |
| 15.20 15.40 | Data-Driven Qualification: Accelerating Space Component Certification in Additive Manufacturing Amsight GmbH - Peter Lindecke | Improving turbulence control through explainable deep learning MU/ KTH - Ricardo Vinuesa |
| 15.40 15.50 | Closing & Wrap-up | |
