Transition to the space sector

The space sector has long outgrown its traditional boundaries, moving closer to industries historically distant from space: aviation, metalworking, automotive, motorsport. The challenge today is no longer technological capability - where Italy boasts a solid industrial base, but rather turning that capability into a market. A question becomes crucial: how do you consolidate an ecosystem based on service and manufacturing demand? In this transition, “non-space” companies play a decisive role. For many, space is an opportunity for diversification; for others, a source of technological solutions to innovate their own products and services. It is a two-way transition: established competences in precision manufacturing, advanced materials, mechatronics and electronics find in space a premium end-market, while space gives back methods, design standards and qualification disciplines that raise the level of the entire terrestrial supply chain. This panel brings together companies already walking this path - from high-performance components to onboard systems, from diagnostic services to downstream platforms - to focus on enabling conditions, recurring obstacles and emerging business models (asset servitization, cross-sector integration) of the transition toward the space economy. The goal: to identify what is needed, industrially and institutionally, for diversification into space to become a sustainable market rather than an isolated episode.

Programme

Francesca Paoli, President and CEO, Dino Paoli srl
Marco Folegani, Co-founder, MEEO
Danilo Petroni, Head, Group Grants Office, GVM Care & Research GVM *
Marco Moscatti, CEO, Sideius *

* Speaker participation subject to confirmation