Opening Ceremony
The opening ceremony will take place at ESA-ESTEC in Noordwijk, hosted by Josef Aschbacher, Director General of ESA and Dietmar Pilz, Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality (D/TEC), and Head of ESTEC.
In the presence of our valued partners, representatives of the space sector, government, politics, special guests and the press.
9.30
Word of welcome by Marc Pieters, moderator
9.35
André Kuipers, host of the XXXV Planetary Congress 2024
9.40
Reinhold Ewald, President of the Association of Space Explorers
9.50
Words from space
10.00
Word of welcome by ESA
10.10
Meindert Stolk, Deputy of the province of South-Holland
10.20
Intermezzo Young ESA
10.30
Harm van de Wetering, Director Netherlands Space Office, presenting ‘Shaping the Future of Space in the Netherlands’
- Daniela Huppenkothen (SRON): Pushing the borders of science by applying AI on data from space telescopes;
- Jakko de Jong (Spheer.ai): Monitoring nature, agriculture, water by using machine learning and satellite data from Sentinels;
- Eleonie van Schreven (TNO): Tango, the successor of Tropomi, pinpointing sources of greenhouse gases using smart Dutch space technology.
10.55
Post NL
11.00
Wrap up
11.15
Group pictures of fliers and companions
11.30
Press moment