Welcome address by Thomas Reiter ESA Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations

Moderator: Elisabeth Sourgens - Senior Policy Analyst, Strategic Planning Office Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations, ESA; Speakers: Luca Del Monte - Office for Relations with Industry, Procurement and Legal Directorate, ESA; Xavier Lobao - Head of the Future Projects Division Telecom Technologies, Products and Systems Department, Directorate of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications, ESA ; Maria-Flaminia Rossi - Ariane 6 new governance: ESA and Industry Partnership, Directorate of Launchers, ESA; Marco Caporicci - Special Advisor to the Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations, ESA

Moderator: Sylvie Espinasse - Senior Advisor, Coordination Office Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations, ESA Speakers: Sue Horne - Head of Space Exploration, UKSA; Dr. Juergen Hill - DLR Space Administration, ESA Affairs; Jean-Louis Counil - Exploration senior expert, CNES; Maria Cristina Falvella - member of the Italian delegation in Council, ASI

Moderator: Laura Gatti: Chairman of the Eurospace Exploration Working Group; Speakers: Rodrigo da Costa - Director, Future Projects and Business Development, Airbus Defence and Space; Roberto Provera - Director of Human spaceflights and Transportation, Thales Alenia Space Italia; Dr Merkle - Executive Member of the Board, OHB SE; Zeina Mounzer - Chief Commercial Officer, Telespazio Vega Deutschland GmbH; David Iron - Lunar Mission One, CEO; Doug Liddle - Head of Science, SSTL

Moderator: Bernhard Hufenbach - Head of the Strategic Planning Office Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations, ESA; Speakers: Jason Crusan - Director, Advanced Exploration Systemes Division, HEOMD, NASA; Sam Scimemi - Director for ISS at NASA HQ; Naoki Sato - HTV Technology Center, Human Spaceflight and Technology Directorate, JAXA; Jean-Pierre Arseneault - Counsellor, European Space Affairs, Canadian Space Agency ; André Farand - Head of the Programme Legal Affairs Division, ESA

Process to inform related decisions of ESA Member States at the 2016 ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level. Speaker: Bernhard Hufenbach - Head of the Strategic Planning Office, Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations, ESA

Process to inform related decisions of ESA Member States at the 2016 ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level. Speaker: Elisabeth Sourgens - Senior Policy Analyst, Strategic Planning Office, Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations, ESA

Bernhard Hufenbach, Head of the Strategic Planning Office in the Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations, welcomed the first ESA consolidated strategy for space exploration. This strategy sets a clear strategic framework for space exploration and enables ESA to look now for partners with novel ideas. Partnership proposals coming from the private sector will help implement the strategy and stimulate economic growth. The partnership idea should be in scope with the ESA strategy for space exploration and a good understanding of it is essential to finalise and submit a partnership idea by May 26 2015. Bernhard Hufenbach stressed that the Call for ideas represents an opportunity for Europe to find its own way for opening opportunities for private sector initiatives in the field of space exploration. He compared it to the on-going commercial activities started by NASA more than ten years ago, such as the successful commercial cargo resupply to the International Space Station (ISS).

Bérengère Houdou, Head of the Lunar Lander Office

Speakers from ESA were Bernhard Hufenbach, Head of the Strategic Planning Office in the Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations, Jacques Masson, ISS senior programme engineer in the Development and future Programmes division and Bérengère Houdou, Head of the Lunar Lander Office. LLuc Díaz, representative of the ESA Technology and Transfer Office Programme (TTPO).