Kaja is a space lawyer and an advisor on the Polish space sector. Kaja is associated with the Polish Space Law Task Force operating at Kozminski University. Before joining Herius she worked at Greenberg Traurig Poland, focusing on capital markets. Kaja is a Law graduate at the Cracow University of Economics and she was studying international business management at EDHEC Business School in France. Kaja holds a certificate of completion of the Space Law and Policy Course organised by ECSL in cooperation with the European Space Agency.

After spending multiple years in Hungary’s tourism governance agency as a sectoral strategist contributing to the Hungarian Tourism Development Strategy and his subsequent role as a strategic marketing advisor, Árisz joined the team tasked with developing the Hungarian Space Development Strategy as a workstream leader, responsible for strategically positioning Hungarian space companies to better integrate into the international value chain. Since then, he consulted on and managed numerous domestic and international space-specific projects, working closely with the European Space Agency. Árisz assumed the role of Portfolio Manager at Herius Capital.

• Noémi has more than 6 years of finance experience including 4 years in venture capital.
• Before Herius, Noémi served as Senior Investment Manager at Hiventures, a leading Hungarian VC with $520 million of AUM. At HiVentures, she led investments in various sectors, and was a board member of 9 companies.
• Noémi is passionate about innovation, problem-solving, and networking.

Professor of Kozminski University, attorney at law, and an expert in risk management and insurance, including space insurance. Author of at least several dozen publications on the above. Her main book concerns Space insurance. International legal aspects’ (Kluwer Law International, 2017). A frequent speaker at Polish and international academic and industry conferences. Head of the Centre for Space Studies at Kozminski University and leader of the postgraduate studies ‘Entrepreneurship in the space industry. Expert at the Committee of the Enterprise Risk Management at the International Astronautical Federation. Head of Working Group on Polish Space Law at Kozminski University, advising Ministry of Development and Polish Space Agency in the works on the Polish law on space activity. Member of the International Institute of Space Law.

Aerospace Engineer at the Madrid Polytechnic University UPM. Pedro started his career at GMV, where he acquired expertise in Orbital Computations and led the corresponding team at ESOC, the Operations Centre of ESA. As a selected Astronaut, he underwent multiple training courses, acquiring experience in Russia, the USA, Japan, and Canada in addition to Europe in 1992. He is a veteran of two space flights; Discovery STS-95 and Soyuz TMA-3. He became the CEO of Deimos Imaging, an Earth Observation company with its satellites, a position he held until 2011. He was a board member of AENA (the largest airport operator in the world) for almost three years. The Board oversaw the listing of the Company on the stock exchange after being fully state-owned. He served in the Government of Spain as Minister for Research and Innovation for 3 years until very recently.

ESA Director General from 2015 until 2021. He studied civil engineering at the Technical University (TU) Berlin and TU Darmstadt. In 1994, he founded his own civil engineering office, Woerner Nordhues engineering, being active in many fields including safety, earthquake, and glass engineering. He has received honorary doctorates from multiple universities worldwide, from New York to Paris. He was a member of the administrative boards of École Centrale Paris, École Centrale de Lyon, TU Berlin, the Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, the Arts and Music University in Frankfurt and has been a member of several supervisory boards including Carl Schenck AG, Röhm GmbH, TÜV Rheinland AG and Bilfinger SE. From 2007 to 2015, he was Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Before joining ESA as Director-General, he was head of the German delegation to ESA. Currently, he is the president of acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering.