Welcome Speech

Eric Morel de Westgaver, ESA Director for Industry, Procurement and Legal Services, presents the agenda and the objectives of the first Global Space Economic Workshop.
Joining forces will promote new cross-cultural partnerships, create new multidisciplinary synergies, promote a move away from individual challenges of very specialised ecosystems to mega-challenges that can potentially be resolved through a multitude of approaches – leading to disruptive innovation by a new community of innovators.