VILNIUS SPACE DAYS 2027
Vilnius Space Days Conference
2026
Explore Lithuania’s space ecosystem
Vilnius Space Days is a premier strategic gathering in the Baltic Sea region dedicated to showcasing Lithuania’s growing space potential, technological capabilities, and fostering international partnerships.
Organised in 2027 as part of Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the event serves as a powerful platform to highlight European technological leadership and collaborative innovation. In response to recent geopolitical shifts, Vilnius Space Days has fundamentally transitioned to highlight dual-use technologies. It positions space as a critical enabler of European security, defense resilience, and strategic autonomy. By uniting high-level policymakers, space and security experts, and industry leaders, the event creates new collaborative opportunities for ecosystem growth and regional stability.
Beyond policy, the event functions as a dynamic platform for unlocking new business opportunities through targeted B2B networking and an expo area. By showcasing cutting-edge solutions, the Expo highlights Lithuania’s rapidly expanding space ecosystem and offers a direct path for entities looking to pitch their capabilities, forge strategic partnerships, and integrate into the global space industry supply chain.
Discover the topics of Vilnus Space Days 2027
Modern defence strategy increasingly treats space and security as a single, unified technology area. This highly practical roundtable examines the “grey zone” of dual-use technologies, illustrating how originally civil-focused space innovations such as Earth observation, navigation, and commercial satellite services are being rapidly adapted for military applications (or vice versa). By bringing together policymakers and industry pioneers, the discussion will explore real-world success stories, like the defence application of civil SAR satellites, and the evolving security roles of flagship civilian programs like Copernicus and Galileo.
The next decade will fundamentally redefine the space economy, shifting from government-led missions to dynamic commercial ecosystems. This session spotlights the emerging infrastructure that will shape tomorrow’s orbital and deep-space markets. Topics include the transition from the ISS to private space stations, the rise of Orbital Data Centres for edge computing, In-Space Operations and Services (ISOS), and the strategic value of the emerging Lunar and VLEO economies.
Moving beyond theoretical concepts, this high-energy session provides a dedicated platform for leading Lithuanian space-tech companies to showcase their tangible impact. Strictly avoiding generic marketing pitches, these interactive presentations will focus on concrete use-cases, technical breakthroughs, and real-world problem-solving. This dynamic format is designed to highlight the maturity of the local ecosystem, foster B2B connections, and demonstrate exactly how Baltic companies are contributing to the global space supply chain.
Coinciding with the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the EU, this flagship session tackles the newly anticipated EU Space Act. A high-level keynote will outline the core elements of the Act focusing on space traffic management, security standards, and supply chain resilience. The subsequent panel discussion will answer the critical question: “What’s next?” Experts will debate the practical implementation of the Act, regulatory challenges for SMEs, and its long-term impact on Europe’s strategic autonomy and industrial competitiveness.