Tech Needs Matchmaking
We Invite You to Tech Needs Matchmaking Event in Prague – Solve Your Industry’s Tech Challenges with Space Innovations
🚀 Tech Needs Matchmaking at Technology Centre Prague
📅 Date: 25 September 2025 (Tuesday)
🕙 Time: 10:00 – 15:00 (lunch included)
📍 Venue: Technology Centre Prague, Room Vltava
Are You Facing a Technical Challenge in Automotive, Robotics/AI, Electronics, or Space sector?
Do you work in automotive, robotics/AI, electronics, or space and have an unresolved technical issue in your production, design, or product innovation? You’re not alone—and help might come from above. Literally.
The ESA Technology Broker Czechia, hosted by Technology Centre Prague, is organizing an in-person Tech Needs Matchmaking event on 25 September 2025 (Tuesday) to connect companies with unresolved tech problems to space-originated technologies that might just hold the solution.
What is Tech Needs Matchmaking?
This event is part of the ESA Technology Broker initiative—a Europe-wide programme that identifies proven space technologies and helps non-space companies apply them in their sector to tackle innovation challenges. The matchmaking format is simple but effective:
- You submit your technical challenge via a short online form.
- ESA Technology Broker team analyses your needs and searches for space technology solutions that could be adapted to your case.
- You join us in Prague for a live matchmaking session where ideas, contacts, and potential partnerships are born.
Who Should Attend?
This event is ideal for:
- Automotive companies looking for new solutions in autonomous driving, sensors, materials, data processing, etc.
- Robotics and AI firms seeking technologies for navigation, image recognition, or precision control.
- Electronics developers interested in advanced components, embedded systems, or data communication.
- Space companies seeking for partners and solutions.
And importantly:
- Companies with real, currently unsolved technical issues who are open to exploring cross-sector solutions.
What to Expect on the Day
🟦 10:00 – Walk-in & Welcome Coffee
🟦 10:30 – Introduction to ESA Tech Broker Concept
🟦 11:00 – Company Pitches: Industry Tech Needs on Stage
🟦 12:00 – Networking Lunch
🟦 13:00 – Live Matchmaking: 1-on-1 Meetings
🟦 14:30 – Wrap-up and Next Steps
🟦 15:00 – Close of Event
You will meet other companies from your sector, as well as experts from the space domain who have access to ready-to-transfer space technologies and know how to adapt them to your business context.
Why Participate?
✅ Solve real challenges using proven technologies developed for space missions
✅ Find unexpected innovation opportunities outside your usual R&D channels
✅ Access expert support from ESA Tech Broker for technology scouting and project shaping
✅ Get matched with innovation partners – the previous editions in the Netherlands resulted in:
- 70+ new cross-sector connections
- 10+ active follow-ups
- 3 project proposals in development
Do You Have a Technical Issue?
Submit your challenge now using our short registration form.
We are looking for concrete, well-described technical needs, so we can evaluate their match with existing space technologies ahead of the event. If your challenge is selected, we will invite you to present it live and meet potential solution providers.
Let’s Transfer Space Technology to Your Sector
Whether your company is developing smart mobility systems, advanced robotics platforms, or next-gen electronics, space technologies could offer powerful solutions that are already tested in extreme conditions—and ready to solve Earth-bound problems.
Join Us at Technology Centre Prague
📅 Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2025
🕙 Time: 10:00 – 15:00
📍 Venue: Room Vltava, Technology Centre Prague
📩 Register your technical challenge today!
This initiative is powered by ESA Technology Broker Czechia, supported by ESA (European Space Agency), and hosted by Technology Centre Prague.
If you’re ready to turn your challenge into an opportunity—let space tech surprise you.