The week ahead: space industry, Ukraine’s biotech and a BraveTech deadline

The week of 5-11 October brings three industrial conversations into focus: space systems, defence capability and biomedical research. IAC and the European Space Power Conference run in parallel, while Rome, Bordeaux, Warsaw and Kyiv host meetings relevant to suppliers and research partners. We checked organiser and institutional pages on 4 October.

The urgent item is BioGENext in Kyiv, 6-9 October, with an online option and English-language lectures. Virtual registration closes on Monday, 5 October. The in-person registration deadline was 28 September, so we are not presenting it as still open. The programme covers next-generation therapies, diagnostics, computational biology and technology transfer.

A displayed registration button is not a guarantee of remaining capacity. Where admission deadlines have passed, we state that explicitly. All dates below belong to the coming Monday-Sunday week; later events are kept out of this calendar.

Space and advanced manufacturing: 5-9 October

The International Astronautical Congress takes place in Antalya on 5-9 October. ESPC runs on the same dates in Estoril, Portugal, covering power management, solar generation, energy storage and nuclear power for space applications. The meetings serve different conversations: broad research and industry at IAC, specialised subsystem work at ESPC.

Ukraine’s WRT 2026 meeting runs in Zakarpattia on 5-9 October, with materials, welding and joining topics in the published programme. The organiser lists online attendance without paper publication at EUR 0. Defence Aviation Safety in London on 5-6 October covers military aviation safety and the integration of crewed and uncrewed systems.