Three days at Fiera Roma combining an exhibition, a scientific conference, a startup pitch competition and an education programme, built on the argument that space is now an economic and geopolitical subject rather than a scientific one.
New Space Economy European Expoforum, shortened to NSE, is an annual space economy exhibition and conference held at Fiera Roma in Rome. The 2026 edition is the eighth, themed "Space Reloaded: Recreating the Future". The organiser describes it as a meeting point where public and private decision makers, emerging startups, institutions and academic communities come together for three days. Its stated framing is that space is no longer a purely scientific frontier but an economic, industrial and geopolitical field, so ethical, political and economic questions sit beside technology in the programme.
25 to 27 November 2026, Wednesday to Friday. Fiera Roma, Via Portuense 1645, Rome, Italy (the Rome tourism listing gives this address; the organiser's footer gives its company address as Via Portuense 1646-1647). Daily opening hours are not published. The 2025 edition ran on 10 to 12 December 2025, so the 2026 edition moves about two weeks earlier in the calendar. Some third-party calendars carried December 2026 dates (likely the 2025 timing); the organiser's site and the Rome tourism listing both state 25 to 27 November.
Fiera Roma, in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The organiser's site names Fiera Roma Srl con Socio Unico as the organising company. The Italian Space Agency appears under "in collaboration with", and the Media Partner page also lists Fondazione Leonardo under that heading. A Scientific Committee of 27 named members, chaired by Elda Turco Bulgherini (former Vice President of ASI), curates the conference. Contact for the organiser: info@nseexpoforum.com, phone +39 06 65074511 or 65074512.
Not publicly disclosed. The organiser publishes no visitor or exhibitor count for the 2025 or 2026 edition; its 2025 closing press release calls the edition a record without giving a number, and none was found elsewhere. The audience the organiser describes is public and private decision makers, emerging startups, institutions, investors and academic communities. The 2025 education area was aimed at high school students, and the careers area at new graduates and young professionals. The Scientific Committee includes executives from OHB Italia, Argotec, Leonardo, D-Orbit, ASI and ESA, which indicates an institutional and industrial base with a strong Italian weighting.
No 2026 speaker list is published as of 20 October 2026. The organiser says the conference will host panels and roundtables with institutional representatives, space agencies, space policy experts, journalists, academics and industry leaders, without naming them. The 27 members of the 2026 Scientific Committee, published as a roster, are: Elda Turco Bulgherini (president), Roberto Aceti (OHB Italia), David Avino (Argotec), Alessandro Balossino (Argotec), Antonio Bartoloni, Stefano Beco, Marco Calabrò, Alberto Carboni (Confindustria), Pier Andrea Chevallard (Investimenti S.p.A.), Matteo Coletta (ASI), Massimo Claudio Comparini (Leonardo), Augusto Cramarossa (ASI), Luca Del Monte (ESA), Mariangela Dejana, Federica Fistarollo (AIPAS), Leonardo Gagliardi, Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria), Lorenzo Lo Cascio, Maria Cristina Lupi, Ugo Marturano, Annamaria Monterisi, Mauro Piermaria, Elisabetta Rosafio, Luca Rossettini (D-Orbit), Pieruigi Sanna (Metropolitan City of Rome), Angelo Vallerani (OHB Italia) and Luca Voglino. Committee members are not confirmed conference speakers.
The organiser presents the 2026 edition as a shift from showing where space is going to building it. It introduces NSE Future & Young, a hub for knowledge, skills and technology transfer in Hall 10, where the rooms are set up as classrooms with thematic lessons, demonstrations, educational laboratories, prototype exhibitions and mentoring sessions. NSE also joins the Space Golden League, an alliance of four European space conferences. The 2025 edition added a scientific conference curated by ASI, held in Hall 10. The edition date moves from December in 2025 to late November in 2026.
Seven elements are listed on the Rome tourism listing, which notes that the programme may change: Expo Hall, Conference, Networking and B2B, Space Golden League, Pitch Competition, NSE Arena and Education Hub. The organiser's home page makes the high-level technical and scientific conference the focal point, with panels and roundtables. A session-by-session 2026 timetable is not published as of 20 October 2026. For reference, the 2025 edition's Conference page ran under the title "Shaping the Future" and its Arena programme began on Wednesday 10 December 2025 with a career panel; those pages are the closest indication of the format, not a 2026 schedule.
Scientific conference sessions and roundtables, Arena talks, a startup pitch competition in front of a jury, TechTables connecting experts and exhibitors, a Future & Young Lab with lessons, demonstrations and mentoring, an educational path for school students, and a careers area with one-to-one meetings between jobseekers and recruiting managers. B2B meetings and networking programmes are offered to exhibitors. TechTables, boards connecting experts and exhibitors, are recorded as a format (unverifiable information); no current organiser page describing them was found.
Not publicly disclosed. The organiser's pages show no ticket or visitor registration page and no price for 2026. The 2025 careers page describes free access to the entire event, including the exhibition and conference, for new graduates and young professionals, which is an audience-specific statement, not a general price. Exhibition space is sold by the sales team (sales@nseexpoforum.com).
Not publicly disclosed. No call for speakers or paper submission page was found for 2026. The conference is curated by the Scientific Committee, so enquiries go to the organiser (info@nseexpoforum.com or segreteria@nseexpoforum.com). Startups wanting to pitch should watch the site for the pitch competition page; the 2025 page appeared without a dated deadline in the text.
Contact the sales team at sales@nseexpoforum.com. The organiser's "Why Exhibit" page lists the benefits as visibility among political decision makers and investors, business-to-business meetings and networking programmes, a showcase for technologies, access to a selected audience of clients, partners and specialist media, and joint promotion through the Space Golden League. No stand prices or sponsorship tiers are published. The 2025 exhibitor list shows a Startup Area alongside company stands in lettered zones.
The Media Partner 2026 page has a sponsor heading with one name, OHB Italia, and a media partner heading. Fondazione Leonardo appears under "in collaboration with". Tiers are not published, and there is no separate sponsor page.
Not publicly disclosed as a breakdown. The 2025 exhibitor list, the nearest published record, mixes Italian aerospace primes and suppliers (Avio, OHB), agencies and institutions (ASI, ENEA, the Italian Air Force), industry associations (AIAD, AIPAS, CTNA), regional aerospace districts and startups in a Startup Area. The 2026 exhibitor list is not published.
Press enquiries go to press@nseexpoforum.com. The organiser's Press and Social Room page offers press releases and a media kit with downloadable visuals and logos. No accreditation form or deadline for 2026 was found.
The organiser publishes its own press releases for the 2025 edition (opening, second day, third day) in English and Italian, and the home page carries a news feed of Italian space coverage from outlets such as hwupgrade.it, AGEEI/Aerospazionews and startmag.it that is not specific to the event. Independent articles on the 2025 edition include a MeteoWeb piece on the ASI-curated scientific conference (November 2025).
Most visible coverage is organiser material: press releases that call the 2025 edition a record without figures. Placed coverage comes from the media partners listed on the 2026 page, which include Aerospace & Defense Review, Corcom, Geosmart Magazine, Zeta, Economia dello Spazio Magazine and European Affairs, LUISS Scuola di giornalismo and LUISS Data Lab (listing as shown on the page; the sponsor and media partner logos could not be separated beyond the headings). Treat those outlets' event coverage as placed. Independent reporting that gives attendance or exhibitor numbers was not found.
Buyers who need a pan-European supply chain exhibition: NSE has a strong Italian and Mediterranean base and no published exhibitor count, so a larger supply chain show may suit better. Researchers or companies expecting an open call for speakers: none is published and the conference is curated by a committee. Visitors who need a published price or schedule before booking travel: neither is available as of 20 October 2026.
NSE is the Italian member of the Space Golden League, an alliance of four conferences listed on the organiser's site: Assises du NewSpace (7 and 8 July 2026, Paris), New Space Economy (25 to 27 November 2026, Rome), European Space Conference (26 and 27 January 2027, Brussels) and Munich Space Week (15 to 19 March 2027, Munich). In the 2026 sequence NSE is the last of the four to be held. The European Space Agency ministerial conference is scheduled in Rome on 15 December 2026, per an Avionews item on the organiser's feed.
No. NSE is held at Fiera Roma; the organiser's archive lists editions from 2019 to 2025, all under the same name, and no edition outside Rome. The archive shows seven editions before 2026, in line with 2026 being the eighth.
The organiser's site is in English and press releases appear in English and Italian. The conference language is not stated. The event presents itself as international, with international speakers expected at the conference.
The event is held in person. No livestream or replay offer was found for 2026. The organiser publishes a 2025 exhibitor catalogue as a PDF flipbook and press releases after each day.
Not publicly disclosed. No ticket terms or exhibitor contract terms are published; the sales team handles exhibitor bookings.
Not publicly disclosed. No accessibility statement was found on the event site. Fiera Roma publishes general visitor information on its own site (fieraroma.it).
Fiera Roma, Via Portuense 1645, Rome. By train, take the FL1 line toward Fiumicino from Tuscolana, Tiburtina or Ostiense and get off at the Fiera Roma stop; from Fiumicino Airport the same stop is reached by FL1, taxi and Cotral coach. Atac buses 808, 089, 701 and 701L and Cotral stops serve the fairground. By car, take exit 30 from the ring road toward Fiumicino; the fair reports two car parks with a total of 7,000 spaces. Fares and timetables should be checked with Trenitalia and Fiera Roma before travel, since some venue pages are old. Partner hotels near the venue are listed on the event site, though that page still refers to the 2024 edition.
Because it puts the Italian space system in one place: ASI as collaborator, a Scientific Committee with executives from Leonardo, OHB Italia, Argotec and D-Orbit, and a Future & Young Lab, a pitch competition and a careers area on the same floor. That makes it useful for anyone selling into Italian institutional programmes or recruiting from Italian universities, and less useful as a pan-European supply chain show, since no exhibitor count is published.
Because the organiser publishes no attendance or exhibitor total for 2026 or 2025, and its closing release calls 2025 a record without a number. Dates have also shifted between editions, from 10 to 12 December in 2025 to 25 to 27 November in 2026, and third-party calendars have carried the wrong month. Take the dates, venue and programme from the organiser's site and reconfirm them before booking travel.
Official site: https://www.nseexpoforum.com/ (reachable and consistent with the database entry as of 20 October 2026). Organiser: https://www.fieraroma.it/. Italian Space Agency: https://www.asi.it/. Space Golden League: https://www.nseexpoforum.com/space-golden-league/. Contacts: info@nseexpoforum.com, sales@nseexpoforum.com (exhibitors), press@nseexpoforum.com (press), segreteria@nseexpoforum.com, phone +39 06 65074511.