About ASPEX
The African continental platform for networking and space business development
Download the complete presentation (PDF)Why ASPEX?
Space is no longer a technological luxury. It has become a strategic infrastructure, essential to the sovereignty, security, governance and sustainable development of nations.
In Africa, needs are clear and immediate: agriculture and climate, security and resilience, connectivity, land use planning, finance, public governance.
Space itself represents an opportunity for job creation and wealth through improved telecommunications and its derived products and services, and geolocation for more precise navigation and positioning.
Capabilities exist
Technologies are available and talents are there.
Missing infrastructure
What was missing was a continental infrastructure capable of structuring action.
The ASPEX solution
Connect decision-makers to operators and transform priorities into concrete projects.
What is ASPEX?
ASPEX is the African continental platform for networking and business development in the space sector. It is the only dynamic FAIR offering innovative space products and services that meet the needs of citizens and institutions.
Strategic positioning
ASPEX fundamentally distinguishes itself from classic forums and conferences.
ASPEX is not a space for speeches and presentation of scientific articles. ASPEX is a space for decision, construction, and execution.
- • is not just another conference,
- • is not a space for speeches,
- • is not a simple exhibition hall.
ASPEX is both: a structured business platform, an accelerator of applied spatial projects, a continental hub for institutional, industrial and financial matchmaking, a laboratory for co-construction of African solutions.
Action Infrastructure
Designed to formulate strategic needs, demonstrate and propose real applications as well as innovative products and services.
Partnerships & Projects
Develop and strengthen partnerships, initiate operational projects. At ASPEX, African space is decided, built, and deployed.
A clear vision
Strategic lever
Make space a strategic African lever
Economic sector
A structured and credible economic sector
Concrete tool
A concrete tool serving states, companies, territories and populations
ASPEX positions Africa not as a passive market, but as an actor capable of designing, negotiating, financing and deploying its own space capabilities, in balanced partnership with the rest of the world.
General objective
Create and deploy a structured and perennial continental framework promoting the development of space affairs in Africa, institutional dialogue, applied innovation, and the implementation of strategic partnerships.
Specific objectives
Targets and stakeholders
Governments and public institutions
African and international space agencies
Private sector: companies, startups, industrialists
Universities and research centers
Young talents and innovators
Women in the space sector
Civil society
Expected results
Strengthening institutional and economic dialogue
Establishment of a continental space business infrastructure
Signing of strategic partnerships and launch of pilot projects
A complete continental experience
For three days in Abidjan, ASPEX brings together public decision-makers and institutions, African and international space agencies, private companies, industrialists and startups, investors, donors and financial partners, researchers, talents, young innovators and civil society.
Business & Innovation
Business, economic diplomacy, applied innovation meet in a unique experience.
Culture & Influence
Culture et influence se rencontrent, prolongées par l'ASPEX Night Experience – soirée by night à l'ivoirienne, symbole d'hospitalité, de confiance et de soft power africain.
ASPEX est l'espace où l'Afrique passe à l'action.
Organizers & Partners
ASPEX (Africa Space Expo) is a joint initiative of the African Union and the Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, implemented through the African Space Agency (AfSA) and the Côte d'Ivoire Space Agency (ASCI).
The operational implementation of ASPEX is ensured by the EBURNIE SPACE Foundation, project manager of the initiative.
EBURNIE SPACE Foundation
Project manager of the initiative
African Space Agency (AfSA)
Implementation
Côte d'Ivoire Space Agency (ASCI)
Implementation