Exhibitions
01 October 2025
Crossing Frontiers: Connecting Industries with the Space Economy
TWI and Space Park Leicester are holding a unique event designed to bring together non-space and space sector innovators.
Discover how your organisation’s technologies could be transferred or adapted for use in the fast-evolving global space economy.
This event, which is taking place at the Space Park Leicester, is ideal for companies, innovators, and researchers from the automotive, aerospace, materials, advanced manufacturing, nuclear, fusion and electronics sectors.
- Learn from industry leaders from nuclear, aerospace, motorsport, automobile
- Hear insights from the ESA Technology Broker UK
- Join a panel discussion on commercialising innovations for space
- Network with cross-sector experts and exhibitors
- Explore funding, market access, and technical support opportunities
- Networking lunch and “Cosmic Coffee” - Informal networking wrap-up
Speakers for the day include representatives from TWI, Space Park Leicester, Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), the Nuclear Industry Association, and the Midlands Aerospace Alliance.
Organisations are invited to participate in a banner exhibition - please contact us for details.
We will provide more details closer to the date.
To find out more about TWI's work as the ESA Technology Broker UK, please email: contactus@esa-technology-broker.co.uk
To find out more about Space Park Leicester, please email: innovate@space-park.co.uk
Meet the team
Dr Abbasi Gandhi
Business Development Executive
Dr Abbasi Gandhi has over 18 years of experience in the manufacturing and RTO based organizations. He worked and managed a wide variety of R&D projects in the following technical areas: bio-nano-technologies, powder metallurgy, heat treatment, thin films, materials processing, materials joining, materials characterisation, surface modification, functional coatings, materials sintering, energy harvesting and thermodynamics. He has been involved on large scale industrial and EU projects as research assistance and finished as Team manager prior to joining TWI in 2019. His main areas of involvement at TWI include diffusion bonding, microjoining (soldering, resistance welding, ultrasonic bonding etc.), powder metallurgy (sintering, processing etc.), functional coatings (bio coating, piezoelectric coatings etc.), surface modification as well as general heat treatments.
Vito Di Pietro
Growth Manager, Space
Vito Di Pietro is an engineer in the manufacturing industry, working on bridging the gap between market and research. He has a master degree in Electronic Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. He coordinated several international research projects on innovative technical solutions, and helped companies developing and implementing digital manufacturing processes.
Vito started working at TWI Ltd. in 2020 as Senior Project Leader, working on friction welding and electron beam welding and their implementation in production. Today, he works as Growth Manager, Space, in Business Development at TWI.