October 20–21, 2026 · New York City · VIP Reception Oct 19

CAPITAL.
CUSTOMERS.
CONNECTIONS.

If you fund space companies, build them, or buy from them — this is your room. Join 200 qualified leaders for two days of business-focused programming and at least four curated 1:1 meetings, matched to your priorities and booked before you arrive.

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What is Up/Link?

Two days where the space economy does business.

The space economy is moving from breakthrough technologies and individual missions toward durable commercial markets. But those markets don't emerge on their own. They require capital to finance them, capabilities to build them, and customers ready to buy.

Up/Link brings those pieces together in New York — the founders building commercial space companies, the investors funding them, and the enterprise and government buyers writing the contracts.

The question running through the program is simple: What has to get funded, built, and bought for the next generation of space markets to take hold?

Up/Link answers it two ways at once — mainstage insight, and a structured program of curated 1:1 meetings.

Insight on the stage. Deals in the room — one matched meeting at a time.

2Days
14Sessions
36Speakers
200Attendees
800Meetings
Just some of the speakers who will be on the Up/Link stage

The people who lead this market.

“Every commercial and government organization needs a space strategy — and, whether they know it yet or not, a quantum strategy.
Dennis Gatens
Founder, LEOcloud — Voyager Technologies · Up/Link Speaker & Advisory Board

Two days. One arc.

TUESDAY, OCT 20 · CAPITAL FORMATION

Where the money lives — and how companies win it

Day one maps where the money lives — and how companies win it. The morning covers the machinery that prices risk and moves capital — the insurance, banking, and advisory layer, and the policy that turns public programs into commercial markets. The afternoon turns to how companies actually win it: what makes space an institutional allocation, what building a public company really costs, and how VCs pick winners. Speakers represent the NYSE, Fidelity Investments, AE Industrial Partners, and many more.

WEDNESDAY, OCT 21 · COMMERCIAL ADOPTION & GROWTH

What has to get built, who will buy it — and what becomes possible when it exists.

Day two turns from who writes the checks to what gets built and who buys it. From how nations, enterprises, and defense customers actually purchase, to lunar resources, low-gravity manufacturing, and orbital compute and power — the conversation moves from promising technologies to the businesses that can support durable commercial markets.

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Program subject to change · full session-by-session detail is on the program page.

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Who should attend

Registration is open to everyone who meets the attendee qualifications. Every registration is reviewed, and seats are capped at 200.

/ Founders & Operators

Founders and C-level operators of commercial space companies, Series A and beyond, raising and scaling toward repeatable revenue — plus the primes, integrators, and data companies they sell to.

/ Investors & Financial Institutions

Venture, growth, private equity, family offices, and sovereign funds with active mandates — and the banks, insurers, and capital-markets professionals underwriting commercial space.

/ Strategic Partners, Government & Enterprise

Enterprise buyers adopting space-enabled capabilities at scale; government and defense stakeholders shaping procurement and policy; and international partners bridging their markets to US capital.

Passes & Pricing

Registration rates

The Summit Pass puts you in the room. VIP puts you in every room. The deals start Monday night — 24 hours before the first keynote. The VIP Pass includes everything in the Summit Pass, plus the Oct 19 VIP reception with speakers, sponsors & lead investors, priority matchmade appointments, and reserved seating.

SUMMIT PASS

October 20–21 · Learning & Networking
Early-Bird (through Aug 31)$1,500
Standard$1,950
Late Registration$2,500
Day Of$2,950

All sessions and keynotes · matchmade 1:1 appointments · daily breakfast, lunch & happy hours.

VIP PASS

October 19–21 · Three days, not two
Early-Bird (through Aug 31)$2,500
Standard$2,950
Late Registration$3,500
Day Of$3,950

MILITARY / GOVERNMENT PASS

October 20–21 · .mil / .gov email required
Flat Rate$475
Day Of$1,500

Full summit access for the stakeholders shaping procurement, policy, and program development.

Register — Early-Bird Pricing Ends August 31

Thank you to our partners.

The organizations standing behind Up/Link — sponsors, institutions, and community partners.

AE Industrial PartnersAWSBaker TillyBENSCouncil on Foreign RelationsEmpire SpaceExotrailFidelity InvestmentsMerrickNebexSheppardSophia SpaceSpace Grove Ventures SSPI U.S. Space ForceThe New York Tech Alliance

THE SPACE ECONOMY IS NO LONGER EMERGING.
IT'S SCALING.

Be in the room where it gets funded, bought, and built.

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