OCTOBER 20 - 21, 2026 | NEW YORK CITY
WHERE SPACE
DEALS LAUNCH
Two days of thoughtfully matched meetings — connecting the founders, investors, operators, and international partners building the commercial space economy with the financial and corporate leadership of New York.
The space economy is no longer emerging.
It’s scaling.
Commercial space demand is real, but the market is still hard to navigate. It can be difficult for founders and operators to get direct access to the financial and corporate leadership that can fund, buy, and scale their business. And the capital concentrated in New York rarely gets a curated, qualified look at the companies actually worth backing.
Up/Link is built to close that gap from both directions.
2 DAYS
200 Vetted Attendees
12 Major Sponsors
800+ Curated meetings
GUIDED BY AN Advisory Board of leaders from
up/link FEATures
CURATED 1:1 Meetings
Purposeful introductions between founders, funders and commercial and international partners.
PRIVATE ROUNDTABLES
Closed-door working sessions on the challenges nobody discusses on a public stage.
SMALL GROUP MEETINGS
Pre-arranged sit-downs designed to start deals, not just conversations.
MAINSTAGE PROGRAMMING
The sessions that frame the market and surface where capital is moving next.
Program Preview
Two days, built as a single arc:
Day One is about capital.
Day Two Is about commercialization.
October 20
What Actually Gets Funded
How to Underwrite a SpaceTech Deal
A working framework for evaluating commercial traction, IDIQ exposure, and program risk, with the VCs actually doing it.
Commercial First, Government Second
The playbook every funded SpaceTech company is running, codified on stage by the founders who built it.
Underwriting Political Risk
The conversation investors have privately, hosted publicly. Real positions, no talking points.
Cross-Border Capital
Sovereign, strategic, and international flows shaping the next wave of SpaceTech balance sheets.
October 21
Where the Money Moves
The Infrastructure Layer
Power, compute, and connectivity in orbit. Plus the emerging opportunities in orbital data centers, nuclear in space, and quantum in space.
National Security as a Customer
How to scale into defense without becoming dependent on it.
Liquidity Pathways
IPO, secondary, strategic exit. What’s actually open right now.
Deal Watch: What Closes in the Next 12 Months
The closing session. Investors and founders predict which SpaceTech deals actually print in 2027 — and what the room should be paying attention to right now.
Program subject to change.
/ Investors & Capital Allocators
Venture, private equity, infrastructure funds, sovereign wealth, family offices — the capital being deployed into the space economy.
/ Financial Institutions
Banks, insurers, reinsurers underwriting commercial space as a real asset class. Capital markets professionals working on the next SpaceTech listings and structured deals.
/ Growth-Stage Founders
Series A and beyond, building and commercializing SpaceTech systems. Plus the primes, integrators, and data services companies they partner with and sell to.
Who is eligible to attend?
/ International Partners
Sovereign space agencies, international investment delegations, and cross-border partners building the bridges between their markets and US capital.
/ Enterprise Buyers
Insurance, energy, logistics, defense, telecommunications — the companies adopting space-enabled capabilities at scale.
/ Government & Defense
Domestic and international stakeholders shaping procurement, policy, and program development.
PrIcing
General Admission
October 20–21
Full summit access. All sessions, keynotes, roundtables, and networking. Daily breakfast, lunch, and happy hour.
Early Bird
$1,500 (through June 30)
Standard
$1,950
Late Registration
$2,500
Day Of
$2,950
VIP Pass
October 19–21
Everything in GA. Priority access to curated meetings, closed-door roundtables, and an invitation to the 10/19 pre-event reception with speakers, sponsors, and lead investors.
Early Bird
$2,500 (through June 30)
Standard
$2,950
Late Registration
$3,500
Day Of
$3,950