Up/Link Puts Capital, Customers and Commercial Space in the Same New York Room

Up/Link: The SpaceTech Business Summit comes to New York on October 20 and 21 with a direct proposition: commercial space markets need capital, capability, and customers in the same operating conversation. The event is owned and managed by Continental Exhibitions and produced through the TechDay platform, with a VIP reception scheduled for October 19.

The official program divides the summit into two movements. The first day focuses on capital formation, including insurance, banking, policy, institutional allocation, public markets, and venture selection. The second turns toward adoption, procurement, low-gravity manufacturing, orbital compute, power, and the buyers required to turn technical capability into a durable market.

Why this room matters now

Space companies can prove that a system works and still face a different commercial question: who will finance production, insure the mission, approve procurement, integrate the capability, and buy it again? Those handoffs determine whether a breakthrough becomes infrastructure.

Up/Link is designed around that gap. The organizer describes 14 sessions, 36 speakers, 200 attendees, and a structured program of curated one-to-one meetings. Those are organizer-reported program figures, not independently verified outcomes. The more important design choice is the attendee mix: founders and C-level operators, active investors and financial institutions, enterprise buyers, government stakeholders, and international partners with authority to move a decision.

Registration is reviewed against published qualifications and seats are capped. That makes this an application-based commercial summit rather than an open networking event. It also means acceptance, meeting matches, and business outcomes remain entirely under organizer control.

Event details

• Dates: October 20-21, 2026
• VIP reception: October 19
• Location: Executive Briefing Center, 12 West 39th Street, New York
• Format: Summit, curated meetings, and application-reviewed registration
• Organizer: Up/Link, owned and managed by Continental Exhibitions
• Register: Official registration page

The program, speakers, pricing, qualifications, and availability can change. Use the official site for the current record.