Frank M. Salzgeber is a graduate engineer and Managing Director of Space Sector at the Saudi Space Commission (Space Agency of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). Previously, he headed the Innovation and Ventures Office of the European Space Agency (ESA) and was responsible for technology transfer and commercial development of human spaceflight. He worked closely with the European astronaut team. He spent the first seven years of his career at Apple Computer and founded his first start-up in 2000, which later became a public company CANCOM. His programmes have supported more than 1,200 start-up companies, facilitated more than 370 technology transfers and guided 1,000 space applications. His start-up programme has been adopted by the Czech Republic, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Airbus and the CERN research centre. An expert in innovation, he advises governments, start-ups, but also industrial companies as well as venture capital companies, universities and research institutions. He is a rousing speaker on technology trends, the future and industry.