Creative Destruction Lab and HEC Paris DeepTech Center
Sahith Reddy is the Founder of Bumi & Space, a deep-tech and investment advisory firm based in Paris and Abu Dhabi, and serves as Partner – Head of Business Development & Special Projects at the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) and the HEC Paris DeepTech Center at Station F. He works at the intersection of international partnerships and investments, driving venture building, corporate open innovation, deep-tech strategy consulting, PPP/FDI initiatives, and startup commercialization across frontier domains including AI, Climate, Space, and Quantum. With a background spanning aerospace engineering, strategy consulting, and venture capital, he has collaborated with organizations such as Novaspace, NIDLP, IndiaAI–MeitY, BryceTech, SAASST–UAE Space Agency, Collins Aerospace, and Masdar–MIT initiatives, while actively engaging in global policy and cooperation forums such as the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) in Vienna.He also serves as the UAE's National Point of Contact for the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) in support of the UN Programme on Space Applications and sits on the advisory boards of Spaceflux and Catalyx Space. Sahith is an alumnus of Abu Dhabi’s highly selective Masdar Future Sustainability Leaders program, has authored over 30 research publications with 350+ citations, and holds a B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering (Gold Medallist) from Amity University Dubai, an Advanced Master’s in Systems Engineering from ISAE-SUPAERO (France), and an Executive MSc in Management – Innovation & Entrepreneurship from HEC Paris. His contributions to the global deep-tech and space ecosystem have been recognized internationally, including the UN-SGAC Pioneer Award, election as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (London), inclusion in SSPI Global’s “20 Under 35” list and recognition as a Payload Pioneer 2023 in the Startup/VC category.
Speaking
28January
11:25 / 12:05
Grand Ballroom
Enabling Space Capabilities & Innovations
Building Catalysts for Innovation: Space Incubators and Accelerators
