Massimo Bandecchi Since 1989 he worked at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands, covering different Systems Engineering roles and responsibilities. In particular he was the founding father, first team leader and manager of the ESA Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) which has been applied for the feasibility assessment and preliminary design of hundreds of potential future space missions. Massimo is author of several publications about Concurrent Engineering and has promoted its utilization across a number of industrial sectors and in academia.