Bringing together entrepreneurs, innovators, artists, researchers, and the community to explore bold ideas and the future of innovation in New Mexico.
Bringing together entrepreneurs, creatives, technologists, and the community to explore new ideas and the future of innovation in New Mexico.
Space Fiesta returns for its third year at the historic Albuquerque Rail Yards — bringing together entrepreneurs, innovators, artists, technologists, and the community to celebrate New Mexico’s growing role in space, technology, and bold new ideas.
Free and open to the public, Space Fiesta is where business networking, emerging technology, creative thinking, and community collide.
New Mexico has long been a place of discovery, research, aerospace advancement, and frontier thinking. Space Fiesta builds on that legacy by creating an accessible and energizing experience designed for everyone—from founders and startups to students, creatives, scientists, and curious community members.
Connect with leaders, founders, researchers, creators, and professionals across space, technology, entrepreneurship, and beyond. Whether you work in aerospace, media, education, manufacturing, sustainability, AI, or the arts—Space Fiesta is designed to spark collaboration across industries and communities.
Explore emerging ideas, meet new partners, discover local innovation, and learn how New Mexico continues to shape the future.
Think your business belongs in the future of space?
Liftoff Live is a same-day pitch competition challenging entrepreneurs to imagine how their ideas, products, or services could connect to the growing space economy. You do not need to be a traditional space company to compete.
Whether your concept supports communication, food systems, wellness, entertainment, logistics, education, design, software, or entirely new industries—this is your opportunity to explore how you might “take your business to space.”
Selected participants will pitch LIVE during Space Fiesta for the chance to win the Launch Kit Prize Package, including:
4 Hours of Business Consulting
Landing Page Design
Access to business tool subscriptions
1 Hour of Pitch Coaching
Featured Segment on the ActivateNM Podcast
Space Fiesta celebrates the idea that space is not reserved for a select few—it is a platform for imagination, opportunity, innovation, and community.
Join us for an unforgettable day of networking, inspiration, technology, creativity, and future-focused thinking in the heart of Albuquerque.
Flue Shop at the Albuquerque Rail Yards
777 1st St SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
