It's not only at Munich (comp. recent post) that such things happen, but also in Strasbourg :
International Space University's 2009 symposium, on space security and defence, gave a good opportunity for an oversight of european, american, japan, chinese, etc. strategies on mainstream high-tech. sectors, just before Strasbourg's April 2009 NATO's Summit.
When shall we have something about that at Eurofora News ?