Call for Speakers open!
The Space Tech Expo USA team is excited to announce that the call for papers for the free-to-attend 2025 Conferences is now open. You can submit your paper until midnight PST Friday January 31, 2025.
We are inviting you to submit your own talk proposals and indicate your preferred format: presentation, panel discussion, fireside chat, pitching competition, or any other innovative styles.
The Space Tech Expo USA team welcomes submissions that align with the following topics but is also open to considering other content areas, so don’t hesitate to send us your pitch!
The status of the space industry in 2025
- Sustaining US leadership in the international space industry and implementing key policies
- The future of US leadership in the global remote sensing market
- Space under a new administration
- Fostering investment
- Vertical integration
- Regulations impact, US export control reforms, licensing, and potential tariffs
- Supply chain challenges, diversification of supply sources, meeting urgent sector needs, shortages of propulsion systems and encryption payloads
- Shortages of critical minerals and space-specific components
- Economic constraints, budget threats, and their potential impact on NASA’s missions
- Challenges faced by commercial, civil and national security missions
- The future of international collaboration
- Downstream application innovation (communications, Earth observation etc.)
- California as a space hub
Military and Defence
- Threats to national security and the need to boost space awareness capabilities
- The potential creation of a Space National Guard
- Expanding the US commercial remote sensing satellite industry to meet military requirements
- Supply diversification needs, access to key components and foreign dependency
- Establishing practical frameworks and best practices to achieve cyber-security resilience
- Weaponisation and militarisation of space
- Implementation of satellites in MEO
- Growing interest in tactical lasers, high-altitude platforms and space domain awareness technologies
- Use of AI
- Recognition in the industry that the defense sector must invest in commercial space capabilities
Manufacturing, technologies and testing
- 3D Printing / Additive manufacturing
- Artificial intelligence
- Testing services
- Automation
- Robotics
- Software
- Edge computing
- Model-based engineering
- Digital twins
- In-space servicing, in-space assembly and in-space manufacturing
Quantum communication
- Narrowing the gap with China’s capabilities
- Challenges: extended distances, losses, and establishing a global scale communication network
Data
- Data as a future commodity
- Data analytics
- On-board data processing
- Real-time data requirements
- Development of laser communication systems
- Data-driven approaches supporting space exploration, earth observation, and space debris mitigation
- Space data centres
Alternative Positioning, Navigation and Timing – AltPNT
- Benefits for the commercial space sector, military and maritime industries
- AltPNT as a requirement for the US defence infrastructure
- Cost constraints
- Understanding the needs of operators
Smallsats
- Growing opportunities as NASA faces tight budget constraints
- Demand vs supply
Sustainability
- Space debris mitigation
- NASA’s new space sustainability division
Launch
- US capabilities
- Demands vs supply
Connectivity
- Differentiating in a globally monopolized connectivity market
- Satellite constellations
Exploration
- Beyond the ISS and the creation of commercial space stations
- Commercial concerns over NASA’s rethinking of a continuous human presence in LEO
- Return to the Moon: challenges, innovations and opportunities
- Microgravity research
(Sub)system development
- Launch system development
- Satellite system innovation
- Propulsion technology
- Optical communication
Components and materials
- Material innovation
- Electronics and electrical systems
How to apply to speak:
If you would like to submit an abstract you can do so using our online form below. The deadline for proposals is midnight PST Friday January 31, 2025. We will endeavor to review all submissions within 6-8 weeks.
Please ensure that you have read the selection criteria and that you are aware of the deadlines.
Deadlines & Selection Criteria
- Speaking slots are allocated on merit and relevance to the topics on the agenda
- Commercial presentations – such as product or company reviews – will not be accepted
- There are no registration fees to take up this opportunity
- Speaking slot timings and formats will be finalized as the program is completed, depending on the subject matter to be addressed
- The deadline for submissions is midnight PST Friday January 31, 2025. We will endeavor to review all submissions within 6-8 weeks after the deadline
Submissions will be evaluated in terms of:
- Importance of topic to conference attendees
- Inclusion of an end user as either lead or co-presenter
- Objective, educational, non-commercial content
- Clearly defined benefits for attendees
- Knowledge and experience of the speakers(s)
For any questions please contact:
Margherita Cargasacchi
[email protected]
+44 20 80520717
