2024 Space Futures & Governance

After introductory presentations, we will curate a short list of challenges participants would like to work on, and break out into working groups to make progress on leading challenges before regathering for discussion and next steps.

Possible topics to be explored include but are not limited to:  

• Satellite proliferation and implications for monitoring and sustainability
• Economic incentives and challenges of space mining and manufacturing
• Technological and governance approaches to address space debris
• Increasing near-term access to space by lowering the cost to launch
• Initiatives and incentives to reinvigorate our mission to Mars
• Equitable access to space for future generations and emerging space nations 
• Emergent or existing catastrophic risks that could compromise human access to space
• Exploring social license and space: the role and future of space civil society
• Challenging walled garden assumptions and imagining open systems in space
• Ethical and social challenges for Lunar exploration: what can we learn from Earth? 
• Designing a circular space and Lunar economy
• Lunar efforts and governance such as a sovereign wealth fund for the moon
• Sharing lessons in closed environments: learning mishaps in the context of competition and national security
• Space militarization technologies and related challenges and frameworks

We invite you to explore new opportunities, form lasting collaborations, and join us in driving cooperation toward a flourishing future in space. In addition to short presentations, working groups, and project development, there will be mentorship hours, time for open breakouts, and speaker & sponsor gatherings.