Speaking Proposals will be Accepted at the Conference Website Through April 15, 2025
Potential speakers are invited to submit abstracts for the National Space Society’s annual International Space Development Conference® (ISDC®), which will be held on June 19-22 in Orlando, Florida. Presentations covering a wide variety of space exploration, development, and policy topics are welcomed.
The ISDC is the annual keynote event of the National Space Society (NSS), bringing together leading executives, managers, engineers, scientists, educators, students, and laypeople from a wide variety of backgrounds to join in working toward the common goal of developing a spacefaring civilization. The ISDC has attracted tens of thousands of people from dozens of countries and features important thought leaders from NASA, commercial space, media, academia, and other space-related fields.
Subject areas for ISDC 2025 include the exploration, development, and settlement of the Moon, Mars, and cislunar space; deep space exploration; innovative spaceflight technology; the commercialization of space and space infrastructure; life support systems; collaboration in space; living in space; space solar power; the problem of space debris and mediation solutions; planetary defense; space law; and both national and international space policy, among others.
The current roster of confirmed speakers appearing at ISDC 2025 includes:
- Jared Isaacman, Mission Commander Polaris Dawn and Inspiration4
- Chris Ferguson, Former NASA and Boeing Astronaut
- Robert “Hoot” Gibson, Former NASA Chief Astronaut
- Dr. Martine Rothblatt, Chairman and CEO, United Therapeutics Corporation
- Tariq Mailk, Editor-in-Chief of Space.com and co-host of the “This Week in Space” podcast
- Dr. Pascal Lee, planetary scientist at the SETI Institute, co-founder and chairman of the Mars Institute, and director of the Haughton-Mars Project
- Rod Pyle, Editor-in-Chief of Ad Astra magazine, author, and producer/co-host of the “This Week in Space” podcast
- Bryan Versteeg, Conceptual Designer, Spacehabs.com
- Joe Haldeman, bestselling science fiction author
We welcome you to join these and other top-flight speakers at the ISDC. Please submit your abstract to the ISDC Coordinating Committee by April 15, 2025. Submissions will be considered in the order in which they are received and submission does not guarantee selection. We invite people from all backgrounds to participate.
Don’t delay—speaker selection is proceeding now, and slots are limited. Go to the event website at isdc.nss.org and scroll down to “Submit an Abstract.”
