IAF Events

International Astronautical Congress (IAC)

The IAC is the one place and time of the year where all global space actors come together. The event attracts more than 6,000 participants each year. Covering all space sectors and topics, it offers everyone the latest space information and developments in academia and industry, networking opportunities, contacts and potential partnerships.

International Astronautical Congress 2025

29 September - 3 October 2025

IAF Global Conferences

The IAF Global Conferences are organized annually in a different location and on a specific space topic and theme.

The Global Space Exploration Conference 2025

7-9 May 2025

New Delhi, India

IAF Spring Meetings

The IAF Spring Meetings gather every year in March the IAF community in Paris. For three days IAF Administrative and Technical Committees meet and the International Programme Committee selects the abstracts to be presented during the year’s IAC.

IAF Spring Meetings 2025

25-27 March 2025

Paris, France

International Space Forum at Ministerial Level (ISF)

Launched in 2015, by the IAF Vice President for Science and Academic Relations, the International Space Forum represents an annual gathering at Ministerial Level aiming to encourage a global and local discussion and debate on the necessity of promoting a greater involvement of Universities and national Academies into space activities.

International Space Forum at Ministerial Level 2024

2 July 2024

IAF GNF Space Conversations Series

The IAF GNF Space Conversations Series are a fortnightly, free-of-charge registration, live online webinars that will touch upon the most recent developments in space, organized within the frame of the IAF Global Networking Forum (IAF GNF).

Which initiatives are taken worldwide to best support the start-ups ecosystem?

Wednesday 26 May 2021

IAF International Meeting for Ministers and Members of Parliaments (MMoP)

Since 2009, the International Meetings for Members of Parliaments is the platform that IAF offers to Members of Parliaments from all over the world to foster their dialogue on a global scale with the traditional space community (governmental representatives, agencies, industry, engineers and scientists).

UN/IAF Workshop

The IAF and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UN-OOSA) organise an annual workshop held in conjunction with the International Astronautical Congress. The workshop addresses each year a topic that is of particular interest to space emerging nations.

Affiliated IAF Events

Galaxy Forum China 2024 Hainan

8 - 12 December 2024

Hainan, China

2024 International Symposium on the Peaceful Use of Space Technology - Health

10-13 December 2024

Beijing, China