Success in Space Through Security, Investment, and Sustainability

Day: Thursday 2 October
Time: 10:15 - 11:15 AEST
Location: Parkside 2

IAF has undertaken a three-pronged initiative to address security, investment, and sustainability (SIS) in its programming and to explore how these themes intersect to shape the future of space. This session serves as a capstone conversation for the IAF’s SIS initiative and task forces—highlighting key insights from the past three years while looking ahead to how these themes will continue to define space policy, innovation, and economics. Moderated by IAF President Clay Mowry, the panel features the global leads of the SIS task forces and explores the critical interaction among these three forces that are shaping the future of space. Their discussion will highlight the findings of the SIS initiative and emphasize how these themes converge across civil, commercial, and national security domains.

Topics will include: • The surge of private and public investment in space, and its role in accelerating new infrastructure, capabilities, and global access • National security users leveraging commercial innovations enabled by that investment • How a sustainable space environment contributes to long-term security and operational resilience • Investment in space sustainability technologies, including debris remediation and traffic coordination • Shared industrial base challenges and opportunities that span both commercial and defense sectors

The panel will also highlight IAF’s experience implementing the SIS initiative—through convenings, collaborations, and outputs—and invite attendees to engage in a forward-looking dialogue about global cooperation and resilience. This session offers strategic insights for decision-makers, investors, technologists, and policy leaders, and reinforces the IAC 2025 theme of “Sustainable Space: Resilient Earth” through a multidimensional lens.