Published on January 20, 2025
IAC 2025 Next Generation Plenary
Are you a student or a young professional? Apply now to be part of one of the panels!

Apply to be part of one of the NextGen Plenary panels during the 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2025), in Sydney, Australia. Come and showcase your ideas and work in front of an audience of senior space leaders in government, industry and academia!
The two proposed panels will cover these topics:
1. Resource Responsibility - Lands, Oceans, and Space
2. Designing the Future of Human Spaceflight
The NextGen Plenary: An Overview
The International Astronautical Congress (IAC), the premiere international space event, displays successes and trends of the sector through its Plenary Programme with proposals selected via competition. The NextGen Plenary (NGP) gives students and young professionals from around the world the opportunity to showcase their work and projects in front of the international space community. The plenary is moderated in a format similar to a talk show, interweaving clips from the panellists with questions and comments from the moderator, other panelists, and the audience. The video clips will be used to enhance the audience’s understanding of the ideas of the plenary participants. This is an exciting opportunity that you do not want to miss!
How does the NGP Process Work?
- This current document is a call for applicants to be selected as panelists for one of the two plenary proposals, being drafted by the NGP Steering Committee for submission to the IAF.
- Panelists will be selected via a global competitive process (see Application Process below) by subject matter experts to identify the best candidates and showcase the diversity of successful efforts related to the two proposal topics.
- Though both plenaries are still in the application stage, if approved, one of the proposed panels can be selected by the IAF as the Next Generation Plenary to take place during the week of 29 September - 3 October 2025, in Sydney, Australia at IAC 2025. We will be notified of the selected topic following the IAF Spring Meetings in March 2025.
- The Next Generation Plenary Steering Committee is committed to the success of both our proposed panels and in the event the plenary application process for either is unsuccessful, we will find an appropriate alternative venue for the panels during IAC 2025, as we have done since IAC 2019.
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