session 5

Title

Enabling the Future: Developing the Space Workforce

type

oral

Description

This session focuses on strategies, programmes, and policies aimed at developing the current and future global space workforce, across industry, academia, government, and non-profit sectors. Contributions may address workforce challenges and opportunities, skills gaps, diversity and inclusion, career pathways, and emerging workforce needs driven by technological and market change. Presentations may include formal professional development, training, certification, and accreditation programmes, as well as internal workforce development initiatives led by companies, agencies, non-profits, or partnerships. Authors are encouraged to discuss programme design, implementation, and impact, including evidence of effectiveness, scalability, and lessons learned for workforce development across the space ecosystem. When submitting abstracts for this session, please: • Clearly identify the connection to the session’s described scope and to space. • Briefly describe what you will present, including results and evaluation of your work, if it has been completed, or a thorough description of the expected outcomes of the work. • Include information about what makes your work unique, original or innovative and worth sharing with the international space community. • State your work’s goal, the intended audience, the measurable objectives that were set, and if the work is in planning or has already occurred. • Provide context describing the research and/or analysis you conducted in choosing the purpose of the activity, the intended audience, and the design of the activity. • Include reference to quantitative or qualitative data gathered through evaluations, surveys or other means. • If any theories are developed, please include information about the practical applicability of the information. • Consider that your audience is international and focus on what others working in the field can learn from your work. Include lessons learned, recommendations or other takeaway messages. • Make sure that the abstract provides a coherent idea or narrative for someone unfamiliar with your work.

Date

2026-10-07

Time

15:00

Room

E1

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Ms. Kathleen Coderre, Lockheed Martin (Space Systems Company), United States;

• Rapporteur: Mrs. Alina Vizireanu, International Space University (ISU), United Kingdom;