The Australian Space Forum is a bi-annual event that brings together the best and brightest from Australia’s space industry and around the world. The event features keynote addresses from space industry leaders and informative panel discussions on current space topics and industry trends.

Supported by the Australian Space Agency and the South Australian Space Industry Centre, the Forum provides the ideal opportunity to stimulate ideas, share information about emerging technologies and network with influential space sector leaders and the broader community.

Participants can attend in person, or purchase session recordings if they are unable to physically attend.

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FOSS4G Perth is a local, community-driven gathering of the Perth open geospatial community, focused on sharing news of developments in free and open-source software for geospatial applications.

The event will be an opportunity to share ideas about open-source tools, such as QGIS, PostGIS, OpenStreetMap, Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, Python-based Earth observation libraries and frameworks, GDAL, and many others.

This year’s event will be held in conjunction with the ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium.

The 2024 FOSS4G Perth organising committee comprises:

• Bryan Boruff – University of Western Australia
• Cholena Smart – Mammoth Geospatial
• Grant Boxer – Consultant Geologist
• Ivana Ivanova – Curtin University
• John Bryant (Chair) – Mammoth Geospatial
• John Duncan – University of Western Australia
• John Lang – Consultant
• Keith Moss – WA Government
• Michel Nzikou – DMN Solutions
• Nimalika Fernando
• Petra Helmholz – Curtin University
• Piers Higgs – Gaia Resources
• Renee Manser
• Stafford Smith
• Tracey Cousens – Mineral Resources Limited
• Vincent Dinh – GIS Pro

The 2024 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference (FOSS4G) will be held in Belém, Brazil, located in the heart of the Amazon.

FOSS4G, an annual event organised by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) since 2006, is one of the largest global meetings on geospatial software of the year.

The local organising committee will be comprised of passionate Brazilians experienced in OSGeo technologies, along with the Geoinquietos Argentina team.

The 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), the International Astronautical Federation (IAF)’s premier global space event, will be held in Sydney, Australia from 29 September to 3 October 2025.

Often described as the ‘Olympics of space,’ this prestigious event is where the world’s space community gathers to access the latest space advancements and trends, academic works, industry connections, and partnership opportunities.

The theme for 2025 will be ‘Sustainable Space: Resilient Earth,’ setting the stage for important discussions such as: space-based applications for Earth, sustainable space activities, and sustaining life off Earth.