Lunar Development Conference 2025

Lunar Development Conference 2025

An International Moon Day event brought to you by ISRUtech Sweden AB

Friday July 18 to Sunday July 20

The three day 2025 Lunar Development Conference (LDC2025) will bring together speakers from science, business, space policy, advocacy, and academia who will present their research and ideas for the human future of Luna. This years conference theme is “Knowledge and Needs”, with the following tracks:

The event is part of the Moon Society tradition of successful annual Lunar Development Conferences which have brought together hundreds of attendees and scores of speakers including CEOs, professors, business professionals, legal and policy experts, presenting and discussing a wide range of ideas and opinions. All sessions from from earlier LDCs, from 2020 and onwards, are available for on-demand viewing on the Moon Society YouTube channel.

The 2025 Lunar Development Conference is organised by ISRUtech Sweden AB at Moonbase Lappträsk.

Please contact Niklas Järvstråt (niklas@isru.tech) with any questions regarding sponsoring, attending or presenting.

Details

  • Conference dates
    • Friday to Sunday July 18-20, 2025
  • Call for papers
    • The call for papers is now open and will close on June 20. Papers are welcome in any of the tracks, but also of general interest to Lunar Development.
  • Times
    • Preliminary 7.00am – 3.00pm Pacific Standard / 16:00 – 24:00 Central European time, with in-situ activities between 10:00 to 15:00 local, Central European time. (WorldTimeBuddy (worldtimebuddy.com) is an easy way to figure out times across time zones.)
  • Format
    • Virtual via Zoom – Moon Society members and presenters will be emailed links to attend the conference along with complete instructions.
    • In-situ (in person, on site): activities at the Moonbase Lappträsk facilities in North Sweden by the Finnish border will be tailored to participant interest and background.

Conference Registration

  • If you want to make a presentation at the conference or have an idea of someone who might have something interesting to say, contact niklas@moonsociety.org as soon as possible.
  • No registration is necessary for attending the virtual conference, since the conference is an annual perk of membership in the Moon Society. Simply join the Moon Society and you will be emailed all the information you need. If interested in attending in-situ, please contact niklas@moonsociety.org.
  • If you want to design the conference logo, semd your suggestion to niklas@moonsociety.org, or post it in the conference slack channel, https://moon-society.slack.com/archives/C07DTDQ0WNT.

Conference Documentation

A book of abstracts will be made available and updated as soon as there are submitted abstracts.

All presentations and discussion sessions will be recorded and made available at the Moon Society Youtube channel.

Instruction for Authors

It is the responsibility of the respective authors to provide a clear and succinct one page illustrated abstract for inclusion in the book of abstracts. Keynote presentations may

  1. The prefered format is a Word document on page size A4 (210x297mm). Efforts will be made to accomodate contributions in other document types (try to convert) and formats (save as pdf in A4, adding white space).
  2. Each presentation page should contain
    • A normal heading with the title of the presentation and the name, affiliation and contact info of the author(s). Should there be more than one author, the name of the presenter (only) should be bold.
    • A summary of the presentation, preferably including both text and one illustration.
    • A bio of the (main) author, including a photo of the presenting author(s) and contact info/affiliation. The contact info can be anything that will allow contact by interested attendees.

The deadline for abstract submission is June 20th, but submit earlier and your approved abstract will be included in the pre-conference online version!

Program

Friday to Sunday July 19-21, 2025

Preliminary 7.00am – 3.00pm Pacific Standard / 16:00 – 24:00 Central European time: 60 min keynotes, 30 min presentations. (see e.g worldtimebuddy.com to convert to other time zones.)

Preliminary 10:00 to 15:00 local, Central European time: Themed workshops in Moonbase Lappträsk.