On October 6-8, 2025 the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) hosts the Space Sustainability Forum 2025 (SSF-25), following a successful event in 2024. Discussions will focus on managing satellite constellations, advancing exploration from Low Earth Orbit to Lunar, and achieving an effective Space and Spectrum Situational Awareness (S3A) as a critical element for mission success, security, and sustainability of space radiocommunications systems.
A public webcast will be available, with multilingual captions
PROGRAMME (All times CEST = UTC+2)
6 October 2025 ( Pre-Event )
14:00 Program opening
Loloah Al Alangri – CEO, DRA Saudi Arabia
Sulyna Abdullah – Chief of Strategic Planning and Membership Department / Special Advisor to the Secretary-General, ITU
14:10 Introduction to Space Governance and National Space Law
Juan Cacace – Director of Government Affairs / Space & Connectivity Lead, Access Partnership
14:50 Space Sustainability – A Global Perspective
Josef S. Koller – Principal, Space Safety & Sustainability, Amazon – Kuiper
16:30 Space, Spectrum and the ITU
Xochitl Hernandez Medina – Senior Manager, Space & Connectivity, Access Partnership
Alexandre Vallet – Chief, Space Services Department, ITU
Chehineze Bouafia – Head of Regulatory Affairs, Space & Telecommunications, Eutelsat Group
17:45 Program closure
Loloah Al Alangri – CEO, DRA Saudi Arabia
7 October 2025 ( Day 1 )
09:00 Welcome by the Master of Ceremony
Patricia Cooper – Advisor to the ITU
09:15 Opening Remarks by the ITU Secretary-General
Doreen Bogdan-Martin – Secretary-General, ITU
09:30 Panel 1: Space for Good
Aarti Holla-Maini – Director, UNOOSA
Raul Kulichevsky – Executive & Technical Director, CONAE (Argentina)
Aboubakar Mambimba Ndjoungui – Chief Executive Officer, AGEOS
Nir Stav – Senior Director, Infrastructure Department, WMO
Sulyna Abdullah – Chief of Strategic Planning and Membership Department / Special Advisor to the SG, ITU
11:15 Keynote 1: Outcome of the UNIDIR Space Security Conference
Robin Geiss – Director, UNIDIR
11:30 Panel 2: Latest Developments in Space Services
Isabelle Mauro – Director General, GSOA
Rodolphe Muñoz – Legal Officer, European Commission
Timothy Adi Ashong – Director General, RASCOM
Khalid AlShathri – General Manager, Space Sector Development, CST (Saudi Arabia)
Mariel Borowitz – Head of International SSA Engagement, Office of Space Commerce (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce
Patricia Cooper – Advisor to the ITU
14:00 Spotlight 1: To be announced
Kattia Flores Pozo – Director for Spacecraft Mission Operations, Planet
14:10 Panel 3: Space Exploration – The Moon and Beyond
Kai-Uwe Schrogl – President, International Institute of Space Law (IISL)
James Revill – Head, WMD & Space Security Programmes, UNIDIR
Masafumi Hashimoto – Director, Spectrum Management Office, JAXA
Catherine Sham – Lunar & Human Spaceflight Spectrum Manager, NASA
Torsten Kriening – Publisher & CEO, SpaceWatch.Global
15:10 Spotlight 2: Monitoring NGSO Satellite Systems Deployment – Argus Project
Jorge Ciccorossi – Head, Space Strategy & Sustainability Division, ITU
Arne-Hendrik Klass – JPO, Radio Frequency Submission Request Officer, Space Strategy & Sustainability Division, ITU
15:50 Panel 4: Overseeing Large Constellations Deployment
Jing Chen – Senior Director, Spectrum & Orbit Resources Center, China Satellite Network Group
Mario Neri – Director, Spectrum Strategy / Innovation & Space Sustainability, Telesat
Josef S. Koller – Principal, Space Safety & Sustainability, Amazon – Kuiper
David B. Goldstein – Principal Satellite Policy Engineer, SpaceX
Julie Kearney – Co-Chair, Space Exploration & Innovation Practice; Partner, Telecom Group, DLA Piper
16:50 Spotlight 3: Global Space Traffic Coordination – SpaceTalk
Benjamin Guyot – CEO, SpaceTalk
17:00 Panel 5: Increasing Resilience of Space Systems – The Next Challenge
Jorge Ciccorossi – Head, Space Strategy & Sustainability Division, ITU
Mekhi Dhesi – Account Executive, Slingshot Aerospace
Martin Coleman – Board Member, Satcoms Innovation Group (SIG)
Clémence Poirier – Senior Cyber Defense Researcher, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Krystal Azelton – Senior Director, Program Planning, Secure World Foundation
Frank Zeppenfeldt – Future Satellite Projects, ESA
8 October 2025 ( Day 2 )
09:30 Spotlight 4: Introduction to the National Space Strategy Toolkit (World Economic Forum)
Hazuki Mori – Lead for Planetary Solutions Impact, Centre for Frontier Technologies & Innovation, World Economic Forum
09:40 Spotlight 5: Investing in Space Sustainability: The Private Sector Perspective
Candace Johnson – Founder/Co-founder SES & Loral Teleport Europe; Chair, Seraphim Space Advisory Board and Partner
09:50 Panel 6: Direct to Device
Jennifer Manner – Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs & International Strategy, AST SpaceMobile
Barbee Ponder – General Counsel & VP, Regulatory Affairs, Globalstar
Amy Mehlman – EVP & Chief Global Affairs Officer, Lynk Global
Abdulhadi Al Harthi – General Manager of Radio Spectrum Planning, CST (Saudi Arabia)
Marko Keskinen – Managing Director Europe, Skylo Technologies
Diana Tomimura – Deputy Director, Radiocommunication Bureau, ITU
10:50 Spotlight 6: Above the Clouds & Below the Orbit: A Sustainable Future with High-Altitude Platform Stations
Mohamed-Slim Alouini – UNESCO Chair on Education to Connect the Unconnected
11:30 Spotlight 7: NGSO Monitoring by Kratos – CelesGuard
Emmanuel Houdet – Director, Business Development, Kratos
11:40 Panel 7: Preparing for the World Radiocommunication Assemblies and Conferences
Alexandre Vallet – Chief, Space Services Department, ITU
Elina Morozova – Executive Director, Intersputnik
Audrey Allison – Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Space Policy & Strategy, Aerospace
Luciana Ferreira – Vice-Chair, ITU-R Study Group 4, ITU
Revathi Mannepalli – Member, Radio Regulations Board (RRB), ITU
Christopher Murphy – Associate General Counsel, Viasat
14:00 Spotlight 8: The Lunar Ledger – A Global Lunar Database of Objects and Activities
Samuel Jardine – Lunar Ledger Stakeholder Lead, Open Lunar Foundation
14:10 Panel 8: Impact on Space Ecosystem
Piero Benvenuti – Director, IAU Centre for the Protection of Dark & Quiet Skies (IAU CPS)
Thomas González Roberts – Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Federico Di Vruno – SKAO Spectrum Manager / IAU CPS Co-Director
Hamza Hameed – Head of Space & Development, Access Partnership
Emmanuelle David – Executive Director, EPFL Space Center (EPFL)
15:10 Spotlight 9: Demonstration of the TraCSS Tool (Traffic Coordination System for Space)
Mariel Borowitz – Head of International SSA Engagement, Office of Space Commerce (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce
15:50 Spotlight 10: XPRIZE Space Debris – A Cost-Efficient Catalyst for Rapid Progress
Chris Lewicki – Astrofuturist, Engineer, Entrepreneur; XPRIZE
16:00 Panel 9: Novel Space Activities
Mike Lindsay – CTO, Astroscale
Naman Chawla – CEO & Co-Founder, OrbitArch
Lauren Payne – UK Legal Counsel, D-Orbit
Roser Almenar – ITU Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Board, ITU
17:00 Wrap-up – Close of the Forum
