Organised by the British Interplanetary Society, each year, the conference brings together a network of innovators from industry, agency, government, financiers, academia and end users to present and discuss the key challenges and opportunities for future space leadership and growth.

This Year’s Reinventing Space Conference will take place in London on 27-29 October at the Royal Aeronautical Society, 4 Hamilton Place, London, W1J 7BQ. The Gala Dinner and Sir Arthur Clarke Awards will take place on the evening of the second day, Tuesday 28 November.

The Call for Abstracts for Reinventing Space 2025 is open

If you are interested in taking advantage of sponsorship opportunities or exhibiting at the event, and for more information on the conference, please contact the Reinventing Space team at RISpace@bis-space.com with any questions. More detailed information will be release soon.

The 2025 Conference Venue

2025 Conference Theme

The theme of this year's conference is ‘The Rapidly Changing Context of Global Space’ and will focus on the challenges and emerging issues presented by the increase in commercially funded activities, advances in technology, and the recent rapid changes in international relationships:

“We are facing a number of significant and rapidly accelerating changes that point towards an unprecedented shift in how we operate and collaborate in the international space arena. In particular, the compounding of three influential factors will change the operating context for all of us; The near-exponential drop in the cost of access to space; the integration of AI and automation into our upstream and downstream activities; and the effect of the changing geopolitics of space”

Technological, geopolitical and economic forces are all in play and this is a chance to talk about them collectively; what capabilities we should be investing in and how to reframe our priorities to remain relevant in this new era. The conference will encourage critical discussion and the assessment of the key assumptions and bold new ideas as we review our current activities and ask the question:

 

…have we got it right?

 

Call for Abstracts

We are looking for contributions that embrace this new context and are inviting abstracts for talks, papers, panel sessions and demos that shine a light on all aspects of this wide-ranging, but critical, theme. Topics can include all areas of space business, law, science, technology, exploration, defence, sustainability, education and the wider society.

The conference will host a variety of talks and panel sessions serving as a platform to discuss these key themes and aims to achieve a clear understanding of the following questions:

  • How do we predict, prepare for and respond to these changes?
  • What technologies should we be investing in?
  • How suitable are our current approaches for supporting space business?
  • What are the barriers preventing us from making progress?
  • How do our current priorities align with the changing geopolitics?
  • Have we got it right?

Abstracts of up to 500 words are invited for submission via abstracts@bis-space.com

The call for abstracts will close at midnight on Monday 5 May 2025

Please specify 'RISpace 2025' in the email subject heading and clearly indicate upon submission, whether your abstract is for a talk, a paper for presentation, a proposal for a panel session, or a demo to showcase at the event. Selected abstracts may be moved between sessions, subject to the final programme planning. Those papers not selected for presentation will be offered the chance to be presented as posters.

All papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society.

Reinventing Space 2025

Exhibition & Sponsorship Opportunities

Alongside the Exhibition Packages, there are additional conference Sponsorship Packages, as well as individually itemised sponsorship opportunities to increase your brand reach, or enhance your presence at the 2025 Reinventing Space Conference.

Showcase your organisation at Reinventing Space 2025 by purchasing one of our conference sponsorship packages. A range of options are available providing varying levels of engagement to match your interests and budget. Sponsorship packages can be purchased directly through the RISpace conference webpage at www.bis-space.com/reinventingspace. 

If you are interested in taking advantage of our Sponsorship opportunities or exhibiting at the event, and for more information on the conference, please contact the Reinventing Space team at RISpace@bis-space.com with any questions.

Gala Dinner and the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards
28 October 2025

The British Interplanetary Society organises the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards on behalf of The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation.

The Sir Arthur Clarke Awards recognise and reward those individuals and teams that have made notable or outstanding achievements in, or contributions to space activities in the UK. Better known as ‘The Arthurs’, they have been presented annually since 2005.

Nominations take place across a number of different categories and can be made by anybody.

The Gala Dinner and Sir Arthur Clarke Awards Ceremony will be held on the evening of Tuesday 28 October 2025.

This event is not to be missed!

Background to the 2025 conference:

Last year we looked at the implications of the Commercial Revolution with the significant increase in the launch of thousands of privately owned and financed low-earth-orbit satellites and the likely move to commercially-funded space exploration with proposals for crewed visits to the Moon and Mars in the next two decades. But it is felt that we hardly scratched the surface.

The Reinventing Space Conference 2025, with its theme The Rapidly Changing Context of Global Space, must now also consider the effect of the recent ‘moves’ in the USA which are causing considerable concern worldwide, particularly in Europe. Already, to be allowed to work with NASA, UK companies may be required to set up US-based subsidiaries. We must continue to work with Europe to be able to compete in the world Space market and must look to creating and funding new projects and missions for launch services, for surveillance and disaster, climate, weather and resource monitoring and for Space sustainability, energy, habitation, science, travel and exploration.
Government agencies, universities, manufacturers and owners and operators of satellites, entrepreneurs and individuals are invited to submit papers on this wide-ranging, but critical, theme to include the legal, logistical, employment and educational requirements to support their thoughts and ideas.

For further information please contact the Reinventing Space team at RISpace@bis-space.com with any questions.

What we did last year…
Reinventing Space Conference 2024

In 2024, the 20th Reinventing Space Conference focused on 'The Commercial Revolution'

Previous to that…

Reinventing Space Conference 2023

In 2023, the 20th Reinventing Space Conference was held at the Spine building in Liverpool and focused on 'The Evolving Architecture of NewSpace'

The conference in 2023 coincided with our 90th Anniversary!