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.
Confirmed Presentations
Preliminary Speakers
Program, Friday to Sunday July 18-20, 2025
- 7.00am – 12.00am Pacific Standard / 16:00 – 21:00 Central European time: Presentations
- 12.00am – 3.00pm Pacific Standard / 21:00 – 24:00 Central European time: Themed workshops
- Pending sufficient interest, in-situ activities will be arranged in Lappträsk, Sweden, between 10:00 and 15:00 local, Central European time.
Call for Papers and Conference Registration
- 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.
- 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.
- Conference 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.
- 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@isru.tech.
Conference Documentation
A book of abstracts will be made available as soon as there are submitted abstracts and updated continuously.
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
- The prefered format is a Word document on page size A4 (210x297mm). Efforts will be made to accomodate contributions in other document types and formats (“printing” all formats as pdf in A4, adding white space).
- Each presentation page should contain (in this order)
- 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, including text and one or two illustrations.
- 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.
- For examples of presentations, see the LDC2024 book of abstracts.
The deadline for abstract submission is June 20th, but submit earlier and your approved abstract will be included in the pre-conference online book of abstracts!