BIS One-Day Symposium: Beyond The Moon 2025

One-Day Ticket

This one-day ticket will give you access to the programme of the Beyond The Moon 2025 Symposium. In-person attendance is encouraged at BIS HQ, located at 27-29 South Lambeth Road, London SW8 1SZ.  This ticket includes a light lunch on the day.  There will be a pay bar in operation at lunchtime and for networking and socialising after the event.  Online attendance is also an option via Zoom.

Provisional Programme.

Morning session; BIS projects in space development. Chair Richard Soilleux

10.00 Introduction. Richard Soilleux. Role of BIS, Moon as Springboard. Recap Project SPACE and Orbital Settlement.
10.10. Island Zero. Jerry Stone.
10.35. Avalon. Richard Soilleux
11.00 Astrochemical engineering; Mars ISRU as case study with focus on H2O. Vasileios Inglezakis.
11.25 Coffee break

11.50 Lunar mining and materials processing. Michel Lamontagne (Zoom)
12.15 Building Avalons in a jig-factory and how much will it cost? Richard Soilleux
12.40 Air Breathing Nuclear SSTOs: Sourcing Much Needed H,C,N for Future Space Colonisation Efforts. Philip Baldock.
13.05 Lunch

Afternoon session; The impact of AI. Chair Gerry Webb.
14.05 AI as an enabler for Space settlement. Sylvester Kaczmarek (Zoom)
14.30 Rewilding Natural Intelligence: The Case for Not Introducing AI into Space. Soumya Banerjee (Zoom)
14.55 Artificial intelligences (AIs) could potentially serve as the catalyst for the first contact between our society and an alien one. Giorgio Gaviraghi (Zoom)
15.20 Coffee break

Late afternoon session; Humans in space.
15.40 A Multi-Agent AI Governance System for Behavioural Health (MAGSBH) Model for Space Exploration. Dame Commander Dr Susan Jewell. (Zoom).

The influence of art on the space experience.
16.05 Reimagining Space: Speculative Infrastructures for an Exponential Era. Dr Adam Kaasa
16.30 Panel discussion. Chair, Gerry Webb.
17.00 End – Bar open.
18.30 Finish

The ticket will only be valid for the day purchased and is non-transferable.

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Symposium attendance prices are listed below. You will need to register on this page to obtain your ticket by making your ticket type selection, adding your ticket to the basket, and completing checkout. After checkout, you will receive an email receipt and your ticket from the BIS in two separate emails.

Ticket Prices:

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• Normal Rate £75
• Over 65s £65
• Student*, 25 and under £25
• Speakers no charge

BIS Member Rates – – – – — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

• £20 for BIS Members in-person attendance to cover cost of lunch, tea and coffee
• no charge for BIS Members’ attendance online via Zoom

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* Students – Suitable proof of student status in the current academic year e.g. through a letter of course enrollment or student card will be required upon request

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