SPEAKERS
Institutional Speakers
Mazahir AFANDIYEV
Member of Parliament, Milli Majlis - Parliament of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Abderrazak AHLOUCH
Head of the Moroccan-Azerbaijani Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group, Parliament of Azerbaijan
Morocco
Salim ALMALIK
Director General Cabinet, Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Morocco
Elnur ALLAHVERDIYEV
Member of Parliament, Milli Majlis - Parliament of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Vugar BAYRAMOV
Parlamentarian, National Parliament of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Arnold BENCE ÁCS
Head of Department for Space Policy and Space Activities, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Hungary
Florian-Dorel BODOG
Vice President of the Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology, Senate of Romania
Romania
Jorge CICCOROSSI
Senior Engineer, Space Systems Coordination Division, International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
Switzerland
Nicușor CIONOIU
Member of the Committee on Communications, Information Technology, and Artificial Intelligence, Senate of Romania
Romania
Luca DELL'ORO
Chief of the Disaster Risk Management and Climate Resilience Section, United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT)
Switzerland
Mehmet FATIH KACIR
Minister of Industry and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Technology
Türkiye
Aarti HOLLA-MAINI
Director, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
Austria
Marius HUMELNICU
President of the Committee on Communications, Information Technology, and Artificial Intelligence, Senate of Romania
Romania
Fani KALLIANOU DE JONG
Principal Manager, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
United Kingdom
Anar KARIMOV
Representative of ICESCO in Azerbaijan, Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Azerbaijan
Malte KAUFMANN
Member of the Committee of Economic Affairs, German Parliament
Germany
Jan KUBÍK
Member, Chamber of Deputies
Czech Republic
Kevin O'CONNEL
Director (Office of Space Commerce), U.S. Department of Commerce
United States
Malik OLZHABEKOV
Vice-Minister, Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kubanychbek OMURALIEV
Secretary-General, Organization of Turkic States
Türkiye
Muchfig MAMMEDLI
Member of Parliament, Milli Majlis - Parliament of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Tahir MIRKISHILI
Chairman of Committee for Economic Policy, Industries and Enterprising, Parliament of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Eusebiu-Manea PISTRU
Member of the Committee on Communications, Information Technology, and Artificial Intelligence, Senate of Romania
Romania
Maricel POPA
Member of the Committee on Communications, Information Technology, and Artificial Intelligence, Senate of Romania
Romania
Qamar RAHEEL
Head of Science and Technology Sector, Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Morocco
Nazim SAMADOV
Ambassador of the Republic of Morocco and Permanent representative, Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Morocco
Chris SCHACHT
Former Senator and Minister, Senate of Australia
Australia
Muhammad SHARIF
Director/Advisor Science and Technology, Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Morocco
Tamás TORMA
Ambassador of Hungary, Baku Embassy of Hungary
Hungary
Jolanda VAN EIJNDTHOVEN
Director of the Space Data Economy and International Cooperation Unit (DG DEFIS), European Commission
Belgium
Lene WESTGAARD-HALLE
Member, Paliament of Norway
Norway
Bogusław WONTOR
Chairman of the Polish Space Group, Polish Parliament
Poland
Zeynep YILDIZ
Member of the National Education, Culture, Youth and Sports Commission, The Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Türkiye
Ahmet YOZGATLIGİL
Vice Minister of Industry and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Technology
Türkiye
Agency Speakers
James GRAF
Director, Earth Science and Technology, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
United States
Qiong WANG
Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center; Deputy Chief Designer of CLEP Chang'e-8 mission, China National Space Administration (CNSA)
China
Koichi WAKATA
Astronaut and Chief Technology Officer, Asia-Pacific, Axiom Space, LLC
Japan
Industrial Speakers
Valeriya BARASHKOVA
Co-founder, Aerospace Capital
Russia
James GREEN
Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, Space Science Endeavors LLC, The Metavisionaries
United States
Dengyun YU
Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Committee, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
China
Linqi ZHU
Director of Asia Pacific Office, IAF Select Committee on Satellite Commercial Applications
China
Speakers
Khalid S. ABU KHABAR
Researcher, 4 Cell Science Experiments, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
Saudi Arabia
Wijdan AHMADI
Researcher, 4 Cell Science Experiments, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
Saudi Arabia
Mariel BOROWITZ
Associate Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
Pawan GOENKA
Chairman, Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe), Department of Space, Government of India
India
Ozan KARA
Senior Researcher, Propulsion and Space, Technology Innovation Institute
United Arab Emirates
Congmin LYU
Deputy Chief Designer of Space Utilization System of Manned the Space Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Tanja MASSON-ZWAAN
Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the International Institute of Air and Space Law (IIASL), Leiden University
Netherlands
Maheen PARBHOO
Innovation Analyst, Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (RIIS)
South Africa
Nicolas PRODUIT
Research Scientist, University of Geneva Astronomy Department
Switzerland
Sara SABRY
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, DEEP SPACE INITIATIVE
Egypt
Bader SHIRAH
Researcher, 6 Nervous System Experiments, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
Saudi Arabia
Sergey STANOVKIN
Head, BBC Global News Commercial Representatives in Eurasia
United Kingdom
Remco TIMMERMANS
Content Marketer and Social Media Specialist for Space, SpaceSide
United Kingdom
Xiangyu XI
Engineer Of System Research Institute, Deep Space Exploration Laboratory
China
