PANEL: Space Skills: Building on our Greatest Asset

Ensuring the sustainability of the space sector depends on recruiting and retaining the best people. The challenges to achieving this are well aired, along with a range of potential solutions. This session will explore how all the elements of the space skills landscape can work together to attract talent from all backgrounds and provide a range of training pathways to develop skilled teams that can deliver the complex challenges that the space sector presents. The panel will consider the actions that individuals, regional clusters and national organisations can take to strengthen our greatest asset: the space workforce. Key Takeaways - Hear practical advice on how the skills ecosystem can work together to attract and retain diverse talent into space - Examine training pathways and development models that build teams for complex space challenges - Identify what individuals, regional clusters and national bodies can do now to strengthen the space workforce