The UK Space Conference is back for 2025 with a new venue, a host of new conference features, and another international line up of expert speakers. Sponsored by the UK Space Agency, this event will create new opportunities for organisations and stakeholders to network, meet and discuss the future of the space sector, defense and research.
Valued at £18.9 billion, the UK space sector contributes widely to national infrastructure, from healthcare services to energy grids. Growth and innovation in this sector have never been stronger, and UK Space Conference is where the world comes to chart the future.
UK Space Conference is an opportunity for everyone connected to the space industry to make transformative connections with policymakers, researchers, investors, aerospace and military decision makers, and the next generation of industry talent.
techUK is supporting on the planning of the 2025 UK Space Conference and feeding in the views of our members.
What to expect at #UKSC2025? Here’s a taste of the mission elements coming to UK Space Conference in 2025:
Fresh perspectives: Space offers opportunities for every industry. We’ll hear new perspectives on collaboration between space and adjacent sectors.
Get hands-on: Engaging, interactive workshop and masterclass sessions will offer deep dives into the solutions required for growth, led by industry experts. Expect audience participation.
Enhanced networking: This event is all about connecting, with new ways to help you meet new people, share ideas and explore opportunities.
Action stations: We’re launching a new post-event report to summarise key solutions and commitments discussed at UK Space Conference – a document for the UK space community to measure progress and accountability over the next two years.
Sponsors and exhibitors: Get in front of space sector decision makers. UK Space Conference 2025 offers a limited number of sponsorship and exhibition opportunities to accommodate all budgets. Download the brochure and speak to our team about your objectives. Get the sponsor brochure now.
Nimmi Patel is the Head of Skills, Talent and Diversity at techUK. She works on all things skills, education, and future of work policy, focusing on upskilling and retraining. Nimmi is also an Advisory Board member of Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (digit). The Centre research aims to increase understanding of how digital technologies are changing work and the implications for employers, workers, job seekers and governments.
Prior to joining the techUK team, she worked for the UK Labour Party and New Zealand Labour Party, and holds an MA in Strategic Communications at King’s College London and BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Manchester. She is currently taking part in the 2024-25 University of Bath Institute for Policy Research Policy Fellowship Programme.
Rory joined techUK in June 2023 after three years in the Civil Service on its Fast Stream leadership development programme.
During this time, Rory worked on the Government's response to Covid-19 (NHS Test & Trace), school funding strategy (Department for Education) and international climate and nature policy (Cabinet Office). He also tackled the social care crisis whilst on secondment to techUK's Health and Social Care programme in 2022.
Before this, Rory worked in the House of Commons and House of Lords alongside completing degrees in Political Economy and Global Politics.
Today, Rory leads techUK's emerging technologies activity across everything from immersive, web3, AI and robotics to space, gaming & metaverse.
This involves co-running techUK's flagship Innovation campaign, managing four series (including the 'Meet the Innovators' interview series), and launching 4-6-month 'sprint campaigns' on transformative technologies and sectors.
Tales has a background in law and economics, with previous experience in the regulation of new technologies and infrastructure.
In the UK and Europe, he offered consultancy on intellectual property rights of cellular and IoT technologies and on the regulatory procedures at the ITU as a Global Fellow at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI).
Tales has an LL.M in Law and Business by the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and an MSc in Regulation at the London School of Economics, with a specialization in Government and Law.