INTRODUCTION 
In June 2024, the Working Group on Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activities had agreed that an event would be held in Luxembourg during the Space Resources Week entitled "Expert meeting collecting preliminary inputs for consideration at the international conference in Vienna in 2024", which would be co-hosted by Belgium and Luxembourg and organized in cooperation with the United Nations.

• Click here for the webpage of the Working Group on Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activities 
• Click here for the dedicated event website at unoosaem.lu
• Click here to see the event flyer 

PROGRAMME AT GLANCE
The Working Group on Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activities had agreed that the presenters of the expert meeting would be nominated by their respective national delegations and that the list of speakers would be, through close consultations between the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Working Group and States members of the Committee, prepared and finalized (A/78/20, para. 233.) 

The programme for the expert meeting is as follows:

9:00-9:20 - Welcome and Opening Remarks (Luxembourg / Belgium and Chair of the Working Group)
9:20-9:35 - Keynote (Ms. Aarti Holla-Maini, UNOOSA)
9:35-10:45 - Panel #1 - The scope of future space resource activities

Panellists:

• Ernest Tan (Canada)
• Liu Jizhong (China)
• Alexis Paillet (France) 
• Philipp Reiss (Germany)
• Bernhard Hufenbach (Luxembourg)
  
  

10:45-11:00 - Morning Break

11:00-12:10 - Panel #2 - Environmental and socioeconomic aspects of space resource activities

Panellists:

• Jean Robert Batana Pires Ferreira (Brazil)
• Du Hui (China)
• Dr Mardianis (Indonesia)
• Kathryn Hadler (Luxembourg)
• Vlada Stamenković (United States of America)

12:30-13:30 - Lunch

13:30-14:15 - Panel #3 - International cooperation in scientific research and technological development of space resource activities. 

Panellists:

• Carolina Eugenia Catani (Argentina)
• Christian David Mullo Aimacaña (Ecuador)
• Petra Rettberg (Germany)
• Setsuko Aoki (Japan)
• Jeremiasz Merkel (Poland)

14:15-15:20 - Panel #4 -The scope of future space resource activities. 

Moderator: Mahulena Hofmann (Luxembourg) 

Panellists:

• Arvid Bertheau Johannessen (Norway)
• Kevin Cannon (United States)
• Tanabe Kota (Japan)
• Marilena Amoroso (Italy)
• Ayman Mahmoud Mohamed Ahmed (Egypt)

15:20-15:40 - Afternoon Break

15:40-16:45 - Panel #5 - Environmental and socioeconomic aspects of space resource activities 

Panellists:

• Philip de Man (Belgium)
• Laércio Massaru Namiwaka (Brazil)
• Thao Nguyen (United States of America)
• Simone Pirrotta (Italy)
• Jesús Roberto Romero Ruíz (Mexico)

16:45-17:50 - Panel #6 - International cooperation in scientific research and technological development of space resource activities 

Panellists:

• Thales Sehn Körting (Brazil)
• Guo Linli (China)
• Julien-Alexandre Lamamy (Luxembourg)
• Kesniel Humberto Bravo Carpio (Mexico)
• Wilawan Pipatjirattikal (Thailand)

17:50-18:00 - Closing Remarks  (Luxembourg / Belgium and Vice-Chair of the Working Group)