SPACETIDE Side Event: Shifting Centers of Gravity

As part of its participation in the 2025 SPACETIDE Conference, a major forum for space industry and policy in the Asia-Pacific region, the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) will host a side event on 10 July 2025 titled: “Shifting Centers of Gravity: Politics, Economics and a New Strategic Environment“.

• Date: 10 July 2025
• Time: 13:30–16:30 JST
• Location: Vision Center Tokyo Toranomon, 4F, Room 401B

The space sector is navigating the unprecedented geo-political and geo-economic shifts, the impacts of which remain as uncertain as far-reaching. Join us for this open event exploring the big picture of what the unravelling of World Order means for space exploration, the space economy, space security and space diplomacy.

This event, co-organised by ESPI and the Bertelsmann Foundation (BFNA), will include a networking lunch and will address the issues of economic security and technological sovereignty, international cooperation as well as the growing confluence of power politics, economics, security and commerce in the space arena.

Speakers will include:

• H. Ludwig Moeller (ESPI)
• Kazuto Suzuki (Institute of Geoeconomics)
• Hazuki Mori (World Economic Forum)
• Clayton Swope (CSIS)
• Anthony Silberfeld (BFNA) 

Find the event flyer here.