![ROTORTECH 2024 @ RACV Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast](https://www.spatialsource.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Rotortech-2024-logo.jpg?w=280)
The ROTORTECH Helicopter and Uncrewed Flight Exposition is the premier industry event for the Helicopter/Rotary Wing and RPAS/UAV/eVTOL community in Australia, New Zealand and the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.
Held by AMDA Foundation with input from major industry supporter the Australian Helicopter Industry Association, ROTORTECH 2024 will provide a vital interface between industry, regulators and government, including:
- Operations and safety presentations
- Industry conferences
- Manufacturers technical workshops
- Industry exposition showcasing the products and services of helicopter and uncrewed flight related companies
ROTORTECH 2024 will host conferences by the AHIA and Australian Association for Uncrewed Systems (AAUS) and feature presentations by key rotary and uncrewed flight industry experts from Australia and the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.
![Disaster & Emergency Management Conference @ RACV Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast](https://www.spatialsource.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/DEMC.jpg?w=280)
The Disaster & Emergency Management Conference brings together some of Australia and New Zealand’s most dedicated sector leaders, professionals and service providers for two days of learning, listening, strategising and conceptualising the future of the sector.
Participants come from many sectors of the community, including:
- Defence
- Federal and state government heads of departments, directors and coordinators
- General managers and managers of emergency response and emergency services
- Assistant directors and assistant commissioners
- CEOs and business owners and leaders (technology, communication, insurance)
- Directors, coordinators and unit managers of disaster management teams and offices
- Clinical psychologists, mental health or allied health care workers
- Area controllers, disaster response coordinators
- Community engagement officers, recovery managers and community development professionals
- Economists, futurists and environmental scientists
The 2024 conference will tackle themes such as:
- How to navigate current climate challenges in order to enhance resilience
- How to introduce innovative approaches to community risk reduction
- Interagency collaboration and communication
- How to recruit and retain team members
![17th Australian Space Forum @ Adelaide Convention Centre](https://www.spatialsource.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/7651359238_8bf31f10a0_o_625x442.jpg?w=280)
The Australian Space Forum is a bi-annual event that brings together the best and brightest from Australia’s space industry and around the world. The event features keynote addresses from space industry leaders and informative panel discussions on current space topics and industry trends.
Supported by the Australian Space Agency and the South Australian Space Industry Centre, the Forum provides the ideal opportunity to stimulate ideas, share information about emerging technologies and network with influential space sector leaders and the broader community.
Participants can attend in person, or purchase session recordings if they are unable to physically attend.
Image courtesy NASA/R. Simmon/R. Stöckli
![Advancing Earth Observation Forum @ Adelaide Convention Centre](https://www.spatialsource.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AEO.png?w=228)
The second Advancing Earth Observation Forum will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre. The five-day event will attract delegates across a broad spectrum of applications, sensors and interests, including industry, research, defence, government, students and end-users.
The biennial Forum was created to enable the Earth observation (EO) community to communicate, coordinate, collaborate and collectively assess the state of EO in the Australian and Asia-Pacific region.
AEO24 will build on the momentum generated at the inaugural AEO Forum held in Brisbane in 2022, bringing together all sectors involved in EO to propel the sector forward to meet the growing international demand for EO.
![FOSS4G Perth @ Fremantle, Western Australia](https://www.spatialsource.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FOSS4G_Perth_logo_black_400x200.jpg?w=280)
FOSS4G Perth is a local, community-driven gathering of the Perth open geospatial community, focused on sharing news of developments in free and open-source software for geospatial applications.
The event will be an opportunity to share ideas about open-source tools, such as QGIS, PostGIS, OpenStreetMap, Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, Python-based Earth observation libraries and frameworks, GDAL, and many others.
This year’s event will be held in conjunction with the ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium.
The 2024 FOSS4G Perth organising committee comprises:
- Bryan Boruff – University of Western Australia
- Cholena Smart – Mammoth Geospatial
- Grant Boxer – Consultant Geologist
- Ivana Ivanova – Curtin University
- John Bryant (Chair) – Mammoth Geospatial
- John Duncan – University of Western Australia
- John Lang – Consultant
- Keith Moss – WA Government
- Michel Nzikou – DMN Solutions
- Nimalika Fernando
- Petra Helmholz – Curtin University
- Piers Higgs – Gaia Resources
- Renee Manser
- Stafford Smith
- Tracey Cousens – Mineral Resources Limited
- Vincent Dinh – GIS Pro
![76th International Astronautical Congress @ Sydney, Australia](https://www.spatialsource.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IAC-2025_400.jpg?w=260)
The 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), the International Astronautical Federation (IAF)’s premier global space event, will be held in Sydney, Australia from 29 September to 3 October 2025.
Often described as the ‘Olympics of space,’ this prestigious event is where the world’s space community gathers to access the latest space advancements and trends, academic works, industry connections, and partnership opportunities.
The theme for 2025 will be ‘Sustainable Space: Resilient Earth,’ setting the stage for important discussions such as: space-based applications for Earth, sustainable space activities, and sustaining life off Earth.