Dr Andrew Cannon AM FAAL was the Senior Mining Warden in SA where he advised on major reforms of the mining legislation and conducted intensive University short courses on resource law. His PhD was on structuring process rules to achieve fair and efficient outcomes. He mediates landowner miner disputes. He is an adjunct Professor at Adelaide University advising on the development of space mining protocols. He is an adjunct Professor at Flinders University and visiting Professor at two universities in Germany teaching constitutional law. He authored the chapter on Space Mining in Thomson Reuters’ Laws of Australia.

Sophia Casanova is currently completing her PhD at the University of New South Wales (UNSW-Sydney) within the School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering (MERE). She received her bachelor's degree with honours in geology at the University of Sydney. As part of her doctoral program, she undertook a one-year research internship with Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, USA. Sophia is on the board of directors for the National Space Society of Australia (NSSA) and is involved in encouraging students to pursue careers in STEM, the mining industry and space sciences.

Nicholas Bennett has extensive experience at the intersection of finance and computation. Analysis, design, and development for financial risk management and trading systems. Long time horizons, high initial investments, and uncertainties challenge the utility of standard risk practices. New tools and techniques could help generate investment by defending and communicating the risk and reward for a proposal. Published work includes; examining the advantages of using GTOs as a novel delivery orbit for lunar propellant, of oxygen as the primary product of a water mine, and rearchitecting proposals to take advantage of scaling laws to drive down costs.

My PhD title was "Design and Application of Swarm Robotics System using ABCO Methods for off-Earth Mining," and I am Joven, a PhD student at The University of Adelaide who attended the Future Mining 2021 Conference. For ISRU and future exploration, the main focus will be on harvesting lunar water ice from a superfrozen crater near the Moon's pole. In 2019 and 2020, I completed my Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering at Curtin University, Bentley (Perth), and my Master's degree in Mining Engineering at The University of Adelaide.

Ben McKeown, B.Eng (Hons) ARSM, MBA, CEng, CDir, FAusIMM, FIOD Ben McKeown has >25 years of global investing and leadership experience in the resources sectors. He is currently Non-Executive Chairman of Tinka Resources (TSXV:TK), and has chaired other companies including Ferrous Resources, Rincon Lithium Ltd, and Jordan Energy & Mining Ltd. Past directorships also include Senex Energy. His early career was in technical and commercial roles internationally, before moving into resources investing with Actis and then Sentient. He is undertaking a PhD in Space Resources at ACSER, UNSW and has completed a Post-Graduate Certificate in Space Resources at the CSM.

Timothy Pelech is currently a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales. His research focusses on Lunar In-Situ Resource Utilisation. He is also a Senior Mining Engineer with 8 years' experience on underground and open pit mining operations around Australia. His research interests include novel mining systems and artificial intelligence applications in mining.

An extractive metallurgist and space enthusiast, Matthew is a PhD candidate with the Swinburne University of Technology. Having experienced the extremes of mining, working in both central Australia and the Arctic, he is now applying his experience in industry and passion for space to the exciting challenge of metal production on the Moon.

Anjelica Williams is a fourth-year mechanical engineering and computer science student at UNSW. She is the recipient of South32's Women in Engineering scholarship. Under the guidance of South32 she completed vacation work at their IMC Appin sites during the summer of 2020/21. She has always been fascinated by space and space exploration.

Lamboray Bob is currently a Policy Officer at the Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) where he is actively involved in the development of the SpaceResources.lu initiative. In this role, he supports the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESIRC) as a strategic advisor. He is also the Luxembourgish delegate at the European Space Agency (ESA) in the Science Programme Committee (SPC) and the Program Board of Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration (PB-HME) overseeing the European Exploration Envelop Programme (E3P). He holds a Master of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).