The Mexico Space Agency under the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation, announced that the “National Congress of Space Activities” CONACES 2024, the most important space event in Mexico, will be held in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, on November 7 and 8.
CONACES is the National Congress of Space Activities of the Mexican Space Agency.
The program includes, as in previous occasions, keynote lectures, workshops, round tables, posters and face-to-face technical sessions in various categories.
In this 5th edition 2024 we are considering holding a “Hakatón” and an amateur rocket launch demonstration. It is an activity that we carry out with the support of current legislation and with the aim of strengthening communication between the different national actors in the space field, promoting the exchange of ideas and knowledge.
As well as inclusion in projects of national and international scope, in addition to contributing to the linking and growth of collaboration networks between professionals in the Mexican space sector, also to promote scientific and technological vocations among young people in Mexico and Latin America.
The organization is in charge of the General Coordination of Human Capital Training and its Directorate of Dissemination of Space Science and Technology.
With the social vision of becoming the epicenter of space development in Mexico, this city offers the ideal conditions to host CONACES, due to its proximity to the SpaceX company and the presence of top-level universities and research centers on both sides of the Mexico-United States border.
“Within the framework of the National Space Activities Program (PNAE) of the AEM, this fifth edition of CONACES, now at the Mundo Nuevo Convention Center in Matamoros, will promote the solid development of the national space sector and its industry,” said the general director of AEM, Salvador Landeros Ayala.
While the general coordinator of Human Capital Training of the AEM, Carlos Duarte Muñoz, recalled that every year CONACES brings together the most important actors in the sector to exchange ideas and establish alliances, which has been key to consolidating the great space community that Mexico already has today, as well as showing its potential and achievements to the world.
This celebration of spatial knowledge includes keynote lectures, workshops, round tables, and face-to-face sessions, which allow the inclusion of national actors in projects of national and international scope, in addition to attracting the vocations of our children and youth in Mexico and Latin America towards science and technology.
This year’s theme is “Space for Sustainability,” as space development is key to the sustainability of life on Earth, highlighting that our public policies must contribute to ensuring the needs of the present, without compromising the needs of future generations.
Given the current boom in nearshoring to relocate companies in Mexico, CONACES also represents a platform to attract sustainable investments to the aerospace sector, and therefore, all interested parties are invited to prepare to attend the largest space event in Mexico.