March 13-15 2020
The Karman Selection Day in March 2020 gathered for the first time an international board consisting of global leaders in tech, science, business, politics and the arts to help select an inaugural group of Karman Fellows.
July 7-9 2020
The Karman Week in July 2020 was a three-day virtual event designed for Karman Fellows to:
November 7 2020
Karman Day 2020 was an invite-only event gathering key stakeholders representing a cross-section of industry, startup, finance, politics, arts and nonprofit sectors from across the globe. The guestlist included speakers from Karman Week, the Fellowship Selection Board, Karman Pioneers and Karman Fellows.
The event featured curated professional speed-dating sessions; the presentation of a cooperative project with Artist Michael Najjar of ten fictional and inspirational space scenarios from the year 2030; and presentations from the Karman Fellows relating to a core mission that they pursued throughout the Fellowship Programme - their Agendas and Commitments.
Over the course of the Karman Fellowship Programme, the Fellows discussed various global issues that space technologies can contribute to solving, together with challenges that exist within the space sector. The cohort organically divided themselves into four agenda groups based on their passions and expertise:
The commitments of the Karman Fellows can be found here:
Space^10 is an artistic and science-fiction inspired document based ten years in the future that has been prepared in cooperation with the artist Michael Najjar whom we deeply thank. The views expressed in this document are independent, inspirational and artistic.