Invited talks will be given by international leaders in discipline-based astronomy education research and in astrobiology.

Paulo Bretones – Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil

Néstor Camino – Complejo Plaza del Cielo – CONICET-FHCS UNPSJB Esquel, Argentina

Charles Cockell – University of Edinburgh, UK; Director of the UK Centre for Astrobiology

Pamela Gay –  Director of Technology and Citizen Science at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, USA.

Nicoletta Lanciano – Università di Roma “La Sapienza “, Italy

Anthony Lelliott – University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Charley Lineweaver – Australian National University, Australia

Karen Meech – University of Hawaii, USA

Constance Walker – National Optical Astronomy Observatory, USA