NewSpace 2013 Program

NewSpace 2013: Preparing for Exponential Growth
July 25-27, 2013, San Jose, CA

Thursday, July 25, 2013
Evolving the Business Model
Companies need to be aware of future changes in their business environment, and be prepared to take
advantage of new opportunities to stay competitive. In the rst panel, we examine the current momentum
of commercialization of space and draw analogies to other sectors that experienced a similar increase in
public private-partnerships, in order to get an idea of what to expect in the future. In the second panel,
we consider how a new technology, such as on-orbit servicing, can impact business decisions and alter the
structure of the industry.
Market Insights
Miniaturization and automation are driving down the costs of conducting experiments and research in space,
and this is enabling a new group of people to utilize spaces unique environment. Companies are springing up
to serve these new markets, such as research and education. In the afternoon, we will examine two dierent
perspectives of these markets. First, we broadly address the challenges of navigating the opportunities and
constraints of these emerging markets. Following this, we focus on microgravity research and take a vertical
cross-section of companies that serve the dierent phases of developing and sending an experiment to space.
Friday, July 26, 2013
Growth of Our Space Enterprise
The global space industry has grown into a $300 billion per year enterprise. Join our Friday morning
programming as we rst explore the role of the International Space Station. The panel International Space
Station: Main Street Commercial Space on ISS will explore how the ISS can serve as a test-bed of activities
and can help to assure growth in the space sector for years to come. After this, we invite to the stage
investors and analysts from across the industry as to discuss the potential of the industry.
Baselines promoting Exponential Growth
As we look toward the future growth of the industry, it is important to examine the past challenges. Our rst
panel, International Space Station: Main Street Commercial Space on ISS will explore current usage of the
International Space Station, discussing how we are utilizing our national lab and building our capabilities
for further development. Our second panel, Funding War Stories: Getting Past the Good Idea will
feature panelists discussing the challenges they have faced in building their business and nding the funding
necessary to bring a good idea to fruition.
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Enabling the Frontier
Technological progression has advanced rapidly since the dawn of the space age, but actual progress in
human space settlement has slowed due to many factors, including monetary and mass budget constraints.
In this segment, we discuss advancing technologies that will enable human space exploration and settlement
from two perspectives: rst, spin-in technologies that have advanced in other elds that are game-changing
to the future of space settlement, and second, advanced technologies that can be used in space operations
in the next 10-20 years.
The Adolescence of Our Spacefaring Civilization
Our spacefaring civilization was born when we rst sent man into space. We achieved a few milestones like
going to the Moon in our childhood, but weve reached an awkward stage where weve made progress but
were still a long way o from the eventual adulthood of having space colonies and human expansion beyond
the solar system. Here, we examine potentially problematic unaddressed legal issues and discuss how to
attract and maintain a continually renewed source of talented candidates to work in the high frontier.
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Letter from the Foundation
NewSpace 2013 Attendees,
The harsh realities of the market, the economy, the government seques-
tration and regulations, and lack of funds for research technologies are
something we have all had to face over the last year. I commend everyone
here who has been able to stand up against these challenges and continue
to advance our future in the space industry but we still have a hard road
ahead. NewSpace 2013 is preparing us for exponential growth.
Consider NewSpace the place for everyone to regroup, come up with ideas
and be inspired by panels, keynotes and networking. NewSpace is a place
where investors, entrepreneurs, students, government ocials, NewSpace
companies and startups are all able to gather in one place to make an
impact. Fueled by passion, creativity, business models and ideas, this is
where the action happens. As we prepare for success, building these re-
lationships is crucial and only available to you all in one place at NewSpace.
Ever wonder where markets are or what technologies are coming? Our
Smashing through the Boundaries Panel and our Growing the Microgravity
Research Market Panel have the answers. We are also not the only ones
in this market; others just dont know it yet. The Technological Capstone
Panel takes a look at technologies developing today that may be applied
game-changing technologies within our industry. Asking why should we
invest in space exploration to our panel of investors and consultants, the
Investors and Analysts panel throws out the question Why Space? Why
now?, but the discussion does not end there. We talk about investment
in our future with the STEM in a Changing World panel bringing together
a wide range of people who are committed to STEM education and know
what is happening today. Finally, join us as we celebrate 25 years in the
business of advancing space exploration at our 25th Anniversary Black-Tie
Birthday Party. I would like to welcome you to NewSpace.
To the stars and beyond,
Sara Jennings
NewSpace Conference Assistant Chair
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Schedule Overview
Schedule Overview
Thursday, July 25, 2013 Day 1
08:00am 08:15am Opening Remarks
08:15am 09:00am Public Private Development and Exploration of Space
09:00am 10:15am New Wave of Public Private Partnership
10:15am 10:45am Networking Break
10:45am 12:00pm A Future with On-Orbit Servicing
12:00pm 01:30pm Lunch: Investing in the Future Trillion Dollar Commercial Space Industry
01:30pm 02:45pm Business Case for Research and Education
02:45pm 03:15pm The Keys to Success
03:15pm 03:45pm Networking Break
03:45pm 05:00pm Growing the Microgravity Research Market
05:00pm 05:30pm Chasing Dreams
06:00pm 08:00pm Welcome to NewSpace Reception
08:00pm 10:00pm Annual Advocates Meeting
Friday, July 26, 2013 Day 2
08:00am 08:30am Growing Partnerships
08:30am 09:45am International Space Station on a Grander Scale: Probing Our Way Forward
09:45am 10:15am Networking Break: Sponsored by ATK
10:15am 11:30am Investors and Analysts: Why Space; Why NOW?
11:30am 01:00pm Lunch: New Frontiers in New Space
01:00pm 01:30pm The Commercial Groundwork for an Open Frontier
01:30pm 02:45pm International Space Station: Main Street Commercial Space on ISS
03:15pm 04:30pm Funding War Stories: Getting Past the Good Idea
04:30pm 05:00pm Space Mineral Resources-Challenges and Opportunities
06:00pm 08:00pm NS13 Tweet-Up
Saturday, July 27, 2013 Day 3
08:00am 08:30am Who? What? When? Where? Why? The guiding stars of opening the
Frontier
08:30am 09:45am Technological Capstone: Spinning In Technologies to Sustain Long-term
Human Presence in Space
10:30am 10:45am There is another way: An approach to sustainable exploration and settle-
ment of space
10:45am 12:00pm Smashing Through the Boundaries: Game-Changing Space Technologies
Emerging in the Next Decade
12:00pm 01:30pm Lunch: Moon Express - Pioneering the Lunar Frontier
01:30pm 02:00pm 13 Terms in Congress Supporting NewSpace
02:00pm 03:15pm Sinking the Iceberg: The Current Legal Landscape of Utilization Rights in
Space (And How We Can Change It)
03:45pm 05:00pm Looking to the Future by Inuencing Today: STEM in a Changing World
05:00pm 05:30pm The Foundation at 25, and our future
06:30pm 09:00pm SPECIAL EVENT: 25th Anniversary Black-Tie Birthday Party
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BLACK TIE BIRTHDAY BASH
RECEPTION, DINNER, AND AWARDS GALA

JULY 27, 2013 DOUBLETREE SAN JOSE
RECEPTION 6:30PM
DRINKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MINGLING
DINNER 7:30PM
DINNER, AWARDS, AND A 25
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ANNIVERSARY TOAST
FEATURING KEYNOTE SPEAKER GEOFF NOTKIN FROM
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AND EMCEE FRANK TODARO

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Detailed Schedule: Thursday, July 25, 2013
Detailed Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all sessions will be held in the Donner Siskiyou Theater, with lunches being held in the Sierra
room. Exhibits and Networking will be held in the Bayshore Foyer and Cascade rooms.
Thursday, July 25, 2013
08:00am 08:15am Opening Remarks
Ryan McLinko Conference Chair, Space Frontier Foundation
08:15am 09:00am Public Private Development and Exploration of Space
Bill Gerstenmaier Associate Administrator Human Exploration and Operations, NASA
09:00am 10:15am New Wave of Public Private Partnership
NASA has successfully leveraged the private sector in developing a new range of launch capa-
bilities through various programs including COTS, CCDev/CCiCap, and Flight Opportunities
Program. Public private partnerships (PPP) are not unique to space, and there are various
analogies from other industries that can be made to the current successes in the space. The
panelists will reect on past experiences that can be translated into future success of PPPs.
Alex MacDonald (moderator) Program Executive, NASA Emerging Commercial Space Oce
Carissa Christensen Managing Partner, Tauri Group
Jason Kessler NASA Asteroid Grand Challenge Program Executive, NASA
Howard McCurdy Professor, American University
Robbie Schingler Co-Founder, Planet Labs
Dennis Stone Manager of Program Integration, Commercial Crew & Cargo Program, NASA
10:45am 12:00pm A Future with On-Orbit Servicing
On-orbit servicing presents new opportunities and capabilities for operating in space. It can
breath new life into aging space assets by providing more fuel for station keeping or by adding
new equipment to enhance its capabilities. Once it is proven technically and deployed for use,
it will surely aect the operational architecture of future systems. The panelists will discuss
the near-term application of on-orbit servicing from dierent perspectives and how its use will
evolve over time.
Dennis Stone (moderator) Manager of Program Integration, Commercial Crew & Cargo
Program, NASA
James Armor Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, ATK
Jim Keravala COO, Shackleton Energy Company
Benjamin Reed Deputy Project Manager, NASA SSCO
Dennis Wingo President, Skycorp
12:00pm 01:30pm Lunch: Investing in the Future Trillion Dollar Commercial Space Industry
Andrew Nelson COO and VP of Business Development, XCOR Aerospace
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01:30pm 02:45pm Business Case for Research and Education
Education and research in space are opportunities for both non-prots and for-prot businesses
in the private sector. Recently, there have been some signicant market shifts in terms of
how national resources are being re-allocated and focused in the public education sector
and in NASA. When such circumstances are coupled with the challenges of implementing
space-based projects, this becomes an interesting topic for debate and discussion, especially
when considering how to pay for it and execute on it as a business opportunity.
Bruce Pittman (moderator) Flight Projects Director, NASA Ames Space Portal
Brad Bailey Sta Scientist, NASA Lunar Science Institute
Peter Platzer CEO, NanoSatis
Werner Vavken AMSE Advisory Board Chairmen, Valley Christian Schools, Vice President
of STEM Partnerships at Quest Institute for Quality Education
02:45pm 03:15pm The Keys to Success
George Nield Associate Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration Oce of Commer-
cial Space Transportation
03:45pm 05:00pm Growing the Microgravity Research Market
The space industry has worked to increase capacity and to provide dierent alternatives for
microgravity research. Today, companies have the option to y microgravity experiments that
last anywhere from a couple seconds to dozens of months using parabolic ights, suborbital
vehicles, sounding rockets, and the ISS. The focus has now shifted to expanding the user
base and to encourage interesting research, and the key to sustainable growth is to make it
commercially viable. There are unique challenges at each phase of a ight project, and we ask
the panelists of their incentives and their vision of the future.
Todd Meyerrose (moderator) Founder and General Partner, Talos Ventures
Kira Blackwell Executive Director of Operations, Chrysalis BioTherapeutics
Mark Deuser President and CEO, TechShot, Inc.
Rich Godwin President and CEO, Zero Gravity Solutions
Jacque Vallee General Partner, Euro-America Ventures
Erika Wagner Business Development Manager, Blue Origin
05:00pm 05:30pm Chasing Dreams
Mark Sirangelo Chairman, Sierra Nevada Corporation - Space Systems
06:00pm 08:00pm Welcome to NewSpace Reception
Start o the conference right by coming to our Welcome Reception. We welcome you to come
socialize with other conference attendees over appetizers and a cash bar.
08:00pm 10:00pm Annual Advocates Meeting
This event is FREE to all Advocates of the Space Frontier Foundation. Although light
refreshments and hors doeuvres will be served, we recommend that Advocates eat dinner
beforehand.
James Pura Space Frontier Foundation
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Detailed Schedule: Friday, July 26, 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013
08:00am 08:30am Growing Partnerships
Lori Garver Deputy Administrator, NASA
08:30am 09:45am International Space Station on a Grander Scale: Probing Our Way Forward
How does the International Space Station t into the larger space enterprise? For many years,
our focus in space was narrow and our activities were somewhat static. However, that is
changing, thanks to the International Space Station. ISS activities provide a testbed when
people go to space - scientic research, new governance models, public engagement, commercial
applications, and human spaceight utilization. It is important to understand the results from
these activities, and what other possibilities are oered by ISS, so that our progress in space
is not only sustainable but is expanding.
James Muncy (moderator) Principal, PoliSpace
Ioana Cozmuta Advanced Supercomputing Division, NASA Ames Research Center
Michael Lopez-Alegria President, Commercial Spaceight Federation
Duane Ratli Chief Operating Ocer, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space
09:45am 10:15am Networking Break: Sponsored by ATK
10:15am 11:30am Investors and Analysts: Why Space; Why NOW?
As the global space industry passes the $300B a year mark, new investment in this area has
become more attractive than ever before. Join us as investors and analysts, from Wall Street
to Silicon Valley, with skin in the game, have an open conversation as to why this is the
case.
Eva-Jane Lark (moderator) Vice-President, BMO Nesbitt Burns
Mostafa Analoui Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences, The Livingston Group
Richard David Co-Founder, CEO, Editor-in-Chief, NewSpace Global
Rich Phillips Founder and President, Phillips & Company
11:30am 01:00pm Lunch: New Frontiers in New Space
Steve Jurvetson Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
01:00pm 01:30pm The Commercial Groundwork for an Open Frontier
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01:30pm 02:45pm International Space Station: Main Street Commercial Space on ISS
Corporate entities across the globe have conducted research aboard the ISS and have done
so with startling success. The unique space environment of the ISS is an attractive research
opportunity to companies attempting to gain a competitive edge or nd new applications for
their products and materials. This panel explores commercial experimentation aboard the ISS
among several dierent industries, illuminating the often-unheard success stories of private
utilization of our space infrastructure.
Richard Pournelle (moderator) Senior Vice-President of Business Development, Nanoracks
Carl Carruthers Researcher Assistant, Houston Methodist Research Institute
Tim DeBenedictis Founder, Southern Stars/SkyCube
Rich Godwin President and Chief Executive Ocer, Zero Gravity Solutions, Inc
Werner Vavken AMSE Advisory Board Chairmen, Valley Christian Schools, Vice President
of STEM Partnerships at Quest Institute for Quality Education
03:15pm 04:30pm Funding War Stories: Getting Past the Good Idea
Having a good idea is only a small part of making a successful business. This panel will feature
several industry and non-industry members sharing their war stories of the challenges it took
to get their business o the ground. Panelists will discuss if they were to have to do it again
for their quest nding funding, what they would do dierently. Further discussion will focus
around what the challenges exist today, and how the challenges dier from those when the
business began.
Lon Levin (moderator) Co-founder, XM Satellite Radio
Sean Mahoney Chief Executive Ocer, Masten Space Systems
Richard Pournelle Senior Vice-President of Business Development, Nanoracks
Rex Ridenoure Founder and CEO, IZUP LLC
04:30pm 05:00pm Space Mineral Resources-Challenges and Opportunities
Art Dula Chairman and Founder, Excalibur Almaz
06:00pm 08:00pm NS13 Tweet-Up
The annual NewSpace Tweet up is the social event open to the space-loving public and
conference attendees. Come join us for an evening full of music, prizes with a rae and the
famous LEGO competiton! Festivities include a a bar full of candy and a cash bar. This event
is free (donations are welcome).
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Detailed Schedule: Saturday, July 27, 2013
Saturday, July 27, 2013
08:00am 08:30am Who? What? When? Where? Why? The guiding stars of opening the Frontier
Unless we know the Why? of an undertaking, and What? we want to achieve, we are likely to
fail. It is only by understanding the goal we want in space and why that is important that we
can lay out a rational and implementable plan to make it happen.
Too often we ignore this rule, and as a result spend billions of dollars and time going nowhere.
Yet, if we can clearly answer the same basic questions taught to any journalism student, we
can use them as our guide and metrics for success as we blaze the trail to the Frontier.
Who? What? When? Where? Why? Answer these questions, use them as the foundation for
planning and execution and make sure that anything we do adheres to our answers and we
will be able throw open the gates of the Solar System to human settlement.
Rick Tumlinson Co-founder, Space Frontier Foundation
08:30am 09:45am Technological Capstone: Spinning In Technologies to Sustain Long-term Human Presence in
Space
Technologies developed for space purposes spin out into industry to solve a smorgasbord of
problems here on Earth. However, other industries are currently developing revolutionary new
technologies that can serve a secondary purpose in space. Spinning in these technologies can
help lower costs, not only in development, but in every phase of a space exploration. In this
panel, we ask the question: What game-changing technologies are already being developed in
other sectors that will revolutionize our path toward permanent human settlement in space,
and how can they be spun-in more quickly?
Bruce Pittman (moderator) Flight Projects Director, NASA Ames Space Portal
John Cumbers Synthetic Biologist, NASA Ames
Jason Dunn Made in Space
10:30am 10:45am There is another way: An approach to sustainable exploration and settlement of space
A video produced by the Space Frontier Foundation
10:45am 12:00pm Smashing Through the Boundaries: Game-Changing Space Technologies Emerging in the
Next Decade
While some technologies can be spun-in from the private sector, other problems are unique to
living in the space environment. Technologies that have long been dreamed of are now close
enough to operational use to be considered in the next generation of vehicles. In this panel,
we discuss game-changing space technologies, where they are in their development processes,
and how they will impact human spaceight and settlement in the long-term future.
Dan Rasky (moderator) Director, Emerging Commercial Space Oce
Gary Barnhard President & CEO, Xtraordinary Innovative Space Partnerships, Inc.
Rob Kelso Executive Director, PISCES
Gary Oleson Senior Engineer, TASC
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12:00pm 01:30pm Lunch: Moon Express - Pioneering the Lunar Frontier
Expanding Earths Economic Sphere to the Moon
Today there is a rebirth of interest in going back to the Moon among many nations. However
while nations navigate the political mineelds and conicting national priorities that justify
the value of the Moon to the everyday tax payer, private players are planning lunar missions
driven by entrepreneurial vision and massive economic opportunity.
Bob Richards Co-Founder & CEO, Moon Express, Inc.
01:30pm 02:00pm 13 Terms in Congress Supporting NewSpace
Expanding Earths Economic Sphere to the Moon
Today there is a rebirth of interest in going back to the Moon among many nations. However
while nations navigate the political mineelds and conicting national priorities that justify
the value of the Moon to the everyday tax payer, private players are planning lunar missions
driven by entrepreneurial vision and massive economic opportunity.
Dana Rohrabacher Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives
02:00pm 03:15pm Sinking the Iceberg: The Current Legal Landscape of Utilization Rights in Space (And How
We Can Change It)
While property rights here on Earth have been established for millennia, the legal landscape of
space outside of Earth orbit is relatively undened. The Outer Space Treaty, widely-ratied in
1967, explicitly forbids any government from appropriating the moon or other celestial bodies,
which some claim prevents anyone using resources in space from doing so without sharing
it with the entire world. However, very ambitious companies have already declared their
intentions to use the resources of space for private gain, and the time has come to re-examine
the laws of outer space utilization and property rights from a modern perspective. In this
panel, we bring together some of the experts on how we could create a practical legal regime,
and develop the technologies needed, to encourage and promote the utilization of resources
beyond low-Earth orbit.
Charles Miller (moderator) President & Owner, NexGen Space LLC
Peter Marquez Vice President, Global Engagement, Planetary Resources, Inc.
Martine Rothblatt Founder & CEO, United Therapeutics
Berin Szoka President, TechFreedom
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Detailed Schedule: Saturday, July 27, 2013
03:45pm 05:00pm Looking to the Future by Inuencing Today: STEM in a Changing World
After the Apollo program, many students lost interest in advancing space, leaving a gap
in the workforce that has been felt for some time now as the median age at NASA creeps
near retirement. Currently, popular culture in the United States is celebrating an uprising
in geek culture. Is the current wave of inspirational media translating into a rise in superior
educational output? In this panel, we discuss how the United States and the world as a
whole can continue to inspire and educate a steady-stream of talented, passionate, and driven
students in the elds of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to not only prevent
gaps in the workforce but also to push the envelope of discovery even harder.
Elizabeth Kennick (moderator) Project Manager, Teachers in Space, Space Frontier Founda-
tion
Amanda Ehly Science Department Chair, Magnolia Science Academy Santa Clara
Lance Erickson Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Joshua Neubert Executive Director, Night Rover Challenge
05:00pm 05:30pm The Foundation at 25, and our future
James Pura Space Frontier Foundation
06:30pm 09:00pm SPECIAL EVENT: 25th Anniversary Black-Tie Birthday Party
Join us Saturday evening for the Black-Tie Birthday Bash! This fabulous event serves to honor
four recipients of top awards for achievements in our eld and to celebrate the 25th anniversary
of the Space Frontier Foundation. The evening begins with drinks and socializing along with
lively entertainment from the Magnolia Jazz Band. The second part of the evening features
a fabulous three-course meal, emcee Frank Todaro, keynote speaker Geo Notkin (of the hit
show Meteorite Men), and the pinnacle awards ceremony. Reception begins at 6:30pm in the
Sierra Ballroom and the dinner at 7:30 pm in the Cascade Ballroom at the DoubleTree by
Hilton Hotel San Jose. As this is a formal event, evening wear is recommended. Come and
enjoy the evening with the most inuential individuals in the industry and toast to a fabulous
25 years of the Foundation.
Geo Notkin Meteorite Men
Frank Todaro Host, The Invisible World
Award Winners
Pioneer of NewSpace Rene Anselmo
NewSpace Journalism Michael Belore
Service to the Frontier James Tumber
Service to the Frontier Bill Boland
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Sponsors and Partners
Space Frontier Foundation
We are transforming space from a government-owned bureaucratic program into a dy-
namic and inclusive frontier open to people. We are determined to convert the image
held by many young people that the future will be worse than the present, and we reject
the idea that the worlds greatest moments are in its past.
Founded in 1988, the Space Frontier Foundation is an advocacy organization committed
to realizing the vision of a greatly expanded and permanent human presence in space.
Space alone oers the resources necessary to ensure the survival and prosperity of our
species for numerous generations to come. To realize this vision, the Foundation is
fundamentally transforming the conception of space as the exclusive domain of govern-
ment and government aliated organizations into a widely accessible frontier ripe with
opportunity. Read about our founding and history.
Through conferences, speakers, policy papers, awards and prizes, and nationally rec-
ognized projects, the Space Frontier Foundation is actively advancing the cause of
NewSpace, the term which has come to represent space infused with the spirit of
entrepreneurial-ism and the free market. Learn more about NewSpace.
The Space Frontier Foundation is composed of a diverse, multinational array of space ac-
tivists, expert scientists and engineers, media and political professionals, entrepreneurs,
and passionate citizens. You too can be a part of the Space Frontier Foundation. Find
out how.
ATK
ATK is an aerospace, defense, and commercial products company with operations in
21 states, Puerto Rico, and internationally. News and information can be found on
the Internet at www.atk.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/atk, or on Twitter
@ATK.
Rostrum, LLC
Rostrum Conference Management Software has been developed for conference manage-
ment by conference managers in order to provide a single tool that can be used to
organize your big event. Seamlessly organize sessions, registrations, sta, and linked
public web content in one easy-to-use system. Rostrum software allows you to organize
and track your conference without a heap of documents and spreadsheets, increasing
the eciency of your team and success of your event.
Made in Space
Founded in 2010 with the goal of enabling in-space manufacturing, Made in Space
set out to radically impact how we do space missions today. Made in Spaces team
members and advisors include successful entrepreneurs (Aaron Kemmer, Jason Dunn,
Mike Chen, Jason Lam, Alison Lewis), experienced space experts (three-time astronaut
Dan Barry and Mission Lead Mike Snyder) and key 3D printing experts (Scott Summit,
Gonzalo Martinez). Made in Space has partnered with top 3D printing companies to
leverage this technology for use in space. The companys Unique Innovation Lab has
done over 20,000+ hours of testing of various 3D printing technologies, o-the-shelf and
custom-built printers, and dozens of printer components.
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XISP
Xtraordinary Innovative Space Partnerships, Inc. (XISP-Inc), has been formed to ac-
complish space-scalable technology and product development that leverages commercial
applications to fund the maturation of the available technology base for both mission
enhancing as well as mission enabling space and terrestrial applications.
XISP-Incs goal is achieving a material reduction in the cost, schedule, and technical
risk associated with the use of innovative technologies currently stranded at low levels
of technological maturity. This is material for both mission enhancing technologies and
mission enabling technologies. Mission enhancing technologies are dened as those tech-
nologies which if suciently mature could enhance the value proposition of a terrestrial
and/or space mission. Mission enabling technologies, are dened as those technologies
which if suciently mature could enable a mission to actually be accomplished that
otherwise would not be practical and/or even possible.
This work will be accomplished by crafting partnerships to create actionable pools of
otherwise stranded intellectual property developed and/or owned by some combination
of the government, commercial, non-governmental, academic, and/or individual con-
cerns which when integrated into an evolving technological commons can be dened
with sucient clarity to allow for protable product development leveraging the same.
The premise is that by contributing to a technological commons with clearly dened
property boundaries the incumbent product development risk is reduced. The syner-
gistic eect of providing a clear articulation of the state-of-the-art, including what is
and is not public domain, provides new opportunities for the participants to create real
products using their unique insights that have a greater potential for direct and indirect
prot. The recursive benet of each product successfully developed is some reduction
in the actual and/or perceived cost, schedule, and/or technical risk associated with the
use of the technology in other applications.
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NanoRacks
We provide the ultimate Plug and Play microgravity research facilities allowing small
standardized payloads to be plugged into any of our platforms, providing interface with
the International Space Station power and data capabilities.
Our company brings together entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers who have real-life
experience and share a passion for space including humanitys utilization of low-earth
orbit. Find out more about our team.
Our philosophy is to bring together three concepts as our driving force: low-cost, stan-
dardization of hardware, and understanding the customer. We like to believe that in
space, small is the new big.
We enjoy partnerships with a growing list of world-class organizations that allows us
to provide seamless support from customer interface to payload development to space
station integration.
NanoRacks originated from an idea developed in 2003 of a low-cost, standardized com-
mercial program for what was to become the U.S. National Lab on International Space
Station.
SEDS
SEDS, the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, is a group dedicated
to expanding the role of human exploration and development of space. SEDS seeks to
educate the public in such a way as to attain this goal. SEDS has many ways of doing
this, including educational outreach, conferences, and chapter projects.
NSRC
The 2013 Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC) is a premier con-
ference for researchers and educators interested in commercial suborbital reusable vehi-
cles. This year, the conference will be held at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomeld,
Colorado, just outside Boulder. Among other things, NSRC-2013 will provide in-depth
NASA, FAA, and ight provider briengs and extensive networking opportunities for
researchers and educators wishing to use next-gen suborbital.
National Space Society
The National Space Societys vision is people living and working in thriving communities
beyond the Earth. NSS members promote change in social, technical, economic, and
political conditions to advance the day when people will live and work in space.
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Space Tech Expo
Space Tech Expo 2013 brings together global decision makers involved in the design,
build, and testing of spacecraft, satellite, launch vehicle, and space-related technolo-
gies. With routes to market through global media partners, ongoing support from its
advisory board and channels via associations and industry bodies, Space Tech Expo
is the premier meeting place connecting end-users with solution providers: a platform
for industry leaders, speciers, and buyers to meet manufacturers and the supply chain
for both civil and commercial space. As one of the largest industry gatherings in the
world, Space Tech Expo attracts scientists, engineers, and C-level professionals, govern-
ment representatives, policy makers, space agencies, military, venture capitalists and
investors, industry entrepreneurs, and buyers from the satellite communications mar-
ketplace. More information at www.spacetechexpo.com.
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Exhibitors
Alanax
Alanax Technologies develops software for modeling, analyzing, and operating space
communication networks. Our software products are essential tools for an aerospace
community that is rapidly adopting internet and packet-based protocols to provide on-
orbit network services for an industry that includes a growing community of cubesat
designers and satellite app developers.
Even before hardware is built or a mission is launched, Alanax software lets aerospace
engineers and ight operators listen to the quality of voice communications, see the
quality of streaming video, or experience the time it takes for a telemetry command
to be processed. This allows our customers to test out applications, network ows,
protocols, and verify requirements either virtually, or with hardware in-the-loop
and obtain high-delity results for their missions early in their design, reducing risk and
saving on the costs of over-engineering to compensate for uncertainty.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AIAA is the worlds leading professional society in the eld of aerospace science, engi-
neering, and operations. We are a service organization focused on creating tangible value
for our individual and corporate members by providing products, services, and venues
that stimulate creative technical exchange on emerging opportunities and critical prob-
lems in the aerospace profession; by facilitating lifelong learning and career enhancement
opportunities for aerospace professionals; by pursuing initiatives on aerospace workforce
development, including a focus on early-career and next-generation professionals; and
by acting as the public policy advocate and voice of the aerospace profession.
ATK Aerospace Systems
ATK is an aerospace, defense, and commercial products company with operations in
21 states, Puerto Rico, and internationally. News and information can be found on
the Internet at www.atk.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/atk, or on Twitter
@ATK.
Base to Space
Base2Space streamlines the hassle of regulatory governmental paperwork and pre-ight
testing for small satellite developers. By providing a cost eective solution matched to
the overall mission costs, Base2Space allows your team can focus on designing, building
and ying your spacecraft. Base2Space - leave bureaucracy and testing to us.
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Embry-Riddle is rated number one in aviation and aerospace college education oering
a wide variety of air and space related degrees.
Heinlein Prize Trust
The Heinlein Prize honors the memory of Robert A. Heinlein, renowned American au-
thor. The purpose of the Heinlein Prize is to encourage and reward progress in commer-
cial space activities that advances Robert and his wife Virginias dream of humanitys
future in space.
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Exhibitors
Humphries & Associates
Humphries & Associates provides engineering consulting and technology licensing for a
modular space manufacturing platform. This unique technology enables manufacturing
facilities to be developed, implemented and deployed for a wide range of spaceborne
applications
IDreamofSpace
Would you pay $10 for a chance to go to space? I Dream of Space is a New Zealand
based company which aims to create a sustainable nancial mechanism to assist in
bringing in the buying power of the 99 percent into the emerging space tourism market,
whilst simultaneously creating the beginnings of an addressable market for future space
initiatives who wish to engage the global consumer markets. Since its inception last
year, I Dream of Space has bootstrapped itself into over a thousand participants in over
30 countries, and currently has an audience of 150,000 followers across various social
media properties.
Innity Aerospace: Ardulab
ArduLab is a low cost open source science platform conforming to the cubesat U form
factor and designed directly for microgravity research aboard the International Space
Station, Suborbital Launch Vehicles, and Parabolic Aircraft. The ArduLab is a NASA
certiable and highly capable experimentation platform ready for space right out of the
box allowing you to focus on your experiment. Bring out the scientist or astronaut in
your students and empower them to launch their ideas into space.
Integrated Spaceight Services
Suborbital and Orbital spaceight participant training.
International Space University (ISU)
The International Space University (ISU) was founded as an international institution
of higher learning, dedicated to the development of outer space for peaceful purposes
through international and multidisciplinary education and research programs. It is a
not-for-prot interdisciplinary university founded in 1987 that oers Master of Science
in Space Studies (MSS) and Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)
degrees. These are in addition to the agship nine-week Space Studies Program (SSP),
a professional development program that has convened annually every summer since
1988 at various locations around the world.
ISU is dedicated to creating the leadership workforce for the global space community.
As of June 2013, there are over 3500 ISU alumni from more than 100 countries, many
now in senior positions at space related agencies, companies, educational and research
institutions, and non-governmental organizations.
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Mach 30
Mach 30 is a US based non-prot with a mission of hastening the advancement of hu-
manity into a spacefaring civilization. Mach 30 approaches this mission through three
principles. The rst principle, sustainable leadership, guides decision makers to favor
long term goals over short term gains. The second principle, open design, creates oppor-
tunities for participation in hardware development to the growing community of makers
and hardware enthusiasts through the methodologies of the open source software and
hardware movements. The third principle, a bias toward mature technology, challenges
engineers to demonstrate what can be done with todays technology instead of propos-
ing solutions that require decades of development. Current work at Mach 30 includes
the development of the rst in a series of rocket test stands, the development of low
cost ground station hardware, building educational partnerships with School Factory
and the Coca Cola Space Science Center, and the development of open policies and pro-
cedures concerning export controls and open source spaceight hardware. Learn more
at mach30.org.
Made in Space
Made In Space was founded in 2010 out of Singularity University at NASA Ames when
a group of 3D printing veterans (such as Autodesk Director Gonzalo Martinez and
Bespoke Designs Founder Scott Summit) and Space Veterans (such as Planetary Re-
sources President Chris Lewicki and 3-time Astronaut Dan Barry) met with successful
entrepreneurs (Aaron Kemmer, Jason Dunn, and Michael Chen).
Now based out of NASA Research Park the company has grown to nearly two dozen
people with over 100 years in the space and 3D printing industry, with the focus of
building a business around building additive manufacturing technologies for space.
Meteorite Men
After appearing in numerous one-o meteorite hunting television shows for PBS, Dis-
covery Channel, the History Channel, the Travel Channel and others, long time friends
and expedition partners Geo Notkin, science writer and owner of Aerolite Meteorites,
and world famous meteorite hunter Steve Arnold were eager to take their unique blend
of adventure, science, and humor to a wider audience.
Moog
Moog designs and manufactures payload, spacecraft, and launch vehicle components
and systems including spacecraft attitude control and mechanisms, reaction wheels, sun
sensors, solar array deployment actuators, antenna positioners and instrument motion
control. We provide propulsion systems and uid control components that support
chemical, electric and cold gas systems. Our launch vehicle oerings include thrust
vector and steering controls, electric and hydraulic actuation and avionics including
build-to-print. We oer spacecraft vibration and shock isolation systems including Soft-
Ride, payload adapters including ESPA, CubeSat carriers supported by multi-payload
sequencers, electromagnetic actuators, ground test equipment and shock testing ser-
vices. Moog also develops hardware and software for spaceight missions and ground
systems, integrating vehicle design, component design and engineering services. Moog
is part of the team that started PlanetiQ.
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Exhibitors
Moon and Back Travel
We are a news content generation and aggregation website covering space, with emphasis
on the personal and commercial spaceight industry.
Our mission is to document for the general public the dawn of this new epoch in
mankinds history, and to make young students aware of the opportunities for careers
in space-related elds.
Open Space University
Platform for NewSpace educational content and DIY Rocket competitions.
OpenLuna
The OpenLuna Foundation was founded to return humanity to the moon through private
enterprise. Its initial goals focus on a stepped program of robotic missions coupled
with extensive public relations and outreach. Following these purely robotic missions,
astronauts on crewed missions will construct a small, 6- to 10-person outpost at a
location scouted by the robotic missions. This settlement will be available to private
individuals, government agencies and research entities. Thats what OpenLuna is about:
a collaboration of professionals, students, enthusiasts, aimed toward one spectacular,
world-changing goal, sustainably returning to the Moon.
Positron Dynamics
Positron Dynamics mission is to bring down the cost of useful antimatter, using novel
positron moderation technologies enabling the production in large numbers of cold
positrons. Near-term applications include semiconductor device imaging and diagnos-
tics, and aerospace non-destructive testing. The long-term goal is to harness the core
technology, coupled with advances in positron storage techniques, for in-space propul-
sion applications that enable missions to the outer Solar System and beyond.
PROSSATeam
PROSSATeam: Puerto Rico Outer Space Satellites Ames-NASA Team. We are a se-
lected group of students from Puerto Rico working with the Lunar Science Institute
at the NASA Ames Research Center to research and learn about new technologies,
programming and space weather using ChipSats, CubeSats and CubeLab payloads.
Silicon Valley Space Center
The Silicon Valley Space Center integrates the innovative and entrepreneurial practices
of Silicon Valley into the burgeoning NewSpace industry. This includes the Valleys
practices for business acceleration, incubation, and angel level funding. The SVSC
enables entrepreneurial start-up or early-stage companies to commercialize products or
service concepts for space, and helps entrepreneurs identify niches in NewSpace markets.
SVSC incorporates the Valleys richness of technology, business, entrepreneurial nance,
and educational leadership.
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Southern Stars
Southern Stars Group, LLC is a world leader in mobile applications for astronomy, and
has been developing planetarium software since 1993. In 2009, Southern Stars developed
SkyFi, the rst wireless iPhone-based solution for telescope control. That product, and
the rst version of the SkySafari iPhone app, won a MacWorld 2010 Best of Show award.
Southern Stars was the also the rst company to ship a Made-for-iPad serial cable for
iOS devices (SkyWire). To date, Southern Stars iPhone apps have been downloaded
more than 2 million times, and have earned ve-star reviews on the app store and by
independent reviewers.
In 2012, Southern Stars successfully completed a crowdfunding campaign to develop
and launch its own satellite, called SkyCube. Due for launch in 2013, SkyCube will let
smartphone users broadcast messages and take pictures from orbit.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Southern Stars Group, LLC has more than three
decades of collective experience in developing astronomical software, telescope control
systems, and instrumentation.
Space Frontier Foundation
We are transforming space from a government-owned bureaucratic program into a dy-
namic and inclusive frontier open to people. We are determined to convert the image
held by many young people that the future will be worse than the present, and we reject
the idea that the worlds greatest moments are in its past.
Founded in 1988, the Space Frontier Foundation is an advocacy organization committed
to realizing the vision of a greatly expanded and permanent human presence in space.
Space alone oers the resources necessary to ensure the survival and prosperity of our
species for numerous generations to come. To realize this vision, the Foundation is
fundamentally transforming the conception of space as the exclusive domain of govern-
ment and government aliated organizations into a widely accessible frontier ripe with
opportunity. Read about our founding and history.
Through conferences, speakers, policy papers, awards and prizes, and nationally rec-
ognized projects, the Space Frontier Foundation is actively advancing the cause of
NewSpace, the term which has come to represent space infused with the spirit of
entrepreneurial-ism and the free market. Learn more about NewSpace.
The Space Frontier Foundation is composed of a diverse, multinational array of space ac-
tivists, expert scientists and engineers, media and political professionals, entrepreneurs,
and passionate citizens. You too can be a part of the Space Frontier Foundation. Find
out how.
Space Tourism Society
Imagine oating in zero gravity while gazing at our beautiful planet Earth majestically
rolling by your view port. Millions of people from around the world would love to have
such a wonderful life-enhancing experience. Founded in 1996, the Space Tourism Society
is the rst organization specically focused on the space tourism industry. Our goals: To
conduct the research, build public desire, and acquire the nancial and political power
to make space tourism available to as many people as possible as soon as possible.
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Exhibitors
Stearns & More Capital
G Stearns is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist at Stearns & More Capital focused
on Sustainability, eCommerce & Social Networks. Educated in philosophy, psychology,
religion and technology. Founder S&MC SPACE & LOHAS Fund & Accelerator. Board
member of Joint Venture Monterey Bay. Member of the National Space Society as a
Space Ambassador for Planetary Sustainability Earth Mars & Beyond...
TEA Party in Space
Our goal is nothing less than the expansion of American civilization into the solar
system. Fifty years ago, the United States was in a Space Race with the Soviet Union.
Our nation applied the strategy we had developed in World War II a crash federal
research and development program that spared no expense to accomplish the short-
term goal of landing an American on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.
America can no longer aord the big government crash model. We must return to
traditional American free-market principles to expand permanently into space. It was
American individuals and businesses who pioneered the wilderness, built a continent-
spanning nation, and created the most prosperous economy in the history of humanity.
Teachers in Space
Teachers in Space improves Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) edu-
cation in America through summer workshops that give teachers authentic astronaut
training and real space science experiences combined with information and resources
that they bring back to their classrooms. Our goals are to inspire large numbers of young
people to study STEM while spreading understanding of the opportunities NewSpace
oers. We want to attract the best and brightest to teach STEM and provide them
with the tools they need to succeed. Discover more at TIS.spacefrontier.org.
VirtuePlay
VirtueSoft is creating purposeful software for humanity enriching applications. Our
aim is to produce responsible Virtual Reality programming that acts as a focal point
to inspire the imaginative vision of children and young adults. Virtues cutting-edge
3D technology will compete in a broad range of software markets. Our technology and
tools create high quality content in areas such as animation, lms, simulation, online
games, mobile, network and embedded technologies.
Vital Space
Vital Space is a new space startup that aims to apply state of the art mobile health tech-
nology, analytics, and multidisciplinary clinical expertise to capture human performance
during aerospace training and ight. The physiologic data captured from clients will
be used to validate health technology, provide clients with tools to visualize and enrich
their ight experience, and further research by helping to create medical risk models for
commercial spaceight. Information regarding human performance and medical device
technology will be explored for potential utility in clinical medicine and research.
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Wyle
Wyles test facility in San Bernardino, CA supports testing in the area of High Tem-
perature & High Pressure Testing and rocket engine development and qualication ser-
vices. Test articles range from Pumps, Valves, Heat Exchanger, Combustor, Cryogenic
components, Flow control devices, and Manifolds. Wyle supports key markets rang-
ing from Energy to Aerospace. For more info contact Burt Sanchez at 310-563-6727
burt.sanchez@wyle.com
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Speaker Biographical Information
Mostafa Analoui Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences, The Livingston Group
Mostafa Analoui, Ph.D., is Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences at The Livingston
Group (New York, NY). Previously he was the Senior Director at Pzer Global Re-
search and Development. Dr. Analoui is actively involved in investment, management
and scientic/business development of nanotechnology, drug discovery/development,
diagnostic imaging, and global strategies. While at Pzer, he was the Site Head for
Global Clinical Technology in Groton and New London, a division focusing on emerg-
ing technologies for development and validation of biomarkers and diagnostics for drug
development. Prior to joining Pzer, Dr. Analoui was the Director of Oral and Max-
illofacial Imaging Research, Associate Professor of Radiology at Indiana University, and
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Comp Engineering at
Purdue University. He was also President and CEO of Therametric Technology Inc. He
has received his Ph.D. from Purdue University, followed by Post-Doctoral Fellowship at
IBM TJ Watson Research Center in NY.
James Armor Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, ATK
MAJOR GENERAL JAMES B. ARMOR, JR., USAF (RET.) is Vice President, Strat-
egy and Business Development for ATK Spacecraft Systems Division, Beltsville, MD.
He is responsible for producing and executing the market strategy for the small satel-
lite, satellite thermal systems and engineering services businesses for government and
commercial space customers. He is ATKs lead for creating a new space market in
on-orbit servicing for military, civil and commercial applications. Major General Ar-
mor retired from the U.S. Air Force in January 2008, where his last position was as
director of the National Security Space Oce (NSSO) in the Oce of the Under Secre-
tary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. He was responsible for coordinating all defense
and intelligence space activities, and testied on acquisition and operational issues to
Congressional Committees and the UN.
Gary Barnhard President & CEO, Xtraordinary Innovative Space Partnerships, Inc.
Gary Barnhard is the President & CEO of Xtraordinary Innovative Space Partnerships,
Inc. (XISP-Inc) a start-up company focused on International Space Station technology
development work as well as Barnhard Associates, LLC, a systems engineering consult-
ing rm and Internet Service Provider (Xisp.net) based in Cabin John, Maryland. He
is a robotic space systems engineer whose professional work includes a wide range of
robotic, space, and computer systems engineering projects. Mr. Barnhard served as a
Space Systems Engineer and Information Systems Architect for EER Systems, and as
a Senior Space Systems Engineer on the Grumman Space Station Systems Engineer-
ing and Integration Contract (SSEIC) responsible for advanced automation and robotic
systems support. He was the Executive Secretary of the Space Station Freedom Pro-
gram Robotics Working Group and received a NASA Group Achievement Award for
the Robotic Systems Integration Standards Interface Design Review Team, as well as an
Outstanding Support Award from the Canadian Space Agency Space Station Freedom
Program Liaison Oce.
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Kira Blackwell Executive Director of Operations, Chrysalis BioTherapeutics
Ms. Blackwell joined Chrysalis BioTherapeutics in November 2012 as the Executive
Director of Operations. Prior to Ms. Blackwell joining Chrysalis, she served as the
Director of Strategic Relations for the Houston Technology Center (HTC) at NASA
Johnson Space Center. During her time at HTC, Ms. Blackwell established the HTC
Aerospace Advisory Board, raised sponsorship funds, and facilitated local and inter-
national partnerships with HTC, aerospace, and the commercial industries to leverage
NASA/JSCs innovative technologies, capabilities, and expertise. Prior to joining HTC,
Ms. Blackwell also worked as the Director of Strategic Relations for Jacobs, one of the
largest contractors for NASA, supporting the engineering and science contract out of
NASA Johnson Space Center. As she joins our team, she brings with her a background
in strategic planning, business/project management, marketing, public relations, and
fundraising. In addition, Ms. Blackwell is an active member of her community serv-
ing on various local boards and committees, volunteering her time and expertise where
needed with a focus on investing in the lives of our young people. As a local resident, she
graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Houston.
Carl Carruthers Researcher Assistant, Houston Methodist Research Institute
Carl grew up in South Florida, completing his A.A. at Broward College and B.S. in
Chemistry/Biochemistry at Florida Atlantic University, then moving to Texas for his
M.S. in Biochemistry at Texas A&M University. Upon graduating in 2008 he began
working at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston, Texas in the lab of
leading nuclear receptor scientists Dr. John Baxter and Dr. Paul Webb. In the Fall
of 2011, in collaboration with The University of Houston and the lab of Dr. Jan-Ake
Gustafsson, Carl began working on his PhD thesis, titled Transcription Factor Activa-
tion Domains and Their Role in Co-Regulator Recruitment. Carl has been the PI of
six microgravity experiments: two uid dynamics experiments own on NASA reduced
gravity aircraft, a genotoxicology experiment own on STS-91, and three protein crys-
tallography projects on STS-134, STS-135 and Expedition 34/35 on the International
Space Station. When not in the lab he can be found ying, photographing or staring
into space.
Carissa Bryce Christensen is a founder and Managing Partner of The Tauri Group, an
analytic consulting rm based in Alexandria, Virginia. Ms. Christensen is a recognized
expert in commercial space, and for 25 years has engaged the leading edge of the space
industry with innovative analysis of space systems, industry economics, advanced tech-
nologies, unique regulatory requirements, and underlying demand. Her on-going work
with government agencies, industry organizations, launch rms, and satellite manufac-
turers and operators helps decision makers better understand market positioning, future
demand for space services, and competitive dynamics.
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Dr. Ioana Cozmuta Advanced Supercomputing Division, NASA Ames Research
Center
Dr. Ioana Cozumta works for STC at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division,
Ames Research Center. She has been at Ames for 10 years during which she has worked
extensively in the eld of nanotechnology and TPS design. She has a broad expertise in
the eld of Entry, Descent, and Landing on subject areas such as TPS design and related
uncertainty analysis with participation in projects including StarDust, Orion-CEV, and
MSL/MEDLI. Her major focus is to try to utilize scientic judgment, systematic and
critical thinking as well as seamless use of both theoretical, analytical, and experimen-
tal techniques in the eld of engineering to approach subjects such as understanding
material catalysis under extreme conditions, high delity thermal ablation models, TPS
design, uncertainty, risk and reliability analysis, instrumentation data to inform ground
based models. In the eld of surface catalysis/gas-surface interactions she is the orig-
inator of a study assessing the use of various computational chemistry techniques to
look into the fundamental mechanisms underlying surface catalysis. Dr. Ioana Cozumta
received her PhD in Physics from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands in 2001
followed by two postdoctoral studies at Caltech (Computational Chemistry) and Stan-
ford (Genomics/Computational Biochemistry).
John Cumbers Synthetic Biologist, NASA Ames
John Cumbers has been working as a synthetic biologist at NASA Ames since 2008
where he was instrumental in starting NASAs Synthetic Biology Program and where
he co-chaired the rst workshop on the applications of synthetic biology to NASAs
mission. John has a Ph.D in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry from
Brown University and studied the mechanisms of radiation resistance and cold tolerance
in cyanobacteria from extreme environments. His work is now in the area of bioelec-
trosynthesis, using electricity as an energy source to fuel biological metabolism and in
mission designs for the production of food in space from in situ resources. Outside of
NASA John works with a number of synthetic biology companies. He co-founded the
startup Universal Biomining, started the SynBio Launchpad Accelerator program and
the SynBioBeta Conference and podcast series.
Richard David Co-Founder, CEO, Editor-in-Chief, NewSpace Global
Richard M. David is CEO and Co-Founder of NewSpace Global, a New York-based in-
formation services provider that focuses on the NewSpace industry. NewSpace Globals
Analysts track over 400 privately and publicly held companies worldwide actively po-
sitioning themselves to benet from the commercialization of space. NewSpace Global
has been featured by CNN, CNBC, Fox News, Le Temps, USA Today, Euro Money,
MillionaireAsia, Le Monde, S uddeutsche Zeitung and Hungton Post. Richard has
spoken at numerous venues worldwide including Harvard Business School, the Brazil-
ian Space Agency (AEB), Stanford University, Canada Space Commerce Association,
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the Center for Vision & Values. Prior to
launching NewSpace Global, Richard worked as a private equity fund formation attor-
ney for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in their New York and London oces. Richard
holds a JD from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Tim DeBenedictis Founder, Southern Stars/SkyCube
Tim DeBenedictis has been writing astronomy software since his high school days. After
graduating from MIT in 1993 with a degree in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary
science, Tim found himself in Silicon Valley when the internet boom began. He held
engineering positions at several nancial services and technology companies throughout
the dot-com boom, and returned to his astronomical roots after the bust. Tim was
also one of the two principal designers behind the award-winning SkySafari iPhone app
and SkyFi wireless controller. Tim currently resides in San Francisco, California. In
his spare time, he enjoys cycling, backpacking, skiing, and sailing on the San Francisco
bay.
Mark Deuser President and CEO, TechShot, Inc.
Mark Deuser co-founded Techshot, Inc., a product and technology development com-
pany, twenty ve years ago and serves as its president and chief executive ocer. He has
guided and successfully grown Techshot to prominence, as acknowledged by numerous
awards and recognition in the national media, including being listed two consecutive
years on Inc. Magazines list of 500 fastest growing companies in America. Under his
leadership, Techshot has developed equipment own aboard seven space shuttle missions
and has become the regions leading recipient of Small Business Innovation Research
contracts with the federal government.
Art Dula Chairman and Founder, Excalibur Almaz
Art Dula is a renowned spaceight visionary, an entrepreneur championing commercial
spaceight, an international business leader, and a recognized aerospace attorney. Mr.
Dula has over 30 years experience including startup support for many new spaceight
companies including Eagle Aerospace Inc., Space Services Inc. which launched the rst
private US space vehicle, Spacehab Inc. which built the Spacehab modules for the
NASA Space Shuttle, Space Commerce Corporation (Dula was Director and President
for the rst US-Russian aerospace joint venture), and legal guidance to Ad Astra Rocket
Company presently under NASA contract for future deep-space programs. His history
demonstrates legal work on international space challenges to the US Congress such
as Space Stations and the Law: Selected Legal Issues, plus support to drafting the
law controlling the licensing of private space launch services. He has been a NASA
consultant on Space Shuttle contracts and legal advisor for International Space Station
issues.
Jason Dunn Made in Space
Jason Dunn holds two degrees in aerospace engineering and is a young space en-
trepreneur currently building his second space company, Made In Space. As Chief
Technologist of the company, he is leading a team to build and y a 3D Printer on the
International Space Station. Once in operation it will mark the rst time in history
that Humanity has manufactured o-Earth. In 2008 Jason formed his rst company,
Earthrise Space Incorporated (ESI). The mission of ESI was to give students rst hand
experience building real space missions. Looking for a way to get to the future faster,
Jason attended the Graduate Summer Program (GSP) at Singularity University during
the summer of 2010. In late 2010, Jason also began work with Moon Express, a con-
tender in the Google Lunar X PRIZE. In January of 2013 Jason left Moon Express to
dedicate his entire attention to Made In Space. Today you can nd him at Made In
Space Head Quarters at NASA Ames Research Park in Moett Field, CA.
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Amanda Ehly Science Department Chair, Magnolia Science Academy Santa Clara
As a freshman in college, Amanda Ehly began volunteering in a 1st grade classroom.
Immediately she knew teaching was what she was meant to do. She continued volun-
teering until she graduated in 2002. After spending three years working with elementary
students, she pursued her multiple subject teaching credential. She went on to teach
grades rst through fth. In 2008, Amanda returned to college to obtain her authoriza-
tion to teach middle school science. Her classroom experience includes pubic schools,
private schools, as well as her current position in a public charter at Magnolia Science
Academy Santa Clara. She has also worked with Pearson Prentice Hall publishing,
NAEP testing, and Alternatives Unlimited, an educational tutoring company. She has
had students recognized yearly at the Synopsis Science Fair, formed Science Bowl and
Science Olympiads teams, as well as had a student medal at the 2013 INEPO science fair
in Turkey. She continues to look for new and creative ways to get students interested
in science and engineering.
Lance Erickson Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Dr. Lance Erickson received a B.S. in physics at Sonoma State, California in 1987, and a
Ph. D. in astronomy at the University of Florida in 1987. Following a post-doc position
at UF, Dr. Erickson joined Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach,
Florida in 1988. His work in curriculum development began with the minor in Space
Studies introduced in 1990, then a specialization of Space Studies in ERAUs Master in
Aeronautics in 1991. Dr. Ericksons research in radio astronomy and galactic dynamics
continued with NASA grants from the JOVE program in 1998. A recent NASA-Florida
Space Grant Consortium grant was awarded Dr. Erickson for the development of the
undergraduate degree in Commercial Space Operations. He was also awarded funding
for curriculum development and teaching space ight and technology in the Ukraine by
the Fulbright Scholar Program during the 2011-2012 academic year. His publications
record includes two textbooks in space ight: Space Shuttle Operations and Technol-
ogy (Linus Publications, 2007) and Spaceight: History, Technology, and Operations
(Scarecrow Press, 2010).
Lori Garver Deputy Administrator, NASA
Nominated by President Barack Obama and conrmed by the U.S. Senate, Lori Beth
Garver began her duties as the deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration on July 17, 2009. As deputy administrator, Garver is NASAs sec-
ond in command. She works closely with the administrator to provide overall leadership,
planning, and policy direction for the agency. Together with the NASA administrator,
Garver represents NASA to the Executive Oce of the President, Congress, heads of
government agencies, international organizations, and external organizations and com-
munities. She also oversees the work of NASAs functional oces. She lives in Virginia
with her husband, David Brandt, and their sons Wesley and Mitchell.
Bill Gerstenmaier Associate Administrator Human Exploration and Operations,
NASA
William H. Gerstenmaier is the associate administrator for the Human Exploration and
Operations Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. In this position,
Gerstenmaier provides strategic direction for all aspects of NASAs human exploration
of space and cross-agency space support functions of space communications and space
launch vehicles. He provides programmatic direction for the continued operation and
utilization of the International Space Station, development of the Space Launch System
and Orion spacecraft, and is providing strategic guidance and direction for the commer-
cial crew and cargo programs that will provide logistics and crew transportation for the
International Space Station.
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Mr. Godwin has been very active in the U.S. Space Exploration eld and is considered
an expert on national space policy. More recently, Richard has been sub-contracted
as a business development consultant for SpaceX, working on their nascent DragonLab
program. His consultancy company clients include businesses in Bio-Tech, online pub-
lishing, science, STEM education, space and alternative energy engineering as well as a
variety of marketing arenas. Mr. Godwin has a long history as an entrepreneur. He has
founded, built, and successfully sold companies in the UK, Canada and the U.S. over
the past 30 years.
Rich Godwin President and Chief Executive Ocer, Zero Gravity Solutions, Inc
Mr. Godwin has been very active in the U.S. Space Exploration eld and is considered an
expert on national space policy; to that end he has testied at a U.S. Senate Roundtable.
He was called to attend a high-level national policy group to assist in the design of
Americas space policy in the wake of the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster. More
recently, Richard has been sub-contracted as a business development consultant for
SpaceX, working on their nascent DragonLab program. His consultancy company clients
include businesses in Bio-Tech, online publishing, science, STEM education, space and
alternative energy engineering as well as a variety of marketing arenas. Mr. Godwin has
a long history as an entrepreneur. He has founded, built, and successfully sold companies
in the UK, Canada and the U.S. over the past 30 years. Notable achievements in the
UK include the creation of a small restaurant chain in the late 70s, which he quickly
grew and sold for a prot. At the age of 26, Godwin purchased a 24-bedroom country
manor estate, increased the business revenues by a factor of 40, and sold the business
only a year later. He next purchased a small division of Thorn EMI, Plc, in London.
Again, he grew and sold the company for substantial prot in just three years. After
moving to America in 1987, while appointed senior, exclusive broker for one of Mitsubishi
Corporations Divisions, he identied and developed another niche industry. Later, he
founded a compact disc import company in the Chicago area; he developed and grew
this organization, which rapidly became the largest import distributor of recorded music
in the U.S. with annual sales of over thirty million dollars (US$ 30,000,000.00). From
there, he was able to create several sub-companies, as a part of a small conglomerate,
including three record labels and a book publishing company, which he still owns today
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Steve Jurvetson Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where his current
board responsibilities include SpaceX, Synthetic Genomics, and Tesla Motors (TSLA).
He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), Kana
(KANA), and NeoPhotonics (NPTN). He also led DFJs investments in other com-
panies that were acquired for $12 billion in aggregate. Previously, Steve was an R&D
Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fab-
ricated. His prior technical experience also includes programming, materials science
research, and computer design at HPs PC Division, the Center for Materials Research,
and Mostek. He has also worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT Software.
He was honored as The Valleys Sharpest VC on the cover of Business 2.0 and chosen
by the SF Chronicle and SF Examiner as one of the ten people expected to have the
greatest impact on the Bay Area in the early part of the 21st Century. Steve was
chosen by Forbes as one of Techs Best Venture Investors, by the VC Journal as one
of the Ten Most Inuential VCs, and by Fortune as part of their Brain Trust of
Top Ten Minds. Steve was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic
Forum, as a Distinguished Alumnus by St. Marks (where he was the Commencement
Speaker), and as Deloittes Venture Capitalist of the Year for 2012.
Rob Kelso Executive Director, PISCES
Rob was newly announced in November 2012 as the new Executive Director of the Pacic
International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES). Rob was a 37 year, career
civil servant of the NASA-Johnson Space Center and a former NASA Shuttle Flight
Director in NASAs famed Mission Control Center. Robs career in ight operations
spanned 21 year beginning as a ight controller on STS-1 in April 1981. In February
1988, Rob was selected to the Flight Director Class of 1988. He directed 25 Space
Shuttle Missions in the 1980s and 90s. He also served as NASA Mission Director
responsible for launch/delivery of the large Chandra X-Ray telescope, the last of the
great NASA observatories. Later, Rob served on Johnson Space Center senior sta as
Deputy Director for Safety and Mission Assurance at JSC. Rob has been the recipient
of the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, and NASA Exceptional Service Medal.
Elizabeth Kennick Project Manager, Teachers in Space, Space Frontier Foundation
Liz Kennick was named Project Manager and Principal Investigator for Teachers in
Space in November 2011. A member of SFFs Board since 2009, Liz was previously
Vice President of Client Technology at Morgan Stanley with a $2M annual budget for
1700 software users. She holds degrees in Information Systems / Operations Analysis,
English, and Education. Liz has produced Yuris Night NY, a space-themed party for
200+ guests, annually since 2008, and TEDxMidTownNY, as space-themed speaker se-
ries, in 2010-2011. Liz created the Space Frontier Foundations Business Plan Bootcamp
for the 5 nalists in the foundations 2011 Business Plan Competition, and was a judge
at the 2011 SEDS Student Business Plan Competition. She has owned and operated
Escape Guesthouse LLC, a boutique bed and breakfast in Brooklyn, New York since
2006.
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Jim Keravala COO, Shackleton Energy Company
Jim Keravala is the COO and cofounder of Shackleton Energy Company Inc. He comes
with a signicant background in space development and operations. He was Director of
a space company for seven years arranging launch programs and space access with Rus-
sian launch vehicles, and he subsequently joined Surrey Satellite Technology as Launch
Manager for ve years, overseeing several successful orbital launches on Russian, Euro-
pean and U.S. launch vehicles. In this role he was also involved in the establishment
of new space programs for emerging space nations. In 2012 Jim was appointed by the
Governor of Hawaii to the Board of PISCES, establishing an industrial Lunar research
facility, reecting his work at Shackleton Energy Company. He has a background in
aerospace, spacecraft engineering and physics. With additional operational experience
in the nance, construction, transportation and mining sectors, Jim has also success-
fully raised venture capital in Silicon Valley and cofounded and led several space and
technology companies.
Jason Kessler NASA Asteroid Grand Challenge Program Executive, NASA
Jason Kessler is currently working in the Innovation Oce within the Oce of the Chief
Technologist at NASA Headquarters and leading the Grand Challenge to nd all aster-
oid threats to human populations and know what to do about them by leveraging new
partnerships and individual contributions through public private partnerships, citizen
science initiatives, crowdsourcing, incentive prizes, and other participatory engagement
approaches to aid in solving this problem. Previously, he served as the Deputy Project
Director for NASAs SERVIR project and as the NASA Deputy Chief of Sta.
Eva-Jane Lark Vice-President, BMO Nesbitt Burns
Eva-Jane Lark is a Vice-President and Investment Advisor with BMO Nesbitt Burns,
one of Canadas largest full-service investment rms. For over 20 years, she has provided
expert advice on a wide variety of investment and wealth management issues. In 2003,
Eva revived her childhood passion for seeing humanity live and thrive beyond Earth.
Researching the state of the space industry, she began to consider how to contribute to
such a future by taking a more active role. She has presented papers at space confer-
ences, starting with the Investment Financing of Exploration. In that eort, she took
a probing look at how historical journeys of exploration had been funded, discovering
a number of parallels facing the space exploration community today. She has been an
invited speaker, panellist and judge (for several NewSpace Business Plan Competitions)
to discuss topics including: nancing for new space companies and markets; business
accelerators; business case issues facing Space-Based Solar Power as a future energy
source; and for her insights as a keen observer of the emerging new space industries.
Eva-Jane Lark is a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute and holds an Honours
Bachelors Degree in Commerce. She is a member of the Management Advisory Board
for the Center for Space Power at Texas A&M University (now called SERC Space
Engineering Research Center) and of the Board of Advisors of The Lifeboat Foundation
and SPACE Canada.
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Lon Levin Co-founder, XM Satellite Radio
Lon Levin is an entrepreneur and executive with more than 20 years experience in the
space, new media, and telecommunications industries. Lon is President of SkySeven-
Ventures, which works with and invests in new technologies, particularly space based
businesses. He is the co-founder of XM Satellite Radio and played an integral role in
the formation and development of other satellite, media, and wireless companies in-
cluding Mobile Satellite Ventures, XM Canada, Motient Corporation, American Mobile
Satellite Corporation, and TerreStar Networks. Before his corporate career, Lon was
a partner in the law rm Gurman, Kurtis, Blask & Freedman, where he specialized in
space, satellite, media, and wireless matters. He started his career as an attorney at
the Federal Communications Commission.
Michael Lopez-Alegria is the President of the Commercial Spaceight Federation. He
comes from a distinguished background in aerospace which includes positions as a Naval
Aviator and test pilot (Capt., U.S. Navy, Ret.), NASA astronaut and International
Space Station (ISS) commander. He has over three decades of experience with the U.S.
Navy and NASA in a variety of roles including Naval Aviator, Navy engineering test
pilot and program manager, NASA astronaut, ISS commander, and assistant director of
ight crew operations. Lopez-Alegria has own on Space Shuttle missions STS-73, STS-
92, and STS-113, and served as Commander of ISS Expedition 14 in which he ew to and
from the ISS aboard a Soyuz TMA-9. He holds three NASA records: longest spaceight
(215 days); most number of Extravehicular Activities (EVA) (10) and cumulative EVA
time (67 hours 40 minutes). Lopez-Alegria has most recently served as the Assistant
for ISS to the Director of Flight Crew Operations at NASAs Johnson Space Center in
Houston.
Alex MacDonald Program Executive, NASA Emerging Commercial Space Oce
Alexander MacDonald leads NASAs Emerging Commercial Space Oce as a Program
Executive within NASAs Oce of the Chief Technologist. He serves at NASA through
an intergovernmental personnel agreement with Carnegie Mellon University, where he
is a research faculty member. His academic research has focused on the economics of
space development, beginning with his doctoral dissertation at the University of Oxford
on the long-run economic history of American space exploration. He is also a Senior
TED Fellow and a Clarendon Scholar.
Sean Mahoney Chief Executive Ocer, Masten Space Systems
Sean Mahoney is the CEO of Masten Space Systems, an aerospace R&D and ight
services company that creates and deploys reliable, reusable rocket vehicles and com-
ponents. Since joining Masten in 2010 as Director of Business Operations, Sean has
focused on building a sustainable, customer-funded business. He has been instrumen-
tal in establishing Masten as one of the rising stars in the New Space movement. He
served as COO during 2011-2012 and was named CEO in 2013. Sean has over 15 years
of corporate and technology industry experience, having founded and led a number of
technology start-up ventures, and raised multiple rounds of private funding. Sean began
his career overseeing technical sales and building internal organizations as a manager
at AT&Ts Enterprise hosting division. Sean received his MBA from Emory Univer-
sitys Goizueta Business School and serves in a leadership capacity for a number of
entrepreneurship and environmental non-prot organizations.
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Peter Marquez Vice President, Global Engagement, Planetary Resources, Inc.
Mr. Marquez served as the space policy advisor to two Presidents and has an extensive
background in civil and national security space activities of the U.S. Marquez served as
the Director of Space Policy for Presidents Bush and Obama. He was responsible for
the development and execution of U.S. national space policy. He also held positions in
the acquisition, requirements and policy elds of U.S. national security space programs.
Peter graduated from George Washington Universitys Space Policy Institute with a
masters degree in Science and Technology Policy. At Planetary Resources, Mr. Mar-
quez works with the U.S. Government and the international community on domestic
and global opportunities that will assist Planetary Resources in achieving its long-term
mission.
Howard McCurdy Professor, American University
Dr. Howard McCurdy is professor of public aairs in the public administration and
policy department at American University in Washington, D.C. Public management,
organization theory, science policy, and nancial management are the focus of Professor
McCurdys teaching and research. An expert on space policy, he recently completed
a second edition of his award-winning Space and the American Imagination. A co-
authored book on Robots in Space explores the human-machine debate, while Faster,
Better, Cheaper provides a critical analysis of cost-cutting initiatives in the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration. An earlier study of NASAs organizational cul-
ture, Inside NASA, won the 1994 Henry Adams prize for that years best history on the
federal government. Among his other publications are books on public administration,
the space station decision, and the myth of presidential leadership. He is often consulted
by the media on public policy issues and has appeared on national news outlets such as
the Jim Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio, and NBC Nightly News.
Ryan McLinko Conference Chair, Space Frontier Foundation
Ryan McLinko is a Systems Engineer at Sierra Nevada Corporation, where he is devel-
oping ight control systems for the Dream Chaser vehicle, is a Project Manager and
Director at the Space Frontier Foundation, where he chairs the annual NewSpace con-
ference and serves on the Board of Directors, and is co-Founder and CEO of Rostrum,
LLC, which provides integrated conference management solutions. He also serves as an
adviser to the SEDS-USA Endowment Fund. Ryan is a graduate of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, with Bachelors and Masters degrees in Aerospace Engineering;
his Masters thesis was entitled Structural Design of Low Cost, Rapid Development
Satellites. At each of the summers during his tenure at MIT, he has interned with
various organizations and companies: the Mars Gravity Biosatellite Project, InfoScitex
Corporation, United Launch Alliance, and SpaceX. While in school, he was heavily in-
volved with SEDS, serving many roles in the MIT chapter, including President, serving
as Webmaster and then Vice Chair in SEDS-USA, and chairing the SpaceVision 2007
Conference. Furthermore, he was heavily involved with the MIT Satellite Team, Project
TALARIS, Mars Gravity Biosatellite Project, MIT Rocket Team, MIT Power Beaming
Team, UAV Team, and Space Architects Group, MIT AIAA, and E33 Productions.
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Todd Meyerrose Founder and General Partner, Talos Ventures
Over the last 15 years, Dr. Meyerrose has led a successful career in regenerative medicine,
completing graduate research in Craniofacial Biology and Development at the Univer-
sity of Southern California and in Molecular Cell Biology at the Washington University
in St Louis. He has helped develop therapeutic interventions for genetic disorders,
wound healing, and bone marrow transplantation. Following his post-doctoral study
at the Whitehead Institute in Boston, Dr. Meyerrose has launched several successful
companies, aimed at accelerating the development of emerging technologies into ther-
apeutic intervention. Expanding this concept to drive even more resources to these
technologies, he formed Evil Genius consulting and Leverage Venture Capital Group
to provide venture funds, micro-loans, and executive mentoring services to early stage
high technology companies. Dr. Meyerrose is currently involved in technology sourcing
and commercialization from within the network of NASA scientists and engineers.
Charles Miller President & Owner, NexGen Space LLC
Mr. Miller is the President of NexGen Space LLC, which provides client-based services
at the intersection of commercial space, civil space and public policy. Mr. Miller served
recently as NASA Senior Advisor for Commercial Space where he advised senior NASA
leaders on commercial space options and strategies. He also served as NASA program ex-
ecutive for the Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research (CRuSR) program, manager
of NASAs Commercial RLV Technology Roadmap study, and the leader of NASAs pro-
pellant depot study team. Prior to coming to NASA, Mr. Miller co-founded Nanoracks
LLC, a disruptive entrepreneurial venture that has delivered over 90 paying customer
payloads to the ISS in the last two years, and has at least 120 customer payloads under
contract. In the 1990s, Miller was the founder and President of ProSpace, which was
called The Citizens Space Lobby. Under Mr. Miller, ProSpace was instrumental in
the passage of space-related legislative initiatives, including the Commercial Space Act
of 1998. Miller has received several awards for his work in the aerospace eld, including
the Vision in Action award from the Space Frontier Foundation.
James Muncy Principal, PoliSpace
James A. M. Muncy is the founder and principal of PoliSpace, an independent space pol-
icy consultancy that helps space entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs succeed at the nexus
of business, public aairs, and technology. His current clients include several companies
and organizations in the emerging commercial launch and human spaceight industry,
ventures oering commercial services to NASA science and spaceight programs, and
rms developing operationally responsive launch capabilities for the U.S. Air Force.
Andrew Nelson COO and VP of Business Development, XCOR Aerospace
Andrew Nelson is Chief Operating Ocer and Vice-President of Business Development
for XCOR Aerospace. In this role, he is responsible for leading the XCOR business team
that performs a variety of critical functions including: the establishment of commercial
operations of the XCOR Lynx suborbital vehicle at operating locations around the US
and abroad, regulatory compliance & export licensing, all sales & marketing functions
of the company, intellectual property strategy, and the other administrative functions of
the company such as fundraising, investor relations, administration, nance and human
resources. Andrew has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University focused
on avionics and space telecoms. He studied at the London School of Economics and has
an MBA with a dual focus on Finance and Entrepreneurship from MITs Sloan School
of Management.
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Joshua Neubert Executive Director, Night Rover Challenge
Mr. Neubert has extensive experience managing non-prot organizations and incentive
prize competitions. He began his career at the X PRIZE Foundation where he led the
development of the X PRIZE Cup education programs engaging over 12,000 students in
science and technology competitions, demonstrations, and hands-on activities. During
his time at the X PRIZE Foundation he also created the Spirit of Innovation Awards.
Mr. Neubert then teamed up with Nancy Conrad, wife of late Apollo 12 Commander
Pete Conrad, to expand the Spirit of Innovation Awards and launch Conrad Founda-
tion. In 2011, he partnered with the Cleantech Open and NASAs Oce of the Chief
Technologist to launch the Night Rover Challenge, a $1.5 Million dollar energy storage
competition. This competition is part of NASAs successful Centennial Challenges pro-
gram driving innovation in revolutionary technologies of interest to the space agency.
In 2012, Mr. Neubert founded Zozude.com to help students and teachers better connect
with educational competitions, and co-founded the Institute of Competition Sciences, a
non-prot think-tank on competition based innovation.
George Nield Associate Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration Oce of
Commercial Space Transportation
Dr. George C. Nield serves as the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Trans-
portation at the FAA. He has over 30 years of aerospace experience with the Air Force,
at NASA, and in private industry. Dr. Nield came to FAA from the Orbital Sciences
Corporation, where he served as Senior Scientist for the Advanced Programs Group.
His previous assignments include working as an Astronautical Engineer at the Space
and Missile Systems Organization, a Flight Test Engineer at the Air Force Flight Test
Center, and an Assistant Professor and Research Director at the USAF Academy. He
was the Manager of the Flight Integration Oce for the Space Shuttle Program at the
NASA Johnson Space Center, and later worked on both the Shuttle/Mir Program and
the International Space Station Program. A graduate of the United States Air Force
Academy, he holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford
University, and an MBA from George Washington University. He is also a Flight Test
Engineering graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School. Dr. Nield is a registered Profes-
sional Engineer and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Geo Notkin Meteorite Men
Geo Notkin hosts the award-winning television adventure series Meteorite Men on
Science Channel and has also appeared in shows for Discovery, NASA EDGE, TLC,
PBS, A&E, National Geographic Channel, History Channel, Travel Channel, and the
BBC. He is a science writer, meteorite specialist, photographer, world traveler, and the
owner of Aerolite Meteorites LLC, a company that provides meteorite specimens to
collectors and institutions worldwide. Geo has appeared on Coast to Coast and the
Today show, and has been interviewed by The Washington Post, The Hungton Post,
Space.com and many other leading publications. An award-winning author, Geo has
published more than 150 articles on meteoritics, paleontology, astronomy, adventure
travel, history, and the arts, with his work appearing in Astronomy, Astronomy Now,
Sky & Telescope, USA Today, Wired, Readers Digest, The Village Voice, Seed, Rock &
Gem, Geotimes, American Digger, Meteorite, and many other national and international
publications. He is the author of the books Meteorite Hunting: How To Find Treasure
From Space and Rock Star: Adventures Of A Meteorite Man, and a popular science and
arts blog, The Logical Lizard, for TucsonCitizen.com. Geo has worked with many of the
worlds major institutions including The American Museum of Natural History, New
York; The Natural History Museum, London; and The Center for Meteorite Studies
at ASU, Tempe. He is a member of The Explorers Club, the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, the International Meteorite Collectors Association, and the Association
of Applied Paleontological Sciences. A lifelong space program devotee, he is on the
advisory boards of Deep Space Industries and the Astrosociological Research Institute.
The minor planet 132904, discovered at Mount Palomar, was named after Geo in
recognition of his contributions to science and education. Adventuring has taken Geo
to forty-ve countries and some of our planets most remote areas including northern
Siberia, Chiles Atacama Desert, the Australian Outback and he has three times crossed
the Arctic Circle.
Gary Oleson Senior Engineer, TASC
Gary Oleson is a strategist and systems analyst with training in operations research,
statistics, and decision analysis. He has been a senior aerospace engineer at TASC
for over 16 years supporting several government agencies. Before TASC, he worked
as a systems engineer in the Space Station Program Oce as primary Systems Engi-
neering liaison with the logistics and maintenance communities. Olesons experience
spans intelligence, national security, civil, and commercial endeavors. In addition to the
aerospace industry, he has worked in the computer manufacturing, civil justice, energy,
and software industries. Oleson has a long history in space advocacy, starting with the
campaign against the Moon Treaty in 1979. He was the L5 Society representative in
Washington during the Congressional debate over the rst space station budget. He is
an Advocate of the Space Frontier Foundation and a member of the American Insti-
tute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was given the Space Pioneer Award by the
National Space Society.
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Rich Phillips Founder and President, Phillips & Company
Rich Phillips is the President of Phillips & Company, a management consulting rm
that helps leading companies achieve sustainable revenue growth through strategic com-
munications and business development campaigns. For more than 20 years, Phillips has
worked with our nations leading companies and political leaders to help build lead-
ership positions for companies, products, issues and ideas. With a focus on space
technology, homeland security, mobile computing, telecommunications and green tech-
nology, Phillips & Company helps organizations own the issues driving their respective
markets through public relations, integrated marketing, business development, brand
positioning and public aairs. Phillips is currently Executive Director of the Next Step
in Space Coalition and founder of the Space Economy Leadership Summit series.
Bruce Pittman Flight Projects Director, NASA Ames Space Portal
Bruce Pittman is the founder and president of Prot Engineering Technologies and is
currently working as a contractor at NASA as the Director of Flight Projects and Chief
System Engineer in the NASA Space Portal and the Emerging Commercial Space Oce
at the NASA Ames Research Center. He has been involved in high technology project
development, project management and system engineering in a variety of industries for
over 30 years. Mr. Pittman started his career working as a civil servant at NASA Ames
on a number of space projects including Pioneer Venus, the Infrared Astronomy Satellite
(IRAS), and the Cryogenic Grating Spectrometer. Mr. Pittman has also been a founder
and member of the startup team in a number of early growth companies including
SpaceHab, Kistler Aerospace, and New Focus. He has authored or co-authored over 3
dozen papers on a technical, management and business topics in aerospace and high
technology. For his technical work Mr. Pittman has been awarded 2 NASA Special
Achievement Awards and four NASA Group Achievement Awards. In 2012 he was
presented with the Service to the Frontier award by the Space Frontier Foundation.
Peter Platzer CEO, NanoSatis
Peter is a high-energy physicist who passionately believes that everyone should have
access to space. Originally from Austria, he trained at CERN and the Max Planck
Institute before turning to business with the Boston Consulting Group in Germany,
Singapore, and Thailand. Peter started a quantitative investment management rm
out of Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and has spent the past
decade on Wall Street, including with Deutsche Bank and The Rohatyn Group. After
attending Singularity Universitys inaugural Executive Program in 2009 and realizing
the potential for commercial space exploration, Peter decided to leave nance to pursue
his true passions space and education. He went on to graduate from the masters
program at the International Space University, interned at NASA Ames Space Portal,
and started NanoSatis in 2012 to make space exploration available to everyone. Peter
also continues to serve as a Career Coach at HBS and has been named a White House
Champion of Change in 2013 for his groundbreaking work in using crowd-funding for
commercial space exploration.
Richard Pournelle Senior Vice-President of Business Development, Nanoracks
Richard Pournelle has been involved in commercial space for over ten years. Prior to
NanoRacks, he worked for investment bank Near Earth helping aerospace companies
raise capital. Richard spent eight years working at Mojave Spaceport as Director of
Business Development for XCOR Aerospace and served as Professional Sta for the
Committee on House Administration where he helped create the THOMAS legislative
information system.
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Dan Rasky Director, Emerging Commercial Space Oce
Dr. Rasky is an internationally recognized expert on advanced entry systems and ther-
mal protection materials. He has developed his expertise working ve years for the U.S.
Air Force and more than 20 years for NASA. In 2009, Rasky completed a one-year In-
teragency Personnel Assignment (IPA) with the Space Grant Education and Enterprise
Institute, Inc., San Diego, Calif., where he spent considerable time at SpaceX provid-
ing expert consultation about the design and development of the heat-shield for their
Dragon spacecraft. In addition to the SpaceX Dragon capsule, Rasky has made signi-
cant contributions to ight hardware used on eight NASA missions, including the NASA
Stardust comet sample return mission. Today, Rasky is the director and co-founder of
the Space Portal at the NASA Research Park, Moett Field, Calif. Through their initia-
tives and collaborations the Space Portal has had a signicant role in the establishment
of several notable and successful NASA programs, including the Commercial Orbital
Transportation Systems (COTS) program and the Commercial Reusable Suborbital
Research (CRuSR) program. He has six patents and 64 publications.
Duane Ratli Chief Operating Ocer, Center for the Advancement of Science in
Space
Duane Ratli, CASIS Chief Operating Ocer, has most recently served as senior vice
president at Dynamac Corporation, with operations expertise in supply chain manage-
ment, government program management, space-based R&D, biotech facilities support,
and payload development and execution. He also served as the liaison between Space
Florida and NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) for all operations and logistics plan-
ning for the Space Life Sciences Laboratory. As the ocial liaison to NASA, the COO
engages with requisite research and implementation centers to develop relationships
that enable full utilization of NASA capabilities and legacy expertise. The director
serves as a critical interface to the NASA ISS program oce, coordinating the plan-
ning and execution of CASIS-managed payloads via identifying appropriate resources
and technology partners to ensure mission success of payloads and facilitating payload
development, testing, integration and execution of ight projects in collaboration with
the NASA ISS payloads oce.
Benjamin Reed Deputy Project Manager, NASA SSCO
Benjamin Reed is the Deputy Project Manager of NASAs Satellite Servicing Capabili-
ties Oce (SSCO). He started working for NASA in 1998 as the materials engineer for
the Hubble Space Telescope. Most recently, he was the deputy project manager for the
Robotic Refueling Mission. He received his bachelors of science in chemistry from The
Catholic University of America.
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Bob Richards Co-Founder & CEO, Moon Express, Inc.
Dr. Robert (Bob) Richards is a space entrepreneur and futurist. He is a Co-Founder of
the International Space University, Singularity University, SEDS, the Space Generation
Foundation and Google Lunar X PRIZE competitors Odyssey Moon Ltd. and Moon
Express, Inc., where he currently serves as CEO. As Director of the Optech Space
Division from 2002-2009, Bob led the companys technology into orbit in 2004 and to
the surface of Mars in 2007 aboard the NASA Phoenix Lander, making the rst discovery
of falling Martian snow. Bob studied aerospace and industrial engineering at Ryerson
University; physics and astronomy at the University of Toronto; and space science at
Cornell University where he became special assistant to Carl Sagan. Bob is an evangelist
of the NewSpace movement and has been a catalyst for a number of commercial space
ventures. He is a contributing author of Blueprint for Space (Smithsonian Institution
1992); Return to the Moon (Apogee Books 2005) and The Farthest Shore (ISU
Press 2009). In 2005 Bob received a Doctorate of Space Achievement (honoris causa)
from the International Space University for distinguished accomplishments in support
of humanitys exploration and use of space.
Rex Ridenoure Founder and CEO, IZUP LLC
Rex is founder and CEO of IZUP LLC, a NewSpace consultancy operating at the inter-
section of the space-technology, commercial space-development and investor communi-
ties. He is also an active Board member at Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation (home of
the RocketCam
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product family), a rm he co-founded in 2001 and led as CEO and
President through spring 2012. Rex is a space-mission engineer by education and expe-
rience and entrepreneur by nature. Before Ecliptic, he was Chief Mission Architect at
SpaceDev (1998-99) and BlastO Corporation (2000), focused on dening commercial
lunar, Mars and near-Earth asteroid missions. In 1998 at Microcosm, Inc., he played a
catalytic role in the successful salvage of the commercial communications satellite Asi-
aSat 3 via a novel lunar swingby trajectoryand still the only commercial spacecraft
to have ever traveled to the vicinity of the Moon. For the rst 20 years of his career
at Hughes, Lockheed, Utah State University and JPL, Rex held technical and project
leadership positions on twenty pathnding space missions and projects as a spacecraft
systems engineer, test conductor, mission engineer, mission planner, mission architect,
project engineer and study leader. Notable missions include Viking/Mars (as an under-
graduate student intern), some of the rst Shuttle-launched commercial communications
satellites, the Hubble Space Telescope, Voyager/Neptune, Deep Space 1, Shuttle Get
Away Special experiments and SURFSat.
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Dana Rohrabacher Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives
Currently serving his 13th term in Congress, Dana Rohrabacher represents Californias
scenic 48th District. Stretching along the Pacic coastline of Orange County from Seal
Beach to Laguna Beach, the district includes Seal Beach, Sunset Beach, Surfside, Corona
del Mar, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, Aliso Viejo, Newport Coast,
Newport Beach, Laguna Niguel, Fountain Valley as well as portions of Midway City,
Westminster, Santa Ana and Garden Grove.
As Chairman of the Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats Subcommittee of the
House Foreign Aairs Committee, Rohrabacher is a most forceful spokesman for hu-
man rights and democracy around the world. For example, during the 110th Congress,
Rep. Rohrabacher championed the eort to boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics by
introducing a resolution to that eect emphasizing Chinas litany of human rights vio-
lations. Rohrabacher is also committed to securing our borders and a staunch opponent
of amnesty for illegal immigrants. During his tenure as Chairman, one of his rst prior-
ities was to investigate the U.N. Oil for Food program and potential foreign inuence in
the Oklahoma City Bombing. Rep. Rohrabacher will continue to look into technology
transfer issues, visa policies practiced by the State Department, Chinese proliferation of
nuclear weapons technology as well as other volatile areas of concern such as the massive
cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan. As a senior member of the International
Relations Committee, Rohrabacher led the eort to deny Most Favored Nation trading
status to Communist China, citing the rogue nations dismal human rights record and
opposition to democracy.
Rohrabacher is a strong voice for lower government spending and taxes. His record of
scal restraint and pro-growth policies has won him acclaim from the National Taxpayers
Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the
National Federation of Independent Business.
Martine Rothblatt Founder & CEO, United Therapeutics
Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D., launched United Therapeutics Corporation
(www.unither.com) in 1996 and has served as Chairman of its Board of Directors and
Chief Executive Ocer since its inception. Prior to forming United Therapeutics she
started Sirius Satellite Radio (1990) and served as its Chairman & CEO. Dr. Rothblatt
earned a Ph.D. in Medical Ethics from the Royal London College of Medicine &
Dentistry, chaired the International Bar Associations Law & Medicine Committee
and authored the book Your Life or Mine: Resolving the Conict Between Public
and Private Interests in Xenotransplantation (Ashgate House, 2004). Dr. Rothblatt
has also published several other books on satellite communications, gender dierences,
genetic engineering, organ transplantation and Middle East peace.
Robbie Schingler Co-Founder, Planet Labs
Robbie is responsible for Planet Labs business operations and product development.
Previously, Robbie worked at NASA serving as the Chief of Sta for the Oce of
the Chief Technologist, incubating the Space Technology Program. He managed the
exoplanet-nding mission TESS, and served as lead for NASAs Open Government
activities. Robbie received a BS in Engineering Physics from Santa Clara University,
an MBA from Georgetown and a Masters from the International Space University.
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Mark Sirangelo Chairman, Sierra Nevada Corporation - Space Systems
Mr. Sirangelo leads Sierra Nevada Corporation Space Systems, a producer of satellites,
space transportation vehicles, propulsion systems and space subsystems. SNC Space
Systems over its 25 years of business has been engaged on over 400 space missions and
has produced over 4,000 systems, subsystems and components for a wide variety of earth
orbit and planetary missions. SNC is also the owner and prime developer of the Dream
Chaser, a LEO orbital space vehicle transportation system currently being funded in
partnership with NASA. Mr. Sirangelo was formerly the Chairman & CEO of SpaceDev,
Inc., prior to its merging with SNC and has spent his earlier career leading aeronautics,
space and technology companies. Mr. Sirangelos industry board memberships include
being the Chairman Emeritus of the Commercial Spaceight Federation, the founding
and current Chairman of eSpace, The Center for Space Entrepreneurship and a Trustee
for the Aeronautics Industries Association. His charity boards include being a board
member and trustee of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and a
founder, Vice Chairman and Treasurer of the International Centre for Children. Corpo-
rate and personal awards include NASA/Space Foundations Technology Hall of Fame,
the Defense Industrys Fast Track 50, Deloittes Fast Track 500, being a nalist in Ernst
&Youngs Entrepreneur of the Year and on Inc. Magazines top 200 companies. Mr. Sir-
angelo holds Doctorate, MBA and Bachelor of Science degrees, has been scientically
published, has served as an ocer in the US Military and is a licensed pilot.
Dennis Stone Manager of Program Integration, Commercial Crew & Cargo Pro-
gram, NASA
Dennis Stone is a commercial space expert with 35 years of experience. He is currently
Manager of Program Integration in NASAs Commercial Crew & Cargo Program Oce
(C3PO) at the Johnson Space Center. This innovative Program manages an $800 million
investment in Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). NASAs two COTS
partners, SpaceX and Orbital Sciences, are developing and demonstrating commercial
capability to transport cargo to LEO and ISS. SpaceX has successfully completed its
COTS program, while Orbital plans demonstration launches in 2013. He earned two
Bachelor of Science degrees, in Physics and Electrical Engineering, from the University
of Hawaii. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. He enjoys travelling, having visited
30 nations.
Berin Szoka President, TechFreedom
Berin Szoka is the President of TechFreedom. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow and the
Director of the Center for Internet Freedom at The Progress & Freedom Foundation.
Before joining PFF, he was an Associate in the Communications Practice Group at
Latham & Watkins LLP, where he advised clients on regulations aecting the Internet
and telecommunications industries. Szoka received his Bachelors degree in economics
from Duke University and his juris doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law.
He is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and California (inactive).
He has served on the Steering Committee for the D.C. Bars Computer & Telecom-
munications Law Section, and currently serves on the FAAs Commercial Space Trans-
portation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC). Szoka has chaired, and currently serves
on, the Board of Directors of the Space Frontier Foundation, a non-prot citizens ad-
vocacy group founded in 1988 and dedicated to advancing commercial opportunity and
expansion of human civilization in space.
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Frank Todaro Host, The Invisible World
Frank Todaro is a NYC-based actor/voice actor/host of radio programs and live
events/producer/director/board op/ lm curator/ninja-robot from the future. He has
given a voice to many larger than life characters in animation, commercials and video
games, such as Weaver the giant talking spider in Two Worlds 2, as well as smaller
folks such as Buzz Lightyear in Littlebigplanet; Toy Story 3. Each week Frank at-
tempts to connect the dots as the award-winning host of The Invisible World, a weekly
paranormal and science based radio program, and also performs as Mister Voice the
announcer and lighting/sound board op for the improv competitions at National Com-
edy Theatre. Frank has made a home on screen with guest spots on shows such as The
Science Channels Sci-Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible with Michio Kaku, as well
as on stage as a member of several improvised comedy troupes including Start Trekkin
and Critical Hit!. When not giving a voice to ctitious characters, Frank does so for
emerging artists in his position as Film Curator for the The Tank, a nonprot theatre
in midtown Manhattan.
Frank has set out to be the Indiana Jones of the broadcast industry, with experience on
both sides of the camera, stage, and mic. His mission is on track.
Rick Tumlinson Co-founder, Space Frontier Foundation
Rick N. Tumlinson Co-Founded the Space Frontier Foundation. Mr. Tumlinson led the
team which took over the Russian Mir Space Station as the worlds rst commercial
space facility. He was a founding trustee of the XPrize and is credited with helping start
what is called the NewSpace revolution. Rick worked for Gerard K. ONeill at the
Space Studies Institute in Princeton New Jersey, founded the New York City L-5 Society,
and was a key player in starting the Lunar Prospector project. He also helped pass the
Space Settlement Act of 1988. Tumlinson produced the animated videos used to gain
funding for the Air Forces DC-X rocket project, the International Space University, the
X-33 rocket program, and the Air Forces Space Command. Rick was also Executive
Director and co-Founder of the Foundation for the International Non-Governmental
Development of Space (FINDS). Rick founded the Permission to Dream project, which
has placed dozens of telescopes in the hands of schools and educational groups around
the world. He helped start NASAs prestigious Lunar Exploration Analysis Group.
In 2005 Mr. Tumlinson founded Orbital Outtters, which produced the worlds rst
commercial space suit in 2007. He is also working on Project: Space Diver, whose goal
is to return people from space without spacecraft to start the worlds most extreme
sport.
Jacques Vallee General Partner, Euro-America Ventures
Jacques F. Vallee serves as a General Partner of Euro-America Ventures, a Silicon
Valley group that invests in North America and Europe, primarily in high-technology.
He was born in France, where he received a B.S. in mathematics at the Sorbonne and
an M.S. in astrophysics at Lille University. Coming to the U.S. as an astronomer at the
University of Texas, where he co-developed the rst computer-based map of Mars for
NASA, Jacques later moved to Northwestern University where he received his Ph.D. in
computer science. He went on to work at SRI International and the Institute for the
Future, where he directed the project to build the worlds rst network-based groupware
system as a Principal Investigator on Arpanet, the prototype for the Internet.
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Werner Vavken AMSE Advisory Board Chairmen, Valley Christian Schools, Vice
President of STEM Partnerships at Quest Institute for Quality Education
Mr. Vavken retired in the year 2000 from a career in telecommunication research and
product development engineering spanning 30 years. He has personally designed as well
as managed large engineering teams to develop equipment used by Fortune 500 compa-
nies, equipment onboard Air-Force One, the U.S. Presidential ranches, and in private
industry in over 30 countries. During that time Mr. Vavken also consulted for numerous
companies in the Silicon Valley and Europe and founded two electronics companies in
California. He also taught engineering seminars at California State Polytechnic Uni-
versity as well as served on Cal Polys School of Engineering Advisory Board for over
10 years. In 2000 he was called into full-time ministry as the Senior Associate Pastor
of Family Community Church. While serving at this church it became the 4th fasting
growing AOG church in America, growing from 250 to over 2600 attendees. Since 2008,
Mr. Vavken has served as the Director of Students of the schools Applied Math, Science
and Engineering Institute (AMSE), that provides a unique curriculum and co-curricular
program for students interested in career paths in those areas.
Dr. Erika Wagner Business Development Manager, Blue Origin
Dr. Erika Wagner serves as Business Development Manager for Blue Origin, supporting
the development of technologies to enable human access to space at dramatically lower
cost and increased reliability. Prior to joining Blue Origin, Dr. Wagner worked with
the X PRIZE Foundation as Senior Director of Exploration Prize Development and
founding Executive Director of the X PRIZE Lab@MIT. Previously, she served at MIT
as Science Director and Executive Director of the Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program, a
multi-university spacecraft development initiative to investigate the physiological eects
of reduced gravity. Her interdisciplinary academic background includes a bachelors
in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, a masters in Aeronautics &
Astronautics from MIT, and a PhD in Bioastronautics from the Harvard/MIT Division
of Health Sciences and Technology. She is also an alumna of the International Space
University.
Dennis Wingo is a 35 year veteran of the computer, academic, and commercial space-
ight communities. Dennis began his career in the late mainframe/early microcomputer
era as a eld engineer, test engineer and later a design engineer working on systems
as disparate as mainframe based printers to early local area networking for computers.
Dennis began his career in academic research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
(UAH) where he pioneered the use of COTS computers as experiment controllers for
measuring the microgravity environment on the Space Shuttle. Dennis then moved to
the commercial space arena where his company Skycorp had the rst commercial space
act agreement for the deployment of satellites from the International Space Station (ISS)
in 2000. Dennis and Skycorp patented methods associated with satellite assembly on
orbit based on that eort. Following that eort Dennis was a founder of Orbital Recov-
ery Corporation, the worlds rst commercial on orbit servicing company. Dennis and
Skycorp continue today in these pioneering eorts and Denniss book Moonrush de-
scribed the economic and political basis for the commercialization and industrialization
of the Moon.
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Conference Team
Conference Team
Ryan McLinko (Space Frontier Foundation, Sierra Nevada Corporation) Conference Chair
Sara Jennings (Space Frontier Foundation, Marketwired) Assistant Chair
Jonathan Card (Space Frontier Foundation) Development Manager
Ben Corbin (Space Frontier Foundation, Astronauts4Hire) Saturday Day Manager
Curtis Iwata (Georgia Tech) Thursday Day Manager
Daniel Pastuf (SEDS-USA) Friday Day Manager
Orian J. Breaux (Space Frontier Foundation, inSparq) Registration Desk Manager
Brad Cheetham (We Want Our Future Initiative ) VIP Liaison
Cameron Crowell (Virginia Tech) Exhibits Manager
Jules Feldhacker (University of Colorado) Catering Manager
Paul Fuller (Space Frontier Foundation) Finance Manager
Lilian Haney (Space Frontier Foundation) PR Manager
Rick Hanton (Yuris Night) A/V Manager
Laura Stiles (University of Colorado) Gala Manager
James Tumber (Space Frontier Foundation) Hotel Liaison
Brandon Willey (Space Frontier Foundation) Exhibits Director
Brian Young (Rostrum LLC, Space Frontier Foundation) Website Manager
Michael Zwach (Deep Space Industries, SEDS-USA ) Volunteer Manager
Brian Jennings (USC) Assistant Registration Manager
Hannah Kerner (University of Northern Carolina) Assistant Day Manager - Saturday
Ekaterina Khvostova (University of Northern Carolina) Assistant Day Manager - Thursday
Justin Siples (Deep Space Industries) Assistant A/V Manager
Aurelien Stamper (Virginia Tech) Assistant Catering Manager
Ana Tarano (Stanford) Assistant Volunteer Manager
Varun S Vruddhula (University at Bualo) Assistant Day Manager - Friday
Abigail Wallace (Biola University) Assistant PR Manager
Nick Caiello (Rochester Institute of Technology) Assistant A/V Manager
Brogan Davey (MSU Denver) Assistant Registration Desk
Marcus Bautista (Chaun-Choung Technology Corp.) General Volunteer
Jenissa Garcia (Moon and Back Travel, Exelis) General Volunteer
Jasmine Johns (Deep Space Industries) Social Media
Brent Justice (Purdue University, SpaceX) Assistant Hotel Manager
Luisa Fernanda Zambrano Marin (Spaceport Puerto Rico) General Volunteer
Joseph Moellers (Iowa State University, Interplanetary Reactions) Assistant Finance Manager/Gen Vol
Yuvraj Singh (Venture Capital International) General Volunteer
Simon Sorensen (San Jose State University) General Volunteer
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