Presentations

Past is prologue: The future of the space industry from the perspective of the those who helped get it started

Chair:  Jeff Greason, CEO, XCOR Aerospace

Speakers:

• Guruswami Ravichandran, Director of Graduate Aeronautics Lab, California Institute of Technology
• Bill Campbell, Retired Chief Engineer, Aerojet
• Rick Sturdevant, Deputy Director of History, U.S. Air Force Space Command
• Fredrick Bachtel, Director Strategic Planning & Initiatives, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne

Closing the credibility gap:  The role of suborbital testing as a pathfinder to orbital markets or as an end market in itself

Chair: Debra Facktor Lepore, President, DFL Space LLC, video 1, video 2

Speakers:

• Jeff Greason, CEO, XCOR Aerospace, video
• Julia Tizard, Operations Manager, Virgin Galactic
• Neil Milburn, VP of Program Management, Armadillo Aerospace, video 1, video 2

Establishing the commercial space market: Matching business strategy with funding sources

Chair: Lee Rand, Partner, Sun Mountain Capital

Speakers:

• Grant Anderson, P.E., VP of Engineering, Co-founder, Paragon Space Development Corporation
• Mark Sirangelo, Corporate Vice President and Chairman, Sierra Nevada Space Systems and Chairman, Commercial Spaceflight Federation
• Tim Pickens, Commercial Space Advisor / Chief Propulsion Engineer, Dynetics
• Robert Bigelow, Owner and Founder, Bigelow Aerospace, LLC

FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation

Chair:  Ken Davidian, FAA

Speakers:

• Pat Hynes, Executive Director, FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation
• Sam Durrance, Professor, Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology
• Van Romero, Vice President for Research and Economic Development, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• Jim Vanderploeg, Associate Professor of Aerospace Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
• Farrukh Alvi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering Director, Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion (FCAAP) FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
• Barbara Couture, President, New Mexico State University
• Jay Kapat, Professor, FCAAP, Univeristy of Central Florida
• Larry Ukeiley, Professor, FCAAP - Univeristy of Florida

The practical impact of ITAR and reform on commercial space

Chair:  Bob Dickman, Major General, USAF (Retired), and Executive Director, AIAA

Speakers:

• Debra Facktor Lepore, President, DFL Space LLC
• Sven Grahn, Senior Advisor, Swedish Space Corporation and Senior Consultant for Spaceport Sweden
• Franceska Schroeder, Principal, Fish & Richardson P.C., Washington, DC
• Clay Mowry, President, Arianespace, Inc

The path forward from DC-X/XA

Co-Chairs: Bill Gaubatz, President, SpaceAvailable and Jess Sponable, Technical Advisor Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory

Speakers:

• Nino Polizzi, Vice President, Customer Integration Universal Space Network
• David Masten, President and CEO, Masten Space Systems
• Yoshifumi Inatani, JAXA to Yoshifumi Inatani, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
• Neil Milburn, VP Program Management, Armadillo Aerospace, LLC
• James Ball, Senior Manager, Flight Engineering, The Boeing Company
• Fredrick Bachtel, Director Strategic Planning & Initiatives, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne

Keynote Address- Lori Garver, NASA Deputy Administrator

The Microgravity market

Chair:    Dennis Stone  Assistant Manager, Program Integration, Commercial Crew & Cargo Program, NASA Johnson Space Center

Speakers:

• Cheryl Nickerson, Associate Professor, Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, the Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University
• Andrew Nelson, Chief Operating Officer, XCOR Aerospace, Inc
• Christopher Cummins

Crew transportation systems: The game changer in human spaceflight

Chair: Brett Alexander President, Commercial Spaceflight Federation

Speakers:

• Keith Reiley, Program Manager, Commercial Crew Development, Space Exploration, The Boeing Company
• Kenneth Reightler, Vice President, NASA Program Integration, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
• Robert Bigelow, Owner and Founder, Bigelow Aerospace, LLC
• Mark Sirangelo, Corporate Vice President and Chairman, Sierra Nevada Space Systems and Chairman, Commercial Space Federation 
• Ken Bowersox, Vice President of Astronaut Safety and Mission Assurance, SpaceX

Space policy evolution: Changes portend larger commercial markets to service government needs and greater international cooperation

Chair: Clay Mowry, President, Arianespace, Inc

Speakers:

• Brendan Curry - Vice President, Space Foundation
• Steve Traver,
• Philip McAlister, Commercial Crew Development Program within the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA HQ

Creating the demand: Free and low cost flight opportunities for education and research in space

Chair: Charles Chafer, CEO, Space Services, Inc.

Speakers:

• David Masten - President/CEO, Masten Space Systems
• Doug Comstock, Director of the Innovative Partnerships Program, NASA
• George Whitesides, CEO, Virgin Galactic
• Brienna Henwood, Director of Space Training and Research, NASTAR
• Mark Severance, International Space Station National Lab Education Project Manager 
• Jerry Larson, Founder, President and CEO of UP Aerospace, Inc

Spaceports

Chair: Patti Grace Smith, Aerospace Consultant, Virgin Galactic

Speakers:

• Karin Nilsdotter, Director, Spaceport Sweden
• Rick Homans, Executive Director, New Mexico Spaceport Authority
• Stu Witt, General Manager, Mojave Air and Space Port
• Gloria Garcia-Cuadrado, Director, Barcelona Aeronautics & Space Association (BAIE)