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NewSpace 2014 July 24-26, 2014, Silicon Valley, CA Contents Schedule Overview 3 Detailed Schedule 5 Sponsors and Partners 13 Exhibitors 18 Speaker Biographical Information 24 Conference Team 42 Hotel Map 43 Notes 43 1 NewSpace 2014 July 24-26, 2014, Silicon Valley, CA L e t t e r f r o m t h e P r e s i d e n t ! What is so important about ‘settlement’ and why do we love it so much? Why do we push Congress to accept pro-settlement legislation, why do we speak about it every year at our annual conference, and why do we host competitions for companies who are willing to go out an achieve it? The answer is quite simple—on the day that we have achieved sustainable space settlement, we will have created a world that is infinitely better than James Pura the one we live in now. This is what the NewSpace movement is all about. President & Director NewSpace 2014 Attendees, ! Welcome to the hub of entrepreneurial space while all of this is happening, it’s easy to lose track of activity. Space is awe-inspiring, exhilarating, thrilling, why we’re here and where we’re all headed, which is and inspirational... Whatever word you use to a sustainable industrial infrastructure that is ever- describe it, you know it, I know it, and that’s why expanding into the cosmos…eventually resulting in you’re here. Over the next three days, you will find a future where space is accessible by all of humanity the current and future leaders of the space industry, and space settlement is a reality. with stars in their eyes and wills of steel. Men and In this light, we continuously strive to bring you women who are not afraid to tell you about their the top-notch programming possible at the plans to mine asteroids, commercialize the Moon, or NewSpace Conference, and this year is no create a private space habitat. Investors will be exception. This conference is not one where you roaming the halls looking for the next SpaceX or merely hear from speakers…it is a conference where PlanetLabs, and as you share a meal or a drink with a the bar is raised, challenges are taken on, and the friend at one of the hotel restaurants or bars, you hard questions are asked. You will see less power might find your next business partner, investor, or point presentations, and more thoughtful acquisition target. And if you search hard enough, discussion…less answers and more thoughtful you might actually find the heartbeat of commercial questions and deliberation. This is what we stand for space herself. at Space Frontier Foundation, and what the Last year was a year of outstanding headlines for NewSpace Conference is all about. the world of commercial space—XCOR Aerospace After all, if we’re ever going to make it off this was featured in a Super Bowl commercial, Space rock we call home, it will have to be sustainably and Exploration Technologies and Orbital Sciences incrementally. And it’ll take every one of you to help delivered cargo to the International Space Station, make it happen. What sets you apart from the Virgin Galactic began powered flights of others, though, is that you also know that space is a SpaceShipTwo, Moon Express closed a $2 million place, not a program. It’s a place where things like investment deal, Bigelow Aerospace announced suborbital and orbital flights, cutting-edge research, their plans to attach an inflatable habitat to the truly clean energy, advanced communication and International Space Station, and Planetary Resources transportation is all possible and feasible – all while completed a successful Kickstarter campaign where making the world a better place down here on Earth they raised over $1.5 million in crowd sourced for everyone. But who’s to say that you can’t make a funding. Not only that, but some new kids on the buck or two along the way? block were announced, like Dennis Tito & Inspiration Mars, Deep Space Industries, Golden Spike Inc., Stratolaunch Systems, Skybox Imaging, and PlanetLabs, which excited all of us immensely. Yet 2 Schedule Overview Schedule Overview Thursday, July 24, 2014 08:15am – 08:30am Remarks from the Chairman of the Board –Je↵Feige 08:30am – 09:00am Keynote – Dr. Simon P. Worden 09:00am – 10:15am Integrating the Vision Panel 10:15am – 10:40am Networking Break 10:40am – 12:10pm Lightning Pitch Competition 12:10pm – 01:40pm Who will build the “Space” in New Space – James Armor 01:40pm – 02:55pm Space Prizes Panel 02:55pm – 03:20pm Networking Break 03:20pm – 03:55pm The Key to the New Space Economy - Space Mineral Resources – Art Dula 03:55pm – 05:00pm Space Investors Panel 05:00pm – 06:00pm Lightning Pitch Reception 06:00pm – 07:00pm SFF Welcome and Awards Ceremony Friday, July 25, 2014 08:30am – 09:00am Disruptive Technologies in New Space – Steve Jurvetson 09:00am – 09:15am Media Announcement by Infinity Aerospace 09:15am – 10:15am DIY Space Movement Panel 10:15am – 10:45am Networking Break 10:45am – 12:00pm Property Rights Panel 12:00pm – 01:30pm Sensible Application of Existing Technologies For Order of Magnitude Im- provements – Andy Aldrin 01:30pm – 02:00pm Pioneering Space - The Role of Public-Private Partnerships for Advancing Capabilities – Jason Crusan 02:00pm – 03:15pm Commercial Development: the Catalyst of our Lunar Exploration Panel 03:15pm – 03:45pm Networking Break 03:45pm – 05:00pm Paradigm Shift Panel 05:00pm – 05:30pm Pathways to human exploration: are there alternatives to NASA? –Je↵ Greason 05:30pm – 07:30pm Annual Advocates Meeting – James Pura Saturday, July 26, 2014 09:00am – 09:30am World View: Progress Toward Tourism, Research, Education, and Other Stratospheric Services – Alan Stern 09:30am – 11:00am Orbital Debris Panel 11:00am – 11:30am Networking Break 11:30am – 12:00pm Keynote Speaker – Will Marshall 12:00pm – 01:30pm Lunch – Donna Edwards 01:30pm – 02:30pm Should Cheap Access to Space be an American Priority, Again? 02:30pm – 03:00pm Networking Break 03:00pm – 04:30pm The US Space Enterprise Partnership: A Roundtable on Strategies, Capa- bilities, and Goals 04:30pm – 05:00pm Remarks from the President – James Pura 06:30pm – 09:00pm NewSpace Awards Gala 3 NewSpace 2014 July 24-26, 2014, Silicon Valley, CA Now interviewing for full-time, part-time & 1099 positions starting as soon as Summer 2014 Let your followers keep up with this conference. Use #NewSpaceCon! All talks will be videotaped and archived at http://youtube.com/spaceconferences unless otherwise requested by the presenter. Talks will be streamed live on that channel during the conference as well. 4 Detailed Schedule: Thursday, July 24, 2014 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 24, 2014 08:15am – 08:30am Remarks from the Chairman of the Board Je↵Feige – Chairman of the Board, Space Frontier Foundation 08:30am – 09:00am Keynote Dr. Simon P. Worden – Director, NASA Ames Research Center 09:00am – 10:15am Integrating the Vision Panel There are three unique markets of the space industry - military space, civil space, and commercial space. These three markets are learning to work and thrive together, now more than ever before. However, the Space Frontier Foundation sees that the sum of these parts is greater than the individual markets themselves and that it leads to one clear goal - space settlement. This panel welcomes representatives from each of these three markets to discuss how to improve the quality of human life through sustainable space development and what role each of these sectors have. Je↵Feige – Chairman of the Board, Space Frontier Foundation Michael Lopez-Alegria – President, Commercial Spaceflight Federation Daniel Mosqueda – Director, Air Force Programs, Universities Space Research Association Dr. Simon P. Worden – Director, NASA Ames Research Center 10:15am – 10:40am Networking Break 10:40am – 12:10pm Lightning Pitch Competition The NewSpace Business Plan Competition, in collaboration with it’s sponsors ATK and the Heinlein Prize Trust, will host an innovative “Lightning Pitch Competition”. This novel for- mat is somewhere between an “Elevator Pitch” Competition and a traditional Business Plan Competition. Eight emerging (start-up) companies will deliver a four minute “investor pitch” to a shark-tank of judges as they compete for $30,000 in cash prizes. 2014 Lightning Pitch Competing Teams: Accion Systems, Boston, MA Cubecab, Mountain View, CA Cuberstation, Palo Alto, CA Elysium Space, San Francisco, CA Hive, Phoenix, AZ RockZip, Michigan City, IN Space Resources Extraction Technology, Huntsville, AB Terran Sciences Group, Orlando, FL 12:10pm – 01:40pm Who will build the “Space” in New Space James Armor – Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, ATK 5 NewSpace 2014 July 24-26, 2014, Silicon Valley, CA 01:40pm – 02:55pm Space Prizes Panel NASA, XPRIZE, and DARPA have all created and launched prize projects within the last few years to accelerate private NewSpace companies and to reward their e↵orts for pushing the industry forward. While the prize itself provides incentives for commercial space entrepreneurship, the impact can be much broader. This raises a series of specific questions - How can teams benefit from the competition (beyond the actual prize)? From an investor’s perspective, how is investing in a prize competitor or a prize itself a valuable investment? How can organizations that administer the prizes provide support during and after the competition so that the competition’s impacts are felt long term? This panel will evaluate past prize competitions and seek to address how to maximize the impact of current and future prizes on our broader vision of space.