Facilitating Business Communication, Collaboration, & Commerce

"Operating Commercial from Arizona"

presented by

Jane Poynter CEO, Paragon Space Development Corporation

Arizona Chapter Meeting: January 14, 2014 7:00am Networking 7:30-9:00am Meeting in Tucson

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Until March 31, 2014, membership in the A&D Forum and the Chapter's meetings are free.

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The purpose of The A&D Forum is to CEO, Paragon Space Development Corporation promote communication, collaboration, CEO, and commerce among A&D industry business leaders. Jane Poynter will share her experiences and what she has learned from being a crewmember, CEO of the Membership includes access to the commercial space companies Paragon Space Development resource-rich A&D Forum website Corporation and World View Enterprises, and developer of (where recordings of all presentations the crew and life support systems for Inspiration . This are available), free attendance at any will be a unique opportunity to meet an award-winning chapter meeting, and the A&D Forum Arizona entrepreneur, developer, author, and TV host on the monthly Newsletter. Members are first leading edge of commercial spaceflight. in line for tours and to be invited to the Peer Roundtables. Biosphere 2

A&D Forum membership will be free for Biosphere 2 is an Earth systems science research facility all residents of Arizona until March 31, owned by the University of Arizona. Its mission is to serve as 2014. a center for research, outreach, teaching and lifelong learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the The community numbers over 820 and universe. It is a 3.14-acre structure originally built to be an includes four chapters, Los Angeles, artificial, materially closed ecological system in Oracle, Orange County (CA), San Diego, and Arizona, by Space Biosphere Ventures. Constructed Arizona. Two new domestic chapters, between 1987 and 1991, it explored the web of interactions plus one international chapter, are within life systems in a structure with five areas based on planned for 2014. biomes, and an agricultural area and human living and working space to study the interactions between humans, To become a member go to farming and technology with the rest of nature. It also AerospaceDefenseForum.org explored the use of closed biospheres in space colonization,

Other Upcoming and allowed the study and manipulation of a biosphere without harming Earth's. A&D Forum Chapter Meetings Jane was a member of the 8-person crew of the first mission, which lasted for the 2 years from 1991 to 1993.

Jan 14: "Doing Aviation Business in Paragon Space Development Corporation China", David Conrad, VP Sales, Marketing and Customer Support, Jane is Co-Founder, President and Chairwoman of Paragon Zodiac Aerospace, San Diego Space Development Corporation. For more than two decades, fast growing Paragon has designed and Jan 17: "Commercial Aviation: Being manufactured life support and thermal controls for extreme Successful in a Challenging Growth environments, from and spacesuits to refuge Environment", Jude Dozor, former chambers for deep underground mines and hazardous president and CEO, C&D Zodiac, Los environment dive suits. Projects include Boeing's CST-100 Angeles (available via webstream) capsule to deliver crew to the International Space Station, NASA's Orion deep space crewed vehicle and a new Feb 6: Panel on Procurement, generation spacesuit. Orange County Chapter World View Enterprises Recently Posted Presentation

Recordings on the A&D Forum Jane is also the CEO of World View Enterprises, which is Website planning to offer high-altitude balloon flights to the edge of space. Voyagers (be they private individuals or those traveling for research, educational or other scientific pursuits) "Stay Private or Take Our A&D will gently soar for hours on end in a comfortable, smartly- Company Public?", Panel, Orange outfitted, specially designed space capsule being developed County Chapter, Nov 7 by Paragon..

"Morphing a High-tech Prototype Inspiration Mars into a Production Machine", Dr.

Christian Veillet, Director, Large Poynter is the developer of the crew and life-support Binocular Telescope Observatory, systems for the Inspiration Mars free-return mission to Mars. Arizona Chapter, Nov 12 In 2018, the planets will literally align, offering a unique orbit

opportunity to travel to Mars and back to Earth in only 501 "Using Technology and Training to days. Inspiration Mars is committed to sending a two-person Lower Product Cost", Joe Klocko, American crew - a man and a woman - on an historic journey Director, Center for Applied to fly within 100 miles around the Red Planet and return to Competitive Technologies, Los Earth safely. Angeles Chapter, Nov 15

The mission will provide a platform for unprecedented "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly science, engineering and education opportunities, using of Lean Manufacturing", Douglas state-of-the-art technologies derived from NASA and the Greene, President, Hixson Metal International Space Station. It will be financed primarily Finishing, Orange County, Dec 5 through philanthropic donations, with some potential support from government sources. Arizona Chapter Steering Committee The life support system is critical. Jane said, "If anything goes wrong, the spacecraft should make its own way back to - Stephane Frijia, Arizona Chapter Earth - but with no possibility of any short-cuts home." Chair, Director, Research &

Strategy, Greater Phoenix Economic Council - Peter Vedder, Director, Civil Space & Space Services. General Dynamics C4 Systems - Karla Teixeira-Moran, Vice President, International, Arizona Commerce Authority - Jerry Fellows, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig - Brett Johnson, Partner, Snell & Wilmer - Bruce Macdonough, Co-Managing Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig - Richard Katz, Partner, Snell & Wilmer - Ivan Rosenberg, President & CEO, Frontier Associates

The Executive Steering Committee of The Aerospace & Defense Forum

- Michael Coburn, COO, Cadence Aerospace - Peter Collins, Director, Strategic Planning, Aerospace Group, Parker Hannifin Corporation - Alan McIntosh, President, Verify, Inc. - Michael Boyle, President, BOBsearch - Paul Weisbrich, Managing Director, D.A. Davidson & Co. - Robert Jacobson, Desert Sky Holdings - Ivan Rosenberg, President & CEO, Frontier Associates, Inc.

A&D Forum Executive Director Ivan Rosenberg [email protected] rg 818-505-9915

The A&D Forum website AerospaceDefenseForum.org

British-born Jane Poynter is a Biosphere 2 crewmember, author, TV host and president of two commercial space companies, in addition to being involved in a number of non- profit endeavors.

Jane is a member of the Biosphere 2 design team and a member of the original crew who lived inside the sealed, self- sustaining habitat for two years.

She is co-founder of Paragon Space Development Corporation, which develops technologies for extreme environments. Jane is a recognized leader in sustainable development. Experiments in her patented, self-sustaining habitats have flown on the International Space Station, the Russian Mir Space Station, and the U.S. .

For four consecutive years, Paragon has been named on Inc 500's list of fastest growing companies, and in 2009 the National Association for Female Executives awarded Jane its Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Poynter is the developer of the crew and life-support systems for the Inspiration Mars free-return mission to Mars planned for launch in January 2018.

Jane is also the CEO of World View Enterprises, which is planning to offer high-altitude balloon flights to the edge of space.

Jane also worked with the World Bank on projects to mitigate global climate change and grow crops in drought-stricken Africa and Central America. She is President of Blue Marble Institute, a 501(c)(3) non profit dedicated to leadership in science, sustainability and exploration. She serves on the City of Tucson's Climate Change Committee.

She is the author of The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2 and Champions for Change: Athletes Making A World of Difference, which is now the basis of a successful middle-school program.

She has appeared on television and radio shows, and has been interviewed for magazine and newspaper articles about Biosphere 2 and her work in space and the environment. She has been an invited speaker at events hosted by groups such as the United Nations Environment Programme, the US Environmental Protection Agency, TEDx, National Space Symposium, NASA, MIT, and Microsoft. She also hosted a children's educational program, which she filmed in zero gravity on a vomit comet. January 14, 2014 Meeting  Please check-in on arrival.  Attire is business casual.  Parking is available in the office building.  A light continental breakfast and networking will be available starting at 7:00am.  Bring a business card - they will be duplicated and everyone will get a copy of all attendee's cards.  Flyers and other material may be placed on the table as you enter the meeting room for pickup before and after the meeting. Please do not distribute anything during the meeting.  Because of the large number of attendees, introductions will be minimal - your name, company, industry, and a 5 word "elevator speech". We encourage you to be creative!  You are welcome to remain afterward and network after the meeting.

Feel free to pass this invitation on to others you think would be interested. Event Info Tuesday, January 14, 2014 7:00am-7:30am: Networking 7:30am-9:00am: Meeting Snell & Wilmer One South Church Ave, Suite 1500 Tucson, Arizona 85701 (520) 882-1200