Reach To Space — Space Commercialization Conference

November 12-13, 2007, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

Program

Location:
Jack Morton Auditorium,
805 21st ST NW,
George Washington University,
Washington DC. 		Speakers
ON site registration at 8:00am, Nov. 12, 2007

Day Time Session Chairs
Monday 9:00-10:00 Space Commercialization and Private Missions to Space Lon Rains, Executive Editor of Space News Live Interview with Col. Neil Woodward, Director, Commercial Orbital Transportation Systems, NASA followed by Live Interview with Kenneth Wong, Dep. Director, Office of Commercial Space-FAA
 
  10:00-10:30 Sponsored Break
  10:30-11:45 "From Space Applications to Space Tourism: Commercializing the Next Generation of Space Businesses"
Speakers: Exec. Vice President, X-Prize Gregg Maryniak, Courtney Stadd Consultant, Richard Stuart, President, Ares Corporation		 Joe Pelton, GW University & Doug Heydon, Consultant
  11:45-13:30 Lunch
  13:30-14:30 "Critical Success Factors in the Commercial Success of Space Applications-Satellite Communications, Remote Sensing and Geomatics"
Speakers: Edward Horowitz, President & CEO, SES AMERICOM; John Mattingly, President, Satellite Services, Mobile Satellite Ventures; Phil Spector, Executive Vice President, Intelsat 		Robert Bell, Exec. Director, SSPI
David Cavossa, Arrowhead Global Solutions
  14:30-15:00 Break
  15:00-16:00 "Space Commercialization in the Decade Ahead—Economic Risk or Opportunity?" Del Smith, Jones Day, Leonard David, Space.com
    Speakers: Michael Cook, Vice President, Hughes Network Systems, Ambassador Robert Grey Jr., Bi-Partisan Security Group, Dianne VanBeber, V.P. Intelsat, Steven L. Apfel - Business Development for Space, Boeing Company,
  16:00-17:00 Reach to Space Networking Reception
Tuesday
9:00-10:00		 "What’s Worked and What Hasn’t in the Satellite Industry"
Speakers: Dean Olmstead, Loral Space & Communications Corporation, Mobile Satellite Ventures, Skyport International, Dianne VanBeber, Intelsat, Dave Drucker, @Contact (Invited)

KEYNOTE Maj Gen James Armor Jr., Director, National Security Space Office and Edward Morris, Director Office of Space Commercialization, Department of Commerce

David Bross 		David Bross, Hannover Fairs, USA

Joseph Pelton, GW University
  10:00-10:30 Break
  10:30-11:45 Case Studies in Commercial Space and Their Application to the Future
Speakers: Noah Samara, Chairman, Worldspace, Robert Brumley, COO, Terrestar, and Carl Marchetto, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Space Systems Group of Orbital Sciences 		Tara Giunta, Paul Hastings LLC and Susan Irwin, President, Irwin Communications
David Brown, General Counsel, Wild Blue Corporation
  11:45-13:30 Lunch
  13:30-15:00 The Future of Commercial Space
Speakers: Franceska O. Schroeder, Esq. Fish & Richardson P.C., Elaine David, Senior Director, Government & Regulatory Affairs Lockheed Martin/Washington Operations, Professor Don M. Flournoy, University of Ohio 		Andrea Maleter
Don Flournoy

Organizing Committee, Speakers and Session Chairs:

  • Maj Gen James Armor Jr., Director, National Security Space Office
  • Steven L. Apfel - Business Development for Space, Boeing Company
  • Robert Bell, Executive Director, Society of Satellite Professionals
  • Michael Beavin, Office of Space Commercialization, Department of Commerce
  • Patrick Brant, Skyport International (Invited)
  • David Bross, V.P., Hannover Fairs USA
  • Robert Brumley, President, Terrestar
  • Henry Burdg, Interim Associate Dean, Business Outreach, and Executive Director of Auburn Technical Assistance Center and Auburn Technology Network, Auburn University
  • David Cavossa, Arrowhead Global
  • Scott Chase, Access Intelligence
  • Michael Cook, Vice President, Hughes Network Systems
  • Elaine David, Senior Director, Government & Regulatory Affairs Lockheed Martin/Washington Operations
  • Leonard David, Space.com (Invited)
  • Ken Davidian, NASA to the organizing committee
  • David Drucker, CEO, @Contact, (Invited)
  • Mitch Emmons, Marketing and Media Services, Auburn Technical Assisstance Center, Auburn University
  • Warren Ferster, Space News
  • Don M. Flournoy, Ohio University
  • Tara Giunta, Paul Hastings' LLP
  • Neil Helm, George Washington University
  • Douglas Heydon, Aerospace and Futron Corporations
  • Ed Horowitz, President, SES Americom
  • Susan Irwin, President, Irwin Communications
  • Randall Johnson, Associate Professor, Auburn University
  • Tim Logue
  • David Logsdon, Director, US Chamber of Commerce, Space Enterprise Council
  • Andrea Maleter, Technical Director, Futron Corporation
  • John Mattingly, President, Satellite Services, Mobile Satellite Ventures
  • Ted Mallory, Astar Air Cargo
  • Carl Marchetto, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Space Systems Group of Orbital Sciences
  • Tedson Meyers, Chairman, Arthur C. Clarke Foundation
  • Edward Morris, Director Office of Space Commercialization, Department of Commerce
  • Dean Olmstead, Loral Space & Communications Corporation
  • Gregg Maryniak, Managing Director, X-Prize Foundation
  • Joseph Pelton, Space & Adv. Communications Research Institute, George Washington University
  • Arthur Poland, George Mason University
  • Lon Rains, Executive Editor of Space News
  • Noah Samara, CEO, Worldspace
  • Franceska O. Schroeder, Esq. Fish & Richardson P.C.
  • Delbert Smith, Senior Telecommunications Counsel, Jones Day LLC
  • Tommaso Sgobba, President of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS)
  • Phil Spector, Exec. VP, Intelsat
  • Courtney Stadd, Consultant
  • Dianne Townsend, Auburn University
  • Dianne VanBeber, Intelsat
  • Kenneth Wong, Dep. Director, Office of Commercial Space, FAA
  • Neil Woodward, Director COTS Program, NASA
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