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Space Investment Summit Agenda
With an eye to both the near term and long view, the Summit features detailed discussions of investment opportunities in the space experience (e.g., advertising, entertainment, hotels, and tourism), energy production in space, materials sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, communications, Earth imaging, and navigation. In addition, space commerce experts will provide the latest updates on emerging space technologies and enterprises in suborbital transportation, Earth-to-orbit transportation, on-orbit pursuits and ventures beyond Earth orbit.
Reception
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Monday 16 April 2007
Ritz Carlton Hotel at Battery Park
2 West Street, New York, New York 10004 (Financial District)
Investor Opportunities Networking Dialogue
8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Tuesday 17 April 2007
New York Information Technology Center
55 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004 (Financial District)
Monday, April 16
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm |
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Welcome Networking Reception
Special Guests
Buzz Aldrin, Ph.D.
Chairman, ShareSpace Foundation; Astronaut (retired); U.S. Air Force Colonel (retired); second man to set foot on the Moon; leading voice in charting the course of future space efforts from Planet Earth
Gregory Olsen, Ph.D.
President, GHO Ventures LLC/Entrepreneur & Scientist;
Third private citizen to make a self-funded trip into space and orbit the Earth on the International Space Station (2005)
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Tuesday, April 17
8:00 am – 8:30 am |
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Networking Continental Breakfast
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| 8:30 am – 8:50 am |
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Welcome & Introduction
Paul Eckert, Ph.D.
International & Commercial Strategist, The Boeing Company, IDS Space Exploration
Jeff Krukin
Executive Director, Space Frontier Foundation
George Whitesides
Executive Director, National Space Society
Paul Graziani
President & Chief Executive Officer, Analytical Graphics Inc – Special Introductory Video Presentation
Robert Werb
Founder & Chairman of the Board, Space Frontier Foundation
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| 8:50 am – 10:15 am |
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Session 1 – General Investment Issues
Moderator: Jacques Vallée, Ph.D., Partner, SBV Venture Partners
Public & Private Investment Opportunities
John Vornle, President & Managing Director, Long Term Capital Company
Investment Fund Development
George Petracek, Managing Director, Atrium Capital Corporation
Launch Services: An Investor's View
Alan Marty, Investment Consultant
Legal/Regulatory Issues
Art Dula, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Houston
Insurance & Risk Management
Ray Duffy, Sr. Vice President, Willis Inspace
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| 10:15 am – 10:30 am |
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Networking Break
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| 10:30 am – 11:30 am |
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Session 2 – Communications Satellites: A Success Story Leading to New Possibilities
Moderator: Ramin Khadem, Ph.D., Former CFO, Inmarsat & Chairman of the Board of Trustees, International Space University
Armand Musey, President & Partner, Near Earth LLC
Patrick Agnieray, VP Marketing, Alcatel Alenia Space
John White Ph. D., Director, E-Synergy
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| 11:30 am – 11:50 am |
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Special Announcement
Buzz Aldrin, Ph.D., Chairman, ShareSpace Foundation; Astronaut (retired); U.S. Air Force Colonel (retired); second man to set foot on the Moon; leading voice in charting the course of future space efforts from Planet Earth
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| 11:50 am – 12:15 pm |
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Networking Break
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| 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm |
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Lunch & Presentation
Thomas B. Pickens, III
President, T.B. Pickens & Company; Managing Partner & Founder, Tactic Advisors, Inc; Managing Partner, Texas Nanotech Ventures; President & CEO, SPACEHAB, Inc.
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1:15 pm – 2:15 pm
Sessions 3a & 3b are concurrent |
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Session 3a – An Essential Enabler of New Markets: Transportation
Moderator: Tom Olson, Managing Partner, Exodus Consulting Group LLC
Lee Valentine, M.D., Vice President, Space Studies Institute; Angel Investor
Stephen Fleming, General Partner, Seraph Group
Derek Webber, Washington DC Director, Spaceport Associates
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Session 3b - Valuation & Monetization of Orbital Access Technologies
Moderator: James Bennett, President, WYSIS
Jim Fiske, Vice President, Advanced Systems, LaunchPoint Technologies inc
Rick Holdren, Healthcare Angel Investor
Zion Bar-El, Chairman, Ideation International Inc.
Burton Lee, Ph.D., MBA, Managing Partner, Innovarium Ventures; Senior Strategic & Technical Advisor, New Mexico Spaceport Authority; Senior Technical & Legislative Advisor, Personal Spaceflight Federation; Angel Investor
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2:15 pm – 3:15 pm
Sessions 4a & 4b are concurrent |
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Session 4 – A Major Initial Market: Activity in Earth Orbit
Moderator: Larry DeLucas, O.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., Director, Center for Biophysical Sciences & Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Paul Reichert, Research Fellow, Schering Plough Research Institute
Louis Stodieck, Ph.D., Director, BioServe Space Technologies; Associate Research Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department, University of Colorado
Tim Hammond, M.D., Professor, Tulane University School of Medicine
Thomas B. Pickens, III, President, T.B. Pickens & Company; Managing Partner & Founder, Tactic Advisors, Inc; Managing Partner, Texas Nanotech Ventures; President & CEO, SPACEHAB, Inc.
International Space Station Fly Around Animation, NASA video presentation
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Session 4b – Accelerating Start-Up Space Enterprises
Moderator: Stephen Day, Chief Executive Officer, International Ventures Associates LTD
Larry Austin, President, Starwalker Group LLC
Charles A. George, President, MSI Limited
Granger Whitelaw, Founding Partner & Managing Director, BlueCar Partners LLC
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| 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm |
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Networking Break
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| 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm |
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Session 5 – Other Opportunities
Moderator: Hoyt Davidson, CEO & Managing Partner, Near Earth LLC
Joe Rothenberg, President, Universal Space Network
John C. Mankins, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Managed Energy Technologies LLC
Klaus Heiss, Executive Director, High Frontier/The Jamestown Group
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| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm |
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Opportunity Summary & Next Steps
Paul Eckert, Ph.D., International & Commercial Strategist, The Boeing Company, IDS Space Exploration
Robert Werb
Founder & Chairman of the Board, Space Frontier Foundation
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