Featured Speakers
Below is a partial list of workshop participants. Be sure to check back for updates.
Bretton Alexander
President, Personal Spaceflight Federation; Executive Director, Space Prizes
and X Prize Cup, X Prize Foundation
Eric Anderson
Co-founder, President and CEO, Space Adventures Ltd.*
Gad Barnea
CEO and Founder, Miwok Airways
Christopher J. Chaput
Managing Director, Seabury Group
Dr. Peter H. Diamandis
Chairman and Co-founder, X Prize Foundation; CEO and
Founder, Zero-G Corporation*
Esther Dyson
Chairman, EDventure; Host, Flight School
Debra Facktor Lepore
President, Air Launch LLC
Joseph Fuller
President & CEO, Futron Corporation
Dan Gerrity
CEO, Naverus Corporation
Dave Gobel
Chief Venture Strategist, Transportation Security Administration
Jeff Greason
President, CEO and Co-Founder, XCOR Aerospace*
Douglas C. Griffith, Esq.
Attorney for aviation and spaceflight industries
Alexandra Hall
Co-founder and CEO, Airship Ventures*
Eric Haseltine
Managing Partner, Haseltine Partners LLC; formerly with the
Directorate of National Intelligence and Walt Disney Imagineeering
Kirk Hawkins
Founder and CEO, Icon Aircraft*
William E. Herp
President and CEO, Linear Air
John Higginbotham
Chairman, SpaceVest
Ed Iacobucci
President and CEO, DayJet
Jim Muncy
President, Polispace
George Nield
Acting Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation,
Federal Aviation Administration
Robert W. Poole, Jr.
Director of Transportation Studies, Reason Foundation
Thomas Boone Pickens, III
CEO and Chairman of the Board, Spacehab, Inc.
Vern Raburn
President and CEO, Eclipse Aviation Corporation
Michael P. Schulhof
CEO and General Partner, GTI Group
Cyrus Sigari
Co-founder and President, JetAVIVA
Mark N. Sirangelo
Chairman & CEO, SpaceDev, Inc.
Andrew B. Steinberg, Esq.
Consultant; Former Assistant Secretary for Aviation
and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Transportation
Alex Tai
Special Projects Director, Virgin Group
Pete Worden
NASA Ames Research Center Director
*Esther Dyson, co-organizer of Flight School, has an investment in these companies.
