Speakers for AI+ Space

Senator Mark Kelly
U.S. Senate

Congressman Mike Haridopolos
Chairman, Space & Aeronautics Subcommittee

Dr. Eric Schmidt
Chair, SCSP

Bill Nelson
14th NASA Administrator

Dr. Shimrit Tirosh Maman
Chair, Israeli Space Agency

Ylli Bajraktari
President & CEO, SCSP

Morgan Brennan
Co-anchor, CNBC “Closing Bell: Overtime”; Host & Creator, Manifest Space podcast

Col Brian Chatman
USSF, Commander, Space Launch Delta 45

Col James T. Horne III
USSF, Commander, Space Launch Delta 30

Jeanne Meserve
Host of SCSP’s NatSecTech Podcast; Award-Winning Journalist

Will Marshall
Co-Founder & CEO, Planet Labs

Dan Smoot
CEO, Vantor

Dr. Anshu Roy
Founder & CEO, Rhombus Power

Carissa Christensen
Founder & CEO, BryceTech

Brandon Daniels
CEO, Exiger

Jonny Dyer
CEO, Muon Space

Kevin O’Connell
Founder & CEO, Space Economy Rising

Chris Taylor
CEO, Aalyria

Daniel Faber
CEO, OrbitFab

Audrey Schaffer
Vice President, Strategy & Policy, Slingshot

Holmes Liao
Senior Advisor, Taiwan Space Agency (TASA)

Charity Weeden
Former NASA Associate Administrator, Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy

Dr. Steve Chien
Co-Head, Artificial Intelligence Group, JPL/Caltech (JPL/NASA)

John Paul Parker
Senior Advisor on Space to VPOTUS (2017–2018)

Mark Kirasich
VP of U.S. Operations, Exploration Company

Dr. Emmanuel Urquieta
Vice Chair of Aerospace Medicine, UCF

Dean Cheng
Fellow, GW Space Policy Institute

Stephen Indyk
Director of Space Systems

Martijn Rasser
Senior Advisor, SCSP

James Ryseff
Director for Defense, SCSP
