Location: Marcus Nanotechnology Building - Conference room 1116 -1118

Address: 345 Ferst Drive, NW, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA

Parking: The closest visitor parking is located at Area 4. Click here for directions. Click here for an interactive map highlighting other visitor parking.

Attire: Business Casual 

 

TimeAgenda
8:30 – 9 a.m.Registration and breakfast

 

Space Entrepreneurism

Session Organizer: Caleb Williams, Resonance

TimeAgenda
9 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.

Panel Discussion — Investor Perspectives: Financing the Final Frontier

Moderator: Colin Ake, Kennesaw State University

Panelists:

  • Nick Fragnito, Partner, Shorewind Capital  
  • Jack Semrau, Investor, Socium Ventures  
  • Caleb Henry, Director of Research, Quilty Space  
9:50 – 10 a.m.Break
10 – 10:50 a.m.

Panel Discussion — How Modern Founders Build to Last

Moderator: Caleb Williams, Resonance

Panelists:

  • Carl Kirkconnell, President, West Coast Solutions  
  • John Bradford, President, SpaceWorks Enterprises  
  • Sean Mahoney, Executive Director, Space Frontier Foundation  
  • Eric Truitt, CEO, Mantis Space
11 – 11:50 a.m.

Panel Discussion — Enabling Infrastructure for the Space Economy of Tomorrow 

Moderator: Michael Riccio, NASA

Panelists:

  • David Williams, OSU/Starlab
  • Audrey Berlie, TC Energy
  • Griff Russell, VARDA
11:50 a.m. – 1 p.m.Lunch

 

Bioastronautics and Human Space Exploration

Session Organizers: Christopher Carr and Thomas Orlando, Georgia Tech

TimeAgenda
1 – 2:05 p.m.

The Future of Bioastronautics
Christopher Carr and Thomas Orlando, Georgia Tech

1:00pm – 1:05pm: Welcome

1:05pm – 1:20pm: Current Progress and Future Vision — Dr. Christopher Carr

1:20pm – 1:35pm: GHSEA Presentation and Short Panel

1:35pm – 2:05pm: Facilitated Community Discussion

2:05 – 2:15 p.m.Break
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.Intelligent Habitat Operating Systems: A Systems Architecture for Adaptive Human-Space System Interaction
Benjamin Manning, Georgia Tech
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.Mars Transit Habitat Design Space Exploration
Daniel Larrowe, Georgia Tech
2:45 – 3 p.m.Prototype Development of a Microgravity Electrolytic Oxygen Generator & Turntable Testbed
Álvaro Romero-Calvo, Georgia Tech
3 – 3:15 p.m.From Classroom to Console: Evaluating a Student-Led Mission Control Center in Analog Operations
Bella Diedrich, Georgia Tech
3:15 – 3:25Break
3:25 – 3:40So You Want to Build a Moon Base: Introducing LunaAgent, An Agent-based Modeling Environment for Lunar Surface Activities
Jeffrey McNabb, Georgia Tech
3:40 – 3:55 p.m.Testing Electrodynamic Dust Shields on a Lunar Rover in an Analog Facility
Luca Scifoni, Georgia Tech
3:55 – 4:10 p.m.Pore-Scale Thermal Conductivity Modeling of Icy Lunar Regolith for In-Situ Resource Utilization 
Jennifer Devapriyam, Georgia Tech
4:10 – 4:25 p.m.Modeling Water Release Rates from TRIDENT Drilling Depositions for the NASA VIPER Mission
Brant Jones, Georgia Tech

 

Poster Session and Reception

Location: Marcus Nanotechnology Building Atrium

Time: 4:30 – 8 p.m.

Poster presenter listing coming soon!