ISU

Confirmed Speakers

• Michael Potter
  Michael Potter is the Founder of Geeks Without Frontiers and is a multi award winning producer and director (Orphans of Apollo), Michael is an ISU Alumni from the first ISU SSP in 1988.
• Ron Garan
  NASA Astronaut Col Ron Garan is a veteran of two space flights with over 100 days in orbit.
• Brian Rishikof
  Brian Rishikof is the CEO of Odyssey Space Research and an ISU Alumni.
• Sarah Jane Pell
  Dr. Sarah Jane Pell is an artist and a commercial diver, a TED Fellow and an Alumni of the ISU SSP (06).
• Thomas Painter
  Dr Thomas Painter is a leading Climatologist from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
• Davy Knowles
  Rhythm & Blues guitarist extraordinaire
• Joseph Ritter
  Dr Joseph Ritter from the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy
• Brian Weeden
  Brian Weeden is Technical Advisor for Secure World Foundation, and has fourteen years of professional experience in the national and international space security arena. His wealth of technical knowledge and expertise has established him as a thought leader for providing critical analysis that supports development of space policy on a global scale.
• Jeff Manber
  Jeff is the CEO of Nanoracks LLC. Jeffrey has three decades of experience in bringing innovative space projects to the marketplace, both in the manned and unmanned space exploration and utilization. His experience includes working as an adviser to the chairman of PanAmSat, the first privately owned international satellite venture, as the company raised its first outside rounds of financing.
• Joe Ritter
  Dr Joseph Ritter is a lead at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy.
• Daniel Kraft
  Daniel Kraft is a Stanford- and Harvard-trained physician-scientist with over 20 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and innovation. Dr. Kraft chairs the Medicine track for Singularity University and is Executive Director and curator for the FutureMed, a program which explores convergent, exponentially developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare.