Featured Speakers and VIPs
 Anousheh Ansari, CEO and Co-Founder of Prodea Systems, First Female Private Space Explorer. (Bio) |  Janet Ivey, President & Chief Creative Officer at Janet’s Planet, Inc (Bio) |
 Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Astronaut, Author, and Founder, ShareSpace Foundation; NSS Board of Governors (Bio) |  Lorna Jean Edmonds, PhD, Vice Provost for Global Affairs and International Studies (Bio) |
 Jim Armor, Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, Space Systems Division, ATK Aerospace Group (Bio) |  David Kendall, Chair of UN COPUOS, 2016-17 (Bio) |
 Jay Barbree, NBC News Space Correspondent |  Jim Keravala, Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Shackleton Energy Company Inc. (Bio) |
 Gary Barnhard, President & CEO of Xtraordinary Innovative Space Partnerships, Inc (Bio) |  Shoichiro Mihara, Director General, Space Systems Engineering Division, Japan Space Systems |
 Ken Davidian, Director of Research at the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) (Bio) |  Geoffrey Notkin, Meteorite Expert & Star of Science Channel’s Meteorite Men (Bio) |
 George Dietrich, President, SPACE Canada (Bio) |  Bruce Pittman, Founder and President, Profit Engineering Technologies and Chief System Engineer, NASA Space Portal and the Emerging Commercial Space Office (Bio) |
|  Yaroslav (“Yarko”) Pustovyi, President and Co-Founder at CSCA and Vice President of Space 1 Systems Inc (Bio) |
 Marc Garneau, Member of Parliament, Former President of the Canadian Space Agency, First Canadian Astronaut in Space. (Bio) |  Bob Richards, Co-Founder of the International Space University, Singularity University, SEDS, the Space Generation Foundation and Moon Express (Bio) |
 Lori Garver, General Manager of the Air Line Pilots Association, Former NASA Deputy Administrator. (Bio) |  Dr. Alan Stern, PI of New Horizons mission to Pluto (Bio) |
 Ted Hewitt, Acting President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (Bio) |  Kip Thorne, Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology (Bio) |
 Mark Hopkins, Chairman of the NSS Executive Committee (Bio) |  George Whitesides, CEO at Virgin Galactic, Former Executive Director of the National Space Society (Bio) |
Arthur Dula, Founder, CEO, Excalibur Almaz; NSS Board of Governors (
