Current ISDC 2013 Speakers

Current Confirmed Speakers In Alphabetical Order

The list will be updated as information becomes available. For speaker that will be virtually present their material, a "(Virtual Presenter)" tag will be used.

Larry Ahern
Vice President, NSS Chapters

Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 11 Astronaut, Author, and Founder, ShareSpace Foundation; NSS Board of Governors (Bio)

Al Anzaldua
President, Tucson L5 Space Society. Board Member, the Moon Society. Retired U.S. State Dept. Foreign Service Officer.

Marshall Barnes
Director, R&D and Marketing AET RaDAL

Nathan Barnes
President, L'Garde, Inc.

Gary Barnhard
Xtraordinary Innovative Space Partnerships, Inc.

Gary Bickford
Audit Analytics

Brad Blair
General Partner, NewSpace Analytics LLC

Howard Bloom
Author and Scientific Thinker. NSS Board of Governors. Former Publicist in the 1970/80s for Prince, Billy Joel, and Styx

Penelope Boston
(Virtual Presenter) Academic Director, National Cave and Karst Research Institute, New Mexico Tech

Robert Brand
Director of Spacecraft Communications, Navigation and Data. Team Stellar

David Bruemmer
Vice President, 5D Robotics.

David Brin
Scientist, Futurist, Science Fiction Author

Michael Buet
Engineering Consultant, Kepler Energy and Space Engineering, LLC. & Star Technology and Research, Inc

Lowry Burgess
Professor of Art, School of Art, former Dean of the College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University

Chris Cassell
Co-Founder, Deep Space Industries

Maria Catalina
Google Lunar X-Prize Team Stellar

Charles Chafer
Space Services Holdings Inc.

George Chang
Lunar Mapping and Modeling Portal Development Team Members, JPL

Ethan Chew
Agent, School Factory

Pam Clark
(Virtual Presenter) Catholic University. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Stephen D. Covey
Director, Research & Development, Deep Space Industries

Tiffany Crawford

John Cserep
Engineer

Peter Curreri
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Darlene Damm
Founder and Co-President, DIYROCKETS

Hubert Davis
(Virtual Presenter) Retired Consultant

Mitual Dikshit
President, International Space Society

Arthur Dula
Founder, CEO, Excalibur Almaz; NSS Board of Governors (Bio)

Dave Dunlop
Chair, NSS International Committee

Jerry Edling
Editor, CBS Radio Los Angeles. Former Editor in Chief of Public Diplomacy Magazine.

Martin Elvis
Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Deliana Ernst
Consultant, Rose Line BV. Specializes in Energy and Climate Policy and Energy Market Regulation.

Lewis Fraas
President, JX Crystals, Inc.

Chris Ferguson
Director, Crew & Mission Operations Commercial Crew Program, Boeing. NASA Astronaut. Commander Last Shuttle Mission, STS-135 (Bio)

Don Flournoy
Professor of Telecommunications, Ohio University

Anita Gale
Member, NSS Board of Directors

Bill Gardiner
Laboratory Consulting Sources, Inc.

Al Globus
Senior Research Engineer, San Jose State University

Richard Godwin
President, CEO and Director, Zero Gravity Solutions Inc.

Paul Graham
Project Director, OpenLuna Foundation, Inc.

Kevin Greene
Vice President, Astrosettlements

Doug Griffith
Co-founder and General Counsel of Golden Spike Company (Bio)

David Gump
CEO, Deep Space Industries Inc.

Alexandra Hall
Senior Director, Google Lunar X Prize (GXLP)

Brian Harris
Director, Program and Marketplace Development, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS)

Keith Henson
Founder, The L5 Society

Mark Hopkins
Chairman of the NSS Executive Committee

Paul Jaffe
Integration and Testing Section Head, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Mae Jemison
NASA Astronaut. First African-American Woman in Space. Director, 100 Year Starship Project

Royce Jones
(Virtual Presenter) President, Exploration Partners LLC

Steven Jorgenson
Co-founder and Current Portfolio Manager of the Viridian Fund

A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Former President of India, Engineer, Scientist, "Wernher Von Braun of India" (Bio)

Nobuyuki Kaya
Dean, Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University, Japan

Rob Kelso
(Virtual Presenter) Executive Director, Pacific International Center Exploration of Space (PICES)

Aaron Kemmer
CEO, Made in Space, Inc.

Jim Keravala
Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Shackleton Energy Company Inc.

Robert B. Kerr
Director, Arecibo Observatory (Bio)

Richard Kim
Lunar Mapping and Modeling Portal Development Team Members, JPL

Narayanan Komerath
Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Stephen Kortenkamp
Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute. Instructor, Lunar and Planetary Lab, Univ. of Arizona. Author.

Michael Laine
President and Founder, LiftPort Inc

Bas Lansdorp
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mars One (Bio)

Brandon Larson
Mars Society. Independent Researcher

Emily Law
(Virtual Presenter) Science Data System Operations Manager, NASA JPL

Daniel Lester
(Virtual Presenter) Research Fellow, Univ. of Texas at Austin. Principal Investigator, SAFIR Vision Mission Study

Eugene Levin
Star Technology and Research, Inc

Chris Lewicki
President and Chief Engineer, Planetary Resources

Jeffrey Liss
Member, NSS Board of Directors

Keith Lofstrom
Server Sky, http://server-sky.com

Shan Malhotra
Lunar Mapping and Modeling Portal Development Team Members, JPL

John Mankins
President, Artemis Innovation Management Solutions LLC; Chief Technical Officer, Deep Space Industries

Heiko Martens-Scholz
President, Road2sustainability

Thomas Matula
President, Astrosettlements

Ian McNally
PhD Researcher, University of Glasgow, UK

Karen Mermel
Vice President, NSS Development

Douglas Messier
Managing Editor, Parabolic Arc

Ken Murphy
President, the Moon Society

Mars Science Laboratory Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) Team
The EDL Team will receive the 2013 Space Pioneer Award for Science and Engineering.

S.V. Nghiem
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Ramesh Nidrabingi
Student, MARSE Team

Declan O'Donnell
President, Declan Joseph O'Donnell, P.C.

Yoshiaki Ohkami
(Virtual Presenter) Professor Emeritus, Keio University, Japan

Thomas Olson
Founding Partner, Exodus Consulting Group

Ian O'Neill
Space Producer, Discovery News

David Orban
Entrepreneur, Visionary, Co-Founders of the Open Government Working Group

Aaron Parness
Jet Propulsion Lab

Jerome Pearson
President, STAR, Inc.

Robert Piccioni
Physicist, Educator, and High-Tech Entrepreneur (Bio)

Bruce Pittman
Founder and President, Profit Engineering Technologies. Senior Vice President and Senior Operating Officer, NSS

Seth Potter
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Lugar Center for Renewable Energy at IUPUI

Darel Preble
President, Space Solar Power Institute

Rod Pyle
TV Documentary Producer, Author/Writer, Educator

Charles Radley
VP Projects and Programs, Leeward Space Foundation

Arnold Reinhold
Consultant, A G Reinhold

Bob Richards
Co-Founder and CEO, Moon Express, Inc. (Bio)

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
U.S. Representative, California's 48th Congressional District. Vice Chairman, Science, Space and Technology Committee (Bio)

Stan Rosen
Vice Chairman of the Board, NSS Board of Directors. Professor of Acquisition Management, Defense Acquisition Univ.

Brice Russ
Assistant Director and Media Team Chair, Yuri's Night Global Team

Rick Sanford
President, SpaceGroundAmalgam, LLC. Partner, Hudson Fairfax Group

George Schellenger
Director & Executive Producer, Status Productions

David Schrunk
President, Quality of Laws Institute. Author

Peter Schubert
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Indiana Univ.- Purdue Univ; Director, Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy

Navdeep Sharma
Research Fellow, Dept. of Physics, Guru Nanak Dev University

Rand Simberg
President, Interglbal Media LLC

Tom Sjogren
CTO, CFO, Explorersweb Inc

Tina Sjogren
Co-Founder, Chief Editor (US), Explorersweb Inc. First woman to have completed the Three Poles Challenge.

Heather Smith
NASA AMES Space Science ORAU

Mike Snead
(Virtual Presenter) President, Spacefaring Institute LLC

Mark Sonter
Director, Mining and Processing, Deep Space Industries

Gary Stephenson

Adam Steltzner
Lead Engineer of the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity rover EDL phase (Entry, Descent and Landing)

Theodore Stern
Vice President, Solar Power Systems, Vanguard Space Technologies, Inc.

John Strickland
NSS at-Large Director, Region 3

Bill Tarver
Medical Director, Clinical Services Branch, NASA Johnson Space Center

David Thornburg
Director, Thornburg Center

Rick Tumlinson
Founder of The EarthLight Institute (Bio); Chairman of the Board, Deep Space Industries

Ric VanderMuelen
Vice President, ViaSat, Inc.

Bryan Versteeg
Conceptual Artist, Deep Space Industries, Spacehabs.com, Mars One.

Vernor Vinge
Science Fiction Author

Natasha Vita-More
Professor, University of Advancing Technology; Chairman, Humanity+; and Co-Editor and Author: The Transhumanist Reader

Stephen Voller
CEO, Cella Energy Ltd

Derek Webber
Director, SpacePort Associates. Author of "The Wright Stuff: the Century of Effort Behind your Ticket To Space"

Jennifer Whitten
(Virtual Presenter) Brown University

Bong Wie
Director, Iowa Asteroid Deflection Research Center

John Wilkes
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Martin Wilson
President, Univ. of Florida Small Satellite Design Club

Jay Wittner
Board of Directors, National Space Society. Executive Director, Space Literacy Foundation

Gordon Woodcock
(Virtual Presenter) Boeing Retired; Former President of the L5 Society; Former Chairman of the NSS Executive Committee

Paul Wieland
Engineer, Author of "Crossing the Threshold: Advancing Into Space to Benefit Earth."

Gerry Williams
Co-founder, The Mars Society - San Diego, Co-founder, San Diego Space Society. Publisher, MarsMovieGuide.com

USAF and Boeing X-37B Team
The USAF and Boeing X-37B Team will receive the 2013 NSS Space Pioneer Award

Lynne Zielinski
Vice President, NSS Public Affairs

Maria Zuber
Principal Investigator, NASA GRAIL Mission, E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics at (MIT) (Bio)

Robert Zubrin
Founder and President, Mars Society

Michael Zwach
Director, DSI NeoSquad

Speakers are subject to change.