Confirmed Speakers
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Major General Charles F. Bolden Jr.
Administrator, NASA (2009-2017)
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Ché Bolden
CEO, Charles F. Bolden Group, LLC
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Jacqueline Feldscher
Managing Editor, Payload
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Karen Feldstein
Associate Administrator for International and Interagency Relations, NASA
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Kristin Fisher
Space and Defense Correspondent, CNN
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Jeff Foust
Senior Staff Writer, SpaceNews
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Dr. Jenni Gibbons
Astronaut, Canadian Space Agency
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Rear Admiral (Ret.) Michael Hewitt
Co-Founder and CEO, IP3 International
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The Honorable Stuart Holliday
CEO, Meridian International Center
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Dr. Diane Howard
Director, Commercial Space Policy, National Space Council
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Aarti Holla-Maini
Director, Office for Outer Space Affairs, United Nations
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Krunal Joshi
Space Counselor, Embassy of India
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Frank Justice
Diplomacy Forum Emcee; Vice President, Diplomatic Engagement, Meridian International Center
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Kelli Kedis Ogborn
Vice President, Space Commerce and Entrepreneurship, Space Foundation
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Her Excellency Mathilde Mukantabana
Ambassador, Embassy of Rwanda
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Dr. Joel Joseph S. Marciano, Jr.
Director General, Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA)
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The Honorable Pam Melroy
Deputy Administrator, NASA
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Matt Ondler
President, Axiom Space
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Temidayo Oniosun
Managing Director, Space in Africa
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André Pienaar
Founder and CEO, C5 Capital
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The Honorable John Plumb
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, U.S. Department of Defense
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Dr. Sian Proctor
2024 U.S. Science Envoy
Inspiration4 Mission Pilot, SpaceX
Geoscience and Sustainability Professor, South Mountain Community College
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Christina Ruffini
Foreign Affairs Journalist
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Kurt Scherer
Managing Partner, C5 Capital
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Jared Stout
Vice President, Government and External Relations, Axiom Space
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Gabriel Swiney
Director, Policy, Advocacy, and International Division, Office of Space Commerce, NOAA
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David Thomas
Executive Director, MILO Space Science Institute, Arizona State University Enterprise Partners
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Volodymyr Usov
Co-Founder, Kurs Orbital
Former Chairman, State Space Agency of Ukraine
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Teodoro Valente
President, Italian Space Agency (ASI)
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Valda Vikmanis-Keller
Director of the Office of Space Affairs, U.S. Department of State
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The Honorable Richard Verma
Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resouces, U.S. Department of State
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Dr. Giovanni Zanalda
Director of the Rethinking Diplomacy Program, Duke University; Co-founder of the Space Diplomacy Lab, Duke University