2023 Speakers

Lead Solutions Director – Chironix

Director, Earth Observation – Landgate

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist – Momentick (Israel), Remote Sensing Expert

Director of Space Applications Programs – Secure World Foundation (USA)

CEO – Tap into Safety

Regional Director, Australia and New Zealand – Lockheed Martin Space

National Project Lead – Australian Automation and Robotics Precinct

CEO – METS Ignited

Founder & Managing Director – Co Connect App

Deputy Head of School, Earth and Planetary Sciences – Curtin University

Industry Innovation Lead – Australian Automation and Robotics Precinct

Director, Space Science and Technology Centre – Curtin University

Chief Executive Officer - Innovative Energy Solutions

Former European Space Agency Applications Ambassador (UK)

President – Engineers Australia, UK Chapter

Chief Scientist – Intuitive Machines (USA)

Director, Space Programs – AROSE

Managing Director – One Giant Leap Australia Foundation

Co-Founder & CEO – Arlula

CEO – Scitech

Chief Product Officer – Fleet

Director – Private Sector Programs at Secure World Foundation (USA)

Chair – Australian Space Agency Advisory Board

Senior Engineering Solutions Manager – LEAP Australia

Co-founder – Blak Digital

CEO – idoba

Founder & CEO – SpaceDraft

Board Chair; ICRAR, Mining3 and SageAbility

Managing Director – AV-Comm Space and Defence

Vice President, New Energy Solutions – Woodside Energy

Chief Executive Officer – AROSE

Assistant Director, Immigration Operations – Immigration Group, Department of Home Affairs

Deputy Director General – WA Government, Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation

Minister for Emergency Services; Innovation and the Digital Economy; Science; Medical Research; Minister Assisting the Minister for State and Industry Development, Jobs and Trade

Professor of Space Law, Policy and Governance – University of Adelaide

Director – Kara Ged

Senior Engineer, Project Manager, Cyber Physical Systems – CSIRO

Manager, Security & Risk – Perenti – Diversified Global Mining Services

General Manager, Technology and Information Management – Atlas Iron

National Manager, Space – Bureau of Meteorology

Remote Operations Manager – Woodside Energy

COO – AstroAgency (Scotland)

Executive Chair – Delta Lithium. Chair – AROSE

Director – Fugro SpAARC (Australian Space Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Control Complex)

Assistant Director – Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre, Department of Home Affairs

NASA Associate Administrator – Exploration Systems Development (USA)

Innovation Manager – Rio Tinto

Application Engineer – LEAP Australia

Professor – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

Deputy Director – Space, Security, Safety & Sustainability Center, Professor, Systems and Industrial Engineering – University of Arizona (USA)

Founder & CEO – QL Space – QL Resources

CEO – Helios

Director – Centre for Crop Disease Management Curtin University

CEO – Austmine

Solutions Architect, Autonomous Systems – Nova Systems

CEO – Office of Planetary Observations – Urban Greening Insights

Chief Executive Officer – Cloudshare (Israel)

Chief Security Officer (CSO) & Director, Defence & Space – Curtin University

Program Manager – HelioSwarm, NASA (USA)

Principal – Joseph Banks Secondary College

Executive Chairman – Singapore Space and Technology Limited

Program Manager – Small Spacecraft Technology Program NASA (USA)

Director – Curtin Institute for Data Science

Managing Director – Benang Industries

Eco-System Lead – Australian Automation and Robotics Precinct

Special advisor with the WA Government for the 10-year Science and Technology plan, Diversity in STEM expert panel, Office of the Hon Ed Husic MP, Minister for Industry and Science, Australia

Program Director – AROSE

Triangle Capital & Blak Angels Network

Executive Officer/ General Manager – Synspective (Singapore)

Chief Scientist of Western Australia – Australian Space Agency Advisory Board Member

Research Engineer – Kajima Technical Research Institute (Japan)

CEO & Managing Director – SmartSat CRC

Deputy Center Director – NASA's Ames Research Center (USA)

General Manager, WA – Engineers Australia

CEO – Space Angel

Assistant Director – Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre, Department of Home Affairs

Principal Research Geoscientist – CSIRO Mineral Resources

Principal Research Scientist – CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, Leader, Digital Decisions (Agriculture) – CSIRO

Chief Geoscientist & Chief Technologist – Mining – IMDEX

CEO – AxisTech

Department of Human Centred Computing – Monash University

Professor, International Space Centre – UWA

Chief Executive Officer – Business Events Perth

Executive Director Commercialisation – Curtin University

Senior Vice President, Government Relations and Strategy – Slingshot Aerospace (USA)

Space Systems Director – Fugro SpAARC (Australian Space Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Control Complex)

Senior Account Manager, International – Slingshot Aerospace (USA)

Former Robotics Group Lead and Research Scientist – NASA, Former Program Manager – DARPA

Founding Chief Executive Officer – Chironix

Centre Director – ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology – Plant Scientist – Plant Protein Expert

CSO – Warpspace (JAPAN), CEO – Warpspace (USA), Vice President – Blue Abyss (JAPAN)

General Manager – METS Ignited Australia

Principal Scientist – SmartSat CRC, Leader – Agriculture Research

Director & Head of Engineering – Ausco

U.S. Consul General

CEO – Eta Space, Former Senior Principal Investigator – Cryogenic Test Laboratory NASA

Astrophysicist & Head of the International Space Centre – UWA

Deputy Chief of Mission - United States Department of State

Co-Founder and CEO – SpaceBase

Head of the Australian Space Agency

Postdoctoral Researcher – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Space Systems Engineer – Fugro

MD – Lunar Ascent, Non Executive Director – Space Industry Association of Australia, Node Coordinator – SmartSat CRC

Principal – Integrated IP

Professor – Oceans Graduate School UWA

Wildcat Technologies Lead – CSIRO Data61 Robotics & Autonomous Systems Group

CEO – LatConnect60

Director General – Satcom Industry Association (India)

ESOC Head of Ground Facilities Operations Division – European Space Agency

Spatial Modeling & Ecological Research Scientist – the Australian Institute of Marine Science

Lead for International Business and Strategic Partnerships – Axelspace (Japan)

Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder – LatConnect 60

Founder & Chief Executive Officer – OrbitAID Aerospace (India)

Chairman & Managing Director – Ananth Technologies (India)

CEO & Co-Founder – CryptoCrispy

Director – CyberWest

Chair – AROSE Board of Advisors & First Nations X

Space, Resources, and Disputes Lawyer – Clifford Chance, Advisor – Space Court Foundation

Citizen Astronaut, CEO and Founder – Deep Space Initiative

Western Australia Deputy Premier, Treasurer, Minister for Transport, Tourism

Director and COO – SPACETIDE, Foundation Principal – ispace (JAPAN)

Deputy Director – Space Science and Technology Centre, Curtin University

Principal Research Fellow – International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) – International Space Centre – University of Western Australia

Portfolio Manager, Autonomous & Intelligence Systems – Nova Systems

Founder – Earth Eye Space (Singapore)

Director – Space Scotland

Chief Security Officer – DUG Technology – High Performance Computing

Associate Director, Emerging Technologies (Space, Robotics, AI) – KPMG

Director – US Geological Survey National Innovation Center, US Department of the Interior (USA)

Manager, Indo Pacific Business Development – ispace (Japan)

CEO – Space Faculty (Singapore)

APRSAF Executive Secretary/NSLI Coordinator Advisor to the Director International Relations and Research Department Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

32Degrees South & MIT REAP Team WA

Executive Director – Milo Space Science Institute, Arizona State University

Senior Mechanical Engineer – First Mode

Blak Line Industries & Four Hills Group

CEO – The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia

Chief Sales Officer – EXTAG

General Partner – Fund WA, Director – BrainChip Holdings

Air Commodore (Retired), President & Managing Director – LeoLabs

Founder – Space Ambition (Singapore)

Chief Technology Officer – Australian Space Agency

Founder & Managing Director – Black Arrow Space Technologies (UK)

Head of Security – Fugro SpAARC

Co-Founder & Co-CEO – Wall Pie Space and Technology (Singapore)

Research Fellow – The Australian National University

Director, Space – WA Government, Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation

Co-Founder & General Partner – Earth & Beyond Ventures (ISRAEL)