Location: Marcus Nanotechnology Building - Conference room 1116 -1118

Address: 345 Ferst Drive, NW, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA

Parking: The closest visitor parking is located at Area 4. Click here for directions. Click here for an interactive map highlighting other visitor parking.

Attire: Business Casual 

Agenda details and timing are subject to change. Please continue to check back for the latest updates.

 

TimeAgenda
8:30 – 9 a.m.Registration and breakfast

 

Space Entrepreneurism

Session Organizer: Caleb Williams, Resonance

TimeAgenda
9 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.

Panel Discussion — Investor Perspectives: Financing the Final Frontier

Moderator: Colin Ake, Kennesaw State University

Panelists:

  • Nick Fragnito, Partner, Shorewind Capital  
  • Guillermo Söhnlein, Co-Founder & Chairman, Humans2Venus  
  • Caleb Henry, Director of Research, Quilty Space  
9:50 – 10 a.m.Break
10 – 10:50 a.m.

Panel Discussion — How Modern Founders Build to Last

Moderator: Caleb Williams, Resonance

Panelists:

  • Carl Kirkconnell, President, West Coast Solutions  
  • John Bradford, President, SpaceWorks Enterprises  
  • Sean Mahoney, Executive Director, Space Frontier Foundation  
11 – 11:50 a.m.

Panel Discussion — Enabling Infrastructure for the Space Economy of Tomorrow 

Moderator: Michael Riccio, NASA

Panelists:

  • David Williams, OSU/Starlab
  • Audrey Berlie, TC Energy
  • Griff Russell, VARDA
11:50 a.m. – 1 p.m.Lunch

 

Bioastronautics and Human Space Exploration

Session Organizers: Christopher Carr and Thomas Orlando, Georgia Tech

TimeAgenda
1 – 2:05 p.m.

The Future of Bioastronautics

Christopher Carr and Thomas Orlando, Georgia Tech

1:00pm – 1:05pm: Welcome

1:05pm – 1:20pm: Current Progress and Future Vision — Dr. Christopher Carr

1:20pm – 1:35pm: GHSEA Presentation and Short Panel

1:35pm – 2:05pm: Facilitated Community Discussion

2:05 – 2:15 p.m.Break
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.Testing Human and Alien Biochemistry with Consumer Technology: From Space to Silicon Valley and Back Again
Chad Pozarycki, Deleon
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.Mars Transit Habitat Design Space Exploration
Daniel Larrowe, Georgia Tech
2:45 – 3 p.m.Prototype Development of a Microgravity Electrolytic Oxygen Generator & Turntable Testbed
Álvaro Romero-Calvo, Georgia Tech
3 – 3:15 p.m.From Classroom to Console: Evaluating a Student-Led Mission Control Center in Analog Operations
Bella Diedrich, Georgia Tech
3:15 – 3:25Break
3:25 – 3:40So You Want to Build a Moon Base: Introducing LunaAgent, An Agent-based Modeling Environment for Lunar Surface Activities
Jeffrey McNabb, Georgia Tech
3:40 – 3:55 p.m.Testing Electrodynamic Dust Shields on a Lunar Rover in an Analog Facility
Luca Scifoni, Georgia Tech
3:55 – 4:10 p.m.Pore-Scale Thermal Conductivity Modeling of Icy Lunar Regolith for In-Situ Resource Utilization 
Jennifer Devapriyam, Georgia Tech
4:10 – 4:25 p.m.Modeling Water Release Rates from TRIDENT Drilling Depositions for the NASA VIPER Mission
Brant Jones, Georgia Tech
4:25 - 5:00 p.m.

Lightning Talks

LARES: A Lunar On-Surface Cryogenic Refuelling Station — Concept Study, Architecture, and On-Site Construction
Florent Delvert, Georgia Tech

Low Chance of Water Existence Below Tens of Meters at the Lunar Poles as Seen from Thermal and Chemical Kinetics Equilibrium
Sara Sole, Georgia Tech

Supporting VIPER Mission: Characterization of Vapor-Deposited Ice on Lunar Simulants and Apollo Samples
Ibrahim Muddasser, Georgia Tech

Model-based Systems Engineering Methods for Lunar Base Architectures
Michael Balchanos, Georgia Tech

Differentiation of Bacterial Isolates Using Mass Spectrometry and Machine Learning Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds
Kostas Konstantinidis, Georgia Tech

Design and evaluation of a low cost analog extravehicular activity suit
Elias Pimentel, Georgia Tech

Poster Session and Reception

Location: Marcus Nanotechnology Building Atrium

Time: 5:00 – 8 p.m.

Poster presenter listing coming soon!

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