Space Investment Summit

NSS Members and ISDC Attendees Receive a 50% Registration Discount for the Space Investment Summit

The Eighth Annual Space Investment Summit will be held Wednesday, May 26, 2010 from 8:30 am to 6:30 pm at the InterContinental Chicago Hotel O'Hare Airport to coincide with the International Space Development Conference. The Space Investment Summit will continue a well established series of forums offering a full day of exclusive dialogue sessions with prominent investment leaders and an entrepreneurial showcase of pre-qualified space-related business plans. The summit series helps investors gain knowledge that might guide future investment decisions and assists entrepreneurs by increasing investor interest in their efforts and developing new partnership opportunities.

Past sponsors of the Space Investment Summit include Boeing, EADS Astrium. Lockheed Martin, and the Kennedy Space Center. Past supporting organizations include the National Space Society, Space Enterprise Couoncil, Space Frontier Foundation, California Space Authority, Space Foundation, Commercial Spaceflight Federation, International Association of Space Entrepreneurs, and the X PRIZE Foundation.

Space Investment Summit Featured Speakers

• Success Story in Commercial Space Enabled Markets - Joshua Raffaelli and Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Space Investment Summit Panel Presentations

• Commercial Space Markets: An Overview
• Government-Industry Synergy in Expanding Commercial Space Opportunities
• Meeting Customer Needs: Space-Related Business Opportunities

Space Investment Summit Panel Speakers

• Chris Cummins, NanoRacks
• John Dilts, Maverick Angels
• Paul Eckert, The Boeing Company
• Scott Glickson, McGuire Woods LLC
• Max Grimard, EADS Astrium
• Robert Jacobson, Desert Sky Holdings, LLC
• Petter Kleppan, NORROC Venture Partners LLC
• Amaresh Kollipara, Earth2Orbit LLC
• Michael Leventhal, mc2 The Law Firm
• Michael Lindenmayer, Lindenmayer, Piquet & Company
• Tim Pickens, Dynetics Inc
• Jorge Rufat-Latre, Innovaro Strategos
• Alan Tratner, Green2Gold

Business Plan Submission: Applications are on a “first-come-first-screened” basis and selections to present are made until all slots are filled. Application at http://bit.ly/cTLwH6.

The Space Investment Summit is a separate one day conference and requires a separate registration. NSS Members and ISDC registrants receive a 50% registration discount for the Space Investment Summit

For more information about the Space Investment Summit and to register: visit the Space Investment Summit web site at
http://spaceinvestmentsummit.com/