The Startup Race Director and International Triple Helix Institute Researcher Michael Clouser, U.S. Chamber of Commerce National Executive Director of Space Policy John Neal, Moog Space and Defense Group Engineering Manager Barry Safier and Innovation Acceleration Capital Managing Director N. Darius Sankey discuss space industry assets in New York State and what the state needs to do to get things going faster. Moderated by New York Space Alliance Founder Joe Fargnoli. This panel was the first of two conducted at Why NOT New York?, the special live September 2024 edition of the New York Space Business Roundtable in Ithaca, NY.

Aurica Space Strategy Consultant Carolyn Belle, Empire Space Co-Founder Patrick Chase and Seraphim Space General Partner Rob Desborough discuss how the space economy and its businesses are shaping the growth of regions, states and nations with a sharp focus on New York as a future powerhouse. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

Penn State Professor and Author of After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon Greg Eghigian and Frontier Foundry Co-Founder and COO Nick Reese discuss unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and the numerous questions around them such as why we are spending so much to learn about UAPs and what would happen if we discovered we are not alone. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

Wallaroo DoD Business Development Dr. James Cunningham, Voyager Space Chief of Staff Chris Cummins, Kratos Senior VP of Advanced Technology and DIFI Chairman Stuart Daughtridge and SeerAI Co-Founder and CEO Jeremy Fand discuss how the public and private sectors share the world of AI. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

SPAICE Co-founder and CEO Matteo Cuccorese, Lockheed Martin Senior Systems Engineer and 2024 “20 Under 35” honoree Sapna Rao and Cognitive Space President and COO Hanna Steplewska discuss how AI is changing the face of the space & satellite industry and how it can help smaller companies get contracts, financing and customers. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews Silicon Valley Reporter Debra Werner and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

Quilty Space Co-CEO Justin Cadman, RocketStar Founder and CEO Chris Craddock, Helicity Co-Founder and CFO Stephane Lintner and Xairos CEO David Mitlyng discuss what is investment-ready and what might be longer-range or a category shifter. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli

GXO Chief Strategy Officer David Gauthier, Mithril Technologies CEO Scarlett Koller, Milbank Partner Dara Panahy and GH Partners Managing Partner Noel Rimalovski discuss what we did NOT hear enough of (or at all) at the Satellite 2024 Conference in Washington, DC in a special LIVE edition of the Roundtable at Milbank’s offices in New York City. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

Senior TIME Correspondent Vera Bergengruen, Ultisat President & CEO David Myers and Maxar News Bureau Senior Director Stephen Wood discuss whether space & satellite has a role to play in ending the conflict in Ukraine. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews< and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

Near Earth LLC Founder and Managing Partner Hoyt Davidson, BryceTech Director of Analytics Carie Mullins and DCVC Operating Partner Matt O’Connell discuss what the industry needs to do in 2024 to ensure continued success, what we’ve learned since 2019 and what we want to see happen in 2024. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

Empire State Development Regional Director for Western New York Karen Utz, Ursa Space CEO and 2011 SSPI Promise Award Recipient Adam Maher, iRocket CEO and 2023 “20 Under 35” Honoree Asad Malik, Empire Space Co-Founders Patrick Chase and Evan Learner and New York Consortium for Space Technology Innovation & Development Senior Director Gregory C. Ray discuss the New York state of mind when it comes to commercial space and whether New York state is space investment ready. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

Interstellar Labs CEO Beverly Belvisi and Space Fund Chairman Rick Tumlinson discuss where we are and where we go next in the Cislunar ecosystem. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

Sedaro Co-Founder and CEO Dr. Robbie Robertson and Community in Space Managing Director Micah Walter-Range discuss how businesses can succeed in the Cislunar Economy. How might – or might not – they be financed? They discuss market potential, secondary market dynamics, and investor perspectives in today’s Cislunar economic landscape. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

Hughes Director of Strategy & Market Intelligence Joe Bernabucci, Speedcast Vice President of Engineering Operations, USA William Mudge and SmallSat Alliance President and Co-Founder Steve Nixon discuss if the Outernet is outer nuts and if GEO has entered a new era that will be even more potent than the first. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli. This edition of the New York Space Business Roundtable is part of the Eternal Orbit campaign.

Washington Post Reporter and author Christian Davenport, Quartz.com Senior Reporter and author Tim Fernholz and Willis Towers Watson Vice President and author Rob Scheige discuss what authors are writing about and what they have to say about our space barons and fictional characters with space as the background. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

Aerospace Corporation Senior Project Leader of the Space Architecture Department Grant Cates, Access Partnership Head of Global Market Access Juan Cacace and Aerospace Corporation Systems Director for the Center for Space Policy and Strategy Josef Koller put the financial and ethical lenses on the issues of risk, reward and motive during a time when commercial, civil and government-related space activities are popping-up like flowers. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

Special Guest Moderator Hogan Lovells Partner Steven M. Kaufman, Secure World Foundation Director of Space Applications Programs Krystal Azelton, TMT Law Managing Partner Abhishek Malhotra and Willis Towers Watson Senior Vice President Rob Scheige discuss how much regulation they think is enough? And how much is NOT enough. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

Privateer Co-Founder and CEO Alex Fielding, Astroscale VP of BD & Advanced Systems Jack Deasy and Neuraspace Director and COO Dr. Chiara Manfletti, as representatives of funded, aggressive commercial space infrastructure companies, discuss their role after launch and how it will be vital to an entirely new and important commercial experience in space. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

Arizona State University Space Governance Lab Founder Professor Timiebi Aganaba, Integrate Space Co-Founder John Conafay and Skyrora CEO Volodymyr Levykin discuss the realities of launch investments and business in 2023. With the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

Luxembourg Space Agency CEO Marc Serres, Redwire CFO Jonathan Baliff and Spire Global Founder & CEO Peter Platzer discuss Luxembourg’s steady growth and opportunities as one of Europe’s and the world’s best places to do business. With a briefing on the recent USA/India joint Civil Space Working group meetings in Washingtion, DC by SatCom Industry Association Director General Anil Prakesh, the monthly “Significant Digits” report from SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow and a “New York Minute” reaction segment featuring New York Space Alliance Founder Joseph Fargnoli.

SpaceChain CEO Clifford W. Beek and PwC Manager for Enterprise Strategy & Value, Transformation Tim Ford discuss whether or not blockchain is transforming and decentralizing commercial space already and what’s really going on in this radical decentralization of space and asset allocation and management. With a Significant Digits report from SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow and SpaceNews Silicon Valley Correspondent Debra Werner.

RRE Ventures General Partner & COO Will Porteous and Journalist and Editor of SpaceIntelReport Peter B. de Selding, a member of the Space & Satellite Hall of Fame, discuss the recent increase in pace of high-profile satellite industry sales and what the 3 biggest deals in 2023 for the industry may be. With a special report from SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow.

Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters Jim Free, SSPI Chair Emeritus and Founder, Chair and CEO of Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. Chris Stott, SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow and SpaceNews Silicon Valley Correspondent Debra Werner explore to better understand how Artemis and a host of other NASA led missions and initiatives will pave the way for public private partnerships to enlist American entrepreneurship to open up this new frontier to commercial enterprise.

SpaceLink Vice President of NASA & Civil Space Robert Conrad, WTW Global Inspace CEO Mark Quinn, Momentus Chairman of the Board and President and CEO John Rood, Redwire President & Chief Operating Officer Andrew Rush and SpacePharma CEO Yossi Yamin explain why they have invested time, money and sweat equity to pursue businesses in the Cislunar economy. With a special report from SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow and SpaceNews Silicon Valley Correspondent Debra Werner.

CommStar Co-Founder and Chairman Robert (Bob) Brumley, Mexican Space Agency LEO Satellite Constellation Manager Dr. Adrian Guzman, Luxembourg Space Agency Director and Member of the Executive Committee Mathias Link, SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow and SpaceNews Silicon Valley Correspondent Debra Werner explore the Cislunar Economy from its unique, real New York perspective.

NASA-SCaN Chief Scientist & Quantum Science and Technology Lead Dr. Nasser Barghouty, Quantinuum Senior Quantum Evangelist Dr. Mark Jackson, Artist, Physicist and Comic Book Author Dr. Kitty Y.M. Yeung, SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow and SpaceNews Silicon Valley Correspondent Debra Werner explore the most innovative, emerging concepts in the industry today – and where the future investments might go.

Lockheed Martin Vice President of New Ventures Lon Levin, Astronaut and Author Nicole Stott, Author Frank White, Beyond Earth Institute President and Co-Founder Steven Wolfe, SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow and SpaceNews Silicon Valley Correspondent Debra Werner discuss meditation and the great lessons they have learned through the insights it brings.

Business Developer Terence J. Clas, Empire Space Co-Founders Patrick Chase and Evan Lerner, RRE Ventures General Partner and COO Will Porteous, SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow and SpaceNews Silicon Valley Correspondent Debra Werner discuss whether New York has the vision and the political intelligence to be a major player in the space and satellite industry.

Author and Brigadier General (Ret.) Robert Spalding, Innovation Acceleration Capital’s Darius Senkey, Tensor Tech CEO Thomas Yen and Dr. T.J. Liang of Taipei’s Industrial Technology Research Institute, a government think tank, discuss Taiwan’s significance to the world’s supply chain, high-value technology base, microprocessors and the civil life and laws upon which democracy depends and what is really at stake.

Dr. David Alexander, OBE, Director, Rice Space Institute; Dr. Calum Forsyth, VC Investor, Techstart Ventures LLP; Dr. Hina Khan, Sr. Project Manager, UK Stakeholder Engagement Lead, Spire Global, Inc.; and Daniel Smith, Executive Director, Scottish Space Leadership Council and CEO, AstroAgency discuss Scotland’s steady, impressive space industry and its opportunities. This is the first of a three-part series.

Keith Buckley, CEO of Federos (now an Oracle company) and Noel Rimalovski, GH Partners LLC discuss how to get financing for space and satellite ventures, what the reality is for financing in this market and more. This is the second part of the Space SPACs series.

Phil Friedman, Senior Advisor at Perella Weinberg Partners; Steven Kaufman, Partner at Hogan Lovells LLP; Claude Rousseau, Research Director at Northern Sky Research; and Sita Sonty, Partner & Associate Director, Aerospace & Defense at Boston Consulting Group discuss the economic viability of companies fueled by SPAC financing and asks if they are destined to flop or a sustainable way to go. This is the first part of the Space SPACs series.

Paul Gloyer, President of Gloyer-Taylor Labs LLC; Douglas Helmuth, Remote Sensing Scientist and Former Principal Investigator at Lockheed Martin SSC; and Sanjay J. Wagle, Managing Director at The Lightsmith Group discuss how satellites are boosting sustainable technologies and the level of growth and investment in those enterprises in the first New York Space Business Roundtable of 2022. This edition of the New York Space Business Roundtable was part of the Climate Sense campaign.

Robert Cardillo, Chief Strategist & Chairman of Planet Federal and Will Griffin, Chief Ethics Officer and AI specialist at Hypergiant discuss the unethical (or not) applications of Artificial Intelligence for the commercial space industry in the fourth panel of this series, the final installment in 2021.

Sabrina Alam, Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) and Sustainability Head at SES Satellites, Douglas Jarl, Investment Banker at Barclays, Aerospace, Defense & Government Services, Richard Morrison of Competitive Enterprise Institute and Anthony R.G. Nolan, Partner at K&L Gates discuss the social aspect of sustainable investing and business management in the third panel of this series.

Dylan Taylor, Chairman & CEO of Voyager Space Holdings, Erica Pandey, Axios Business Reporter and Abhas Maskey, Space Foundation Nepal & Better Satellite World Award Recipient discuss governance as it relates to ESG and commercial space expansion in the second panel of this series.

Jason Rainbow, Senior Staff Writer at Space News, Peter Fusaro, Senior Partner, ESG at Oxford Global Accelerated Ventures, Hoyt Davidson, Founder & Managing Partner of Near Earth LLC. and Harriet Brettle, Head of Business Analysis at Astroscale discuss the emerging ESG market in the first panel of this series.