Featured Speakers and VIPs at ISDC 2014

(In Alphabetical Order)

The list will be updated as information becomes available.

Eric Garcetti
Mayor of Los Angeles

Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 11 Astronaut, Author, and Founder, ShareSpace Foundation; NSS Board of Governors (Bio)

Jim Armor
Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, Space Systems Division, ATK Aerospace Group (Bio)

Chris Edwards
CEO and Creative Director, The Third Floor, “Gravity”

Mercury MESSENGER Team

Sean Solomon
MESSENGER Principal Investigator (Bio)

Ralph McNutt
MESSENGER Project Scientist (Bio)

Larry Nittler
MESSENGER Deputy Principal Investigator (Bio)

Chris Ferguson
Director of Crew and Mission Operations, Commercial Crew Program, The Boeing Company (Bio)

Rainer Gombos
Visual Effects Supervisor, “Cosmos”

Jeff Greason
CEO, Chairman of the Board of Directors, XCOR (Bio)

Ben Grossman
Visual Effects Supervisor, “Star Trek: Into Darkness”

Chuck Lauer
Vice President of Business Development, Rocketplane (Bio)

Eric Leven
Visual Effects Supervisor/Tippett Studio, “Cosmos”

Steve Lindsey
Senior Director, Space Exploration Systems, Sierra Nevada Corporation (Bio)

Amy Mainzer
WISE Deputy Project Scientist (Bio)

John Mankins
President, Artemis Innovation Management Solutions LLC

Bjørn Mayer
Visual Effects Supervisor, “Oblivion”

Taber McCallum
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer, Co-founder, Paragon Space Development Corporation (Bio)

Max More
CEO and President of Alcor Life Extension Foundation (Bio)

Elon Musk
CEO and CTO, SpaceX (Bio)

Geoffrey Notkin
Host, Science Channel's series Meteorite Men; owner of Aerolite Meteorites LLC (Bio)

Ian O'Neill
Space Producer, Discovery News (Bio)

Mark A. Pieczynski
Vice President, Engineering Center, Orbital Sciences Corporation

Mike Pinkston
Vice President, Orbital Sciences Corporation (Bio)

Bruce Pittman
Founder and President, Profit Engineering Technologies and Chief System Engineer, NASA Space Portal and the Emerging Commercial Space Office (Bio)

Steve Preeg
Animation Director, “Oblivion”

Robert Richards
Co-Founder & CEO, Moon Express (Bio)

Ivan Rosenberg
President and CEO, Frontier Associates, Inc., and co-Founder and Executive Director, Aerospace & Defense Forum

Rick Searfoss
Director of Flight Test Operations and Chief Test Pilot, XCOR; Former NASA Astronaut and Space Mission Commander for Three Shuttle Missions; Chief Judge for the $10M Ansari X Prize; Colonel, USAF (Ret.) (Bio)

Gwynne Shotwell
President & COO, SpaceX (Bio)

Gene Tattini
Lt. General (USAF Ret.)

Daren Ulmer
President and Chief Creative Officer, Mousetrappe

Natasha Vita-More
Professor, University of Advancing Technology; Chairman, Humanity+; and Co-Editor and Author: The Transhumanist Reader

Robert Zubrin
President, Pioneer Astronautics (Bio)