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 (Bio)

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

William Ailor
Principal Engineer, The Aerospace Corporation

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

Mercury MESSENGER Team

Sean Solomon
MESSENGER Principal Investigator (Bio)

Ralph McNutt
MESSENGER Project Scientist (Bio)

Larry Nittler
MESSENGER Deputy Principal Investigator (Bio)

Howard Bloom
Author (Bio)

Laura Danly
Curator, Griffith Observatory (Bio)

George Dietrich
President, SPACE Canada (Bio)

Arthur Dula
Founder, CEO, Excalibur Almaz; NSS Board of Governors (Bio)

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

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

Richard Garriott
Private Astronaut / Entrepreneur (Bio)

Rainer Gombos
Visual Effects Supervisor, “Cosmos”

David Gorney
Senior Vice President, Space Systems Group, The Aerospace Corporation (Bio)

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

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

Mark Hopkins
Chairman of the NSS Executive Committee (Bio)

Naveen Jain
Co-Founder & CEO, Moon Express (Bio)

Mat Kaplan
Media Producer, Planetary Radio Host (Bio)

Michael S. Laidley
Antares Deputy Program Director, Orbital Sciences Corporation

Emily Lakdawalla
Senior Editor, The Planetary Society (Bio)

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

John Lewis
Professor Emeritus of Planetary Sciences, Co-Director of the Space Engineering Research Center, University of Arizona (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
Meteorite Expert & Star of Science Channel’s Meteorite Men (Bio)

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

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

William Pomerantz
Vice President, Special Projects, Virgin Galactic (Bio)

Steve Preeg
Animation Director, “Oblivion”

Dan Rasky
Chief, Space Portal Office and Senior Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center (Bio)

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

Stan Rosen
Vice Chairman of the Board, NSS Board of Directors. Professor of Acquisition Management, Defense Acquisition Univ. (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)