Join us for a series of curated meal events designed to spark conversation and highlight the most influential voices shaping our future. These sessions offer a unique opportunity to learn from keynote speakers and celebrate our community’s award winners alongside your fellow attendees. Part of what makes this experience unique is the chance to share a table with people from every corner of the space community, ranging from those who have spent their lives in the industry to the next generation of explorers.
Meal tickets are available for purchase directly through the online registration portal. If you completed your registration before April 26, 2026, you can purchase add-on meal tickets which will automatically be liked to your registration.
Please be aware that all online meal sales will close on May 31, 2026.
Aarti Holla-Maini is the Director of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), having taken up post on 18th September 2023 following her appointment by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. Ms. Holla-Maini brings over 25 years of experience in the space and satellite sector, working predominantly with international organizations and regulators. Prior to the United Nations, she held the post of Secretary-General of the Global Satellite Operators Association. Under Read More
Thursday Lunch Menu
Jim Green, now retired, was a scientist and senior advisor in the Office of the Chief Scientist at NASA. Prior to this appointment, he had been NASA’s Chief Scientist and was the longest serving director of the Planetary Science Division with the overall programmatic responsibility for the New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Pluto, the Juno spacecraft to Jupiter, and the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars, just to name Read More
Thursday Dinner Menu
Jeffrey Manber is President of International and Space Stations at Voyager Technologies. He also serves as Chairman of the Board for Nanoracks (since acquired by Voyager). Jeffrey is the Co-Founder and was the first employee of Nanoracks. He served as the Chief Executive Officer from 2009 until 2021 where he broke barriers for access to space and oversaw the growth of numerous commercial International Space Station programs. Jeffrey also directed Read More
Friday Lunch Menu
Gerry Griffin is the former Director of NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. His career in the United States space program began in 1960 and has included senior positions in government and industry. At NASA, in addition to his position as Director of the Johnson Space Center, he also served as the Deputy Director of the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Hugh F. Dryden Read More
Friday Dinner Menu
Michael López-Alegría is a decorated astronaut who returned to low-Earth orbit for the sixth time in 2024 as commander of Axiom Mission 3. He also commanded Axiom Space’s first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station in 2022, known as Axiom Mission 1. “Mike L-A” (as he’s known to the space community) is involved in both operational and business development efforts within Axiom Space. He has more than 40 Read More
Saturday Lunch Menu
Harrison Hagan Schmitt landed in the Valley of Taurus-Littrow as the only scientist and the last of 12 men to step on the Moon during the Apollo Program. Schmitt consults with a number of commercial and governmental entities on aerospace and Earth and space science issues. He also continues to participate in research and publications related to his December 1972 exploration of the valley of Taurus-Littrow on the Moon. Significant Read More
Saturday Dinner Menu
Lindy Elkins-Tanton is a planetary scientist and the Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche space mission. She is Director of the University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory. Previously, she was a Vice President at Arizona State University, Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science, and faculty at MIT. Elkins-Tanton’s research concerns the formation and evolution of rocky planets, volcanic activity and extinctions on Read More
Sunday Lunch Menu
Bill Diamond is a Silicon Valley technology veteran and current President and CEO of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. The SETI Institute is a nonprofit astrophysics and astrobiology research and education organization focused on the study of life in the Universe. Prior to joining the Institute, Mr. Diamond held various executive management positions in applied technologies, most recently at the optical networking company, Oclaro, Inc. Mr. Diamond has over Read More
Sunday Dinner Menu
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