2025 Speakers
Welcome Address
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Dr. Debra Emmons Vice President and Chief Technology Officer The Aerospace Corporation |
Keynote
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Lt Col Aaron T. Stevenson Deputy Director, Commercial Space Office Space Systems Command |
Plenaries
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Seth Hubbard Professor of Physics, Director of SSTI-ASTROMAT Rochester Institute of Technology |
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Joseph P. Kozak Chief Technologist, Space Formulation Mission Area Johns Hopkins University – Applied Physics Laboratory |
General Session: Mission and Program Experience
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Humphrey (Hoppy) Price Mars Exploration Program Chief Engineer Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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Molly Shelton Power Systems Engineer Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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Eric Trehet Product Portfolio Manager for Power and Propulsion Units Space Electronics – Airbus Defence and Space |
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Steven Korn Electrical Engineer NASA Glenn Research Center |
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Craig Lamascus Senior Engineer Specialist The Aerospace Corporation |
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Roberto Gutierrez Product Portfolio Manager for Power Airbus Crisa |
General Session: Energy Storage I – Space Battery Level Topics
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Kévin Allenbach Battery Business Development Responsible Battery Business Development Responsible Airbus Defence and Space |
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Richard Coffin Manager, Space Applications Development EaglePicher Technologies |
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Delaney Mann Project Engineer ABSL Space Products |
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Tom Pusateri Director, Business Development GS Yuasa Lithium Power, Inc. |
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John-Paul Jones Technologist Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology |
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Tal Sholklapper Ph.D., CEO & Co-Founder Voltaiq, Inc. |
General Session: Energy Generation I – Multijunction Solar Cells
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Dr. Torsten Torunski Senior Product Manager AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH |
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Kristof Dessein Innovation Director Umicore Electro-Optic Materials |
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Nate Miller Sr. Manager, Product Development SolAero by Rocket Lab |
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Hitoshi Tomita R&D Theme Leader Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd. |
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Christopher Fetzer Spectrolab Chief Engineer Spectrolab, Inc. |
General Session: Advanced Concepts
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Dr. E. Joseph Nemanick Senior Scientist The Aerospace Corporation |
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Vladimir Jovovic Power System Engineer Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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Anish Chaluvadi Ph.D. Student, Space Photovoltaics Group University of Cambridge |
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Grant Erickson Sr. Research Engineer Lockheed Martin Space |
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Kiel Davis President Opterus Research & Development |
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Jeremiah Sims Electrical Engineer NASA Glenn Research Center |
General Session: Power Systems Architecture
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Ranjan Anantharaman Sales Engineer JuliaHub Inc. |
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Jason Stange Senior Space Systems Engineer Packet Digital |
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Roberto Gutierrez Product Portfolio Manager for Power Airbus Crisa |
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Lee Gill Senior Member of Technical Staff Sandia National Laboratories |
General Session: Energy Generation II – Modules and Arrays Design
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Pilar Espinet Gonzalez Senior Scientist The Aerospace Corporation |
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Chris Youtsey CTO MicroLink Devices, Inc. |
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Stanislau Herasimenka CEO Solestial,Inc |
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Ismael Sanchez Director of Product Development DHV Technology |
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Matt LaPointe Advanced Programs Engineering Manager Redwire Space |
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Sean Sweetnam Advanced Research Specialist 3M |
General Session: Power Management and Distribution (PMAD) – Power System Design and Analytical Techniques
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Roberto Gutierrez Product Portfolio Manager for Power Airbus Crisa |
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Kiran Bernard Strategic and Technical Product Marketing Manager Renesas Electronics America |
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Brandon Burns Power Systems Engineering Technical Group Supervisor Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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David Caldwell Senior Engineering Specialist The Aerospace Corporation |
General Session: Energy Storage III – Advanced Energy Storage Topics
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Ryo Tamaki Vice President of Product South 8 Technologies |
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Nicholas Pavlopoulos Project Manager, Senior Researcher Johns Hopkins University – Applied Physics Lab |
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Kumar Bugga Senior Fellow Lyten |
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Christopher Choi Research Scientist The Aerospace Corporation |
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Albert H. Zimmerman Technical Fellow The Aerospace Corporation |
General Session: Energy Generation III – Reliability and Characterization
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Scott Messenger Ph.D., Senior Staff Space Survivability Physicist Northrop Grumman Corporation |
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Don Walker Senior Scientist The Aerospace Corporation |
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Pilar Espinet Gonzalez Senior Scientist The Aerospace Corporation |
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Randy J. Ellingson Professor of Physics The University of Toledo |
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Bao Hoang Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Maxar Technologies |
General Session: Energy Storage II – Cell Level Developments for Energy Storage
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Chengsong Ma Ph.D., Chief Scientist Saft America, Inc. |
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Justin Rauchwarg Product Development Engineer III ABSL Space Products / EnerSys EAS |
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William Michael Hadala Jr. Vice President of Business Development American Lithium Energy Corporation |
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Christopher H. McCoy Ph.D., Executive Director CAMX Power LLC |
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Steve Weiss CEO Xilectric, Inc. |
Workshop Session: Energy Generation
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Yao Lao Manager The Aerospace Corporation |
Workshop Session: Energy Storage
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Kevin MacDougall Engineering Specialist The Aerospace Corporation |
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Christopher Choi Research Scientist The Aerospace Corporation |
Workshop Session: Power Management and Distribution (PMAD)
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Peter Carian Technical Fellow The Aerospace Corporation |
Poster Session
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Michael Jin Ph.D., Senior Scientist Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
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Aesha, Patel Ph.D. Candidate The University of Toledo/National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
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Taylor Xu Principal Research Scientist Navitas Systems LLC |
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Alisha Adhikari Graduate Research Assistant The University of Toledo |
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Scott M Lambright Graduate Research Assistant The University of Toledo |
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Wibawa Chou Director, Applications Engineering IR HiRel, an Infineon Technologies Company |
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Dr. Corinne E. Packard, Professor Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Southern California |
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Kyle Virgil Senior Member of Technical Staff The Aerospace Corporation |
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Michael Kelzenberg Senior Staff Scientist California Institute of Technology |
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Phillip Jahelka Staff Scientist Atwater Research Group at Caltech |
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Hirokazu Aoki Solar Array Panel Engineer Mitsubishi Electric Corporation |
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Sean Sweetnam Advanced Research Specialist 3M |
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William Michael Hadala Jr. Vice President of Business Development American Lithium Energy Corporation |
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Jacob Cordell Ph.D., Solar Technoeconomic Analyst National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) |
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Brady Gin Computer Engineer and Student Angstrom Designs, Inc. and UC Santa Barbara |