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2023 Speakers


Welcome Address
Todd M. Nygren
Senior Vice President, Engineering and Technology Group
The Aerospace Corporation

Energy Storage I
Richard Coffin
Manager, Applications Engineering
EaglePicher Technologies
Baljit Riar
Senior Research Engineer,
Power Electronics Systems
Raytheon Technologies Research Center
Michel Lannes
Applications Engineering Systems Engineer
EaglePicher Technologies
Dr. Albert Zimmerman
Technical Fellow
The Aerospace Corporation

Energy Storage II
Dr. Chengsong Ma
Chief Scientist
Saft America, Inc.
Tom Pusateri
Director, Business Development
GS Yuasa Lithium Power, Inc.
William Hadala
Business Director
American Lithium Energy Corporation
Dr. Ratnakumar Bugga
Senior Fellow
Lyten, Inc.

Energy Storage III
Jeff Helm
VP of Sales and Marketing
NanoGraf Corporation
Dr. Charlie Krause
Senior Battery Scientist
South 8 Technologies, Inc.
Joseph Troutman
Director Government Affairs
Forge Nano
Dr. Elena Bekyarova
President and CEO
Carbon Solutions, Inc.
Dr. David Ofer
Director
CAMX Power LLC
 

Energy Generation I
Dr. Daniel Derkacs
Senior Scientist
SolAero by Rocket Lab
Dr. Daniel Law
Senior Program Manager and Technical Lead
Spectrolab
Dr. Torsten Torunski
Senior Product Manager
AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH
Dr. Kristof Dessein
Innovation Director
Umicore
Dr. Seth Hubbard
Professor of Physics and Microsystems Engineering
Director, NanoPower Research Laboratories
Rochester Institute of Technology
 

Energy Generation II
Dr. Stanislau Herasimenka
CEO
Solestial, Inc.
Chris Youtsey
CTO
MicroLink Devices, Inc.
Dr. Vincente Diaz
Managing Director and Co-founder
DHV Technology
Dr. Thomas Andreev
Systems Engineer
Airbus Defence and Space HmbH
Roselin Campos
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solar Array  & Battery Engineering
Maxar Technologies

Energy Generation III
Dr. Roger E. Welser
Principal Scientist
MicroLink Devices, Inc.
Oumaima Mhibik
Deputy Counselor for Energy at French Embassy and CEA Representative in USA
CEA
Scott Ireton
Systems Engineer
Angstrom Designs, Inc.
Jesse Matossian
Product Engineer
Spectrolab
Emanuele Ferrando
Head of Solar Array Programme
SpaceTech GmbH 
Dr. Don Walker
Senior Scientist
The Aerospace Corporation 
Casey Hare
CTO
Angstrom Designs 
 

Mission and Program Experience
Spencer Furin
Electrical Engineer
NASA Glenn Research Center
Dr. Jann Grovogui
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
The Aerospace Corporation
Dr. Justin H. Lee
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
The Aerospace Corporation
Matt LaPointe
Advanced Programs Engineering Manager
Redwire Space
Michael Kelzenberg
Staff Scientist
California Institute of Technology
Harry Yates
Principal Engineer,
Solar Array and Battery Engineering
Maxar Technologies

Power Systems Architecture
Sommer Hilliard
Sr. Electronics Engineer
Lockheed Martin Space
David Grant
Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering
Apogee Semiconductor
Dhack Muthulingam
Power System Engineer
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology
Sean Laughery
EPS Deputy Lead
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 
Erich Soendker
Electronics Technical Fellow
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Ismael Sanchez
Head of Product Development
DHV Technology 

Advanced Concepts
Dr. Thomas Heinsheimer
Member of the Technical Staff
The Aerospace Corporation
Dr. Corinne Packard
Associate Professor
Colorado School of Mines
Dr. Ahmad R. Kirmani
Assistant Professor, School of Chemistry and Materials Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
David Caldwell
Senior Engineering Specialist
The Aerospace Corporation
Matt LaPointe
Advanced Programs Engineering Manager
Redwire Space

PMAD
David Caldwell
Senior Engineering Specialist
The Aerospace Corporation
Dr. Robbie Robertson
CEO, Co-founder
Sedaro Technologies
Paul Farto
Strategic Portfolio Planner
Keysight Technologies
Timothy Babich
Spacecraft Electrical Engineer
Naval Research Laboratory
James Bontempo
Electrical Engineering Fellow
ZIN Technologies
Baljit Riar
Senior Research Engineer, Power Electronics Systems
Raytheon Technologies Research Center
Oscar Mansilla
Director, Space Products
IR HiRel, an Infineon Technologies Company
Poster
Dr. Jann Grovogui
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
The Aerospace Corporation
Erik Pranckh
Director of Business Development
Opterus Research and Development, Inc.
Danielle Maier
LVSAT Systems Engineer
Lockheed Martin Space
Oumaima Mhibik
Deputy Counselor for Energy at French Embassy and CEA Representative in USA
CEA
Manoj K. Jamarkattel
Graduate Research Assistant
The University of Toledo
Manoj Rajakaruna
Graduate Student
The University of Toledo 
Aesha Patel
Graduate Student
The University of Toledo 
Dr. Stanislau Herasimenka
CEO
Solestial, Inc. 
Zachary Zawisza
Undergraduate Researcher
The University of Toledo
Andrew Hudson
Project Engineer
The Aerospace Corporation 
Casey Hare
CTO
Angstrom Designs 
Dr. Wei Lu
Senior Engineer
Tianjin Institute of Power Sources 
Oscar Mansilla
Director, Space Products
IR HiRel, an Infineon Technology Company
Marcos Nunez Rodriguez
Product Portfolio Manager for Power
Roadmap & Expert Pool, TSPIEA
Airbus Crisa 
Dr. Jason Merrell
Director of Engineering and Technology Development
5N Plus Semiconductors
Dr. Carl S. Kirkconnell
President
West Coast Solutions 
Justin Lorentzen
Founder/CEO
BlackSky Aerospace Systems
Dr. Nancy M. Haegel
Senior Research Advisor
Director of National Center for Photovoltaics
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Dr. Taylor Xu
Senior Research Scientist
Navitas Systems
Yu Kuramochi/Kamikawa
Assistant Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation