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2024 Speakers


Welcome Address
Kevin D. Bell
Senior Vice President, Engineering and Technology Group
The Aerospace Corporation

Energy Storage I
Dr. Erik Brandon
Chief Technologist, Power Systems and Technology Section
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Yannick Borthomieu
Cell Technical Department Manager Aerospace, Defense & Performance (ADP) Division
Saft
Jarred Olson
Senior Member of Technical Staff
The Aerospace Corporation
Dr. Albert Zimmerman
Technical Fellow
The Aerospace Corporation
Ryan Pritchard
Principal Project Engineer
Enersys Advanced Systems ABSL

Energy Storage II
Hiroki Fuse
Technical Staff
GS Yuasa Technology Ltd.
Tom Pusateri
Director, Business Development
GS Yuasa Lithium Power
William Hadala
Vice President of Operations & Strategy
American Lithium Energy Corporation
Joseph Troutman
Director of Government Affairs
Forge Nano, Inc.
Dr. Will West
Principal and Group Supervisor, Electrochemical Technologies Group
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
 

Energy Storage III
Dr. Kumar Bugga
Senior Fellow
Lyten
Haodong Liu
CTO
Tyfast Energy Corp.
Ryo Tamaki, Ph.D.
VP of Product
South 8 Technologies
Dr. Elena Bekyarova
CEO
Carbon Solutions, Inc.
 

Energy Generation I
Dr. Daniel Derkacs
Senior Scientist
SolAero by Rocket Lab
Diana Aponte
Head of Product
Solestial, Inc.
Dr. Torsten Torunski
Senior Product Manager
AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH
Dr. Philip Chiu
Senior Staff Scientist, Technical Fellow
Spectrolab, Inc.
Dr. Phillip Jahelka
Staff Scientist
California Institute of Technology
 Justin Lorentzen
Founder/CEO
BlackSky Aerospace Systems

Energy Generation II
Spencer Furin
Electrical Engineer
NASA Glenn Research Center
Harry Yates
Solar Array and Battery Engineering
Maxar Space Systems
Jay Gordon
Senior Principal Engineer
Northrop Grumman
Chris Youtsey
CTO
MicroLink Devices, Inc.
Ismael Sanchez
Head of Product Development
DHV Technology
Samuel Smith
Mechanical Engineer
Opterus Research & Development

Energy Generation III
Meghan Bush
Research Electrical Engineer
NASA Glenn Research Center
Michael Kelzenberg
Senior Staff Scientist
California Institute of Technology
Yao Lao
Manager – Energy Technology Group
The Aerospace Corporation
Scott Messenger, Ph.D.
Senior Staff Radiation Survivability Physicist
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Tetsuya Nakamura
Associate Senior Researcher
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Scott Ireton
V.P. Engineering
Angstrom Designs, Inc.
 

Mission and Program Experience
Brandon Burns
Power Systems Engineer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Alexander Jurcago
Student
John Carroll University
Steven Korn
Electrical Engineer
NASA Glenn Research Center
Mark R. Toft
Electrical Power Subsystem – Principal Engineer
Iridium Satellite LLC
Harry Yates
Principal Engineer, Solar Array and Battery Engineering
Maxar Space Systems

Power Systems Architecture
Arnold Arst
Senior Engineer Specialist
The Aerospace Corporation
José María Martínez Cerdá
Technical Manager
Airbus Crisa
Abigail Eberts
Senior Applications Engineer
Renesas Electronics America Inc.
Joseph Kozak
Senior Electrical Engineer
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Jason Stange
Senior Space Systems Engineer
Packet Digital 
 

Advanced Concepts
David Caldwell
Senior Engineer Specialist
The Aerospace Corporation
Park Cover
Fusion Space Systems Architect
Avalanche Energy
Jeffrey Csank
Electrical Engineer
NASA Glenn Research Center
Jason Merrell, Ph.D.
Director of Engineering and Technology Development
5N Plus Semiconductors, LLC
Andy Presby
Deputy Project Manager Fission Surface Power Project
NASA Glenn Research Center

PMAD
Alex Billings
Junior Analog IC Designer
Apogee Semiconductor
Richard Coffin
Manager, Applications Engineering – Space
EaglePicher Technologies
Hans Jensen
Senior Power Systems Engineer
Terma A/S
Marcos Núñez Rodriguez
Product Portfolio Manager for Power
Airbus Crisa
Nick Uguccini
Electrical Engineer
NASA Glenn Research Center
Poster
Kristof Dessein
Innovation Director
Umicore Electro-Optic Materials
Frank Fan
Manager, Next Generation Battery Technology
24M Technologies
Brynn Hall
Technical Project Manager
Dynovas, Inc.
Casey Hare
CTO
Angstrom Designs, Inc.
Scott Ireton
V.P. Engineering
Angstrom Designs, Inc.
Nadeesha Katakumbura
Graduate Research Assistant
The University of Toledo
Scott M Lambright
Graduate Research Assistant
The University of Toledo 
Justin Lorentzen
Founder/CEO
BlackSky Aerospace Systems 
Oscar Mansilla
Director of Product Marketing
IR HiRel an Infineon Technologies Company 
Marcos Núñez Rodriguez
Product Portfolio Manager for Power
Airbus Crisa
Amirhossein Rahimi
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Toledo 
Samuel Smith
Mechanical Engineer
Opterus Research & Development 
Hiroshi Tomita
R&D Theme Leader
Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. 
Eric TREHET
Product Portfolio Manager – Power Products
Airbus Defence and Space
Taylor Xu
Principal Research Scientist
Navitas Systems 
Youngsu Youn
Principal Research Engineer
Korea Aerospace Research Institute