7:30 am : Doors Open, Coffee and Networking

8:30 am : Opening Remarks

• SPWAC Board President Lynne Platt
• St. Petersburg City Council Chair Lisset Hanewicz
• USF-St. Petersburg Student Governor Elise Prophete
• USF-GNSI Executive Director General (ret.) Frank McKenzie

8:45 am : Fireside Chat — Eduardo Cue interviews NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott

10:00 am : Panel 1. Fly Me to the Moon: A Platform for Understanding the Universe

Moderator:       Dr. Martin Elvis (Harvard – Smithosonian)

Speakers:

• Dr. James Green (former NASA Chief Scientist)
• Dr. Joseph Silk (Sorbonne / JHU)
• Dr. Jack Burns (University of Colorado Space Policy Institute)

11:15 am : Panel 2. Orbital Tensions: Policing the Final Frontier

Moderator:       Dr. Tad Schnaufer (USF-GNSI)

Speakers:

• Dr. Namrata Goswami (Johns Hopkins University)
• Dr. Jeffrey Collins (University of Prince Edward Island)
• Dr. Peter Garretson (American Foreign Policy Council)

12:15 – 1:30 pm : No-Host Lunch (except for VIP Ticketholders)

1:30  pm : Panel 3. Countries, Companies and Competition in the New Space Race

Moderator:       Dr. Namrata Goswami (Johns Hopkins University)

Speakers :

• Dr. Martin Elvis (Harvard – Smithsonian)
• Mohammed Soliman (Middle East Institute & McLarty Associates)
• Kevin Strait (Anzen Legal Group)

2:45 pm :  Panel 4. International/British Aerospace Businesses in Florida: Opportunity and Possibility

Moderator : David Lenox, Esquire (President of the British American Business Council Central Florida )

Speakers :

• Tom Kelly (CEO Evona)
• Ksenia Moskalenko (Florida High-Tech Corridor)
• Christopher Stott (Founder and now Non-Executive Chair of River Advisers (formerly ManSat), Founder and CEO Lonestar Holdings)

3:50 pm : Wrap-up and Thanks

4:00 pm :  Networking

No-Host Event @ The Hangar Restaurant, Albert Whitted Airport

540 First Street SE, St. Petersburg 33701 – near the Dali Museum

Parking Garage : 250-5th Avenue South, Levels 2-4, ParkMobile Zone 38015, $5 per day