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Speakers

• Eileen Drake
  CEO and President, Aerojet Rocketdyne

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Discover how you can make the most of your first week at AIAA SciTech Forum while meeting fellow attendees. This orientation is ideal for first-time attendees, but all are welcome!

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A distinguished panel of senior female leaders will share their insights on the business case for diversity along with how they have championed diversity and inclusion as executives and colleagues. Specific attention will be paid to the connections between diversity, innovation, and the future of work and the business imperative of advancing diversity initiatives within organizations.

Moderator

• Andrea G. Tatum
  Senior Director, Corporate Engagement, Catalyst

Panelists

• Lisa Callahan
  Vice President and General Manager, Commercial Civil Space, Lockheed Martin
• Christine Fox
  Assistant Director, Policy and Analysis, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
• Jody Singer
  Center Director, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• Janis Terpenny
  Dean, Wayne T. Davis Dean’s Chair, Tickle College of Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Vanessa E. Wyche
  Deputy Center Director, NASA Johnson Space Center

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Interested in learning more about the Technical Activities Division and AIAA’s Technical Committees? Join us for an interactive overview of TAD and the TCs and then network with TAD leaders and TC chairs. 

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This discussion highlights the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and sonic boom assessment of the X-59.

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This discussion highlights the successes of NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) and what the demonstration means for the future of green propellants.

Moderator

• Trudy Kortes
  Program Director of Technology Demonstrations, Space Technology Mission Directorate, NASA

Panelists

• Joe Cassady
  Executive Director for Space Programs, Washington Operations, Aerojet Rocketdyne
• Jeff Sheehy
  Chief Engineer, Space Technology Mission Directorate, NASA
• Chris McLean
  GPIM Principal Investigator, Ball Aerospace
• Adam Brand
  Tech Advisor and Advanced Propellant Development Lead, Air Force Research Laboratory

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This talk will overview existing technology, outstanding challenges, required capabilities, and recently developed solutions that integrate planning and perception to provide robust decision-making for real-world autonomy.

Speakers

• Jonathan P. How
  Richard C. Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Moderator

• Michael Gazarik
  Vice President, Engineering, Ball Aerospace

Panelists

• Samuel “Keith” Hargrove
  Dean, College of Engineering, Tennessee State University
• Linda O’Brien
  Director and Deputy of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance and Unmanned Aerial Systems in Advanced Development Programs , Lockheed Martin
• LaRachelle Samuel-Smith
  Managing Director, Table SALT Group
• Matthew T. Wallace
  Deputy Project Manager, Mars 2020, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Julie A. Williams-Byrd
  Chief Technologist, NASA Langley Research Center

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If we can’t bring 2021 AIAA SciTech to Nashville, we’ll bring a little of Nashville to you! Join us as we hear from two professional singer/songwriters, as they perform their hits, tell personal stories about the stars who recorded their songs, and share the details that inspired them to write them.

Session Participants

• Victoria Banks
  Country Music Artist
• Billy Kirsch
  Songwriter

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Learn about all the ways you can get engaged and connected as an AIAA student member to our amazing offering of programs just for students.

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The cost of Wind Energy has been reduced by more than 50% in the last decade reaching all time lows. Key drivers of this trend have included increased manufacturing scale and improved efficiency of the turbine system.  As the industry continues to advance, technology will become even more critical to progress. This talk will share a vision for the future of wind energy and explore key technology advances that will help drive continued cost reductions and improved performance.

Speakers

• Danielle W. Merfeld
  Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, GE Renewable Energy

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AIAA is the leading aerospace publisher. Join our webinar on how to publish with AIAA meeting papers, journals, books, magazine or how to participate on an AIAA standards committee. Learn more about AIAA Publications.

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The benefits of using reliable and proven platforms to meet emerging objectives are numerous and multifaceted. 

Speakers

• Claudia Mowery
  Vice President – USAF Programs, Aircraft Systems, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

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Secondhand Hounds will join AIAA SciTech with some amazing puppies up for adoption, so take a break and join us for some puppy love! 

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Aerospace Cybersecurity Capture the Flag Preview, developed by Embry-Riddle, is a competitive learning lab for aerospace professionals of all skill and experience levels. Participants will solve general cybersecurity challenges and then move on to aerospace-specific challenges such as decrypting navigation data and finding bugs in satellite ground station systems.

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Topic: “The History and Prospects of Commercial Space Activity”

Keynote

• David W. Thompson
  President and Chief Executive Officer (Retired), Orbital ATK, Inc.

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Leaders in the aerospace industry will take time to meet with Rising Leaders participants and share their experiences.

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Accelerating change is challenging, especially in an industry steeped with regulations and layers of processes, and with a propensity to minimize risk to the 10-9. But the pandemic has given the industry an opportunity to highlight the collaborative spirit that is at the core of aerospace. The unprecedented response to the pandemic has removed departmental and organizational silos to develop and produce innovative and advanced products needed to flatten the curve. Hear from leaders in government, academia, and industry on how aerospace has reacted to combat this global crisis.

Moderator

• David S. Stargel
  Deputy Chief Scientist, 711th Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory

Panelists

• Stacey Boland
  Principal Systems Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Keoki Jackson
  Vice President, Supply Chain & Program Performance, Lockheed Martin
• Sezin A. Palmer
  National Health Mission Area Executive, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
• Darryll J. Pines
  President, University of Maryland
• Brian West
  Team Lead, Additive Manufacturing and Digital Solutions, Advanced Manufacturing Branch, EM42, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

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Join us for casual conversation and networking.  Corporate Member Employee exclusive event.

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This beginner-friendly yoga practice* will get you connected to your breath, warm up your body, and introduce you to some of the foundational poses of a vinyasa style yoga practice. 

Speakers

• Erica Overfield
  HR Business Partner, SAP Concur

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• Christopher Raymond
  Chief Sustainability Officer, The Boeing Company

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The presentation illustrates the conceptual design of an aircraft from configuration definition, graphic geometric modeling of the fuselage and its compartments, selection of powerplant options to multi-level analysis and design space exploration of key design parameters.

 

Speakers

• Alexander Schneegans
  Managing Director, PACE Aerospace Engineering and Information Technology

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The number of new entrants into the aerospace community are many. The experience of the leaders, the business models, the driving technologies, and markets are a few variables represented on this panel. Hear about who these new entrants are, why aerospace, why now, and how the traditional community can foster these new entrants thus enabling a more robust and inclusive industry that can support solutions for the complex problems facing society.

Moderator

• Bruce Holmes
  Chief Technology Officer, Alakai Technologies Corporation

Panelists

• Larry Wirsing
  Vice President, Commercial Programs, Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company
• David Bowles
  Executive Director, Virginia Institute for Spaceflight and Autonomy, Old Dominion University
• Pamela E. Cohn
  COO, Urban Air Mobility Division, Hyundai Motor Group
• Richard French
  Director of Business Development and Strategy, Space Systems Division, Rocket Lab
• Glenn Gonzales
  Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Jet It

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In this session, representatives from start-up materials companies will present their products, operations, and vision for future directions to enlighten and encourage the audience about potential future collaboration.

Panelists

• Kookai Chaimahawong
  Pangaea Ventures
• Jason Husk
  Mosaic Materials
• Brett Jones
  VU Venture Partners
• Emily Parisi
  Parisi Tech
• Evgenia Pekarskaya
  Supercool Metals
• Mark Rowland
  AFWERX
• Dan Xiang
  X-Wave Innovations, Inc.

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IFAR Virtual Exchange (IVX) is a series of web-based speaking engagements given by internationally recognized aerospace academics and industry members. Each series will invite dynamic and inspiring speakers connected to the IFAR community.  The purpose of the speaker series is to develop the career capabilities of researchers and employees of the IFAR member organizations and the greater aeronautical R&D community. The featured speaker for this talk is Parimal Kopardekar, Director of NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI). Format: Presentation followed by Audience Q&A.

Speakers

• Parimal "PK" Kopardekar
  Director, NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI), NASA Ames Research Center

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AIAA’s “Meet the Employers” event at the 2021 SciTech Forum offers attendees the opportunity to virtually meet and network with AIAA corporate member companies.    

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Moderator

• Parimal "PK" Kopardekar
  Director, NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI), NASA Ames Research Center

Panelists

• Tino Belli
  Director, Aerodynamic Development, INDYCAR, NTT IndyCar Series
• Melissa L. Flagg
  Senior Fellow, Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
• Jose Enrique Roman
  Acting Vice President, Global Technology & ET&T Supply Chain Management, Managing Director, Boeing Research & Technology Europe, The Boeing Company
• Clayton Turner
  Center Director, NASA Langley Research Center
• Zoe Walters
  1st Lt, Program Manager, SBIR Phase I, U.S. Air Force

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Bastion Technologies is a dynamic aerospace company with rapid growth in the coolest marketplace! Visit our ONLINE HUB to see our current job openings! 

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Connect with section officers, learn about activities in your region, and how to participate. This is a casual networking event. Students and professionals are encouraged to attend.

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This panel will provide insights and advice on the importance of individuality in professional success and bringing your authentic self into everything you do. This will be a free-flowing discussion on intersectionality, imposter syndrome, and dispelling powerful myths within STEM and aerospace.

Moderator

• Melissa Sampson
  Senior Manager, Advanced Systems, Ball Aerospace
• Harshini Sivakumar
  Undergraduate Student at Georgia Tech; Expansion Subcommittee Chair, Women of Aeronautics and Astronautics (WoAA)

Panelists

• Aprille Ericsson
  New Business Lead for Instrument Systems and Technology Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Negar Feher
  Vice President of Business Development, MOMENTUS
• Shikha Redhal
  Aerospace Engineering, PhD candidate, University of Maryland, College Park
• Sarah Scoles
  Freelance Science Journalist

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NASA interns will present their outcomes on their fall 2020 projects.

Moderator

• Chris Clark
  Management and Program Analyst, NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI)
• Parimal "PK" Kopardekar
  Director, NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI), NASA Ames Research Center

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Join Gold Award Alums in STEM as they discuss how they built strong foundations in engineering through community problem-solving with a diversity, equity and inclusion lens.

Speakers

• Megan Loh
  2019 National Gold Award Girl Scout and a freshman at Stanford University
• Therese Malinowski
  2020 National Gold Award Girl Scout and first year engineering student at Purdue University
• Phoebe Wall
  2019 National Gold Award Girl Scout, Aero/Astro student at Stanford University

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Looking for a way to connect to other student and YP attendees at SciTech? Join AIAA and special guest commentators from NASA as we watch the Netflix documentary The Mars Generation using the RAVE app together! Our guest commentators will be Sarah Shull and Robert Howard.

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Speakers

• Pamela Melroy (Colonel, USAF, Ret.)
  Member, National Space Council Users’ Advisory Group; former NASA astronaut/Space Shuttle Commander
• Steven H. Walker
  Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation

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Moderator

• Ram Ramachandran
  Tech Fellow at the Propulsion Fluids & Design, Jacobs Space Exploration Group, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Panelists

• Allison Paige Anderson
  Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
• Shawn Phillips
  Chief, Rocket Propulsion Division, Air Force Research Laboratory
• James L. Reuter
  Associate Administrator, Space Technology Mission Directorate, NASA
• Jody Singer
  Center Director, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

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Meet Daniel P. Raymer, author of Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach, at 2021 AIAA SciTech.

Speakers

• Daniel P. Raymer
  President, Conceptual Research Corporation

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Please join us for a virtual lunch hour with opportunities for 1-1 speed-networking and small group discussions. Come connect with your peers from academia, industry, and government.

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Moderator

• Zohaib Mian
  Head of Systems Engineering, Alphabet/Loon
• Eric Spero
  Lead, Systems Engineering for Autonomous Robotics Integration, U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Army Research Laboratory

Panelists

• Natalia Alexandrov
  Principal Investigator, NASA Langley Research Center
• David Hansell
  Global Head, Aviation Regulation and Policy, Loon, LLC
• Andrew Lacher​
  Senior Principal, Aerospace Research and Autonomous Systems, Noblis
• Sanjiv Singh
  Chief Executive Officer, Near Earth Autonomy; Consulting Professor, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
• Arne Stoschek
  Project Executive, Machine Learning and Autonomy, @ Acubed, an Airbus Innovation Center

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Ben’s Chili Bowl has been a mainstay of the Black community in Washington, D.C., for nearly 62 years. It stands as a historic example of how a business can serve as a driver of economic development during good times and provide hope and solidarity to a community during hard times.

Virginia Ali, cofounder of Ben’s Chili Bowl with her late husband, Ben, will share stories about sitting with Dr. King and later with the first Black President of the United States, Barack Obama, and share how her restaurant has served as a gathering place for everyone, whether you are homeless or the President of the United States. 

Ben’s current staff will share a cooking demonstration of some of their specialties.

MLK Day: A Tribute to Service program and registration

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Hear from two accomplished Black aerospace and defense leaders, Charles Bolden and Lester Lyles, about their challenges to rise to leadership positions and their personal inspirations. These accomplished public servants will chat with moderator Lindani Johnson, Chief Engineer for NSBE Aerospace SIG. The panelists will share their thoughts on why diversity is essential in today’s workforce, as well as their outlook on the future. Attendees will be invited to interact with these leaders and ask them questions.

Moderator

• Lindani Johnson
  Chief Engineer, NSBE Aerospace SIG

Speakers

• Major General Charles F. Bolden Jr., USMC (Ret.)
  12th NASA Administrator, Founder & CEO Emeritus, The Charles F. Bolden Group
• General Lester L. Lyles, U.S. Air Force (Ret.)
  former Vice Chief of Staff; Commander, Air Force Materiel Command

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Watch the second episode in the documentary series, “Red Tail Angels – The Story & Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen.” This series showcases the hardships, struggles and ultimately the successes of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black men given the opportunity to serve as military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps that became the U.S. Air Force.

The film will be hosted by Joi C. Spraggins, PhD, founder of Legacy Bridges, a NASA-Related Career and Technical STEM Education, Workplace and Workforce Development Innovation Center. Dr. Spraggins also is an AIAA Member.

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Meet DOTA George E. Hardy, Lt. Col USAF (Retired) who in September 1943 was assigned to the 320th College Training Detachment at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. His group was scheduled to take college-level courses, at Tuskegee Institute, for a period of five months. This training was cut short in the beginning of December, as his group was transferred to Tuskegee Army Air Field (TAAF) for Aviation Cadet training, as part of Class 44-H. In September 1944, DOTA George E. Hardy graduated as a single-engine pilot and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

Meet, Richard A. Baugh, the Son of DOTA Howard Lee Baugh, Lt. Col., USAF (Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. Lonely Eagle). DOTA Baugh was born in Petersburg, VA on January 20, 1920. He attended public schools in Petersburg and Brooklyn, NY and graduated from Virginia State College (University) in 1941. DOTA Baugh entered the U.S. Army Air Corps as an Aviation Cadet in March 1942. He completed pilot training at Tuskegee Army AirField in November 1942 (Class 42-J-SE) and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant. DOTA Howard Baugh, Lt. Col., USAF flew P-51C Mustang Red Tale and had 134 combat missions in WWII.

Moderator

• Joi C. Spraggins
  CEO, Legacy Bridges STEM Academy, Inc.; AAIA Member, NSBE Life-Time Member 325 and NSBE Aerospace SIG Ambassador for the State of Pennsylvania

Panelists

• Richard A. Baugh
  Son, DOTA Howard Baugh, Lt. Col., USAF, Ret.
• DOTA George E. Hardy
  WWII Red Tail Pilot, Lt Col USAF (Retired)
• Jillian Patricia Pirtle
  Marion Anderson Society Opera Scholar, The Marian Anderson History Society

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Enjoy a review of community service opportunities to take part in

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Dr. King believed in the opportunity to provide service. He said, “Everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve.” These panelists exemplify King’s call to service. Join the conversation with three Black female panelists who will share their dreams, discuss their service, and look ahead toward their next feats. This industry panel discussion will be moderated by Enanga Daisy Fale, Executive Director of the NSBE Aerospace SIG and the newly appointed Regional Deputy Director of Membership within AIAA.  Attendees will be invited to interact with the panel and submit questions.  

Moderator

• Enanga Daisy Fale
  Director, Aerospace Special Interest Group, National Society of Black Engineers

Panelists

• Carole Hopson
  Author, First Officer, United Airlines
• Marion Johnson
  Former Associate Engineer, Project Leader
• Stephanie D. Wilson
  NASA Astronaut

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The concluding finale to the day’s tribute will be presented by Dexter Johnson, PhD – Engineer, Educator, Entrepreneur, and Minister. Dr. Johnson is the NASA Technical Fellow for Loads and Dynamics, supporting the NASA Engineering and Safety Center. Johnson also is an AIAA Associate Fellow and this year’s recipient of the AIAA Diversity and Inclusion Award, recognizing his significant contributions to advancing diversity and inclusion within the aerospace and astronautics community through his AIAA collaborations with students and industry partners. He extends his expertise through his service as the NSBE Aerospace SIG Aerospace Partnership Director. 

Speakers

Dexter Johnson
Ph.D., NASA Technical Fellow - Loads and Dynamics, AIAA Associate Fellow/Structural Dynamics TC Chair, NSBE Aerospace Special Interest Group/Aerospace Partnership Director

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AIAA encourages you to step away from the computer before or after AIAA SciTech and get outside for a fun run and/or walk!

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From data analytics and machine learning to digital twins, aerospace design is becoming increasingly data centric. Yet in our excitement to define a new generation of data-centric approaches, we must be careful not to chart our course based entirely on the successes of data science and machine learning in the lucrative but vastly different domains of social media, online entertainment, online retail, image recognition, machine translation, and natural language processing — domains for which data are plentiful and physics-based models do not exist. 

Keynote

• Karen E. Willcox
  AIAA Board of Trustees; Director, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

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A place for new SciTech attendees (especially students!) to come and hear what SciTech is all about. In week two, we’ll recap the first week of the forum and look ahead to what the second week has in store.

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This session describes the UAV Ground Control Station (or Segment) history at GA-ASI including the evolution from the early Predator days, to the current USAF & US Army configurations, as well as future initiatives, concepts, and paradigm shifts.

Speakers

• Ernest J. Serrano
  Senior Director of Engineering for MQ-1C Gray Eagle, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

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To thrive in an ever-changing, hyper-connected, globally competitive, technology-enabled world, we are seeing huge potential in embracing “model-based everything” to help us better manage/understand complexity, increase speed, and improve agility/flexibility in dealing with uncertainty and pivots – but what’s the Holy Grail for digital models to enable us to “Design Faster?”

Moderator

• Teresa Kline
  Program Manager, Office of the Engineer, NASA

Panelists

• Garth Coleman
  Vice President, Marketing, ENOVIA, Dassault Systèmes
• Olivia Pinon Fischer
  Chief, Digital Engineering Division, Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL), Georgia Institute of Technology
• Jaret Matthews
  Founder and CEO, Venturi Astrolab, Inc.
• Thomas J. Trodden
  Deputy Director, Advanced Systems and Transformation, Sandia National Laboratories
• Philomena Zimmerman
  Deputy Director, Engineering Tools and Environments, OUSD(R&E)/Advanced Capabilities, United States Department of Defense

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Kevin Michaels, Aerodynamic: Inside the High-Stakes Global Jetliner Ecosystem

Speakers

• Kevin Michaels
  Managing Director, AeroDynamic Advisory

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Hear from 5 teams of young professionals from across the aerospace industry on how they feel the design cycle is adapting and what it means to design quickly.  Computational innovation and a diversity in mindset are tools that could hasten the cycle yet still meet the stringent performance criteria and risk tolerance of the aerospace industry.

Moderator

• Michele Miller
  Director, Missions and Systems Engineering, Ball Aerospace

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Join us on Tuesday, 19 January, to watch the first episode together of Challenger: The Final Flight on Netflix. Engineers, officials, and the crew members’ families provide their perspective on the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and its aftermath. 

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Join the Women of Aeronautics and Astronautics (WoAA) for a fun night of Aerospace trivia for students! Get a team together and RSVP via this link (coming soon!). A game link will be sent to participants after RSVPs close. The first place team will win an AIAA prize pack, so be sure to register today!

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Did you miss the Idea Challenge yesterday? Do you have more questions for the winning team – The Notorious ENGs?? Join them and other young professional participants in the HUB for a recap of their “Design Cycle – Go Fast!” pitch.

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This a discussion panel and breakout discussion session with entrepreneurs in the aerospace industry where we discuss the challenges of entrepreneurship and how to build a successful business, from idea to execution. Attendees will have the chance to join a breakout discussion with panelists in the last part of the program. Please ensure you have the most up-to-date version of ZOOM video teleconferencing software in order to fully participate in this session.

Speakers

• Natalya Bailey
  CTO and co-founder, Accion Systems
• Parimal "PK" Kopardekar
  Director, NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI), NASA Ames Research Center
• Kelly Larson
  Chief Executive Officer, Aquarian Space
• Garret Westlake
  Executive Director of the da Vinci Center for Innovation, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Join us for an interactive session to find out how you can participate in a pathway to AIAA leadership on a technical committee, local section, standing committee, and more.

Speakers

• Anjaney Kottapalli
  Research Science Manager, Lockheed Martin
• Jeff Laube
  Senior Project Engineer, Launch Systems Division, The Aerospace Corporation
• Peter Montgomery
  Chair, AIAA Talent and Leadership Development Committee; Director of Commercialization, Test & Operations Support Contract, Kennedy Space Center, Jacobs
• Jeff Puschell
  Principal Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Technologies
• Kate Stambaugh
  AIAA Talent and Leadership Development Committee; Senior Principal Systems Engineer, Space Sector, Northrop Grumman
• Sarah Shull
  Artemis Surface Mission Planning Lead, NASA Johnson Space Center
• Phillip J. Ansell
  Assistant Professor and Allen Ormsbee Faculty Fellow , Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois
• John-Paul Clarke
  Professor, Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Memorial Chair in Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin

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How can we capture the knowledge, messaging, vision, and inspiration that have transpired during the 2021 AIAA SciTech Forum and understand the impact for the future of aerospace? How do we create continuity and continue the conversation? Join the 2021 AIAA SciTech Executive Steering Committee in a townhall format Forum 360 to explore where we have been these last two weeks and where we are going.

Moderator

• Thomas Irvine
  Consultant , TBI Aerospace Consulting LLC

Panelists

• Laurette Lahey
  Sr. Director of Flight and Vehicle Technology, Boeing Research and Technology; Forum General Chair
• Michael D. Cawood
  Vice President, Program Performance, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
• Michele Miller
  Director, Missions and Systems Engineering, Ball Aerospace
• Scott Palo
  Professor, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University Colorado Boulder
• Tom Pieronek
  Chief Technology Officer & Vice President, Research and Technology, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
• H. Kevin Rivers
  Associate Director, Technical, NASA Langley Research Center; Forum 360 Co-chair
• Rickey Shyne
  Director, Research and Engineering, NASA Glenn Research Center
• John Tylko
  Chief Innovation Officer, Aurora Flight Sciences, A Boeing Company

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GoFly’s $1,000,000 Grand Prize is waiting to be won, and teams around the world are working to create a safe, quiet, and compact personal flyer. Think you have what it takes to win? Join us to learn more about becoming an official GoFly Team, and meet some of our current teams.

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2020 has been an interesting year to say the least. Hear from aerospace veteran journalists, Graham Warwick and Guy Norris, on the A&D industry's highlights and setbacks in 2020, and as the dust begins to settle, hear what they think will be worth watching in 2021.

Moderator

• Timothy Dominick
  Chair, AIAA Public Policy Committee, and Staff Engineer, Northrop Grumman

Speakers

• Guy Norris
  Senior Editor, Aviation Week Space & Technology
• Graham Warwick
  Executive Editor, Technology, Aviation Week

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Forty years ago NASA’s Space Shuttle Program began. NASA’s fourth program for human spaceflight had a mission to provide routine transportation to low Earth orbit with a reusable vehicle. Thirty years and only 133 missions later, shuttle Discovery concluded the program, arguably without completing the original vision. Or did it? Over the 30 years there were successes and failures, but the technological advancement and inspiration were to be the foundation for the next generation of commercial spaceflight.

Keynote

• Steve Jurczyk
  Acting Administrator, NASA

Moderator

• Miles O'Brien
  Independent Journalist

Panelists

• Anousheh Ansari
  CEO, XPRIZE Foundation; Private Space Explorer
• Steve Lindsey
  Senior Vice President, Strategy Space Systems, Sierra Nevada Corp.
• Beth Moses
  Astronaut and Chief Astronaut Instructor, Virgin Galactic
• June Scobee Rodgers
  Founding Chair, Challenger Center
• Brewster H. Shaw
  Vice President and General Manager, Space Exploration, for Integrated Defense Systems, The Boeing Company (retired)