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AIAA SciTech Forum is the world's largest event for aerospace research, development, and technology, showcasing breakthrough science, revolutionary technologies, and generation-after-next capabilities. The 2025 forum theme, "Energize the Future," reflects
the current shift in the aerospace industry: envisioning and enabling new means of transportation and exploration that will revolutionize our society, achieving sustainability goals, developing and applying new and improved software and hardware tools,
and promoting inclusivity. It also champions the legacy of our community: tackling hard challenges and pushing boundaries to achieve the art of the (im)possible.
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Featured Speakers
Kristen Baldwin
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology, and Engineering
Anita Carleton
Director, Software Solutions Division, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Umut Durak
Head of Avionics Systems, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Flight Systems; Adjunct Professor of Aeronautical Informatics, Clausthal University of Technology Informatics Institute
Karen Feigh
Professor and Associate Chair for Research, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ray Kolonay
Senior Scientist for Advanced Structures, Aerospace Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory
Laurie Leshin
Director, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Leigh Palmer
Vice President, Technology Strategy and Delivery, Google Public Sector
Marco Pavone
Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Director, Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Stanford University; Director, Autonomous Vehicle Research, NVIDIA
Trung Pham
Chief Scientist and Technical Advisor for Artificial Intelligence—Machine Learning, FAA
Steve Walker
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Lockheed Martin