Latest speakers announced for upcoming space entrepreneurship conference
A number of new speakers have been confirmed in recent weeks for the upcoming 'Space: Securing our Entrepreneurial Future' conference at Strathclyde Business School which has been organised by Dr Sharon Lemac-Vincere of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship.
Allan Cannon, CEO and Founder of Krucial, will be one of the speakers during the two day event on May 16 and 17. Allan will be discussing setting up and launching Krucial, a business which helps other businesses of all sizes to achieve their aims without being limited by location or communications infrastructure.
Gordon Merrylees, Head of Ventures at investment firm N4 Partners, and Craig Clark, who founded Clyde Space Ltd, Glasgow's first space company, are also both on the list of exciting speakers. Clyde Space produced UKube-1, Scotland's first satellite which was launched in July 2014.
Another speaker on the list is Marc Kneppers, Vice President at Dominant Information Solutions Canada (DISC). DISC provides services domestically and internationally to government and industry in areas such as cyber security, cyber breach and incident response. Marc has a fascinating background and will be sharing his perspectives on the space theme.
Eric Alter, senior vice president and cyber engagement lead at Marsh will be talking about the domains of space, cybersecurity and underwriting risk.
Antony Day and Professor Nicholas Colessimo, founders of Moonxcribe, are also on the conference schedule, joined by Arthur van der Wees, attorney at law and managing director and founder of Arthur's Legal, Strategies & Systems; Professor Neeraj Suri, chair in cybersecurity at the University of Lancaster and Wing Commander Jason Vaughan, Officer Commanding, GEOINT Tech Ops Unit, National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence (NCGI).
Professor Nicolas Peter, President of the International Space University and Professor in Space Policy and International Affairs, will of course be featuring at the conference which follows the three day Executive Space Course being held in Scotland for the first time, hosted and developed by Strathclyde Business School with the International Space University.
Caroline Baylon of Said Business School will be delivering a joint session with organiser Dr Sharon Lemac-Vincere related to the geopolitical challenges at the intersection of space and cyber on May 16. Caroline has been working in the field of foresight, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence for a number of years.
Other Strathclyde academics taking part include Professor Massimiliano Vasile from the Department of Mechanical and Space Engineering, and Professor Malcolm Macdonald, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Director of the Applied Space Technology Laboratory at the University. They will be sharing their views on the future of space and cybersecurity.
The conference will be preceded by the Space Executive Cybersecurity course by Strathclyde Business School in partnership with International Space University.
Dr Lemac-Vincere said, "The Space Executive course is very much not a talk and chalk course - we will be spending a day at the Lightweight Manufacturing Centre at NMIS and we have a few surprises in store for our executives taking part. We have a great range of speakers already and also have a few more lined up for the conference who we'll be announcing in the run up to the event."
More information on both events can be found here: https://www.strath.ac.uk/business/huntercentreforentrepreneurship/conferences/spacecyberexec/
Published: 25 April 2024
