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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Time
Location
6:30 am
Pre-registration required. Hosted by the NDIA Rocky Mountain Chapter. 8:00 am Tee  
Eisenhower Golf Course, Pro Shop, USAF Academy
3:00 – 5:00 pm
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Colorado Springs, Grand Ballroom Foyer
4:00 – 5:00 pm
No Host Social  
Eisenhower Golf Course- Falcon Club
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Time
Location
7:00 am – 5:00 pm
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Colorado Springs, Grand Ballroom Foyer
7:30 – 8:30 am
Grand Ballroom Foyer
8:30 – 8:45 am
Brig Gen Guy Walsh, USAF (Ret)
Executive Vice President and COO, National Defense Industrial Association

Kevin "Morty" Mortenson
Chair, National Defense Industrial Association- Space Division

Tom Walker
President, National Defense Industrial Association- Rocky Mountain Chapter  
Grand Ballroom
8:45 -9:30 am
Rhett Butler
Vice President, National Security Space Sector, ExoAnalytic Solutions  
Grand Ballroom
9:30 - 10:00 am
Gen Stephen Whiting, USAF
Commander, U.S. Space Command  
Grand Ballroom
10:00 - 10:30 am
Grand Ballroom Foyer
10:30 - 11:30 am
Jennifer Stewart
Executive Vice President, Strategy and Policy, National Defense Industrial Association
Moderator

Dr. John Plumb
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Space Policy, Department of Defense

Hon Kari Bingen
Former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Intelligence, Department of Defense

Bill Adkins
Professional Staff Member, House of Appropriations Committee, Defense Sub-Committee  
Grand Ballroom
11:30 - 12:00 pm
CMSgt Jacob ‘Jake’ Simmons, USSF
Command Senior Enlisted Leader, United States Space Command  
Grand Ballroom
12:00- 1:00 pm
Grand Ballroom Foyer
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Mike Dickey
Founding Partner, Elara Nova
Moderator

Ben Reed
Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder, Quantum Space

Dan Bourque
Senior Engineering Specialist, Aerospace Corp

Isreal Figueroa
Director of National Security Programs, Firefly Aerospace
Robert Hauge
President, Space Logistics/ Northrop Grumman

 
Grand Ballroom
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Maj. Gen. Harold "Punch" Moulton II, USAF (Ret)
Vice President, Stellar Advisors, Stellar Solutions, Inc.
Moderator

 
Grand Ballroom
3:00 - 3:30 pm
Grand Ballroom Foyer
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Lt Gen Dave Buck, USAF (Ret)
President, BRPH Mission Solutions
Moderator

Lt Gen Douglas Schiess, USSF
Commander, United States Space Force

COL Russell Nowels
U.S. Space and Missile Defense Command
G3, Deputy Chief of Staff

RADM Heidi Berg, USN
Deputy Commander, Navy Space Command and Deputy Commander, Fleet Cyber Command
 
Grand Ballroom
4:30 - 4:45 pm
Kevin "Morty" Mortenson
Chair, NDIA Space Division

 
Grand Ballroom
4:45 - 6:00 pm
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Colorado Springs Courtyard
Friday, August 16, 2024

Time
Location
7:00 - 12:00 pm
7:30 - 8:30 am
8:30 - 8:45 am
Roy Grundman, KBR
Chair for the Space Symposium Breakfast (CO)
Master of Ceremony

Kevin "Morty" Mortenson
Chair, NDIA Space Division

Matt McGuire
Booz Allen Hamilton

Tom Walker
President, Rocky Mountain Chapter of NDIA

 
8:45 - 9:15 am
John Lombardi
Senior Defense Intelligence Analyst, U.S. Space Command  
9:15 - 9:45 am
Thomas Lockhart
Director of the Capability and Resource Intergration Directorate, USSPACECOM

 
9:45 - 10:15 am
10:15 - 11:45 am
Col Edward Ferguson, USSF
Chief, Advanced Warfighter Capabilities and Resources Analysis Division;
Director, SPACECOM Technical Analysis Group, USSPACECOM

Ms. Sarah Doud
Division Chief
Information Mobility Division
USSPACECOM/J86

Daniel Bateman, COL, USA
Division Chief
Combat Power Capabilities Division
USSPACECOM/J84
 
11:45 - 12:30 pm
12:30 - 1:00 pm
Jennifer Stewart
Executive Vice President, Strategy and Policy, National Defense Industrial Association

Gen Stephen Whiting, USAF
Commander, U.S. Space Command
 
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Brig Gen Paul "Dino" Murray, USAF (Ret)
Senior Director, Stellar Advisors
Moderator

MG Brian Gibson, USA
Director, Plans and Policy, USSPACECOM

Maj Gen Paul Tedman, RAF
CBE, Commander, UK Space Command, UK Ministry of Defence

BRIG Christopher Gardiner, AM
Australian Theatre Joint Force Space Component Commander (JFSpCC)

BGen Christopher Honer, RCAF
Commander, 3 Canadian Space Division, Department of National Defence
 
2:00 - 2:15 pm
Roy Grundman
Master of Ceremony

Jennifer Stewart
Executive Vice President, Strategy and Policy, National Defense Industrial Association