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Agenda

 TUESDAY, MARCH 25 

1:00 PM

Export Controls Deep Dive (MCLE)
Melissa Duffy, Partner Fenwick

2:30 PM

Break 

3:00 PM

Regulating the Nuclear Space Age: How much is just right? (MCLE) 
Bailey Reichelt, Founding Partner, Ageis – Alex Gilbert, Director of Space & Planetary Regulation, Zeno Power – Harsh S. Desai, Chief Commercialization Officer, Zeno Power – Bhavya Lal, Professor, Former NASA and MIT – Cole Donovan, Dept. of Commerce Office of Space Commerce

7:00 PM

Opening Night Cocktail Party 
 

 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26 

8:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM

Opening Remarks
Founding Partners Justin Hectus and Drea Bernardi
Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson

 

9:15 AM

Space Law 102
Michael Mineiro, Senior Counsel Akin

9:45 AM

Keynote: Making The Space Case: Politics, Pop culture and why Americans remain so ambivalent about exploring the cosmos 
David Sirota

10:10 AM

Blasting Off: Navigating Launch Law in the New Space Age 
Sarah Banco, Space X – Arjun Kampani, GC at RocketLab – Rob Scheige SVP Willis Tower Watson –
Eric Kronman Partner, Fluet – Amanda Rutenberg, Deputy General Counsel, RocketLab

11:00 AM

Cosmic Claims: Enforcing IP rights in collaborative, multinational missions
Farah Bhatti, Partner Buchalter – Shaya Afshar, Associate GC Vast – Christina Goodrich, Partner K&L Gates LLP

11:50 AM

Networking Lunch

12:50 PM

Beyond the Buzzwords: Holistic Representation in Space and Space Law
AJ Link, Human Rights and Policy Lead, Palestine Space Institute, Adjunt Professor Howard Law School – Viva Dadawal, Associate, King & Spalding; M.C. Sungalia, Partner at the Complex Appellate Litigation Group –
Byron Donovan, Chief Legal Officer, Equity Space Alliance

1:40 PM

Regulatory Challenges in Space: Fiction vs Reality
Jennifer Hindin, Partner, Wiley – Aaron Futch, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at Redwire – David Tonini, VP, Global Compliance and Security, Chief Security Officer – Henry R. Gola, Partner at Wiley focused on Satellites, Telecommunications and Media

2:30 PM

Break

2:50 PM

Is the World Safe for Space
Sean West, Author UnRuly, Co-Founder Hence.Ai

3:15 PM

Orbiting Success: CFOs and Investors on Sustainable Space Funding
Laura Lariu, Partner, Orrick – Adam Spice, CFO, RocketLab – CFO Siddharth Hariharan at Vast –
Mark Sidel CFO, True Anomaly

4:00 PM

Break

4:10 PM

Space Junk or Space Hazard? The Legal and Commercial Impact of Orbital Debris
Jodi Goldberg, Special Counsel, Sheppard Mullin

4:30 PM

FARout 2.0: Next-Level Strategies for Government Contracts in Space (MCLE)David Goodwin, Acting General Counsel, Vast – Colleen Kennedy, Assistant U.S. Attorney at the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California – Michael Beckwith, Partner at Dickinson Wright – Amy Hoang, Partner, Government Contracts, Seyfarth Shaw – David Panzer, Partner Fluet

5:20 PM

From Ice to Orbit: Can Antarctica’s Legal Framework Guide the Future of Space?
Caryn Schenewerk, Space Law Textbook Author and Consultant – Dr.Lida Teneva, Climate and Ocean Professional in Philanthropy and NGO Sectors

6:00 PM

Adjourn

 THURSDAY, MARCH 27 

8:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM

Hacked from Orbit: The New Frontier of Space Cybersecurity
Marc Feldman, Author "Space Piracy" and Zohra Tejani, Partner Fenwick – Carrie Marshall, CEO Rebel Space – Randy Segal, Partner Hogan Lowells – Daniel de Carvalho, Cybersecurity Manager

9:45 AM

Space Law in a New Era: Global Security and Space Warfare
Michelle Hanlon, CEO for All Moonkind – Skip Smith, Attorney, Greenberg Traurig – Almudena Azcárate Ortega, Space Security Researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

10:30 AM

Break

10:40 AM

Beyond Earth: The New Frontier of Off-World Mining

11:30 AM

The Legal Risks Keeping Space Lawyers Up at Night
Ryan Noble, Sr. Counsel Hawkeye 360 – Christina Youn, General Counsel at Xona – Brian Ray Head of Legal K2 Space – Dan Czerwonka, General Counsel at Varda

12:30 PM

Closing Remarks

1:00 PM

End of Conference 

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