June 4, 2009

8:00 a.m.

Registration Opens

8:15 a.m.

Networking Breakfast

9:15 a.m.

Forum Welcome

Master Moderators:

• Mr. Hoyt Davidson, Managing Member, Near Earth, LLC
• Mr. Lon Levin, President, SkySeven Ventures

9:20 a.m.

Opening Keynote - Space in Today's Global Economy

• Mr. Tom Henricks, President, Aviation Week

The president of one of the industry's leading magazines and a veteran astronaut will describe the state of the space industry today and its dimensions, and the concerns and factors bearing on the space economy as he sets the stage for the discussions to follow during Space Business Forum: New York.

9:45 a.m.

Sector Performance, Trends, and Expectations

With more than 70 percent of global space revenues now generated by the commercial space sector, understanding how space sectors are differentiated and what trends and expectations characterize the sectors is key to analyzing, rating and forecasting what's ahead for established players, new ventures and entrepreneurs alike.

Moderator:

• Ms. Anita Antenucci, Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey

• Mr. Andrew D. Africk, Senior Partner, Apollo Management, L.P.
• Ms. Heidi Wood, Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst, Aerospace, Defense and Defense Electronics, Morgan Stanley

10:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

10:45 a.m.

Featured Panel - Space as an Element of Economic Infrastructure - Organized by the Toffler Associates

From the GPS timing signals that run our financial networks and ATMs, to ubiquitous global availability of data and information via satellite networks, space has become the invisible but essential economic infrastructure of our times. Leadership of the world's most respected futurist organization leads the discussion on the co-dependence of the global economy on space infrastructure.

Moderator:

• Mr. Steven Kenney, Partner, Toffler Associates

• Mr. Richard H. Buenneke, Jr., Deputy Director for Space Policy, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State
• Mr. Edward M. Morris, Executive Director of Strategic Business Development, ITT Space Systems
• Mr. Richard J. Sanford, Director and Chief Strategist, Global Government Solutions Group, Cisco

11:30 a.m.

Featured Speaker:

• Mr. Thomas B. Pickens III, President and Chief Executive Officer, Astrotech Corporation

12:00 p.m.

Break for Lunch

12:15 p.m.

Networking Luncheon

New Space Comes of Age
No longer the strictly the province of traditional corporate giants, "new space companies" are finding their space technology and business successes. This panel draws together some of the most notable of the new crop of companies who are changing the face and the practices of the space market.

Moderator:

• Mr. Joseph Fuller, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, Futron Corporation

• Mr. Andrew Nelson, Chief Operating Officer, XCOR Aerospace, Inc.
• Ms. Gwynne Shotwell, President and Chief Executive Officer, SpaceX
• Ms. Patricia Grace Smith, Former FAA Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation and Consultant, Virgin Galactic

Two high profile space travel business experts will discuss the financial opportunities of private space travel. This lucrative industry is already an almost $40 million business with the potential to increase more than 10-fold in the near future.

• Mr. Richard Garriott, Entrepreneur, Famed Video Game Developer, and Private Space Explorer
• Mr. Tom Shelley, Vice President of Marketing, Space Adventures, Ltd.

3:30 p.m.

Featured Speaker - View from the Publically Traded

• Mr. John Higginbotham, Chief Executive Officer, Integral Systems

Government Acquisition - Where Are Dollars Flowing for Space?

Reprising one of last year's most popular panel discussions, some of the largest government procurers of space systems, services and hardware take a look ahead at which space business opportunities will command the attention and shape future business opportunities for the traditional aerospace sector in years to come.

Moderator:

• Mr. Kenneth J. Gordon, President and Chief Executive Officer, Antelum Capital Partners, LLC

• Mr. Ken Davidian, EFP Program Lead, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Commercial Space Transportation
• Mr. Alan Ladwig, Senior Advisor, NASA Headquarters
• Mr. Gary E. Payton, Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for Space Programs
• Ms. Maureen Wylie, Chief Financial Officer, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration