Speaker Hall of Fame
Co-Chairs
Lt Gen Bruce “Orville” Wright, USAF (Ret).
President & CEO Air & Space Forces Association
Dr. Tom Karako
Senior Fellow International Security Program Director, Missile Defense Project Center for Strategic & International StudiesKeynote Speakers
Laura DeSimone
Executive Director Missile Defense Agency
Marcia Holmes
Deputy Director, Hypersonic, Directed Energy, Space and Rapid Acquisition Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) Redstone Arsenal
Dr. Yvette S. Weber, SES
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology and Engineering Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics)Military/Government Speakers
Dr. Jeffrey C. Boulware
Technical Director Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization (JIAMDO)
Mark Glenn
Director, OSD Joint Hypersonic Transition Office Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, (OUSD R&E)
Lt Col Gary Goff, USSF
Materiel Leader, Space Layer Resilient Missile Warning, Missile Tracking, (SNR), Space Sensing Directorate U.S. Space Force
Dennis Helmich
Director of Integrated Military Systems Sandia National Laboratories
Dr. Eric Marineau
Program Officer, Hypersonics, Aerothermodynamics, High Speed Propulsion and Materials Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Lt Col Jared Thompson, USAF
Chief, Advanced Capabilities Integration Branch USSTRATCOM J875Industry Speakers
Geoff Adams
Senior Mission Architect, Missile Defense L3 Harris Space & Airborne Systems
Dr. Rodney Bowersox
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Chief Research Officer, College of Engineering Deputy Director, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Holder, Ford I Professorship in Aerospace Engineering University Regents Professor at Texas A&M University
Dr. Erica Corral
Distinguished Scholar Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Aerospace and Mechanical EngineeringDirector, Arizona Research Center for Hypersonics (ARCH) University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Masao Dahlgren
Fellow, Missile Defense Project Center for Strategic and International Studies
Roberto Furfaro, PhD
Professor Deputy Director Space4 Center, Director of UA Space Systems Engineering Laboratory Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering The University of Arizona
Christopher Gettinger
Director, Advanced Propulsion and Systems Northrop Grumman Defense Systems
Anthony Hazlett
Senior Engineering Leader, Hypersonic Propulsion & Power Systems Edison WorksEmerging Technologies GE Edison Works
Dr. Luca Maddalena
CEO Hy-SET (Hypersonic Science Engineering and Technology)
CAPT David McFarland, USN(ret)
Vice President, Hypersonic and Reentry Test Varda Space Industries
Dr. Daniel Millman (LtCol (USAF-ret)
Chief Technology Officer Stratolaunch, LLC
Dr. Scott Morton
Fellow, AIAA and Royal Aeronautical Society, Associate Director of the U.S. DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program
John Otto
Senior Director, Advanced Hypersonic Weapons, Advanced Technologies Product Line Raytheon Missiles & Defense
Dr. Kelly Stephani
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Kritzer Faculty Fellow, Co-Director, University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH) Center for Hypersonics & Entry Systems Studies, (CHESS) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Nathan R. Tichenor
Director of Hypersonic Facilities, Bush Combat Development Complex Texas A&M University System
John “JV” Venable
Senior Research Fellow for Defense Policy Center for National Defense Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy The Heritage Foundation
Dr. Valero Viti
Aerospace & Defense Team Lead Ansys
Tim Wadhams
Senior Research Scientist, and the Vice President CUBRC Aerosciences Sector, CUBRC Aerosciences Group