Canan Dagdeviren has been invited to participate as a guest speaker during the lighting talks portion of SEI's Virtual Beyond the Cradle 2021: Envisioning a New Space Age event. She has partnered with the MIT Space Exploration Initiative in the past, and will be discussing her E-TeCS project.

Beyond the Cradle is the Space Exploration Initiative's annual flagship event. The initiative is described as follows:  "We weave the tapestry of the space industry with leading space visionaries—from the space scientists and astronauts at the vanguard of exploration, to the CEOs and founders building a burgeoning space ecosystem, to the artists and storytellers shaping our conception of the possible."

This year, the event will be hosted virtually with an exciting lineup of speakers. Special access to  speakers through Q&A sessions is by registration only. The event will also be live streamed and made freely available for public viewership (livestream details will be posted to our event page soon).