Beyond the Cradle 2018: Track B (Panels and keynotes)Now Viewing
Ariel Ekblaw, Founder and Lead, MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative - Welcome
Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab - Welcome and kickoff—“Houston, we are GO for launch”
Rai Weiss, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, MIT; 2017 Nobel Laureate - Morning Keynote
Joseph Paradiso, Professor, MIT Media Lab; PI, Responsive Environments Group - Plenary Address and Panel: Our Sci-Fi Space Future
Neal Stephenson, Author; Chief Futurist, Magic Leap - Plenary Address and Panel: Our Sci-Fi Space Future
Eliza McNitt, Writer and Director; creator of SPHERES and FISTFUL OF STARS - Plenary Address and Panel: Our Sci-Fi Space Future
Nnedi Okorafor, Author; Professor, University of Buffalo, New York (SUNY) - Plenary Address and Panel: Our Sci-Fi Space Future
Jim Bell, Planetary Scientist, ASU and Cornell University; President, The Planetary Society - Democratizing
Julien Cantegreil, Chairman of the Board, AsterIdea - Democratizing Open Space
Jordi Puig-Suari, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo - Democratizing Open Space
Danielle Wood, Assistant Professor and Director, Space Enabled research group, MIT Media Lab - Democratizing Open Space
Hajime Yano, Assistant Professor, Laboratory for Astrobiology and Astromaterial (LABAM), ISAS/JAXA - Democratizing Open Space
Xin Liu, Research Affiliate, Fluid Interfaces, MIT Media Lab, Introduction to Space and the Arts Panel: new visions for humanity’s interplanetary future
Honor Harger, Executive Director, ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands - Space and the Arts Panel: new visions for humanity’s interplanetary future
Nicholas de Monchaux, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley; Director, Center for New Media - Space and the Arts Panel: new visions for humanit
Sarah Jane Pell, Artist and Simulation Astronaut (AU) - Space and the Arts Panel: new visions for humanity’s interplanetary future
Tom Sachs, Artist
Nicole Stott, ret. NASA astronaut; Artist - Space and the Arts Panel: new visions for humanity’s interplanetary future
Alexandra Pontefract, Postdoctoral Associate, Earth and Planetary Science, MIT- Frontiers for Life in Space Panel: from human physiology to astrobiology and exoplanets
Christopher Mason, Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine; WorldQuant (WQ) Scholar and Director - Frontiers for Life in Space Panel: from human physiology to astrobiology and exoplanets
Darlene Lim, PI for NASA BASALT mission; Geobiologist, NASA Ames Research Center - Frontiers for Life in Space Panel: from human physiology to astrobiology and exoplanets
Franck Marchis, Senior Planetary Astronomer, SETI Institute; Chief Scientific Officer at Unistellar - Frontiers for Life in Space Panel: from human physiology to astrobiology and exoplanets
Sara Seager, Professor of Planetary Science and Physics, MIT - Frontiers for Life in Space Panel: from human physiology to astrobiology and exoplanets
Dava Newman, Apollo Program Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, MIT - The Future of Space Research Panel: where we’ll be in 10, 50, and 100 years
Blakesley Burkhart, Postdoctoral Associate, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - The Future of Space Research Panel: where we’ll be in 10, 50, and 100 years
Jennifer Rocca, Project Systems Engineer for Planetary & Astrophysics Missions, Jet Propulsion Laboratory - The Future of Space Research Panel: where we’ll be in 10, 50, and 100 years
Tim Shank, PI for Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - The Future of Space Research Panel: where we’ll be in 10, 50, and 100 years
Ariel Waldman, founder, Spacehack.org and Science Hack Day; NASA NIAC external council - The Future of Space Research Panel: where we’ll be in 10, 50, and 100 years
Nahum, Artist and Musician - Afternoon Keynote
Ariel Ekblaw, Founder and Lead, MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative - Plenary Panel: Astronaut Augury
Cady Coleman, ret. NASA Astronaut - Plenary Panel: Astronaut Augury