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      2021 Cycle II Forum

      December 8-9

      North Carolina State University*

       

       

       

       

       

      * NASA continues to monitor impacts and official guidance related to COVID-19 and reserves the right to move to a fully virtual event to protect the health of participants.
    • Innovators

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      Astrapi Corporation

      Spiral Modulation

      New ways to optimize spectrum use and enable more information to be transmitted through frequency ranges with less signal power

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      Atmo

      Weather Prediction Systems

      AI-enabled hardware-software systems that solve weather prediction for any city, state, or country

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      Cerfe Labs

      CeRAM

      A unique non-volatile memory based on a new class of patented materials

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      Fathom Science LLC

      Metocean Intelligence

      AI-augmented digital twins that provide ocean environment intelligence, analytics, and forecasting to support operations and decision-making for a variety of maritime industries

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      Harmony Aeronautics LLC

      Silent Drive (S-Drive) Integrated Propulsor

      An integrated propulsor that quietly operates at peak aerodynamic and electric efficiency

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      Osazda Energy

      MetZilla Technology

      Materials engineering solutions to improve long-term durability of photovoltaic solar cells for terrestrial, space, and unmanned aerial vehicle applications

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      Parthian Energy

      Parthian Electromagnetic [Battery] Sensor (PES)

      A highly reliable yet low-cost method to monitor lithium-ion (Li-ion) cells used to power spacecraft

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      Precursor SPC

      Physics-Based Machine Learning for Geospatial Intelligence

      Real-time, high-fidelity insights into and actionable information on space weather and earthquakes

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      Ten-Nine Technologies

      TENIX Cathode Additive

      A drop-in additive that enhances cathode performance in both primary and secondary batteries

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      VegaMX

      Fusion & Fires

      An AI-enabled air, space and ground-based sensor grid for fire forecasting and monitoring

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      Meet the Subject Matter Experts:

      Lawrence Friedl

      Director, NASA’s Applied Sciences Program

      NASA Headquarters

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      Ralph Jansen

      Aeronautics Mission Office

      NASA's Glenn Research Center

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      Nikunj Oza

      Leader, Data Sciences Group

      NASA's Ames Research Center

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      Harry Partridge

      NASA Center Chief Technologist

      NASA's Ames Research Center

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      Misty Snopkowski

      Program Executive, Commercial LEO Development

      NASA Headquarters

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    • Focus Areas

      Enabling Technologies for Commercialization of Low-Earth Orbit

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      Hybrid Electric Aircraft Technologies and Alternative Fuels

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      Physics-Based Machine Learning for Artificial Intelligence

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      Technologies Using NASA Data to Foster Climate Resilience

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      X-Factor Innovations

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    • Guest Speaker: Wade Fulghum

      Wade Fulghum, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Commercialization for NC State, leads an extremely talented team whose mission is to facilitate the commercialization of cutting-edge research discoveries addressing humanity's most imperative challenges. His team propels this mission forward by creating and overseeing programs aimed at discovering, validating, and strengthening the societal impact of research from NC State.

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    • Guest Speaker: Alyson Wilson

      Dr. Alyson Wilson is the Associate Vice Chancellor for National Security and Special Research Initiatives at North Carolina State University. In this role, she works to expand collaboration between the university and its partners across a range of areas, including defense and national security, data science, and quantum computing. She is also a professor in the Department of Statistics and Principal Investigator for the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences.


      Prior to joining NC State, Dr. Wilson was a research staff member at the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute (2011-2013); an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University (2008-2011); a project leader and technical lead for Department of Defense Programs in the Statistical Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1999-2008); and a senior statistician and operations research analyst with Cowboy Programming Resources (1995-1999). She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a winner of the Army Wilks Memorial Award. In addition to numerous publications, Dr. Wilson has co-authored a book, "Bayesian Reliability," and has co-edited two other books, "Statistical Methods in Counterterrorism: Game Theory, Modeling, Syndromic Surveillance," and "Biometric Authentication and Modern Statistical and Mathematical Methods in Reliability." Dr. Wilson received her Ph.D. in Statistics from Duke University, her M.S. in Statistics from Carnegie-Mellon University, and her B.A. in Mathematical Sciences from Rice University.

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      Meet the Judges:

      Zach Ellis

      Managing Director

      HTX Impact Fund

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      Aaron Greenwald

      Principal and Corporate Strategy

      Boeing

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      Nancy Mendonca

      Deputy, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Mission Integration Office (AMIO)

      NASA Headquarters

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      Harry Partridge

      Center Chief Technologist

      NASA's Ames Research Center

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      Kurt Sacksteder 

      Center Chief Technologist

      NASA's Glenn Research Center

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      Peter Shannon

      Founder and Managing Director

      Radius Capital

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      David Voracek

      Center Chief Technologist

      NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center

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      Meet the Judges:

      Mark Walker

      Managing Director

      Weild & Co.

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      Meet the Judges:

      Sherman Williams II

      Managing Partner

      Academy Investor Network

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      Meet the Judges:

      Julie Williams-Byrd

      Deputy Chief Technologist

      NASA's Langley Research Center

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