2023 LSIC Fall Meeting
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 -Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Venue: Community College of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA & Hybrid
Featured Speakers
Prasun Desai
NASA Acting STMD Associate Administrator
A.C. Charania
NASA Chief Technologist
Niki Werkheiser
Director of Technology Maturation, NASA STMD
Phil Root
Strategic Technology Office, DARPA
Walt Engelund
Dep. Assoc. Admin. for Programs, NASA STMD
Day 1 (Oct. 10th, 9:30 am - 12:00 pm): https://youtube.com/live/6MCpsR0G5mk?feature=share
Day 2 (Oct. 11th, 9:30 am - 12:05 pm): https://youtube.com/live/vITTeicrl-w?feature=share
Community College of Allegheny County
Foerster Student Service Center
808 Ridge Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15212
The LSIC 2023 Fall Meeting will be held October 10th -11th at the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC), just down the road from Astrobotic (https://www.astrobotic.com/) and the Moonshot Museum (https://moonshotmuseum.org/). The focus will be on the United States, NASA, and Space Tech's vision for enabling the development of resilient lunar infrastructure at the South Pole of the Moon during Artemis.
Day 1 Keynote Speaker:
Prasun Desai, Acting Associate Administrator in the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate
Day 1 Announcement Shared by:
Walter Engelund, Deputy Associate Administrator for Programs in the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate
Niki Werkheiser, Director of Technology Maturation, NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate
Day 2 Keynote Speaker:
A.C. Charania, NASA Chief Technologist
Day 2 Announcement Shared by:
Phil Root, Director Strategic Technology Office, DARPA
Panels, discussions, and working sessions will include topics such as minimum viable infrastructure, tele-robotics, autonomous robotics and activities, repurposing/re-using initial materials for evolving lunar infrastructure, and/or keeping tabs on technical systems health.
LSIC's meetings focus on understanding NASA's plans and technology investments relevant to building a sustained presence on the lunar surface. This year's Fall Meeting will include invited speakers, panels, posters, and breakout sessions. We invite abstracts from the community describing technical capabilities within the LSIC focus areas and working groups, as well as those that identify lunar surface technology needs and assess the readiness of relative systems and components. Other topics of interest include testing maintenance routines at lunar proving grounds, gradually increasing robotic autonomy while interacting with humans, defining the parameters and constraints of the architecture required to support a sustained presence on the lunar surface, as well as economic and policy considerations.
Abstracts submission is now closed.
There will be a Networking Reception during the evening (6:30 pm) of Day 1 (Oct. 10th) hosted by the Moonshot Museum, Astrobotic, and the Keystone Space Collaborative. Tours will also be available of the Moonshot Museum and at some of Carnegie Mellon University’s labs yielding lunar surface technologies (e.g., the Iris and MoonRanger rovers, their development high bay and Moon Yard, as well as their Mission Control and clean room). Times are identified during Registration.
Also, plan to join us for a 3rd day for the Transition to Commercial Lunar Operations Workshop (October 12th) also at CCAC. You can find further details at: https://lsic.jhuapl.edu/Events/Agenda/index.php?id=478. Both meeting webpages will lead to the same registration interface (once open), where you may register for the LSIC Fall Meeting, the Transition to Commercial Lunar Operations Workshop, or BOTH!
Additional Information
Please see the Logistical Resources document on the right sidebar of this page. It provides details on the Meeting site, Parking, Hotels, maps, transit distances, etc.
Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Location: Community College of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA & Hybrid
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Day | Session | Time | Title | Presenter | Details |
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Dimi Apostolopoulos
Protoinnovations
Dean Bergman
Director of Business Development
Honeybee Robotics
Jacob Bleacher
Chief Exploration Scientist of Advanced Exploration Systems
Quintin Bullock
President
Community College of Allegheny County
Honorable Matt Cartwright
Congressman
U.S. House of Representatives
A.C. Charania
Chief Technologist
NASA
Ahsan Choudhuri
Associate Vice President for Aerospace Center and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Timothy Cichan
Space Exploration Architect
Lockheed Martin
Subha Comandur
Project Manager for CADRE
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Prasun Desai
Associate Administrator (Acting) of the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD)
NASA
Raewyn Duvall
Carnegie Mellon University
Walt Engelund
Dep. Assoc. Admin. for Programs
NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate
Bob Esser
LSII Systems Engineering Lead
Shawn Fernando
Remote Operations Manager
Woodside Energy
EE Science Advisor
Craig Hardgrove
Principal Investigator of LunaH-Map; Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration
ISRU Focus Area Lead
Heather Jones
Carnegie Mellon University
Zoë Karabinus
Program Director
Keystone Space Collaborative
Justine Kasznica
Keystone Space Collaborative & Babst Calland LLP
Brandon Kirkland
Chief Engineer of Mason, a Redwire tool suite
Redwire
Toyotaka Kozuki
Chief Technology Officer
GITAI
Honorable Summer Lee
Congresswoman
U.S. House of Representatives
Trent Martin
Vice President of Space Systems
Intuitive Machines
Candice Matthews Brackeen
General Partner
Lightship Capital; Director of Programming at Hillman and NewMe
Ryan McCormick
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
DM Focus Area Lead
Nick Paine
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, and Board Member
Apptronik
Zachary Pirtle
Senior Policy Analyst
NASA
Michael Provenzano
Cathleen Richards
Interim Executive Director
Moonshot Museum
Phil Root
Director, Strategic Technology Office
DARPA
Melissa Roth
Greg Schmidt
Director of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI)
Pablo Sobron
Impossible Sensing
Justin Starr
Endowed Professor of Advanced Technologies
Community College of Allegheny County
EA Focus Area Lead
Lunar Simulants Lead
John Thornton
Chief Executive Officer
Astrobotic
Harri Vanhala
Program Manager, Lunar Surface Technology Research (LuSTR)
NASA
Jin Wang
The Ohio State University
Niki Werkheiser
Director for Technology Maturation in the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD)
Arthur Witulski
Research Associate Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vanderbilt University