Below is a series of links and notes that have been collected for different commercial space-related meetings.

The meetings that are covered on this page include:

Annual Meetings or Meeting Series

• X PRIZE Cup Events (updated Dec 18, 2008)
• International Symposium on Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPS and ISPCS) (updated Dec 18, 2008)
• Space Commerce Roundtable Meetings
• Space Investment Summits
• Space Access Society (SAS) Conference
• FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation Conference (added Feb 7, 2009)
• Space Frontier Foundation's NewSpace Conferences (SFF NewSpace) (added Dec 18, 2008)
• National Space Society's International Space Development Conference (NSS ISDC)
• Space Foundation Space Business Forums

One-Off Meetings

• Space Entrepreneurship Forum "What Are The Opportunities For African Americans In The Government's New Space Initiatives?" (2010 Sept 15)
  

• Space Transportation Association Panel: "An Engineering Assessment of the Way Forward in Human Spaceflight" (2010 Sept 09)
  

• House Science and Technology Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Hearing On "Human-Rating NASA and Commercial  Launch Vehicles And Spacecraft" (2009 Dec 12)

• House Subcommittee on Aviation Hearing on "Commercial Space Transportation" (2009 Dec 12)

• Aerospace Industries Association's "What’s Next for the International Space Station?" (2009 Aug 13)

• Innovations In Orbit: An Exploration of Commercial Crew and Cargo Transportation (2009 June 18)
• Entrepreneurial Space and Export Control: Red Tape in the Final Frontier (2009 April 29)
• MIT Enterprise Forum NY - Panel on Aerospace Investment (2009 April 2)
• Washington Space Business Roundtable Lunch (converted to pdf on Jan 16, 2009)
• Women in Aerospace (WIA) Commercial Space Panel (converted to pdf on Dec 16, 2008)
• Space Foundation Space Business Forum (converted to pdf on Dec 16, 2008)
• Human-Tended Suborbital Science Workshop (added Dec 16, removed Dec 17, and revised on Dec 19, 2008)
• Notes By Jeff Krukin
• Commercial Development Summit on NASA's Lunar Activities 2008 (CDS:Lunar '08)

Annual Meetings or Meeting Series

X PRIZE Cup Events - Notes by Clark Lindsey (RLVNews.com and HobbySpace.com)

• 2008 Oct 24-25: X PRIZE Cup 2008
• 2007 Oct 26-28: X PRIZE Cup 2007
• 2006 Oct 20-21: X PRIZE Cup 2006
• 2005 Oct 09: X PRIZE Cup 2005

International Symposium on Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPS and ISPCS) - Notes by Clark Lindsey (RLVNews.com and HobbySpace.com)

• 2020-01-06: ARCHIVE OF ALL ISPCS CONTENT - Sept 2005 to Oct 2019
• 2009 Oct 21-22: ISPCS 2009
• ISPCS 2009 Home Page
• 2008 Oct 22-23: ISPCS 2008
• ISPCS 2008 Home Page
  That's the end of the symposium. I'll collect links to all the postings and put them into one place later.

• 2007 Oct 24-28: Notes on ISPS 2007 (24-25 Oct) and X PRIZE Cup 2007 (26-28 Oct)

• ISPS 2007 Web Page

• 2006 Oct 17-18: ISPS 2006 Web Page

• 2005 Oct 06: ISPS 2005 Web Page

Space Commerce Roundtable Meetings

• 2006 July 17-19: Roundtable 3: Bridging the Gap: From Earth Markets to New Space Markets, Las Vegas, NV. 

• 2005 26-27 October - Roundtable 2: Exploring the Potential for Lunar Commerce, Houston, TX.

• 2005 June 24 - Roundtable 1: Exploring the Potential for Lunar Commerce, Dallas, TX.

 Space Investment Summits

• 2007 April 16-17: Space Investment Summit 1, New York, NY

• 2007 May XX: Space Investment Summit 2, Washington, DC.

• 2007 Dec 5-6: Space Investment Summit 3, San Jose, CA.

• 2008 May 28: Space Investment Summit 4, Washington, DC.

• 2008 Dec 15: Space Investment Summit 5, Los Angeles, CA.

• 2009 May 27: Space Investment Summit 6, Orlando, FL.

• 2009 Sept 30: Space Investment Summit 7, Boston, MA.

• 2010 May 26: Space Investment Summit 8, Chicago, IL.
  

   

Space Access Society (SAS) Conference - Notes by Clark Lindsey (HobbySpace.com)

• 2010 April 8-10: Space Access '10
  

• 2009 April 2-5: Space Access '09

• 2008 April XX: Space Access '08

• 2007: Space Access '07

• 2006: Space Access '06

• 2005: Space Access '05

• 2005: Space Access '04

• 2002 April 29: Space Access '02

• 2001 May 1: Space Access '01

• 2000 May 5: Space Access '00

FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation Conference

• 2009 AST Conference TwitterSearch Results

Space Frontier Foundation's (SFF) NewSpace Conferences - Notes by Clark Lindsey (HobbySpace.com, RLVNews.com)

• 2008 July 17-19: NewSpace 2008, Washington DC.

National Space Society's International Space Development Conference (NSS ISDC) -

Notes by Clark Lindsey (HobbySpace.com)

• 2006: NSS ISDC 2006

• 2005: NSS ISDC 2005 

Space Foundation Space Business Forums

• 2008 June 18: Space Foundation's Space Business Forum #1, New York City, NY.

• 2009 June 04: Space Foundation's Space Business Forum #2, New York City, NY.

One-Off Meetings

2009 Dec 2: House Science and Technology Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Hearing On "Human-Rating NASA and Commercial  Launch Vehicles And Spacecraft"

• Held in Washington, D.C. at the Rayburn Building.

2009 Dec 2: House Subcommittee on Aviation Hearing on "Commercial Space Transportation"

• Held in Washington, D.C. at the Rayburn Building. About 40 people attended.

2009 Aug 13: Aerospace Industries Association's "What’s Next for the International Space Station?" panel

• Held in Washington, D.C. at the Rayburn Building. About 60 people attended.
• AIA Moderators
• Marion Blakey, AIA President
• JP Stevens, AIA Vice President, Space Systems
• Panelists:
• William Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator, NASA Space Operations Directorate
• Joy Bryant, Vice President & Program Manager, International Space Station, The Boeing Company
• John Porter, CEO, Astrogenetix
• Dr. John Jessup, Chief, Diagnostics Evaluation Branch, Cancer Diagnosis Program, NIH
• Presentation Slides can be found on the AIA Website.

2009 July 28: Marshall Institute's A Day Without Space

• Held in Washington, D.C.. About 50 people attended.

• Keynote:  Space and the U.S. Economy delivered by Scott Pace, George Washington University's Space Policy Institute

   

• Panel I: The Economic Impact of Space Based Assets

   

• Andrea Maleter, Futron Corp.
• Micah Walter Range, Space Foundation

• Panel II: How Business Uses Space

   

• Charles Baker, DOC Office of Space Commercialization
• Dawn Sienicki, Digital Globe, Inc

2009 July 27: AIAA Space: Stimulating Economic Growth Today and Tomorrow, Washington, DC

• Held in Washington, D.C.. About 50 people attended.
• Opening Remarks
• Bob Dickman, Executive Director, AIAA
• David Logsdon, Executive Director, Space Enterprise Council/TechAmerica
• Panel I
• Edward Morris, Executive Director of Strategic Business Development,
• ITT Space Systems
• John Porter, CEO, Astrogenetix
• Pierre Chao, Managing Partner, Renaissance Strategic Advisors
• Panel II
• Molly Macauley, Senior Fellow and Director, Academic Programs,
• Resources for the Future
• Patrick Liu, Market Analyst, AIAA
• Closing Remarks
• Douglas Comstock, Director, Innovative Partnerships Program, NASA

2009 June 18: Innovations In Orbit: An Exploration of Commercial Crew and Cargo Transportation

• Held in Washington, DC. About 100 people were in attendance.

• Go here to see the full set of videos of this meeting on the AIAA YouTube page.

• Welcoming Remarks - Klaus Dannenberg, Deputy Executive Director, AIAA

• Industry Panel - Featuring Mike Gold, Director, Washington, D.C. Area Office, Bigelow Aerospace; George Sowers, Vice President, Business Development and Advanced Programs, United Launch Alliance; Max Vozoff, Director, Civil Business Development, Space Exploration Technologies; Frank L. Culbertson, Senior Vice President, Human Space Programs, Orbital Sciences Corporation; Moderated by Patti Grace Smith, Former FAA Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation and Aerospace Consultant

• Government Panel - Featuring Geoff Yoder, Constellation Systems Division Manger, NASA HQ ESMD; Ken Davidian, “Encourage, Facilitate, and Promote” Program Lead, FAA/AST; Chan Lieu, Senior Professional Staff, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Jeff Bingham, Senior Advisor on Space and Aeronautics for the Minority, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Moderated by Michael Beavin, Senior Program Analyst, Department of Commerce Office of Space Commercialization

• Closing Remarks - Charles Miller, Senior Advisor for Commercial Space, NASA Innovative Partnerships Program, NASA HQ

2009 April 29: Entrepreneurial Space and Export Control: Red Tape in the Final Frontier

• Held in Washington, DC. About 75 people were in attendance.

• Welcome Remarks by Mark maurice, Vice President-Elect, International, AIAA

• Industry Perspective Panel: Marc Holzapfel, Senior Legal Counsel, Virgin Galactic; Mike Gold, Director, Washington DC Area Office of Bigelow Aerospace; Time Hughes, Vice President and chief Counsel, SpaceX; Moderated by Patti Grace Smith, Aerospace Consultant with Patti Grace Smith Consulting.

• Keynote Speech by the Honorable C.A. "Dutch" Rupporsberger (MD02), Chair, US House of Representatives' Permanent Select Subcommittee on Technology and Tactical Intelligence.

• Government Perspective Panel: George Nield, FAA Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation; Michael Beavin, Senior Program Analyst, Department of Commerce Office of Space Commercialization; John Hall, NASA Director of the Export Control and Interagency Liaison Office; Moderated by Mike Gold (see above).

2009 April 22: MIT Enterprise Forum NY - Panel on Aerospace Investment

• Held in New York, NY. About 45-50 people in attendance.

• Moderated by Laurence Vigeant-Langlois (CIT).

• Panelists include Dr. Jill Wittels (L-3 Communications), Hoyt Davidson (Near Earth LLC), Mike Dyment (NEXA Capital Partners), and Joe Parrish (Aurora Flight Sciences Corp.)

• BONUS MATERIAL!!! Check out the end notes for some special bonus material!

2009 Jan 13: Washington Space Business Roundtable Lunch

• Guest Speaker, Ms. Gwynne Shotwell, President of SpaceX

• Held in Washington, DC.

2008 Dec 15: Human-Tended Suborbital Science Workshop

• Held at the Westin San Francisco Market Street, San Francisco, CA.

• (Notes pulled at the request of PSF. I guess there wasn't supposed to be any "press" of the event, so to respect their wishes, these notes are no longer available. Thanks for your understanding!)

• (On second thought, if you would like to inquire about the meeting, why don't you send me an email.)

2008 Sept 25: Notes By Jeff Krukin

• Notes from two meetings:

• The “Private Human Spaceflight Considerations” panel, chaired by Patti Smith, conducted at the American Bar Association’s (ABA) annual Air & Space Law Forum in Montreal, Canada

• The Future Aerospace Congress 2008, held in Tampa, Florida.

2008 Sept 16: Women in Aerospace (WIA) Commercial Space Panel

• Held in Washington, DC.

2008 May 13: Commercial Development Summit on NASA's Lunar Activities 2008 (CDS:Lunar '08) - 

Meeting held at NASA HQ with representatives from all NASA's lunar programs providing overview information and technology/science needs. Below are the presentations that have been cleared by the presenters as containind no classified nor sensitive information. Enjoy!

Background

•  Public Background.pdf, "Lunar Exploration Campaign" presented by Rob Kelso

Lunar Science Programs

•  Public NLSI.pdf, "NASA Lunar Science Institute" presented by Greg Schmidt

•  Public LEAG.pdf, "Lunar Exploration Analysis Group Report" presented by Steve Mackwell

•  Public ILN.pdf, "Plans for an International Lunar Network" presented by Tom Morgan

•  Public HTV.pdf "The Common Spacecraft Bus and Lunar Commercialization" presented by Alex MacDonald

Lunar Technology Programs

•  Public LPRP.pdf "Lunar Precursor Robotics Program" presented by Mark Nall

•  Public LRO-LCROSS.pdf, "LRO & LCOSS Project" presented by Benjy Neumann

•  Public SCaN.pdf, "Commercial & International Lunar Communications and Navigation Studies" presented by Calvin Ramos.

•  Public ETDP.pdf "Expolation Technology Development Program" presented by Chris Moore