​Space Beach: Summit 001

​Tuesday, September 15 · Program 9:00 AM–3:00 PM

​Long Beach, CA · Cohort access: 150 curated attendees

​Space Beach is where Southern California’s deep tech builders, operators, and investors get serious about the future of American security. It’s one day inside SoCal Deep Tech Week focused on how Long Beach and the broader region are turning aerospace and defense problems into products, factories, and jobs.

​We want to solve this problem: can we build, test, and field what warfighters need at the speed our threats are moving? From space and air to maritime and cyber, the day is built around people who are actually shipping hardware and winning contracts in SoCal, not just talking about it.

​This day is built for founders and operators, investors, and government and military professionals who want a clear view of what’s working in SoCal, and where the next wave of opportunity is.

​NOTE: Registration is not "first-come, first-served." We will screen all registrations and notify approval or disapproval by September 10th. If you are not initially approved, you will go on a wait-list.

​Tentative schedule

• ​9:00 AM Welcome & framing: "Scaling American Manufacturing — The SoCal Model"

  • ​Drew Busbee, Sparrow Point

• ​9:15 AM Opening keynote fireside Tom O'Leary, JetZero ·

  • ​Facilitated by Pete Downes, Sparrow Point

• ​10:00 AM Panel — Go Faster: From Concept to Test to Deployed in Weeks, Not Years Brett Goldsmith, NIWC Pacific

  • ​Edson Greenwood, Arena Physica · Alan Jaeger, NSWC Port Hueneme · Jesse Gipe, DIU · Facilitated by Jesse Nuese, Palisade Bergschrund

• ​10:45 AM Fireside / Q&A — The New Acquisition Landscape Speakers to be announced

  • ​Facilitated by Pete Downes, Sparrow Point 11:30 AM Coffee break & networking 12:00 PM Lunch & networking

• ​1:00 PM Panel — Space Beach: The Long Beach & SoCal Model of Innovation Lucius Martin, City of Long Beach

• ​Tom O'Leary, JetZero · Facilitated by Mark diTargiani, Banc of California

• ​1:45 PM Coffee break

• ​2:00 PM Panel — Single Points of Opportunity: Finding & Fixing the Defense Industrial Base's Chokepoints

  • ​Eric Hostetler, Volund Manufacturing · Andy D'Ambrosio, Senra Systems · Cameron Schiller, Rangeview · Tom Gillespie, Geodesic Capital · Facilitated by Maggie Gray, Shield Capital

• ​3:00 PM Closing synthesis

​Agenda is tentative and speakers will be announced soon. Chatham House Rule in effect.