The Lunar Industrial Age x Playa Vista
Lunar industrialization is the new American Dynamism.
A closed-door look at the capital, contracts, technology, and industrial policy crystallizing the next frontier.
Panelist #1 Carlos García-Galán
NASA Moon Base, Program Manager
Carlos pioneered the American space industry with early roles as ISS flight controller, Honeywell technical lead, Orion assembly facilitator with Lockheed Martin. Today he's leading a multi-phase initiative to establish humanity's first permanent and sustainable lunar outpost near the Moon's South Pole.
If you're building or investing in orbital infrastructure, you want to be in this room.
Panelist #2 Jason Dunn
Outpost, CEO & Founder
Outpost builds space logistics and Earth reentry making space more sustainable and accessible. Jason is recognized for his relentless ambition and commitment to leveraging space technology to improve life on earth. At his first company, Made In Space, Jason, pioneered in-space manufacturing sending the first 3D printer to the ISS.
Panelist #3 Colin Smith
Vast, SVP Lunar Programs
Colin has a decade of engineering and leadership experience at SpaceX bringing Falcon 9, Dragon, and Starship to reality. He led teams within the Crew Dragon program from early development to first astronaut flights. He's a founding team member at Vast. He spearheaded their Haven-1 program from inception through flight hardware.
Panelist #4 Patrick Beatty
Beyond Earth Ventures
Patrick Beatty has been a leading technical founder, operator, academic, and mentor working globally for years with the UN, Google, NSF, NASA, DARPA, Space Force, OpenAI, Wall St, major US banks, Fannie Mae, Berkeley, Wharton, and more. For the last decade, he has been a venture capital leader investing across industries and continents in space technology, cislunar infrastructure, and deep tech. His investments include lunar rovers (Lunar Outpost), radioisotope thermoelectric generators (Zeno Power) and more. Patrick is a dealmaker for deals up to $1B+ across Series A to E rounds.
Moderator Rodrigo Schmitt
Stellerian, Cofounder CCO
Rodrigo Schmitt built his career at the intersection of cislunar mission design and commercial space strategy. At Stellerian, he leads business development for autonomous navigation and proximity operations software, with $2M in funded government contracts from the Space Force, DoD, and SDA and over $150M in commercial letters of intent. He holds a PhD from Purdue in Aeronautics & Astronautics, where his research applied Explainable AI to cislunar transportation architectures and spacecraft design.
Address by Zooni Thusoo
Imagining Forward
Zooni Thusoo hosts Space Terminal, a podcast and newsletter reaching 3000+ American deep tech founders and family offices weekly. She spent a decade in technical and growth working globally with IBM, Deloitte, RBC, JP Morgan, and McKinsey before building the network that convenes this room.
Address by Mike Zugsmith
CBRE Industrial and Logistics
Mike Zugsmith joined CBRE, Inc. in 2022 as part of one of the firm’s most decorated teams - alongside Craig Peters, Doug Sonderegger, Sam Glendon, and Richard Ramirez. Together, they’ve built a nationally recognized reputation as the dominant industrial market leaders in Greater Los Angeles North.
Format
Hosted at Outpost Technologies in Playa Vista, Los Angeles.
6:00PM Cocktail
6:30PM Panel + audience Q&A
7:10PM Open floor networking
Waitlist is open.
Priority to Series A+ founders, fund partners, and family offices building or investing in orbital infrastructure.
Sign mandatory NDA before attendance.
About
Imagining Forward (Mettlework Inc)
Acquisition intelligence for funds, program offices, and service providers. Compare live signal across 3,500+ companies from California to Virginia. Contact zooni@imaginingforward.space.
Merrill Lynch Private Wealth Management delivers a boutique-like experience for individuals and families with substantial wealth, combining personalized advice with the broad capabilities of Merrill Lynch and Bank of America. Dedicated advisor teams help clients grow, sustain and transfer wealth while navigating complex financial opportunities and challenges.
CBRE
The world's largest commercial real estate services firm, with an Industrial & Logistics practice actively tracking Southern California's supply for space and defense manufacturers. Supporting deep tech visionaries with site selection to capacity planning for next-gen of hardware expansion.
Cargo logistics and reusable reentry vehicles to anywhere on Earth in under 90 minutes. Infrastructure for on-demand orbital logistics, from military rapid resupply to in-space manufacturing return.
Autonomous vision and navigation for on-orbit operations. Stellerian offers dual use software first technologies applicable to ISAM and defense missions.
Time to build. See you on 10/1.