​🚀 Fireside Chat: West Coast × East Asia New Space Ecosystems

​Join us for an insightful fireside chat exploring how West Coast New Space ecosystems — including Silicon Valley, Southern California, and Seattle — can collaborate with East Asian space ecosystems.

​This session will dive into the opportunities, structural advantages, and real-world challenges of cross-regional collaboration in the rapidly evolving space industry.

​Whether you’re a founder, operator, investor, or simply curious about the future of space, this is a unique chance to hear directly from industry leaders shaping the next frontier.

​🗓️ Date & Time

​April 10, 2026 (Fri)
5:00 PM – 7:30 PM (PDT) 

​📍 Location

​​Hybrid Event

• ​​Onsite:

  • ​​Startup Island TAIWAN – Silicon Valley Hub

  • ​​299 California Ave STE 300, Palo Alto, CA 94306

• ​​Online:

  • ​​Google Meet (link will be provided before event)

​💡 About the Session

​In this fireside chat, we will explore:

• ​How New Space ecosystems differ across Silicon Valley, SoCal, and Seattle

• ​Where East Asia fits into the global space economy

• ​Key collaboration opportunities between the U.S. and East Asia

• ​Practical barriers and challenges in cross-border partnerships

• ​What it takes to build and scale in the next generation of space infrastructure

​🤝 Agenda

​17:00 - 17:30 Networking & Dinner

​17:30 - 17:35 Opening (Kuang-Han Ke)

​17:35 - 17:40 Group Photo

​17:40 - 18:20 Fireside Chat (Kuang-Han Ke x Negar Feher)

​18:20 - 18:40 Q&A

​18:40 - 19:30 Networking

​🎤 Speakers

​Kuang-Han Ke

​Kuang-Han has experience in the industry, government, research institute, academia, and global industry associations. He has founded 6 companies, mentored more than 17 companies, and has served on the board of directors for 8 companies. In the semiconductor industry, he has over 30 years of experience encompassing a mix of industry and teaching. In New Space, he launches cubesats and experiments in space and his company is the International Space Station Gateway Company in Taiwan. His cubesat system integration experience includes both launching cubesat from the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle and also through the International Space Station. His team is developing a full set of cubesat lab with end-to-end space environment testing equipment, and currently contracted for a lunar lander payload program to go on top of a commercially available lunar lander.

​He is the Founder & Chairman of Gran Systems where they engage in system integration design, think-tanks, and manufacturing in new space, semiconductor, and medical devices industries. Gran Systems products have recently been included in the 2023, 2024, 2025 NASA Small Satellite State-of-the-Art Report. The resulting R&D from the cubesat mission became Gran Systems' hundreds of cubesat subsystem production lines. He started his career with semiconductor equipment industry, where his contribution in system architecting a successful semiconductor equipment, making US$3.5 Billion revenue for the company in its 10 year product life cycle. During his past tenure, he was part of the US Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and then the Taiwan National Quality Award corporate members. He was senior manager overseeing the semiconductor equipment and the precision machinery industrial development in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and also served as the expert supervisory committee member of the Taiwan "Productivity 4.0" National Initiative, Taiwan's version of the Industry 4.0 national initiatives for advanced manufacturing. His other contribution includes the ISS National Lab TechConnect Orbit Edge Accelerator Startup Mentor, and the subject matter expert speaker and mentor on the subject of Asia Pacific Space Development, in the Asia Pacific Space Generation Online Workshop, organized by the Space Generation Advisory Council, in preparation for a report for the United Nations Programme.

​He taught semiconductor equipment design for 9 years at the School of Electrical Engineering and Communications at Yuan-Ze University. He founded 2 medical equipment companies, and has improved the non-invasive operation of woman's health and product development of a MR-PET equipment.

​Kuang-Han holds an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University.

​Negar Feher

​Negar Feher is a space industry executive with over 20 years of experience spanning startups and global aerospace companies including Maxar, Momentus, and Lockheed Martin. She currently serves as Chief Revenue Officer at Space Rig and advises emerging space ventures as a consultant. Feher specializes in product strategy, commercialization, and building scalable space infrastructure businesses, with a focus on modular spacecraft and next-generation space services.

​👥 Who Should Attend

• ​Space / New Space startup founders & operators

• ​Investors and ecosystem builders

• ​Engineers and professionals interested in aerospace & deep tech

• ​Anyone curious about global space industry collaboration