Don’t Launch Blind: What Space Founders Overlook Until It’s Too Late

​Launching a space startup requires deep expertise in so many disciplines that it’s all too easy to miss something important. In this panel, we’ll explore the most devastating and common mistakes that new founders make when they make their own way in the space industry.

​Join us for two discussions of key topics:

• ​Legal, Accounting, Marketing, Insurance, and Regulatory Compliance

• ​Testing, Manufacturing, and Launchability

​Our expert panelists will share their hard-won lessons from founding their own businesses plus decades working in the space industry.

​Seating is limited. Save your spot today!

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​Event schedule

​4:00-4:15 p.m. Check-in and registration

​4:15-5:00 p.m. Legal, Accounting, and Insurance panel

​5:00-5:30 p.m. Break and networking

​5:30-6:30 p.m. Testing, Manufacturing, and Launchability panel

​Moderators

• ​Brendan Wales, Founding Partner, FUSE VC

• ​Dradin Kreft, Sr. Director of Government Capture, Pacific Northwest Defense Coalition

​Panelists

• ​Curt Blake, Attorney, Wilson Sonsini

• ​Melissa Heldreth, Senior Advisor—Commercial Risk, The Baldwin Group

• ​Jodi Sorenson, Co-founder, Little Candle Marketing

• ​Kristina Hloptsidis, President & Founder, MVRK Advisors

• ​Nikki Malcom, CEO & Executive Director, PNAA

• ​Marcy Mabry, CEO, SpaceLaunch

• ​Travis Moore, President, Jemco
  

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