17th PNW AIAA Technical Symposium | April 19, 2025 | Museum of Flight

New propulsion systems, cutting-edge avionics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Thought-provoking presentations and exclusive unveilings of technologies that are shaping the future of flight and extraterrestrial missions, charting the paths to smarter, cheaper orbit and beyond, and more powerful data capture, understanding and applications.

Join us Saturday, April 19th for the 17th Pacific Northwest AIAA Symposium to discover and explore groundbreaking innovations that are revolutionizing aerospace.

The full-day Symposium agenda includes three keynote addresses from industry leaders, and over a dozen thought-provoking presentations to choose from.

Opening Keynote: Our opening keynote will be from Howard Hu, NASA Orion Program Manager from the NASA Johnson Space Flight Center. A graduate of the University of Washington, and a 30-year NASA veteran, Howard will return to the PNW to bring us up to date on the Artemis Human Space Exploration Program, visions for permanent lunar presence and laying the groundwork for Mars.

Kickoff keynote address

The agenda will also include two additional confirmed keynote addresses from Boeing and Quartus Engineering. Over a dozen thought-provoking breakout sessions are planned with confirmed presentations from The Boeing Company, Interlune, Aerojet Rocketdyne/L3Harris, Collinear Group, TLG Aerospace, UW Aeronautical Laboratory, and more.

For students and early career professionals, we’ll have career development sessions with veteran professional engineers sharing their experiences to learn from, and a view into programs to empower and retain women in technical leadership roles.

It’s a unique opportunity right here at home to learn from and network with your colleagues, both in your field of expertise and beyond it.

Save the date, register (below) and spread the word to your colleagues to bring yourself, them and your company up to date on the forefronts of aerospace technologies, and to connect with some of the people driving these changes.

Be on the alert for our email updates and further details on the program.

Registration

The Symposium attendance rates, including continental breakfast and lunch catered by McCormick & Schmick are:

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Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities

Join our distinguished industry thought leadership sponsors that have already stepped up to sponsor this year’s symposium:

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If you believe your company should want to join in sponsoring the Symposium, please feel free to forward this to them for consideration, including this link to our downloadable description of the sponsorship benefits and opportunities:

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Building Humanity’s Next Leap Forward

January 13, 2025 Joint PNWAIAA & Museum of Flight Tech Talk

Life has been limited to Earth’s surface for almost all of human history. Now that we have modern access to space, a robust space economy is budding. Michael DeRosa from Gravitics, Inc. will walk through what his company is doing to turn that bud into a thriving flower of prosperity—supporting the development of space-age capabilities that will make life better on Earth and extend humanity’s reach into the solar system.

This joint event is presented by the Pacific Northwest section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and The Museum and Flight.

Doors open at 5:30 pm.

Plenty of free parking in the Museum of Flight parking lot on the east side of the museum.

About Mike

For the past four years, Mike DeRosa has been working as the Co-Founder & CMO of Gravitics Inc. Prior to that he was the Space Communicator for smallstars. For 12 years before that, he was a media entrepreneur in his own firm, Perfectly Loud LLC, working with clients such as Netflix and HBO, doing AV consulting for corporate events, concerts and shows and designing sound systems for live sound and capture systems.

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Reminder to sign up for Nov 16 Retiree Group Event with Peter Morton – open to all

Dear Retiree/Guest/Student,

As a reminder, Peter Morton will talk to us about the time when the 7J7 laid a foundation for technologies and processes on the 777, which was the program that institutionalized the mantra “Working Together.”  If you have not yet signed up for this interesting presentation, the price to attend at the Museum of Flight will increase after the 8th. Please register via this link by the 8th to avoid this increase.

Looking forward to seeing you.

Dave Anderson

John Moore

Karl Rein-Weston (karlr@seaAIAAretirees.com)

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