2024 Tech Symposium Program

 Aero TrackAstro Track
7:30 amRegistration & Breakfast
8:00 amMorning Keynote
AI/ML for Engineering: A Boeing/UW Education Collaboration
Michelle Carey, Boeing
9:05 amBreak
9:20 amTurbojet Performance Modeling
Neno Novakovic, Collins Aerospace
Project Kuiper Mission Update
Marco Concha, Kuiper Flight Dynamics
10:00 amFrontiers in Structural Optimization
Vladimir Balabanov, Boeing Technical Fellow
Qualifying Space Station Modules
Khushbu Patel, Gravitics
10:35 amBreak
10:50 amFramework for ML in Turbulence Modeling
Philippe Spalart, Boeing Senior Technical Fellow
Creating Artificial Gravity
Grant Bonin, gravityLab
11:30 amBuckling in Aircraft Structures
Olaf Weckner, Jay Smith & Dave Leibov, Boeing
Autonomous Trajectory  Planning through Cislunar Space
Sara Fields, a.i. solutions
12:15 pmLunch Buffet
12:25 pmLunch Keynote
Discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope
Geoff Nunn, The Museum of Flight
1:30 pmBreak
1:45 pm[Aero/Astro] SSTO Technology Development:
An Overview of Radian One

Livingston Holder, Radian Aerospace
2:25 pmAdvanced Material Failure Modeling
Jens Bold, Boeing Research & Technology, Munich
Nuclear Thermal Propulsion:
History, Challenges & Solutions

Vishal Patel, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation
3:00 pmBreak
3:15 pmClosing Keynote
Achieving Lunar Permanance (with a Little Help from Your Friends)
Ben Cichy, Blue Origin
4:20 pmExhibitor Expo & Networking