Speaker Hall of Fame
Government
Dr. Yvette S. Weber, SES
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology and Engineering Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics)
General Neil Thurgood (USA-ret)
Former Director, Army Hypersonics, Space, Directed Energy and Rapid Acquisition
Dr. Gillian Bussey
Deputy Chief Science Officer U.S. Space Force
Dr. Victoria Coleman
Chief Scientist U.S. Air Force
Michael White
Principal Director for Hypersonics (PD, H)Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering/Modernization U.S. Department of Defense
Dr. Lori M. Stiglitz
Workforce Development Lead Joint Hypersonics Transition Office (JHTO) Field Activity NSWC Crane
Robert Taylor
SES, J8 Director, Capability and Resource Integration U.S. Strategic Command
Lt Col Jeffrey Komives
Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, Research & Engineering, OUSD(R&E), DDRE(M) PD, Hypersonics USAF
CDR Rob Birchenough
Joint Innovation & Experimentation Division USNU.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM J81)
Dr. Eric Marineau
Program Officer, Hypersonics, Aerothermodynamics, High Speed Propulsion and Materials Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Jon Ludwigson
Director, Contracting and National Security Acquisitions Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Dennis Helmich
Director of Integrated Military Systems Sandia National Laboratories
Lt Col Gary Goff, USSF
Materiel Leader, Space Layer Resilient Missile Warning, Missile Tracking, (SNR), Space Sensing Directorate U.S. Space ForceIndustry
Dr. Kevin Bowcutt
Principle Senior Technical Fellow & Chief Scientist Hypersonics – Boeing
Dr. Rodney Bowersox
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Chief Research Officer, College of Engineering Deputy Director, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Holder, Ford I Professorship in Aerospace Engineering University Regents Professor at Texas A&M University
Dr. Tom Karako
Senior Fellow International Security Program Director, Missile Defense Project Center for Strategic & International Studies
John “JV” Venable
Senior Research Fellow for Defense Policy Center for National Defense Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy The Heritage Foundation
Rex Jordan
SVP Indo-Pacific Global Enterprise Lead Booz Allen Hamilton
Paul Wloszek
Director, Spectral Sensors & Missile Warning Program Manager L3Harris Space & Airborne Systems
Dr. Erica Corral
Distinguished Scholar Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Aerospace and Mechanical EngineeringDirector, Arizona Research Center for Hypersonics (ARCH) University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Dr. Luca Maddalena
CEO Hy-SET (Hypersonic Science Engineering and Technology)
Dr. Kelly Stephani
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Kritzer Faculty Fellow, Co-Director, University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH) Center for Hypersonics & Entry Systems Studies, (CHESS) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Graham Candler
McKnight Presidential Chair Aerospace Engineer & Mechanics University of MN
Dr. Steven Schneider
Professor, School of School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aerospace Sciences Lab, Lead Hypersonics SME. Purdue University
Eric Scherff
Vice President, Advanced Programs Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Dr. Chris Combs
Dee Howard Endowed Assistant ProfessorAerodynamics, Mechanical Engineering Department The University of Texas at San Antonio
CAPT David McFarland, USN(ret)
Vice President, Hypersonic and Reentry Test Varda Space Industries
Dr. Jeffery Dickeson
Technical Director, Advanced Hypersonic Weapons Raytheon Missiles & Defense
Timothy P. Wadhams
Sr. Research Scientist, VP CUBRC Aerosciences Sector
Dr. Valero Viti
Aerospace & Defense Team Lead Ansys
Christopher Gettinger
Director, Advanced Propulsion and Systems Northrop Grumman Defense Systems
Scott Speet
Senior Program Director Spirit Defense