Jim Lee joined Maxar in April 2019 as General Counsel. Previously, he had served as Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Aramark Corp. since August 2004. At Aramark, he led the legal functions for Uniform Services, a segment of the business with $2.4 billion in annual revenue and 21,000 employees, and for Refreshment…

Mr. Burnett, Interim General Counsel, Hawkeye 360, Inc.  Dennis is an attorney and consultant with experience in commercial transactions and regulatory matters.  Dennis  has participated in numerous space-related new business development efforts requiring compliance with regulatory requirements, including obtaining operating licenses, licensing exports, complying with US foreign ownership control or influence (“FOCI”) national security requirements and compliance with CFIUS.

Lt. Gen. John E. Shaw is the Deputy Commander, U.S. Space Command. U.S. Space Command is the Unified Combatant Command responsible for conducting operations in, from, and to space to deter conflict, and if necessary, defeat aggression, deliver space combat power for the Joint/Combined force, and defend U.S. vital interests with allies and partners.

Nishita Henry is Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Chief Innovation Officer, and leads the Deloitte Platforms business.

Dr. Jason Kalirai is the Mission Area Executive for Civil Space in the Space Exploration Sector. He joined APL in November 2018 and is leading the implementation of innovative and cost-effective solutions to critical civil space challenges by developing space science missions, instruments, and research programs.  Prior to joining APL, Dr. Kalirai served as the multi-mission project scientist at NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute.  He has published over 100 research papers on topics related to stellar and galactic evolution and was won numerous awards for his achievements.  Dr. Kalirai earned his Bachelor of Science in physics and astronomy, his Master of Science in astrophysics, and his PhD in astrophysics from the University of British Columbia.  He completed a postdoctoral fellowship as a Hubble Fellow at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Dipak Srinivasan has been with APL since 2000, and is the telecommunications manager for the Europa Clipper mission. He has served in various capacities on missions across our solar system, including the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, and the Kuiper Belt, and has received several awards for his work. He regularly gives STEM talks to schools across the USA, co-chairs the Deep-Space and Near-Earth communications session here at the IAC, and serves on the Advisory Board for The Planetary Society.

Larry D. James was appointed Deputy Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in August 2013. At JPL he is the Laboratory’s Chief Operating Officer responsible to the Director for the day-to-day management of JPL’s resources and activities.

Dr. Bhavya Lal is currently the senior advisor to the NASA Administrator on Budget and Finance. In the first 100 days of the Biden Administration, she was the senior most White House appointee and Acting Chief of Staff at NASA. As part of her assignment, she oversaw the agency’s transition under the administration of President Biden. Before that, she had served as a member of the Presidential Transition for both the NASA and the Department of Defense (DOD) Agency Review Teams.

Monica Palko is Vice President and General Counsel of Lockheed Martin Space. She is responsible for all legal functions of the business area, as well as for international trade compliance and support of Lockheed Martin’s joint venture with Boeing, United Launch Alliance.

Dr. Diane Howard is Chief Counsel for Space Commerce at the U.S. Department of Commerce. In addition to providing space law expertise to the Office of Space Commerce (OSC) and the Department of Commerce as a whole, she also participates in interagency work and is actively involved in the Office of Space Commerce’s implementation of…