›Final Frontier: The Strategic Space Initiative Conference

The Pax Americana Institute's Strategic Space Initiative (SSI) conference will highlight public and private space work and research

About this Event

PAI's SSI will focus on creating a unified strategic approach to space rather than the balkanized chaos that exists today. The Pax Americana Institute is the only conservative think tank formally pursuing space research and providing solutions as society reaches into the unknown. From asteroid mining to space based defense, Final Frontier will highlight the areas in which space is being used. Guest speakers range from Air Force Space Command scientists to private sector think tank and non-profit owners. There has never been an event like this in the Midwest.

Keynote Address...

• *INVITED* Vice President Mike Pence, Vice President of the United States (TBD)

Speakers include...

• Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, Commander of Air Education and Training Command Joint Base in San Antonio-Randolph, Texas
• Lt. Col. Peter Garretson, writer on space policy, space strategy, and using Space & Energy. Garretson is also an instructor at Air University's Air Command and Staff College where he leads the Space Horizons Research Task Force
• Dr. Brent Ziarnick, Director of the Schriever Scholars concentration at the US Air Force Air Command and Staff College
• Dr. Joel B. Mozer, Chief Scientist at the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)
• Rick Tumlinson, Founder of SpaceFund, EarthLight Foundation, Space Frontier Foundation, Deep Space Industries, space policy expert and writer
• Dr. Lamont Colucci, National Security, Foreign Policy, Homeland Security, and US Primacy in Outer Space Expert, Associate Professor of Politics and Government at Ripon College
• Dr. Peter Pry, Executive Director of the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security
• Ambassador Hank Cooper, Chairman of High Frontier and Chairman Emeritus of Applied Research Associates
• Peter Huessy, Director of Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
• Dr. Namrata Goswami, Author, strategic analyst and consultant on counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, alternate futures, and great power politics
• Dr. Gabriele Rizzo, Lead Scientist in Strategic Innovation and Principal Futurist in Leonardo, professional futurist advisor to EDA and both NATO Strategic Commands