›SGAC Coffee Hour with Victoria and Brett - ⌚ 16:00 CET

Missing the conversations over a cup of warm coffee with your SpaceGen colleagues at our events around the world? Look no further!

SGAC Coffee Hour

The Space Generation Advisory Council invites you to participate in a virtual, informal networking event over a cup of coffee and hosted by some of our alumni and board members. The next Coffee Hour in this series will take place on Saturday June 27th, 2020 at 2:00 PM UTC.

Hosted by SGAC alumni, Victoria Alonsoperez and Michael Brett, this Saturday will be an "Ask-Me-Anything" style open discussion with a focus on entrepreneurship and the start-up ecosystem. So bring your coffee, your questions, and let's chat!

Victoria Alonsoperez is an Engineer, Entrepreneur, Inventor, United Nations Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals, and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. In 2012, she invented Chipsafer, a patented platform that can track cattle remotely and autonomously. Victoria won numerous awards including the World Intellectual Property Organization Best Young Inventor Award and the International Telecommunication Union Young Innovators Competition.

Victoria attended International Space University and served as Space Engineering Teaching Associate. She also served as Chair of Space Generation Advisory Council and she was a member of the Space Foundation Board. In 2016, she won the International Astronautical Federation Young Space Leader Award and then served as Special Advisor to the IAF President.

Michael Brett is SVP of Applications at Rigetti Computing, a full-stack quantum computing company headquartered in California. Michael specialises in the leadership of teams building complex systems and has extensive experience developing and accelerating adoption of early-stage technologies and delivering projects in aerospace, defense, and data analytics. He joined Rigetti in July 2019 following the acquisition of QxBranch, a quantum computing software company where he served as CEO for 5 years. Prior to QxBranch, he provided risk analytics services to various space and aerospace missions.

Michael’s journey with SGAC started in 2001 when he attended the Space Generation Summit as part of the World Space Congress in Houston and fell in with a wonderful tribe of like-minded young space professionals. He later served as Treasurer from 2007-2010, then was coerced by Agnieszka Lukaszczyk to run for Co-Chair in the 2010-2012 era. He has attend SGCs and SGFFs in various capacities - depending on how involved he is in the space industry at the time - for almost 20 years, including Houston, Fukuoka, Daejeon, Prague, Cape Town, Naples, Beijing, Toronto, Adelaide and Washington DC.

He grew up in small town in Australia and now calls Washington DC home. Michael holds an Executive Master of Business in Complex Project Management and Bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace Avionics, both from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.

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