Dr. Eric Anderson
Eric Anderson is President of And One Technologies and a startup investor, director and advisor across multiple business areas. He emphasizes delivery of data and services via new technologies, channels and business models including facilitating government access and use of emerging commercial space products and services. Eric contributed to dozens of space systems, missions and programs as Chief Technologist for Space at Moog, at CSA Engineering, where he served several years as President, and at JPL. He earned degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT.
Dr. Dan Ceperley
Dr. Nathan Kundtz
Dr. Kundtz, CEO of Rendered.ai, is a physicist, engineer, entrepreneur, and investor. Dr. Kundtz has numerous awards for tech leadership including being one of LinkedIn’s top 10 tech professionals under 40, Goldman Sachs’ 100 most intriguing entrepreneurs. He holds over 40 patents and is the former CEO of Kymeta which was based on his award-winning research.
Gabe Manzutto
Gabe is a Director of System Architecture at Vantor Technologies with over 20 years of professional experience spanning the space and ground domains.
Gabe has focused on developing system architectures that utilize edge processing capabilities and reduce collection-to-decision latency in support of Vantor’s mission to deliver critical insights to our users. His work has helped position Vantor to continue to lead in an era where space systems must be both more capable and more rapidly adaptable than ever before.
Dr. Yonatan Winetraub
Yonatan is founder of Aptos Orbital. Aptos Orbital builds space terminals that connect LEO satellites to the cloud, providing resilient, real-time communication while eliminating ground station dependency. This enables warfighters to instantly command and control satellites, and deploy AI – enabling intelligent decisions to be made at the speed of battle.
He previously founded SpaceIL, which in 2019 launched Beresheet, the first ever private spaceship to reach the Moon. SpaceIL is also known for its educational initiatives, which are aimed at promoting STEM education, reaching more than one million students worldwide.
He holds a PhD in biophysics from Stanford University. Prior to Aptos Orbital, Winetraub led system engineering for sensing and perception within Waymo’s weather program, focusing on enabling robo-taxi in various weather conditions.
Dr. William Woods
As the Director of Technology of the NorthStar US Enterprise, Will has led the team to deliver key contracts to USG including numerous Darpa’s Space-WATCH programs that served to validate our patented concept of operations (CONOPS). NorthStar has delivered the onset of an always “on” Space Domain Awareness (SDA) service to the US Space Force.
Will is part of the team that provides 24/7 anomaly detection and space operations support for the US Space Forces’ Joint Commercial Operations (JCO) in the meridian and pacific regions. This team is driving NorthStar’s artificial intelligence and automation technology roadmap to enable near-real-time services to existing clients, including the rapid processing of over 80 million space-based images with the aim of eliminating SDA gaps.
Prior to joining NorthStar’s U.S. team, Will served as the Entrepreneur in Residence at the Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm Noosphere Ventures. Will also founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of start-up synthetic aperture radar company Capella Space. Capella has launched seven functional SAR satellites to date.
While a Ph.D. candidate research assistant to Dr. Ivan Linscott in radar remote sensing at Stanford University, Will supported the New Horizons Mission to Pluto by investigating radio occultation and the effect of interplanetary media upon RF signal propagation. He also generated, analyzed, and simulated data from the radio science experiment (REX) onboard the spacecraft to include Pluto fly-by mission rehearsals performed at John’s Hopkins Applied Physics laboratory.
Will holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering obtained while a Ph.D. candidate in
Professor Zebker’s Radar Remote Sensing Group. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bucknell University where he concurrently was graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studie.