 About the Event
Mark your diaries and lock-in your tickets for Friday 10 February, when our 2023 Business Luncheon series is set to launch with a keynote speaker who is astronomically inspirational:
NASA Deputy Administrator Col Pamela Melroy, USAF (Ret)
Col Melroy served as the first female pilot on a shuttle flight to the space station, STS-92 in October 2000, and is one of only two women to have commanded a space shuttle. After serving more than two decades in the US Air Force and as a NASA astronaut, Col Melroy took on a number of leadership roles, including at Lockheed Martin, Federal Aviation Administration, Nova Systems and as an advisor to the Australian Space Agency.
Reserve your place on Friday 10 February 2023, and join us in welcoming NASA's Deputy Administrator to Western Australia.
Col Melroy will give us insight into:
NASA’s return to the Moon;
Opportunities for Australia to contribute as a world leader in remote operations, automation and robotics;
How space is the new frontier in commerce, industry, competition and war;
And, how Space technology and innovation are helping on-Earth industries decarbonise and fight the impacts of climate change.
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Pamela Melroy
Deputy Administrator, NASA
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Enrico Palermo
Head of the Australian
Space Agency |
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Dawn McIntosh
Space Systems Director, Fugro |
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Jason Crusan
Vice President New Energy Solutions, Woodside Energy |
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Stephen McIntosh
Non-Executive Director, AROSE
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.png) Event Details
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Friday 10 February 2023 |
| Time |
11:45AM - 2:00PM |
Location
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Hyatt Regency Perth
99 Adelaide Terrace, Perth WA 6000 |
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 Pricing
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Member |
Non-Member |
| Individual (1) |
$179 |
$229 |
| Table (10) |
$1,790 |
$2,290 |
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 Speaker Biographies
Pamela Melroy,Deputy Administrator, NASA
Col. (USAF, ret) Pam Melroy was sworn in as the NASA Deputy Administrator on June 21.
As Deputy Administrator, Melroy performs the duties and exercises the powers delegated by the Administrator, assists the Administrator in making final agency decisions, and acts for the Administrator in his absence by performing all necessary functions to govern NASA operations. Melroy is also responsible for laying the agency's vision and representing NASA to the Executive Office of the President, Congress, heads of federal and other appropriate government agencies, international organizations, and external organizations and communities.
Melroy was commissioned through the Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program in 1983. As a co-pilot, aircraft commander, instructor pilot, and test pilot, Melroy logged more than 6,000 flight hours in more than 50 different aircraft before retiring from the Air Force in 2007. She is a veteran of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm and Operation Just Cause, with more than 200 combat and combat support hours.
Melroy was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in December 1994. Initially assigned to astronaut support duties for launch and landing, she also worked advanced projects for the Astronaut Office. She also performed Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) duties in mission control. In addition, she served on the Columbia Reconstruction Team as the lead for the crew module and served as Deputy Project Manager for the Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Team. In her final position, she served as Branch Chief for the Orion branch of the Astronaut Office.
One of only two women to command a space shuttle, Melroy logged more than 38 days (924 hours) in space. She served as pilot on two flights, STS-92 in 2000 and STS-112 in 2002, and was the mission commander on STS-120 in 2007. All three of her missions were assembly missions to build the International Space Station.
After serving more than two decades in the Air Force and as a NASA astronaut, Melroy took on a number of leadership roles, including at Lockheed Martin, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Nova Systems Pty, Australia, and as an advisor to the Australian Space Agency. She also served as an independent consultant and a member of the National Space Council’s Users Advisory Group.
Melroy holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and astronomy from Wellesley College and a master’s degree in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Enrico Palermo, Head of the Australian Space Agency
Enrico has led the Australian Space Agency since January 2021 from its headquarters in Adelaide. Since his commencement, Enrico has overseen a number of major milestones. Under his leadership the Agency has reached an agreement with NASA for an Australian designed, built and operated rover to be included in a future mission to the Moon. The first launch permit and launch facility license under the new Australian Space (Launches and Returns) Act have been issued, and there has been the first commercial launch attempt.
Before joining the Agency, Enrico spent 14 years in various roles at Virgin Galactic, including establishing and leading a vertically integrated aerospace manufacturing and testing operation of over 700 engineers, technicians and professionals responsible for the build and testing of a fleet of Mach 3, crewed commercial spaceships. From there Enrico was part of the team that launched the New York Stock Exchange listed public company and was appointed Chief Operating Officer. A Perth native, Enrico graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Physics and Applied Mathematics. He also studied at the International Space University in Strasbourg. Enrico has worked and studied in the United States, United Kingdom, France and Netherlands. His experience goes beyond the space industry having also worked in Australian chemical processing, management consulting, onshore and offshore oil and gas, and mining industries. Enrico is passionately applying his deep technical background, international network, and experience in scaling businesses to rocket Australia’s space sector toward the Agency’s goal of tripling its size to $12 billion and creating 20,000 new jobs by 2030.
Dawn McIntosh,Space Systems Director, Fugro
Dawn McIntosh is the Space Systems Director at Fugro Australia, responsible for ensuring the SpAARC (Space Automation, AI and Robotics Control Complex) initiative meets the challenging operations needs of space missions. She is extremely excited about focusing on space infrastructure and providing Operations as a Service with SpAARC. Prior to moving to Australia, Dawn spent over 20 years at NASA Ames Research Center where she spent the last decade leading small spacecraft missions. Her most recent spacecraft mission, BioSentinel, is one of the ten cubesats on the SLS Artemis I mission. Dawn was BioSentinel’s Project Manager. She was also the Deputy Project Manager for the LADEE mission, a lunar orbiter in 2013-2014. And the Project Manager for the early phases of the Starling 1.0 swarm spacecraft technology demonstration mission (hopefully) launching later this year. Dawn enjoys discussing all aspects of space missions and the supporting infrastructure - especially the vision of SpAARC - and is happy to be a part of the maturation of Australia’s growing space ecosystem
Jason Crusan,Vice President New Energy Solutions, Woodside Energy
Jason holds Bachelor degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics, and a Masters degree in Computing Information Systems. He is currently completing a Doctorate of Engineering in Engineering Management. Jason has more than 25 years’ experience in leveraging industry, academia and government partnerships to accelerate technology advancements across multiple industries.
At Woodside Energy, Jason leads technology across the entire New Energy value chain, including carbon capture and utilisation (CCU). He is responsible for overall system modelling to optimise the production and operations of Woodside’s New Energy solutions, as well as the front end engineering of its hydrogen, ammonia, and CCU facilities. This includes securing competitive locations globally, supporting business development via technical solutions for customers, building its portfolio of pilot plants for technology and capability de-risking, and investments to enable growth. Before joining Woodside in 2019, Jason worked for the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), primarily in human spaceflight. He most recently served as Director of Advanced Exploration Systems leading many technology developments and partnerships with commercial industry, including the first human rated commercial module for the International Space Station (ISS), the first advance manufacturing device in space and the development of launch standards for CubeSats leading to more than 100 missions flown in space. He also established the initial framework agreement for making the ISS a National Lab for commercial use and served as the Senior Executive over NASA’s Return to the Moon efforts with the establishment of the Lunar Gateway and Human Lunar return mission architecture. Previously, Jason has served as the Chief Technologist for space operations, and successfully directed various technical and strategic initiatives as program or project manager, including the flight of two radar instruments to the moon and being the founding Director of the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation, formed to advance the use of open innovation methodologies across the U.S. Government.
Stephen McIntosh, Non-executive Director, AROSE
Stephen McIntosh has more than 36 years of global experience across the resources sector. He spent 33 years with the Rio Tinto Group culminating in the role as Group Executive Growth & Innovation. In that role he had accountability for most of Rio Tinto’s global technical functions including exploration, project studies, construction, technical services, information technology, data science, robotics & automation, R&D and asset closure. For his final year with the company, he also led the global Health, Safety, Environment, and Security function. Stephen holds a Master’s in Science from the University of Auckland and is a geophysicist by training. He is presently a non-executive director of Australian Remote Operations for Space and Earth (AROSE), a director of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), a non-executive director of Chalice Mining and is a director and the chairperson of Datarock Holdings a computer vision AI start-up focussed on the resources sector. Stephen also plays an advisory role with EMR Capital a private equity group and the Monash University led Critical Minerals Consortium think tank.
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