Canadian Space Commerce Association – An Industry Group to Promote and Support Canadian Businesses

The January 2008 meeting will once again be held at Scallywags (11 St. Clair West), on Thursday, January 10, 2008, beginning 7pm.

This meeting will take place on the 3rd floor patio section towards the front of the building.

Meetings are called to order at 7:30pm.

This meetings agenda will include:

1) Acceptance of new members (voting)

2) Brief financial update

– review of proposed new fee structure, vote on it
- current state of finances

3) AGM preparation

– quick review of what business MUST be done at AGM (i.e. as mandated in the bylaws)
- proposals for optional items (e.g. additional resolutions) to be presented at AGM

4) Conference preparation

Note: This is not an open forum to micromanage the planning details. That is best NOT done in a large group. If anyone has issues with the plan please take it up with the planners directly, primarily Rocky and Chuck.

Instead, our goal at this meeting is to:
i) do a a “sanity check” on the conference prep so far
ii) give us all an understanding of what the conference IS and IS NOT about
so that all of us can be prepared to help in the smooth operation of the conference.

Items to be considered:

– review of the conference schedule
- review of the conference logistics
- review of conference promotion to date and planned
- review of the conference goals

5) – If time permits – Discussion of the “Space Business Accelerator”

- what it means
- what the envisioned stages will be from a function and timing viewpoint
- proposed relationship between the Accelerator and the CSCA

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If you plan to attend please contact the Meeting Chair to RSVP.

Scallywags is right around the corner from St. Clair subway station, so that is your best way to get there, on the south side of St. Clair about 10 meters from Yonge Street. Parking is $1.50 per 1/2 hour in that area. The closest lot is at 21 Pleasant Blvd.

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The CSCA is pleased to announce that Robert Richards of Optech Incorporated and the Odyssey Moon team competing in the Google Lunar X-Prize will be our Keynote speaker for the Accelerating Space Conference.

Dr. Robert (Bob) Richards is a Founder of the International Space University with over 20 years of commercial space experience, presiding over multiple spaceflight programs from conception to launch as director of Optech Space Technology. He is CEO and Founder of Odyssey Moon:

Odyssey Moon is a private commercial lunar enterprise domiciled in the Isle of Man. This international team represents an innovative partnership of aerospace, banking, property, and legal interests that have come together to offer unique commercial products and services for humanity’s permanent return to the Moon. Utilizing Canadian ingenuity in mission design and advanced robotics, Odyssey Moon has a long term purpose of pursuing commercial lunar activities and a short term goal of winning the Google Lunar X PRIZE.

Odyssey Moon intends to be the world’s first commercial lunar exploration and development enterprise operating on a global scale, building on its Google Lunar X PRIZE experience to develop unique technical and managerial capabilities as a commercial lunar “mission integrator” for diverse international customers.

With the world’s attention turning back to the Moon and the increasing confidence accruing to the private space sector as highly credible players enter the new space race, Odyssey Moon is uniquely positioned to take the next bold step beyond the current focus on suborbital and low earth orbit tourism. This unique position is due to the experience and influence of the company’s founders and advisors; strategic partnerships with renowned international space technology developers.

We are also pleased to announce Optech and Odyssey Moon as new members of the Canadian Space Commerce Association, as well as Optech as a Bronze Sponsor for the Accelerating Space Conference.

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Planning for the CSCA’s Annual General Meeting (Sat. January 26th, 2008) have evolved into a tentative agenda for what we are calling The Accelerating Space Conference. (Click on that link to go to the conference page — where you can also register as a discount before January 11, 2008).

Dr. Burton Lee of the Space Angels Network, and Peter Evans of the MaRS Discovery District, are confirmed to speak. We have invited a speaker to do the keynote, as well as a few more we’d like to squeeze in.

The focus of the meeting (to be held at the MaRS Discovery District) is the concept of a Space Business Accelerator. See the conference page for an explanation of that.

Tentative Agenda:

* 1pm-1:30 – Keynote – Dr. Robert Richards, Odyssey Moon

* 1:30 – 2pm – Formal Networking Session

* 2pm – 2:45 – Speaker: Dr. Burton Lee – Space Angels Network; discussing angel financing

* 2:45-3:15 – Informal Networking Session

* 3:15 – 4:00 – Speaker: Peter Evans, MaRS — business incubators and building management teams.

* 4:00 – 5pm – Discussion: The Space Business Accelerator

* 5pm – 7pm — Break for dinner (meet at Scallywags)

* 7pm – 8pm — CSCA annual general meeting (Scallywags)

* 8pm onwards — socializing and network as you like.

Please register soon to get a $50 discount on your CSCA membership and conference attendance! The sooner we can build up our registration revenue the more likely we can invite additional speakers to the Accelerating Space Conference.

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The CSCA is now planning its Annual General Meeting for January in Toronto. Please comment on this message with your ideas for Agenda items and topics of discussion.

Currently we are attempting to get speakers on the following topics:

• Angel Financing
• Building a Management Team

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CSCA regular meetings take place at Scallywags, 11 St. Clair West, in the private room on the second floor, beginning at 7pm. Meetings are called to order at 7:30pm and when speakers are booked, the presentation begins at 8 pm sharp.This meetings agenda will include:

- 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm – Beverage and general discussion; dinner.

- 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm–Jocelyn Boily will speak on the Google Lunar X prize.

- 9:00 to end – Open forum discussions.

If you plan to attend please contact the Meeting Chair to RSVP – Richard Graf rgraf@columbiad.ca

Scallywags is right around the corner from St. Clair subway station, so that is your best way to get there, on the south side of St. Clair about 10 meters from Yonge Street. Parking is $1.50 per 1/2 hour in that area. The closest lot is at 21 Pleasant Blvd.

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(Formerly CANADIAN SPACE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE)

— apologies for the late program notice —

Thursday, September 13, 2007

This meetings agenda will include:

§         7:00 pm to 7:30 pm – beverage and general discussion; order your food.

§         7:30 pm – Formal adoption of the new name

§         7:40 pm — A brief update from the Chairman of the Board on incorporation of the CSCA

§         7:50 pm – announcement and discussion of the “NEW” XPRIZE Competition. (XPRIZE will announce on the same day as our meeting a new space prize challenge. The prize will be in the “10’s of millions of dollars representing the most significant private sector manned spaceflight challenge to date. We will discuss its relevance to Canada and what the CSCA may be able to do to help Canadian competition in this new prize challenge. (Note — the first XPRIZE was a major PR success and jump started an industry. This prize is already funded and backed by a Fortune 500 company).

§         8:15 pm  — Brian Feeney will table a key update list of notable progress by private space companies and government supported private space initiatives worldwide. These items will be discussed in the context of CSCA program objectives and initiatives with a view to developing an end of year through 2008 activities program for the CSCA

§         9:00 pm (approx.) – General business put forward by the members followed by meetings end.

CSCA regular meetings take place at Scallywags, 11 St. Clair West, in the private room on the second floor, beginning at 7pm. Meetings are called to order at 7:30pm and when speakers are booked, the presentation begins at 8 pm sharp.

If you plan to attend please contact the Meeting Chair to RSVP – Brian Feeney  bfeeney@davinciproject.com

Scallywags is right around the corner from St. Clair subway station, so that is your best way to get there, on the south side of St. Clair about 10 meters from Yonge Street. Parking is $1.50 per 1/2 hour in that area. The closest lot is at 21 Pleasant Blvd.

Cheers,

Brian

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Canadian Space Chamber of Commerce Meeting
Workshop on “Entrepreneurial Opportunities in a Space Solar Power Economy”
Thursday July 12, 7:00 pm (presentations begin at 7:30 pm)

Scallywags

11 St. Clair West, 2nd floor

Scallywags is right around the corner from St. Clair subway station, so that is your best way to get there, on the south side of St. Clair about 10 meters from Yonge Street. Parking is $1.50 per 1/2 hour in that area. The closest lot is at 21 Pleasant Blvd.

Space Solar Power

Its known as Space Solar Power, and it promises unlimited, clean energy to power all nations forever more. Beyond just a bunch of old guys dreaming or grumbling about it, SSP is now being looked at by politicians and national agencies as a clean solution to the world’s energy needs. India, China, and Japan are considering entering into long-term purchase agreements with one company, the Space Island Group, for power beamed at 10 cents / kilowatt into their national or state energy grids.

This workshop will be introduced with a briefing on the current state of technology and financing for SSP, and continue to a brainstorming session regarding entrepreneurial opportunities arising from a world economy that involves space-based beamed power: business opportunities to help in constructing, maintaining, and exploiting the vast solar arrays and ground stations, and large, habitable space stations that would be created in such a project, should it come to fruition.

Meeting Chair: Joseph McGinty

Speakers: Rocky Persaud, Kieran Carroll.

RSVP to the Meeting Chair.

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