Our next CSCA meeting is Thursday, July 12th, 2012. The CSCA holds meetings in Toronto on the second Thursday of every other month.
Meetings are called to order at 7:30 pm and the presentation begins at 8:00 pm sharp. If you’d like to participate, please RSVP the meeting chair at meetings@spacecommerce.ca.
Recent speakers have included:
- Michael Hollinger, a partner with the law firm Heenan Blaikie LLP who practices in the area of securities, corporate and commercial law. He will be speaking on the topic of “Financing Space Business.” (May 10th, 2012).
- Scott Streiner, the Executive Director of the Federal Review of Aerospace and Space Programs and Policies, announced in February 2012 (and commonly known as the “Aerospace Review“) who gave a casual talk on the review mechanics and mandate for the “comprehensive review of all policies and programs related to the aerospace/space industry to develop a federal policy framework to maximize the competitiveness of this export-oriented sector and the resulting benefits to Canadians” (March 8th, 2012).
- Kevin Stolarick, the Research Director for the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, who discussed the the role of sub-national factors (such as location, place and city-regions) in global economic prosperity and how they relate to the Canadian space systems industry and the larger aerospace industry (January 12th, 2012).
- Bryan Pilon, a project engineer for Cesaroni Technology who discussed the development of a novel Canadian built, stage-combustion aft-injected hybrid (SCAIH) propulsion system for a small rocket launcher (November 10th, 2011).
- David Vaccaro, program manager for Futron Corporation, along with several members of his team who discussed Canadian competitiveness in the international space and aerospace arena by referencing data collected for the recently published 2011 Futron Space Competitiveness Index (September 8th, 2011).
- Will Pomerantz, the VP of special projects at suborbital space tourism company Virgin Galactic and Stephanie Anevich, the Toronto based executive vice-president of Vision 2000, which is a part of the original Virgin Galactic accredited sales agent team in Canada (May 12th, 2011).
- Grant Bonin, a project manager with the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) Space Flight Laboratory (January 13th, 2011).
- Dr. Andrew Goldenberg, the CEO of Engineering Services Inc., (ESI) which has recently received three Canadian Space Agency (CSA) contracts for robotics development (November 10th, 2010).
- Robert Godwin, the well known Space Frontier Foundation advocate and current space curator at the Canadian Air and Space Museum (September 16, 2010).
Our meetings are casual and provide the opportunity to meet business owners, scientists, activists and new contacts from within the space systems industry. After the meeting, we retire to a nearby establishment for more casual conversations and networking.