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This is going to be an awesome week! @StepsLeaps is putting on FOUR events: - a panel on commercializing space tech
- demo day for hardware that will be used for space industries
- a discussion on how the US or China will govern the Moon
- and a debate about space data centers!
BREAKING NEWS: SF and LA Tech Week calendars are LIVE!
You can now register for events: tech-week.com/calendar
2,300+ event submissions across San Francisco and Los Angeles
📍SF: October 5-11
📍LA: October 12-18
People always ask about the data, so a few stats:
-SF once again takes the crown for “biggest tech week ever” with 1,500+ events
-1 in 7 SF events is about agentic AI: 213 events in SF and 53 in LA are explicitly about agents (in the title or description). In 2024 there were only about a dozen!
-There are 124 hackathons across the two weeks, and the variety is huge: everything from hardware to defense, media/creative, fintech, civic/social good, etc. Everyone is a builder now.
- LA, the OG Tech Week (now in its fifth year!), has seriously doubled down on deep tech with 100+ events and lots of El Segundo activity.
Last year, Tech Week saw attendees from over 100 countries. It’s going to be a party.
See you there! 🥳
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Honestly amazing we've developed the modern tech stack when we have. Something like this today would result in a Very Bad Time.
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In December the first ships leave for the the red planet in Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. I'll be getting some friends from JPL and various space companies together in LA to mark the occasion - comment or DM if you'd like to join
RTs appreciated
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Miss an SSGL event online or in person?
We only record select events with featured speakers, but both speaker and social events are posted on our Luma page.
Check it out and subscribe so you can plan ahead!
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These are the topics of the next month of online space industry interviews @StepsLeaps is putting on. From international experts to astronauts who have lived off world it's always a fascinating crowd. luma.com/stepsleaps
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I see the algorithm changed! if any of these ideas speak to you like this post
* Resiliency of space communications networks
* Spacecraft of all sizes from cubesats to O'Neill cylinders
* Keeping astronauts healthy in low gravity
* Life on the International Space Station
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"First Spaceship on Venus" poster art for a 1976 Italian reissue.
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(1/2)I am sad to report that aviation pioneer Wally Funk passed away last night, leaving a legacy that spans 7 decades of pursuing aviation & space. Her passion inspired thousands of women, young and old, to take to the air and space. Despite missing Wally, I can’t help but 👇
ALT I was honored to escort te #Mercuryh13 as guests of Eileen Collins for STS-63, her first launch. I think I took this photo!
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I'm proud to be part of this bipartisan organization where we focus on the values that we share. I agree that it's mission critical that we continue to fight for those values together.
@Astros4America
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If you build a good enough community people will send you emails saying they will try to attend your thing virtually even though they are currently sailing around the world- and provide proof via global wind map data. I love @StepsLeaps folks.
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"Artemis III is an incredibly exciting, complicated, and highly coordinated multi-launch campaign. It’s going to happen in a short period of time with three of the world’s most powerful rockets."
Artemis lead Jeremy Parsons describes exactly what Artemis III will entail.
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To anyone building a startup that's trying to raise money or sell their product:
Do NOT start by talking about your technology. I repeat, DO NOT DO THAT.
First, describe the problem.
Then who has the problem. Then describe the level of pain that the problem causes. Then talk about how much the people who feel that pain are willing to pay. THEN give first-hand evidence for all of that. Then talk about your business model: who pays, how much, when, how, etc. Then ask the person you are talking to about whether they want to hear about your solution. Not your technology. Your solution. If you don't know the difference, then go back to your business model and start over. Only after ALL of that, would an investor or customer be even remotely interested in how your technology solves PART of the problem.
*Screen shot from SpaceNews' Military Space article "What defense buyers want from space startups":
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When the @StepsLeaps community visited @skyler_chan_'s HQ months ago I told the crowd ISRU was going to be one of those terms that defines the coming decades as we expand to the stars.
Companies like @itemfarm, @gru_space, and others will define the off world industrial base.
They put lunar ISRU development as a giant near-term new market, right in their IPO prospectus. I feel like @gru_space’s valuation just doubled. Make it happen @skyler_chan_!
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if you've built flight hardware and are looking to work on our historic payload landing on the Moon next year, email me at skyler [at] gru [dot] space.
we are hiring founding avionics/ee engineers in sf to change the course of human history when we make the world's first bricks on the Moon in 2027.
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Wearing my doppelganger jacket🥼 for the #PrincessLeia look on 💫 #StarsWarsDay — a gift from @Columbia1938
@starwars #StarWars #MayTheFourthDay #Maythe4thBeWithYou
