Modératrice - Cynthia Bouthot
President of Space Commerce Matters
Cynthia Bouthot is President of Space Commerce Matters, a pioneer in Low Earth Orbit Demand Creation.
Prior to this, Cynthia helped standup the ISS National Lab and developed the demand model that resulted in 55% commercial customers generating over $200M in funding and sponsored programs.
Cynthia spent 10 years working in innovation and new market creation throughout Europe and Asia; she was the Consul, and head of Trade and Investment for the British Consulate as well as Head of Innovation and R&D with a special focus on space and life sciences.
Cynthia has her Masters in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis University and a Bachelor of Science from the Boston College Carroll School of Management.
Partenaire - Anne-Charlotte Pupin
Manager Clubster Nutrition Santé Longévité at Eurasanté
Graduated from AgroParisTech , Anne-charlotte PUPIN has been supporting health and nutrition companies for more than 15 years in their innovation and development challenges. Since 2018, she conducts alongside her team the Clubster NSL : a competitivity cluster of more than 320 members, the professional network for innovation in health and nutrition based in Hauts-De-France region
Intervenant - Mark Kugel
Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of yuri
With yuri he enables anyone to do affordable and user-friendly research on the ISS and other microgravity platforms.
With modular and reusable bioreactors they help researchers in the fields of protein crystallization, tissue engineering, and plant biology.
Although only founded in 2019, yuri has won customers such as NASA, ESA, the pharma giant GSK, and the University of Technology in Sydney.
Before founding yuri, Mark worked at Airbus, Rolls-Royce and founded other startups previously.
Intervenant - Vic Keasler
Director of RD&E at ChampionX
Vic Keasler has a B.S. in Microbiology from Texas A&M and a Ph.D. in Molecular Virology & Microbiology from Baylor College of Medicine.
He has worked for ChampionX in Production Chemistry for the past 13 years. During that time, Vic and his team have published over 40 papers focused on microbial detection and control in oilfield systems.
Vic has 15 granted patents for the development of new antimicrobials to reduce the risk of microbiologically influenced corrosion, biotic H2S production, and/or biofouling.
Vic currently serves as the Director of RD&E at ChampionX and leads a large multi-discipline team of scientists that are responsible for technical support and innovation in Production Chemistry.
Intervenante - Hilde Stenuit
Seasoned research and team leader at Space Applications Services
Dr. Hilde Stenuit is a seasoned research and team leader for Space Applications Services.
She is currently using her expertise to guide the users of and create opportunities for commercial access to Space through the first European commercial ISS service called ICE Cubes (International Commercial Experiment Cubes).
Prior to this, she worked as an operations specialist for ISS modules and for spacecraft (ATV), she did operational coordination for research on National Soyuz missions.
Following this she supported ESA for over a decade in a function of ESA ISS Mission Science Office, doing scientific coordination and research planning of the complement of ISS science experiments.
Animatrice - Dr. Lucie Campagnolo
Project Manager Space and Healthcare, CNES/MEDES
Lucie Campagnolo is project manager at MEDES, the Institute for Space Medicine and Physiology. Since its creation in 1989, MEDES has been striving to maintain and help develop French competence in space medicine and physiology and to promote the application of space research in the field of health.
MEDES achieves this through its work in three main sectors: support in space medicine and physiology for space exploration, clinical research, and lastly e-health and support for epidemiological monitoring.
Lucie also acts as Head of Healthcare applications at the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) to promote and foster innovation between the healthcare and space industrial sectors.
She participates in several Think Tanks and knowledge groups in the field of technological development in space and terrestrial medicine.
Prior to this, Lucie was payload ops engineer at CNES where she worked as an Experimental Manager to help scientists to prepare and conduct a broad range of experiments in microgravity, be it aboard the International Space Station, Airbus A300 Zero-G, or Ground Analogs.