Canadian Space Commerce Association Bimonthly Meeting

Date: November 10, 2011
Location: Toronto, ON
Web Site: http://spacecommerce.ca/meetings
About: The next CSCA meeting is Thursday, November 10th, 2011. Our guest speaker will be announced shortly.
The CSCA holds meetings in Toronto on the second Thursday of every other month, at the law offices of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, 199 Bay Street, Suite 4000, Commerce Court West, Toronto, Ontario, M5L 1A9.
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 [email protected].
Recent speakers have included:
– 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. Afterwords we retire to a nearby establishment for more casual conversations and networking.