Rocket Engineer turned Space Entrepreneur with a decade of experience in the Space Launch Vehicle industry. IIT Kharagpur Alumnus. Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia.

Yasrine is the Senior Director of Advanced Concepts and Technologies, within the CTO division at Inmarsat. She is responsible for leading breakthrough innovations and early-stage mission concepts. She also manages various start-up and entrepreneurship engagement initiatives. Yasrine is a serial ‘intra-preneur’ in the space industry and has developed over the last 15 years several innovative concepts.  

Yasrine is a mentor and an ambassador for diversity. She is the founding member of WIN, Inmarsat women’s network focusing on bringing forward gender diversity.

She graduated from University of Cambridge, UK where she obtained in 2018 an Executive MBA degree. She also holds two Masters of Science in telecommunications from France and UK.

Martin has a MSc in Remote Sensing and a Phd from DLR. He has worked at the Center for Earth Observation at the Joint Research Center, Italy. After working at SSC he is since 11 years with KSAT in Ground Station Business Development. Presently he responsible for Lunar and Optical.

CAREER:

CEO of CONTEC Co., Ltd(’15.01 ~)

Carleton University(’10.08 ~ 11.07)

Korea Aerospace Research Institute(‘02.03 ~ ’18. 01)

AWARDS

‘ 21 Order(Medal) for Industry Merit from Korea President

‘ 20 World of Forbes 2020 Frontrunner of South Korea

‘ 17 Contributed to selection as excellent national R&D

‘ 16 STAR-Exploration (MSIT Minister’s Award)

‘ 14 K-Startup Excellent Award

‘ 13 KSLV-1 Launch Mission (MEST Minister’s Award)

Lilian LOURADOUR is Head of Systems Engineering at Sirius Space Services, a French startup developing a competitive and sustainable launch system.

Before joining Sirius, Lilian has worked for the European Space Agency in the frame of the development and operation of the VEGA and VEGA-C Launch Systems and the IXV suborbital re-entry demonstrator and for ArianeGroup within the Ariane 6 development team.

Hirozaku Mori entered the University of Edinburgh directly from his 2nd year,  read Theoretical astrophysics, and graduated from the top. He received a grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has experience in theoretical cosmology research (gravitational waves and modified gravitational theory). 

He was active in the Mediterranean as a professional diver, has won awards in the European and Mediterranean areas as a young professional diver, and has been featured in a famous diving magazine. He has experience as a backpacker and has visited about 80 countries so far.

After returning to Japan, he works as a business consultant at a major domestic business consulting firm in Japan, consulting on the theme of new business creation, business strategy of the space sector, and global DX strategy. 

He is an APAC Business Development Executive of Blue Abyss, which is the world's first private astronaut training firm, and CXO advisor of the SPACETIDE. He took the stage at the Satellite Show, SmallSat Conference, and World Satellite Business Week. His hobbies include wreck / underwater cave diving, airplane piloting, piano performance, art, and astrophysics. He proceeds with the examination of the JAXA astronaut to go to the moon.

He managed the definition of the architecture of the Ground Segment as-Service solutions Leaf Line and Leaf Key and Leaf Track services and he headed the network operations for the support of various satellite and cubesat missions managed both by space agencies (ESA, ISRO, DLR) and by several international companies. He is currently in charge of defining the corporate strategy, as well as managing the liason between the Business Development and the Technical team.

Jerome Vila is Deputy CEO of MaiaSpace, a European Company affiliated to ArianeGroup, which is aiming at designing and commercialization a reusable launcher. This follows more than 25 years spent on Ariane 5 and R&D Programs, at different technical or project roles for CNES. For the last 3 years, he was running ArianeWorks, an engineering platform set up to boost innovation on Ariane.

Patrick Zeitouni is the head of Space Mobility at Blue Origin, responsible for developing, fielding and operating programs for in-space transportation and logistics for a wide variety of customers. Patrick has deep expertise in product conception, innovation, and development, and has built new businesses inside traditional Primes and NewSpace companies. He led major affordability & cost reduction programs, and acquisition reform policy at DoD; he combines technical depth with ability to drive strategic and structural transformations across organizations

Previously at Blue, Patrick helped create and led the Advanced Development Programs business unit, and also led the National Team (Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Draper) to win NASA’s Artemis Lunar Landing Program Phase 1.

Prior to joining Blue Origin in 2017, Patrick was a Partner at McKinsey & Company in the Aerospace & Defense (A&D) practice. He served most major players in A&D value chain: top primes, major subs, private equity investors, NASA and DoD, with emphasis on Space value chain. He led multi-year engagements in growth strategy (organic and M&A), product development and cost reduction. Patrick created the Firm’s New Space capabilities and led development of people, knowledge and tools to build the Space practice, as well as public outreach as a frequent speaker at key Space conferences.

Prior to McKinsey, Patrick was a Technical Project Manager and Systems Engineer at TRW / Northrop Grumman, developing advanced space systems and leading capture efforts across military communication, missile defense, and human space exploration programs.

Patrick received a Master of Business of Administration from MIT Sloan, a master’s in Astronautics from University of Southern California (USC), a master’s in Electrical Engineering from USC, and a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.