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    Reserve Tickets Here!           • Cody Knipfer (Moderator) – Program & Policy Associate, Beyond Earth Institute   In his “day job,” Cody Knipfer works as the Director of Government Engagement for GXO, Inc, where he supports clients in the commercial aerospace sector. Prior to joining the GXO team, Cody worked for several years with Virgin Orbit, a small satellite launch company, in their Government Affairs office. In this role, he was an advocate for the company’s national security-related legislative and programmatic priorities with the United States Congress.   Cody has also spent time on Capitol Hill, has worked in space and defense policy and communications roles for two leading aerospace trade associations and has past experience in policy advising and consulting roles.   He holds a Master’s Degree in International Science and Technology Policy, with a specialization in space policy, from the George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and International Affairs from McDaniel College.     • Dallas Bienhoff – Space Systems Architect, Off-World, Inc.   Dallas Bienhoff is currently the Space Systems Architect at Off-World, Inc. where he is responsible for ensuring their space concepts have commonality, are synergistic and modular, whether they are surface or free-flying systems. He also leads their cislunar transportation development efforts. Mr. Bienhoff also leads the Moon Village Association’s Lunar Economics and Commercial Working Group’s Earth to Moon Transportation Market Team and is co-chair for the AIAA Cislunar Ecosystem Task Force’s Enterprise Architecture Working Group. Prior to joining OffWorld, Dallas founded Cislunar Space Development Company, where he defined and promoted a reusable space-based cislunar transportation architecture. CSDC’s architecture included space tugs to move payloads from LEO to GTO, GEO and EML1 destinations, a Moon shuttle, and water to LOx/LH propellant depots in LEO and at EML1.   Mr. Bienhoff retired from Boeing as their Space Architect and In-Space and Surface Systems Manager responsible for capturing civil and commercial Space development and science mission spacecraft projects. In that role, he focused on new business opportunities in support of NASA Human Exploration Missions, the entrepreneurial space community and JPL science missions. Dallas also worked for Rockwell International, The Aerospace Corporation, Rocketdyne, and Martin Marietta. Over the years, he led contract and IRAD studies on Cryogenic Propellant Storage and Transfer Technology Demonstration Mission Concepts, Minimum Functionality (lunar) Habitation Element, reusable cislunar transportation architecture, propellant depots, space solar power, exploration architectures, and launch system trade studies. Mr. Bienhoff was also a contributor to the National Security Space Office’s Space-Based Solar Power Study in 2007. During his career, Dallas led Rockwell’s X-33 SSTO and X-38 Crew Return Vehicle technical proposals, was co-lead with NASA for the ISS FGB element, led and participated in several space transportation and exploration architecture studies, oversaw Vandenberg Air Force Base Shuttle facilities development, evaluated propulsion system concepts and their failures, was a design and test engineer on the Space Shuttle Main Engine Development Program, and designed changes to the Titan III C payload interface.   Mr. Bienhoff holds a Master of Science – Engineering from California State University – Northridge (1985) and graduated from Florida Institute of Technology in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science – Mechanical Engineering.         • Laura Montgomery – Proprietor, Ground Based Space Matters LCC   Laura Montgomery is and the proprietor of Ground Based Space Matters, LLC, where she specializes in regulatory space law, with an emphasis on commercial space transportation and the Outer Space Treaties. She provides expert opinion on the Commercial Space Launch Act and its implementing regulations governing the launch of launch vehicles, the reentry of reentry vehicles, reusable launch vehicles, the operation of launch and reentry sites, and the financial responsibility and liability requirements of those regulations. She has been invited to testify before the space subcommittee and committee of both the House and the Senate of the U.S. Congress on matters of regulation and international obligation. She is also an adjunct professor of space law at Catholic University's Columbus School of Law.   Ms. Montgomery spent over two decades with the Federal Aviation Administration. She served as the manager of the Space Law Branch in the FAA's Office of the Chief Counsel, and acting manager of the Aircraft Certification Branch. Before that, she was the FAA's Senior Attorney for Commercial Space Transportation. As the FAA’s space lawyer, she supported the Office of Commercial Space Transportation in its authorization and regulation of space transportation. Her work at the FAA included legal interpretations, the development and application of regulations, legislative proposals, identification of matters for enforcement action, and legal review of licensing and permitting evaluations. Her rulemakings included human space flight, explosive siting, launch and launch site licensing and safety, experimental permits, lightning protection, and financial responsibility. She addressed a wide range of issues, from amateur rockets, to sea launch, to space balloons.   Highlights from Ms. Montgomery's time at the FAA include her representation of the FAA at the United Nations legal subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, her service as chair to an inter-agency working group on space property rights at the request of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House, and testimony to Congress on the FAA's interpretation of the Commercial Space Launch Act. She received her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and her undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Virginia.   She blogs at GroundBasedSpaceMatters.com. She also writes science fiction.         • John Reed – Chief Rocket Scientist, United Launch Alliance   John Reed is United Launch Alliance’s Chief Rocket Scientist, Chief Technologist, and Senior Technical Fellow for Guidance Navigation and Control. Mr. Reed is responsible for the Technical Fellows program at ULA and manages a portfolio of IRAD investments. He is currently focused on a wide variety of initiatives from Principal Investigator for launch vehicle reuse to enhanced navigation, whether in earth orbit or CisLunar operations, to creating a culture of innovation. He has been working a variety of roles on launch vehicles in Denver since 1986.   Reed is a long time member of the AAS and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. He is the Technical Program Chair for ASCEND and serves as TC Liaison for the Rocky Mountain Section of AIAA. He received his Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla (now the Missouri University of Science and Technology) and his master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.         • Andrew Rothgaber – Director of Public Sector Business Development, ICON   Andrew is a Director at ICON, the construction technologies startup based in Austin, TX. In this role, he works on off-world construction with NASA and advanced R&D projects with the Department of Defense and other government entities. Prior to ICON he worked at Zipline, the autonomous drone startup known for delivering blood and medicine to remote areas. He previously co-founded a company based in Washington, DC that used US Government funding to create software platforms addressing various foreign policy challenges. He has an MA in International Economics and Strategic Studies from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies; and a BA from Seattle Pacific University.