Event to support the South Florida economy of space entrepreneurship.
WHAT: Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation (Levan Center of Innovation) to host 2nd Annual South Florida Space Day on Thursday, September 21, 2023.
- The event will focus on trends, challenges, opportunities, and strategies of entrepreneurship within the space sector.
- Highlights will include keynote speakers, panels, seminars, an entrepreneur showcase, a business expo, networking opportunities and an entrepreneur pitch event.
- Lead exhibitors include NASA, the Space Foundation, Space Florida, and startups within the space sector.
- Trends that will be explored include the following:
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- Earth, inner, and outer space applications.
- Technological advances creating expectations of more cost-effective space activities
- Increased private investment by investors who are new to space.
- A global economy that is increasingly data dependent with diverse effects on space capabilities and markets.
- Increasingly widely shared vision of space as transformative for humanity, and military/strategic developments around space as a crowded and valuable high ground.
- Global space economy approaching $470 billion – fastest growth since 2014 – will become a trillion-dollar industry.
- U.S. space economy is approaching $200 billion and 350,000 direct employment, and 1 million employees globally.
- Lunar economy – Earth to Moon.
- Life on Mars.
- Increased public/private partnerships between industry and government.
- Internationalization of space activity.
- Commercialization of the space sector.
- The mission of the event is to:
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- Explore the LEVL5: SPACE DOCK Mars Habitat Simulation.
- Create a “collision station” bringing awareness and opportunities to the South Florida region to better support the growing space sector by connecting to the Florida Space Coast, national, and international space systems.
- Promote and recruit applications for the LEVL5: SPACE DOCK at NSU™ cohort programs.
WHEN: Thursday, September 21, 2023
8:30 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.
8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.: Registration and networking
9:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Event – speakers, panels, seminars
WHERE: Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation
3100 Ray Ferrero Jr. Blvd.
Alvin Sherman Library
5th floor
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314
DETAILS: This event is free and open to the public. For more information and to register, please visit www.LevanCenterSpaceDay.com.
Please contact innovation@nova.edu for information on sponsorship opportunities or for additional details.