2nd Annual South Florida Space Day

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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:

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:

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.

Thursday, September 21, 2023

8:30 a.m.– 5:30 p.m.

8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.: Registration and networking

9:15 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.: Event – speakers, panels, seminars

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.