Our Special Guest Speaker
We had our special guest in our 2017 event, Caley Burke from NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida who were on call with us to answer your questions regarding NASA Open Innovation Initiative 2017.
Watch our recording here.
Caley Burke
Flight Design (Trajectory) Analyst
NASA's Launch Services Program
NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida
2017 AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
The Space Apps universe had 25,140 Participants in 69 countries. Space Apps offers local and global awards. Solutions with intriguing and innovative insights and compelling storytelling rise to the top in the judging process. Global award winners receive an invitation to NASA to attend a rocket launch, as well as bragging rights among their peers and community. NASA executives will select the Global Award winners.
Congratulations to our star solvers from Sydney on their out-of-this-world work on 2017!
Global Nominee
Sydney First Winners and Global Nominee
The 44th Move
GALAXIS is an open source, AI-driven web application that enables young children learning about space using simple conversational interaction ...
Global Nominee
Sydney Second Winners and Global Nominee
ACRONYMOUS
-KEN- A Virtual Reality tool, used to visualise and contextualise NASA Earth Science and Human Dimension data. ...
Global Nominee
Sydney Most Inspirational Project and Global Nominee
Space Settlers
MODULAR MARS HABITAT is a novel method of building using modular blocks made from local materials for Earth and Mars ...
Sydney Third Winners
GOLDILOCKS ZONE
PERSUNL is a Personalised Weather App for optimising your wellbeing ...
2017 SCHEDULE
Friday 21th April
INFORMATION NIGHT
18:00 Arrival, registration, networking
18:30 Introduction to NASA Space Apps Sydney
19:00 Dr Jason Held talk about Space mission
19:30 Forming teams (Visit different Challenge Stations to find your interest)
20:00 Pitches time (People who know what they are going to work on, talk about their idea and tell what kind of skills they need for their team) 1 min each person
20:45 Team formation (Join the team you're interested in)
22:00 Drinks - end of event
Saturday 29th April
08:00 Registration/ Coffee/ Mingling
09:00 Opening Keynotes
09:30 Live chat with Caley Burke, Flight Design Analyst at NASA Kennedy Space Center
10:00 Space Mission workshop (Optional)
11:30 Virtual Reality workshop (Optional)
12:30 Lunch Break
13:00 Hack back on track
20:00 Dinner Break
20:30 Resume Hacking
23:59 Venue closes
Sunday 30th April
09:00 Coffee - Brief announcements
09:15 Resume Hacking
12:30 Lunch Break
13:00 Presentation workshop (Optional)
13:30 Start working on presentation preparation
16:00 Submission deadline, Begin uploading your projects, tech check for presentations
16:30 Pitch presentations
18:30 Awards/Closing Remarks
19:00 Celebration/ After Party, heading to the Pub
* Further information will be announced on the day of the event.
2017 SPEAKERS
Dr Jason Held
CEO of Saber Astronautics
PhD, Aerospace and Mechatronics, 2008, University of Sydney
BSc, Computer Science, 1993, Virginia Military Institute
Prior to founding Saber Astronautics, Dr. Held was a US Army Major and team leader for USSTRATCOM (formerly Space Command) and deployed internationally in support of military space missions. He was a lead instructor at the Interservice Space Fundamentals Course and an engineer at Army Space and Missile Command Battle Lab.He conducted flight software for the Wide Field Camera 3 of the Hubble Space Telescope and testing for the International Space Station. He also conducted testing for an invasive class II medical device. Dr. Held guest lectured for the IRS Space Station Design Workshop, University of New South Wales, and International Space University. He led a research expedition in the high Canadian Arctic and co-founded several groups such as the Delta-V SpaceHub Startup Accelerator and the University of Sydney space engineering laboratory.
Emre Can Deniz
Director of Opaque Space, of Opaque Media Group
Emre Deniz has been working in Virtual Reality for the past four years, being one of the first developers in Australia to work on the HTC Vive as well as having worked as both lead game designer and artist on multiple projects in Virtual, Augmented and Mobile experiences. Emre has previously worked with international partners such as Microsoft, Google and Epic on projects such as the award winning Virtual Dementia Experience to the internationally recognized Earthlight.
Emre currently is a Director at the newly established Opaque Space, working with partners such as HTC, Epic and NVIDIA to bring space-based VR experiences to both consumers as well as provide assets, systems and content for NASA laboratories working on virtual reality training for astronauts. He has been an active advocate for diversity, accessibility and ethical development in VR and regularly speaks at conferences and lectures on game design, community building and development in VR.
2017 SPONSORS
We wouldn't be able to run an event of this caliber without the help of some incredible sponsors. Helping us with everything from logistics and planning, to making connections, and sponsoring in kind to allow us to take the event to the next level, we're excited to be working alongside these amazing companies.