Day 1

Friday, October 24, 2025

7:30 AM Registration Opens

8:30 AM Welcome

8:40 AM Musical performance by Akash Sud

Akash Sud is a polymath, both a successful business builder with billions in valuations under his belt, and a following as a leading-edge musician and composer. His works will ease us into the mornings of New Worlds.

9:00 AM Opening Keynote w/ Rick Tumlinson

Rick brings the fire to light the candle of New Worlds. At a moment when the Frontier is almost within reach, what can we do to enable the breakout? and who will we be as we make it happen?

9:15 AM STAR Talk - AI and Space Exploration w/ Bryan Talebi

Bryan's focus is on the long future, even as he is a thought leader in the domain of AI. Here he makes the case for humanity to embrace and use AI to open the High Frontier.

9:30 AM Discussion - AI, Our Spacefaring Children w/ Frank White & Rick Tumlinson

Frank and Rick discuss the evolution of humanity in the form of AIs. Rather than the darkness of Skynet, or the controlling Big Mother some propose, they see AIs as our children and partners in the exploration and expansion of the domain of life.

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10:00 AM POWER BREAK

10:15 AM Enterprise Update - Space Teams PRO - Virtual Space Mission Design w/ Greg Chamitoff

Greg's Space Teams PRO software is a very powerful tool for space companies including conceptual design, analysis, optimization, validation, operations planning, virtual training, and eventually conducting mission operations.

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10:30 AM Enterprise Update - Higher Prana Virtual Reality Software w/ Gabe Arrington

10:45 AM Discussion - VR and Space

VR leaders explore how virtual worlds can train and acclimate us, provide escape and care, and one day create home-like havens for long voyages—while warning of the danger that we may never want to leave them.

Host: Caris Baker


Speakers:

Mickael Nadeau

Greg Chamitoff

Gabe Arrington

Orson Scott Card

11:15 AM STAR Talk - 3rd Rock Rising: Humanity at the Helm of the Interplanetary Frontier w/ Ariane Fikki

11:30 AM STAR Talk - The New Era of Leadership w/ Rachel Lyons

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11:50 AM LUNCH BREAK w/ Luncheon Keynote: Fighting for Freedom on the High Frontier by Dr. Greg Autry

Greg's focus is on the future - at a time when our global competition with adversaries like China is extending into the Solar System. In this keynote he lays out ideas and solutions to assure freedom flourishes beyond the Earth.

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1:15 PM STAR Talk - Art and Architecture in Space w/ Ayse Oren

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1:30 PM Discussion - Consumer Markets in Space

With private space stations about to open their airlocks, it’s time to engage people directly—by creating the products, brands, and experiences that will define life and leisure in orbit. Top creatives share their vision of what’s coming next.

Speakers:

Sam Coniglio

Ubaldo Ciminieri

2:15 PM STAR Talk w/ Joel Sercel

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2:30 PM Enterprise Update - Ambrosia Space w/ Mario Maggio

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2:45 PM Enterprise Update - Orbit's Edge w/ Rick Ward

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3:00 PM POWER BREAK

3:20 PM STAR Talk - LifeShip: From Space Pyramids to Spreading Life w/ Ben Haldeman

From carrying samples of your salivea, to your thoughts and words, to seeds and genetic samples of Earth Life LifeShip is about putting you into space now.

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3:35 PM STAR Talk - Can We Really Raise Kids in Space? w/ Dave Brody

Sex in space will be the easiest part. Radiation, lack of gravity, social isolation, politics will challenge parents on new worlds. But if we can nurture children beyond Earth, everything else we want in space becomes possible. A space documentary filmmaker’s take.

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3:50 PM Biomedical Considerations and Opportunities in Space

On Thursday a team of space biomedical and business experts met as part of New Worlds to draft a White Paper highlighting what we call the "Maps and Gaps" of opportunities and missing knowledge needed to enable a boom in biological industry in space. Here's their early report.

Speakers:

Colleen McLeod Garner

Kimberly Washington

Junaid Mian

4:20 PM STAR Talk - The Sexual Universe w/ Howard Bloom

Howard is an exciting speaker, challenging many of the presumptions of today's space program, delivering a provocative and empowering call for us all to "Engage" in the spreading fo life beyond the MotherWorld.

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4:35 PM Building The Space Revolution

Engaging people outside our own airlocks is critical to our community becoming a movement.

Speakers:
Hunter Hatchell

Ariane Fikki

Kunal Patel

Rachel Lyons

5:05 PM Closing Notes

5:10 PM Space Happy Hour

Hosted by Hunter Hatchell

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8:00 PM Sex (and babies) in Space Film and Conversation

Host - Kimberly Washington

Films:

Children of the Sky Documentary by Dave Brody

SpaceBorn Short Film by Emily Collins

New Worlds & Space Cowboy Charity Ball, Proudly Presented By:

To carry the seeds of life to places now dead,

The light of love to places now dark,

and the eyes, hands and imagination of humanity

to places unseen, untouched and unexplored.

We are Spacers. We are the New Pioneers. We are EarthLight. We Rise.

New Worlds, Space Cowboy Ball, New Worlds Institute, Permission to Dream, and DreamScopes are trademarks and DBAs of the EarthLight Foundation (“ELF”), a 501(c)(3) charitable education and research organization registered with the I.R.S. and the Texas Secretary of State. ELF and its affiliates and DBAs do not participate in lobbying, nor do we have any political affiliations.

We are, however, radically Pro-Human, Pro-MotherWorld, and Pro-Space!