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SUMMARY:VC Deep Dives
DESCRIPTION:Please Note: This is an Invite-Only Workshop for Startups  \nThese small-group deep-dive sessions are geared toward venture-backed startups looking to scale quickly. Once you complete this three-part series\, you’ll leave feeling empowered on your journey to raise capital and grow your startup. Hosted by Andrew Nicholson\, Managing Director at Goose Capital and an Adjunct Professor at Rice Business\, the series will begin with the due diligence process\, sharing what VCs look for and how to prepare. Then you’ll cover the venture capital portfolio with an in-depth look at how the game works (stages\, valuations\, risks\, and uncertainty). All of this sets you up for the final session\, where you’ll discuss types\, terms\, and implications of securing your funding. April 25th marks the final session in this pilot series. \nInterested in attending the next series:\nIf you’re interested in being considered for the next series\, please click here and complete the following form. \n 
URL:https://iondistrict.com/event/vc-deep-dives-0425/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Founders & Startups,Investors & Capital,Mentorship,Networking
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SUMMARY:NASA Tech Talks
DESCRIPTION:We want HOU! Join us to discover NASA’s toughest tech challenges and apply your skills and expertise to solve them.\n\n\nFeatured Program: Nutrition as Fuel for Human Space Flight \nHistory books are rife with examples of how nutrition either made\, or broke\, exploration missions on Earth. As we write the future of space exploration\, nutrition will be even more critical in ensuring crew health and safety and ultimately mission success. NASA’s Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory supports both operational and research protocols to help ensure astronaut health before\, during\, and after flight. Ground-analog research includes head-down tilt bed rest studies\, studies of crews wintering over in Antarctica\, and an ongoing year-long Mars surface simulation study: the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) mission. The Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory’s flight research has yielded findings on effects of spaceflight on vitamins\, minerals\, and hormones.\n\nThey have documented dietary effects on bone health\, and effects of oral contraceptive use on venous thromboembolism (i.e.\, blood clot) risk. A key line of research has documented that ocular changes affecting some astronauts is genetically predisposed\, and more specifically\, genetic differences which affect B vitamin requirements appears to increase the risk of these ocular changes. An experiment being conducted on the ISS right now is testing a B vitamin countermeasure. As humans move beyond low-Earth orbit nutrition will be even more important for the maintenance of crew health and ultimately for mission success. Uniting the many disciplines which comprise the human system with the engineering of spacecraft will be a significant challenge\, but daring to leave the planet demands this collaboration.\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers: \n\nScott M. Smith leads the Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory at NASA Johnson Space Center. This group is charged with keeping crews healthy with respect to nutrition\, including using nutrition to optimize astronaut health and safety. This work includes ground-based and spaceflight research to understand how nutrition can mitigate the risks of spaceflight.\n\nSmith has ongoing spaceflight research projects on the International Space Station. His past projects have been flown on the space station\, space shuttle\, and the Russian space station Mir. Smith has also led several ground-based research projects to better understand astronaut health in space\, including studies of vitamin D in crews in Antarctica\, studies of crews living on the bottom of the ocean\, and studying subjects spending months in bed or a year in an enclosed habitat.\n\nSmith is a member of the American Society for Nutrition\, the American Physiological Society\, and the International Academy of Astronautics. He holds a B.S. in Biology and a Ph.D. in Nutrition\, both from the Pennsylvania State University\n\nMontgomery B. Goforth has over 30 years of experience as both an Engineer and Manager in various highly technical space and defense-related efforts. He joined NASA in 1990 as part of the Mission Operations Directorate\, working on planning systems and automated procedure execution tools for the International Space Station (ISS). He became Deputy Project Manager for the Portable Computer System\, the laptop used for command and control of the ISS\, in 1996. He became Chief of the Branch responsible for all laptops onboard the ISS and the Space Shuttle. \n\n\nIn 2002\, he moved to the ISS Avionics and Software Office as Manager of the Flight Software Development Office and later served as Chief Engineer. In 2005\, he spent several months at NASA Headquarters working in the Robotics Lunar Exploration Program. In 2006\, he joined the Constellation Program as Chief of Avionics and Software Test and Verification and became Chief of the Software and Avionics Integration Office in 2007. In this role\, he was responsible for leading a large nationwide Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) organization which provided program-level coordination\, oversight\, integration\, and management of the system-of-systems avionics and software\, including the coordination of integrated modeling and simulation and test activities across the Constellation program and the technical integration of Constellation’s Command\, Control\, Communications\, and Information (C3I) architecture.\n In 2011\, he joined the Avionic Systems Division to support their Strategic Planning and Partnership efforts. In 2015\, he moved on to Engineering Directorate Staff to support Strategic Pursuits and Partnerships. In this role\, he put together a framework to focus better Engineering’s efforts toward Human Spaceflight technology and systems development consistent with JSC and Agency goals for exploration. This framework guides Engineering’s internal investments and external partnerships supporting Lunar and Mars Exploration.\n\n\nMr. Goforth was born in East Texas\, raised in Southern California and Arizona\, and graduated from Rice University (BSME 1982\, MSME 1987). Before coming to Johnson Space Center\, he was employed by a small defense contractor specializing in anti-submarine warfare.
URL:https://iondistrict.com/event/nasa-tech-talks-0425/
LOCATION:Ion\, 4201 Main Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aerospace,Community Event,Founders & Startups,Investors & Capital
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