The 2022 Program

July 2nd

Azores LISBON
Intergalactic oceans and Space economy

GLEX IGNITION SESSION - 4:00 PM
(GUEST ONLY AND LIVE STREAMING)

What’s New in Space 500 years after Magellan Circumnavigation
Future of Space Economy
Zero-G, making space accessible for all
Earth Observation Business Model innovation & acceleration
Axiom Space’s Ax-1 Mission Heralding Humanity’s Commercial Future in Space

July 4th

Azores AZORES
Venus Exploration and Extraterrestrial Volcanoes

OFFICIAL OPENING SESSION - 10:00 AM
SPACE

Extraterrestrial volcanoes
DAVINCI - Venus Exploration
Life: From Earth to Space and Back
Making Space for Everyone
eARTh from Space
Glass Terraforming
Sharks & Whales and Deep Ocean

SESSION 2 - 2:00 PM
OCEAN

Here Be Dragons
Welcoming Sharks to Paradise
Apex Predators of the Azores
How Tiger Sharks Discovered a Lost Ecosystem
The Giants off Sri Lanka

July 5th

Azores AZORES
Wildlife and Exploration with biotechnology

SESSION 3 - 10:00 AM
EARTH

Bigger Than Me: Inclusion in Conservation
Proteins from the Extremes
Urgent Dispatches From The Fossil Record
Resurrecting the Mammoth
Biodiversity and Conservation and North Pole Exploration

SESSION 4 - 2:00 PM
EARTH

Saving Wildlife on the Brink
African Twilight: Vanishing Ritual & Ceremonies
“Farm from a Box: Food as a Pathway to Peace & Prosperity”
Across the North Pole in the Dark
Memories in the Ice

July 6th

Azores AZORES
Wildlife and Exploration with biotechnology

SESSION 5 - 10:00 AM
EC 50 - GENERATION
WHAT'S NEXT?

Space2Inspire
The Other Species
The DNA Manifesto
Polar Bears and Polar Nights
Wildlife and Medic on the Moon

CLOSING SESSION - 11:10 AM
EC 50 - GENERATION
WHAT'S NEXT?

Fresh Tracks: A Cross Cultural Revolution
Charting Paradise
Laws of the Wild
Medic on the Moon

July 7th

DIGITAL PROGRAM
DIGITAL PROGRAM
(streaming)

GLEX IGNITION
LISBON / GARE MARÍTIMA DE ALCANTÂRA

JULY 2 | 16:00 - 21:30

(GUEST ONLY AND LIVE STREAMING)

16:00

CHECK IN | Portugal Space | welcome drink


16:30 - OPENING SESSION

16:45 - 17:10

17:10 - 17:55

17h55 – 18h15

Coffe Break

17:10 - 17:55

18:30 – 18:45

Earth Observation Business Model innovation & acceleration. The future with GEOSAT

Francisco Vilhena da Cunha – CEO GEOSAT

18:45 – 19:10

19:10 – 19:30

Debate


Close Session

Luís Araujo - Turism of Portugal President *TBC

DAY 1 - AZORES / TEATRO MICALENSE

JULY 4 | 09:45AM - 12:30 PM (Azores, GMT)

OPENING SESSION | WELCOME TO THE GLOBAL EXPLORATION SUMMIT

09:00 - CHECK-IN


9:45 - OPENING SESSION

WELCOME TO THE GLOBAL EXPLORATION SUMMIT

Richard Garriott - The Explorers Club President
Rita Marques - Secretary of Portuguese State for Tourism
José Manuel Bolieiro - President of the Regional Government of the Azores

SESSION 1 | SPACE PROGRAM 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

10:00 - 10:10

What's New? - The New Golden Age of Exploration

Explorers Club President - Richard Garriott

10:10 - 10:15

CHANGING ALTITUDE IN THE WINDS OF LIFE

Bertrand Piccard – Explorer and Environmentalist

10:15 - 10:35

10:35 - 10:50

Extraterrestial Volcanoes

Rosaly Lopes - Planetary volcanologist

10:50 - 11h05

11:05 - 11:25

COFFEE BREAK

11:25 - 11:40

Making Space for Everyone

Cady Coleman - Former NASA Astronaut

11:40 - 11:55

Glass Terraforming

Josh Simpson - Glass Artist

11:55 - 12:10

Azores Space Port

12:10 - 12:20

Ax-1 - How the First Fully Private Mission to the ISS Pushed the Boundaries of Science

Mike López-Alegría - VP Axion Space | Chief Astronaut


DAY 1 - AZORES / TEATRO MICALENSE

JULY 4 | 14:00AM - 16:30 PM (Azores, GMT)

SESSION 2 | OCEANS PROGRAM

14:00 - 14:05

Opening Session

Richard Wiese - GLEX Chair & Explorers Club President Emeritus

14:05 – 14:20

Welcoming Sharks to Paradise

Rachel Graham - Marine Conservation Scientist

14:20 - 14:35

14:35 - 14:50

SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LARGEST FULLY PROTECTED MPA IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC.

Emanuel Gonçalves – Fundação Oceano Azul; Marine Ecologist and Conservationist

14:50 - 15:10

BREAK

15:10 - 15:25

How Tiger Sharks Discovered a Lost Ecosystem

Austin Gallagher - CEO, Beneath the Waves

15:25 - 15:40

Apex Predators of the Ocean

Jorge Fontes - Marine Ecologist

15:40 - 15:55


DAY 2 - AZORES / TEATRO MICALENSE

JULY 5 | 10:00AM - 14:30 PM (Azores, GMT)

SESSION 3 | EARTH

10:00 – 10:05

Opening Session

Richard Wiese - GLEX Chair & Explorers Club President Emeritus


10:05 - 10:20

Bigger Than Me: Inclusion in Conservation

Leela Hazzah - Conservation Biologist

10:20 - 10:40

Of crafty crows and space shuttles and;
Tracking animals during covid-19 lockdowns

Christian Rutz - Animal-Tracking Pioneer

10:40 - 10:55

10:55 - 11:15

BREAK

11:15 - 11:30

Urgent Dispatches from the Fossil Record

Kenneth Lacovara, PhD - Paleontologist

11:30 - 12:00

12:30 - 14:00

LUNCH


"VOLCANO INTERPRETATION CENTER OF CAPELINHOS" – Faial Island | Participation by invitation

10h30

Welcome Session

Will Roseman -Executive Director / The Explorers Club

10h40

AZORES ISLANDS: WHEN AND WHERE ( VOLCANIC ) FIRE BEATS ( SEA ) WATER

João Carlos Nunes - PhD on Volcanology-Azores University

11h10

FROM CAPELINHOS TO SPACE: WE EXPLORE VOLCANOES!

James Garvin - NASA’s first Chief Scientist for Mars Exploration and led the scientific strategy that led to Mars Exploration Rover. Since 2021, he has been the Principal Investigator of the DAVINCI mission to Venus, the first mission to return to its atmosphere and surface since 1985

DAY 2 - AZORES / TEATRO MICALENSE

JULY 5 | 14:00AM - 16:30 PM (Azores, GMT)

SESSION 4 | EARTH

14:00 - 14:25

14:25 - 14:50

14:50 - 15:10

BREAK

15:10 - 15:25

“Farm from a Box: Food as a Pathway to Peace & Prosperity”

Brandi DeCarli, PhD - Advocate and Entrepreneur

15:25 - 15:40

Across the North Pole in the Dark

Børge Ousland - Polar Explorer

15:40 - 16:55

DAY 3 - AZORES / TEATRO MICALENSE

JULY 6 | 09:50AM - 13:30 PM (Azores, GMT)

SESSION 5 | EC50 PROGRAM

09:45 - 09:50

Opening Session


Richard Wiese - Club President Emeritus and EC50 Chair


09:50 - 10:05

10:05 - 10:20

10:20 – 10:35

10:35 - 10:50

Polar Bears and Polar Nights

Sunniva Sorby - Polar Explorer

10:50 - 11:10

BREAK


DAY 3 - AZORES / TEATRO MICALENSE

JULY 6 | 09:50AM - 13:30 PM (Azores, GMT)

SESSION 6 | EC50 PROGRAM

Closing Session


11:10 – 11:25

Fresh Tracks: A Cross Cultural Revolution

Juan D. Martinez Pineda - Silo-Breaker

11:25 - 11:40

11:40 - 11:55

11:55 – 12:10

MEDICINE FOR THE MOON, MARS , AND BEYOND

Shawna Pandya - Space Medicine

12:10 - 12:20

ZERO-G, MAKING SPACE ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL

Matt Gohd - Zero G Fligths

12:20 - 12:40

HORIZONS A 21ST CENTURY SPACE ODYSSEY

Brian Cox

12:40 - 12:50


DAY 4 - DIGITAL PROGRAM

JULY 7 |15:30 (Azores, GMT)

Welcome with Richard Garriott, President of the Explorers Club.
A GlexSummit Journey brought to us from 2019 to new digital presentations

15:30

2019

EXPLORATION: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE - FROM MAGELLAN TO MARS

Moderator: Luis Araújo, President of Turismo de Portugal
José Manuel Núñez de la Fuente, Author and Magellan expert
Laurence Bergreen, Author of Magellan Biography
Dr. James Garvin, NASA Chief Scientist
Dr. João Paulo Oliveira e Costa, Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa

EXPLORATION TO CHANGE THE WORLD

Dr. Bertrand Piccard, Pilot of Solar Impulse and Balloonist

FUR, FEATHER AND FINS: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ANIMAL MUMMIES

Dr. Salima Ikram, Archaeologist American University

2021

Ocean Rise

Moderator: Ted Janulis
James Cameron
Ray Dalio – OceanX

Unity in Space

Moderator: Richard Garriott
Danica Remy

A Reason to Love Bats

Dr. Rodrigo Medellin

2022

DIGNITY & TRUTH: THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS PROJECT

Erick Cedeno

SAILING THE POLAR HIGHWAYS

Ignacio Oficialdegui

STALKING FANTASTIC CREATURES IN THE DARK

Edie Widder

OCEANO SEM LIMITES | DOCUMENTARY

Nuno Sá

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