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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SYMPOSIA

2020   Keynote on the Future of the Military in Space · Space Mastery · Portugal
2020   To the Stars and Beyond: Deep Tech & AI · San Francisco
2020   International Astronautical Congress, 71st IAF · ESA
2020   SpaceCom 2020, Enabling Commercial Space · Colorado Springs
2019   Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Circuits
2019   Materials Frontiers to Empower Quantum Computing
2019   Quantum Technology: The Second Revolution
2018   FutureHack · Tokyo
2018   American School of Japan · Tokyo
2018   International School of Science · Tokyo
2018   Future of the Global Energy System, Institute for the Future · San Francisco
2016   Keizai · US-Japan Commercial Spaceflight · San Francisco
2016   Effective Altruism Summit · San Francisco
2016   Hive Global Leadership Forum · San Francisco
2016   RSA Information Security · San Francisco
2015   Hive Global Leadership Forum · San Francisco
2015   Further Future · TED Meets Burning Man · Las Vegas
2015   Hive Global Leadership Forum · San Francisco
2015   DefCon Information Security · Las Vegas
2015   Black Hat Information Security · Las Vegas
2014   The Future of Commercial Spaceflight · Silicon Valley Space Center
2014   Yuri’s Night: The First Manned Orbital Spaceflight · Los Angeles
2014   IEEE Quantum Photonics: The Next Frontier of Quantum Communications
2014   Yuri’s Night: The First Manned Orbital Spaceflight · Hawaiʻi
2012   NASA ESA JAXA Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems
2012   NASA CSF Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference · Palo Alto
2012   Quantum Information and Nanoscale Optoelectronics · Berkeley
2012   Yuri’s Night: The First Manned Orbital Spaceflight · Los Angeles
2012   Inaugural Quantum Future Technologies Conference · NASA Ames
2011   Quantum Coherence in Excitation Energy Transfer · Berkeley
2011   The Future of Spaceflight · Mobile Monday, Invited Keynote · Amsterdam
2011   Delft-Leiden Biannual Casimir Symposium · Leiden
2011   Alain Aspect: The Second Quantum Revolution · Leiden
2011   ESA-TNO Space Pier Day · The Hague
2010   Kavli-Delft Center for Bionanoscience, Founding Conference · Delft
2010   Quantum Mechanics in Higher-Dimensional Hilbert Spaces · Austria
2010   What is Real in the Quantum World? Int’l Akademie Traunkirchen · Austria
2010   NASA ESA JAXA Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems
2009   NASA ESA JAXA Japan-US Science, Technology and Space Applications Program
2009   From Foundations of Quantum Mechanics to Quantum Information · Delft
2009   DEISA Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications
2009   Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) · Amsterdam
2008   Quantum Decoherence and Quantum Information Science · Lorentz Center
2008   Triennial Conference on Low-Temperature Condensed Matter Physics XXV
2008   International Conference on Quantum Structures · Brussels
2007   Workshop on Time Symmetry in Quantum Mechanics · Brussels
2007   Optical Fabrication Technologies, Coherence and Metrology · Switzerland
2006   The Best of Nanoscience: International Symposium for Hans Mooij · Delft
2006   SPIE Defense and Security Applications of Quantum Information Science
2005   New Computational Paradigms: Neural Nets, Quantum, Biocomputing
2005   UNESCO Physics for Tomorrow, UNESCO Headquarters · Paris
2004   RSA Information Security · Barcelona
2004   SPIE Defense and Security Applications of Quantum Information Science
2003   Gordon Research Conference on Quantum Information
2003   Quantum Information Technology IX · Tokyo
2003   International Conference on Quantum Information · Tokyo
2002   NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Quantum Chaos · Lake Como
2002   National Science Foundation Coding Theory and Quantum Computing · Vienna
2002   United Nations International Student Conference · Amsterdam
2002   International Conference on High-Energy Physics XXXI · Amsterdam
2001   World Technology Summit · London
2001   French Senate Hearing on the Future of Artificial Intelligence · Paris
2001   US Government Conference on High Performance Computing · Salishan
2001   National Security Agency · Fort Meade


MEDIA AND PUBLIC OUTREACH

⦿    NASA-trained Commercial Astronaut visits International School of Science · Tokyo
⦿    Astronauts for Hire Names New Commercial Scientist-Astronaut Candidates · NASA
⦿    Astronaut scientists for hire open new research frontier in space · NASA
⦿    Flat World Navigation: The Global Digital Economy · Google
⦿    Global Leadership Forum: Closing Speech on the Future of Humanity · San Francisco
⦿    Tomorrow’s Technologies Today · OASA Hong Kong
⦿    Space Academy Mission Specialist Boot Camp · OASA Hong Kong
⦿    Student gives up cycle, heads to Japan on Japanese Fulbright · AIEJ Fulbright
⦿    Astronauts for Hire: The Emergence of a Commercial Astronaut Corps · Springer
⦿    NASA vs. the Free Market: Which is Better for American Spaceflight
⦿    Future of the Global Energy System, Expert Workshop · Institute for the Future
⦿    Orion Astropreneur Space Academy · OASA Hong Kong
⦿    State of the Future · Live two-hour radio interview
⦿    Keynote Tribute on the Future of Space Exploration · Amsterdam
⦿    US Space Force and Future Space Technologies · Space Mastery · Tokyo
⦿    Hive Global Leadership Forum, Featured Alumnus · San Francisco
⦿    Starlab — Deep Future, Discovery Channel Special · Starlab Brussels
⦿    To the Stars and Beyond, Deep Tech & AI · San Francisco
⦿    Further Future, TED Meets Burning Man · Nevada
⦿    Entangled Life · Discover Magazine

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Shodan Rank Kyūdō, Meiji Temple, Tokyo, Japan


Black belt, First Class, shōdan. Certificate of recognition as the first foreigner to qualify in eight years. 認許する, Japanese traditional archery, Kyūdō, “standing Zen,” 弓道初, formally recognized by the Japanese National Kyūdō Federation (全日本弓道連盟) while on a Japanese National Fulbright Award with the Association of International Education, Japan.