# Featured Session: Breaking Through Barriers to Innovation: Lessons from Space and Earth

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**Date:** March 17, 2026 · 10:00 PM  
**Location:** JW Marriott / Salon 6-8  
**Format:** Featured Session  
**Track:** Tech & AI track  
**Reviews:** 0

## Speakers

- **Dava Newman** — Apollo Professor of Astronautics

New paradigm-shifting technologies seem to emerge every day, and the leaders that understand how to properly leverage the opportunities that come along with these new technologies can create huge competitive advantages for their organizations. Dava Newman, Ph.D., a futurist and the MIT Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics (as well as the former director of the MIT Media Lab and the first woman engineer to have served as a NASA deputy administrator) will reveal creative strategies for taking advantage of these opportunities. Learn how to make the most from technology breakthroughs in areas such as finding life elsewhere in the universe; climate+energy, and the convergence of artificial intelligence and generative biology. Dava’s mantra of “Love, Act, Discover, Innovate” urges leaders in business, government, and academia to courageously consider how innovation can truly change the way we engage with each other and our planet.

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