Episode 3

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26th Jan 2021

New Space: Big Rockets, Big Business, and Big Science

In this episode, Ravi talks to Dr. Sean Casey about the exciting world of commercial spaceflight and the benefits to the economy, science, and human development.  

Dr. Sean Casey is  Co-Founder and Managing Director of the Silicon Valley Space Center (SVSC), a business accelerator for NewSpace entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. As a mentor and investor, Dr. Casey has supported early-stage startups in hardware, software, and wetware (i.e. manned spaceflight) sectors of the growing commercial spaceflight industry.  Companies supported by SVSC include Spire, Vital Space, Alanax, Infinity Aerospace, Moffett Federal Airfield Alliance, Integrated Spaceflight Services, SpaceVR, Lunar Station, and the New York Center for Space Entrepreneurship.  He is the president of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Space and Satellite Professionals International (SSPI), a member of the Suborbital Applications Researchers Group of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF), and served over two decades as a NASA astrophysicist and airborne astronomer.  Dr. Casey is a frequently invited speaker for many events including Space Frontier Foundation’s NewSpace conference, Space 2.0 by Infocast, SpaceCom in Houston, and the Satellite Innovation Symposium in Silicon Valley.  He is a co-author of numerous publications and has a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Chicago and dual MBAs from the Berkeley Haas and Columbia Schools of Business.

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Dr. Ravi Komatireddy MD is a physician and digital health entrepreneur who is currently the Founder and CEO of Motiv Health Inc, a startup passionately focused on using human and AI coaching for health behavior change.

He is an Internal Medicine physician who trained at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and the University of California San Diego. He was one of the first wireless digital health scholars at the Scripps Translational Science Institute where he earned a masters in clinical translational investigation.

Previously, he co-founded and served as Chief Medical Officer of 2 funded digital health startups: Lumiata Inc., a big data, AI healthcare company focused on creating the world’s largest medical knowledge graph; and Reflexion Health Inc., a digital medicine, virtual physical therapy platform using motion tracking cameras in the home. He also received the first grant from NASA flight opportunities program to advance research in digital health and human spaceflight and continues to work with NASA on a COVID-19 Taskforce. He advises several Digital health startups and holds a volunteer faculty position at the University of California San Diego.

In general, he's intensely curious about the world and won't stop bothering people until they answer his questions.