<div dir="ltr">The InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group (a Chapter in Formation-- hopefully very soon to be the InterPlanetary Networking Chapter of the Internet Society) will be hosting a one-day conference entitled "Space Technology Innovation: Enabling Exploration Above—Improving Life Below" at Google HQ in Mountain View, California, on January 24th, 2014, from 8:30 a.m. through 5 p.m. A beer and wine reception will follow the scheduled speakers, concluding at 7 p.m. For more information, go to: <a href="http://www.ipnsig.org">www.ipnsig.org</a>.<div>
<br></div><div>We will have speakers ranging from Vint Cerf (one of the "Fathers of the Internet") to David Brin (best selling and award-winning science fiction author). We will have several teams of speakers from NASA talking about experiments and deployments of Delay & Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN); DTN researchers from the EU; the Program Manager for Google's Project Loon; the founder of Teachers without Borders, the Executive Director of Explore Mars, the Founder of Campus Party, and more! Learn about how DTN is enabling the exploration of space and providing solutions to constrained network environments right here on earth. </div>
<div><br></div><div>If you can't make the event in person-- no worries! It will be webcast on LiveStream and available for video on demand viewing. </div><div><br></div><div>We hope to be in a position to formally announce the establishment of the InterPlanetary Networking Chapter of the Internet Society at this event. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Mike Snell</div><div><br></div><div>President, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter</div><div>Secretary/Treasurer, IPNSIG</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>