As well, CSCA President Arny Sokoloff will be chairing the commercial space sessions at this Canadian Space Society event.

For more information, please contact Chuck Black at chuck.black@spacecommerce.ca.

Chuck Black/ 416-569-7697

Joining our keynote speaker, Dr. Yaroslav Pustovyi, a former Ukrainian astronaut and STS-87 backup payload specialist, will be:

Eric Boyd from Hacklab.TO who’ll be discussing the HackLab movement and Canadian organizations like the Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, the Kwartzlab Makerspace, the Makerkids non-profit workshop space for kids, Think|Haus, the Site 3 coLaboratory, UnLab and others.

Deepak Kaushal from GMP Securities who will give a quick twenty minute overview of how his company tracks investment  opportunities in Canadian space companies like MacDonald Dettwiler (MDA) and COM DEV International.

Meetings are called to order at 7:30 pm and the presentation begins at 8:00 pm sharp. If you’d  like to participate, please RSVP the meeting chair at meetings@spacecommerce.ca.

For more information, please contact the meeting chair.

Chuck Black/ 416-569-7697

Come drink to Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin with space stand-up comedy, DJ’s, 1960′s Russian space cocktails, and a LEGO spaceship building competition. Doors open at 8pm and the party continues through the evening until 2am.

Toronto will be one of 100 parties around the world, celebrating the anniversary of humanity’s first flight into space. Tickets and the Yuri’s night Toronto schedule of events are available online at  YurisNight.ca.

For more information, or to receive the CSCA discount registration code entitling CSCA members to discounted admission to Yuri’s Night Toronto, please contact Chuck Black at chuck.black@spacecommerce.ca.

Our speaker will be Dr. Yaroslav Pustovyi, a former Ukrainian astronaut and STS-87 backup payload specialist, who will talk about his NASA space shuttle training experience and discuss his perspectives on the changing role of the research astronaut in the new commercial spaceflight era.

Meetings are called to order at 7:30pm and the presentation begins at 8:00pm. If you’d  like to participate, please RSVP the meeting chair at meetings@spacecommerce.ca.

Chuck Black/ 416-569-7697

Presentations from the event are currently being posted on the 2013 CSCA National Conference page.

For more information on the conference,  please check out the March 8th, 2013 Toronto Star article “Mining for gold in deep space,” the March 8th, 2013 Globe and Mail article “Tech titans crucial to the next wave of space exploration and the March 8th, 2013 Canadian Press article “Space: the final frontier for extra-terrestrial miners.”

Our next CSCA meeting is Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 at the Blakes Law Firm, located at 199 Bay Street, Suite 4000, Commerce Court West in Toronto, Ontario. A speaker will be announced shortly.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Chuck Black/ 416-569-7697

We look forward to seeing everyone in room 201A & B tomorrow. It will be a great series of sessions.

Chuck Black/ 416-569-7697

• Chuck Black: A sales “rainmaker” and aerospace pundit who also writes and edits the Commercial Space  Blog and the Space Conference News website plus contributes articles to various NewSpace Global publications and Canadian Mining Magazine.
• Marc Boucher: The CEO of SpaceRef Canada, SpaceRef (USA) and Hyperix Search. He’s also the publisher of the magazine Space Quarterly, a commercial & space policy analyst and a software engineer.
• Farnaz Ghadaki: A strategic marketing & management consultant and a member of the entrepreneurship & investment committee of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF).
• Arny Sokoloff: The President of Continuum Aerospace, a consulting group which specializes in the research, development, and analysis of space and aerospace systems and technologies. Continuum is conducting ongoing R&D programs in propulsion and space launch systems.
• Wilfred So: A Patent Agent with the intellectual property group of the Blakes Law Firm with a technical background including electrical, software, biomedical and mechanical fields, plus the integration of multidisciplinary systems.

With five valid nominations for the five open board positions, the nominees become board members by acclamation and voting by the members is not required.

Congratulations to the incoming CSCA board of Directors for 2013 – 2015

Wilfred So – 2013 CSCA Elections Officer.

The organization has posted information on the upcoming 2013 Canadian Space Commerce Association (CSCA) National Conference on the upcoming PDAC International Convention, Trade Show and Investors Exchange (PDAC2013) being held in Toronto, Ontario from March 3rd – 6th, in the affiliated events section under the title 2013 CSCA National Conference.

PDAC is a national organization with 9,000 individual members (including prospectors, developers, geoscientists, consultants, mining executives, and students, as well as those involved in the drilling, financial, investment, legal and other support fields) and 1,254 corporate members (including senior, mid-size and junior mining companies and organizations providing services to the mineral industry).

The annual PDAC conference attracts over 30,000 people from around the world and the CSCA welcomes any PDAC attendee looking to spend an extra day in Toronto to attend the March 7th CSCA event and learn about some of the more exotic places where mining is being considered.

Chuck Black/ 416-569-7697