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Arch. Michal Ziso, founder of ZISO, was invited to give a talk at the TEDxISU event at the International Space University main campus in Strasbourg, France.

Her talk was all about her personal journey and the things she learned on her journey to become a Space Architect.

Scroll down for the full list of speakers at the event

"It is time to shift our focus to how to LIVE on Mars, rather than how to not die there" - Arch. Michal Ziso

Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation and Executive Director of the foundation’s ‘Breakthrough Initiatives’. Dr. Worden was Director of NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, USA until his retirement on March 31, 2015.

A citizen-scientist astronaut candidate with Project PoSSUM, physician, speaker, martial artist, advanced diver, skydiver and pilot-in-training. She holds degrees in neuroscience, space, entrepreneurship and medicine, and is currently completing a fellowship in Wilderness Medicine.

Dr. Omar Hatamleh

Chief Innovation Officer, Engineering at NASA. Prior to that he was the Deputy Chief Scientist at NASA ARC responsible for identifying new and promising areas of scientific research and supporting technologies that can be integrated into the Center's capabilities.  Dr. Hatamleh is also the Executive Director of the Space Studies Program at the ISU.

Manager of the outreach of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope for the European Space Agency. Bethany is also the first scientist-astronaut candidate from Newfoundland as part of the first and only crewed suborbital research program that studies the upper mesosphere through polar suborbital research, Project PoSSUM. 

Senior Engineer and Manager working as a contractor for NASA Ames Research Center where he helps leading the Mission Design Center to assess how potential future robotic missions can explore the Solar System. He is the recipient of the NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal.

Mountaineer and Technical Program manager at Waymo (formerly Google Self-Driving car project). As a trained commercial pilot and aerospace engineer, Daphne de Jong was part of the first Amazon Prime Air customer delivery in the UK. She then moved to Seattle and is a leader for Prime Air on its Integrated Vehicle Platform team, responsible for hardware and software integration on the vehicles.

Entrepreneur, speaker and coach, engaged in the movement of exponential transformation of organizations. His learning journey explores mathematics, business, mental preparation techniques, hypnosis and meditation, methods of social innovation and emergence such as Theory U, radical innovation, exponential thinking, and organizational transformation.

A visionary architect, founder of ZISO, a studio combining architecture with innovation and equality ideas; and the founder + CEO of Mars is More, a platform that aims to make space accessible, collects data on spatial needs of diverse groups in the population and promotes idea sharing to create a movement of thought leaders who impact our future.

Philippe Geisse

A musician of international fame, Philippe Geiss is saxophonist and composer. He is Professor at the Strasbourg Conservatory and the Strasbourg Superior Music Academy / Haute École des Arts du Rhin and a member of the scientific committee of LabEx-GREAM at Strasbourg University.

Type: Public Speaking . Client TEDx, International Space University

Things Learnt on my journey to become a space architect, International Space University

Strasbourg, France

  • 2019

Type: Public Speaking . 

ISU

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