Prior to Virgin Galactic, George served as chief of staff for NASA. With its innovative spacecraft, the company seeks to transform access to space to change the world for good. Whitesides is the chief executive of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard Branson’s human spaceflight venture, and The Spaceship Company, a manufacturer of advanced space vehicles. In July 2015, together with Stephen Hawking, Yuri launched the $100 million Breakthrough Listen initiative to reinvigorate the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in the Universe, and in April 2016 they launched Breakthrough Starshot - a $100 million research and engineering program seeking to develop a technology for interstellar travel. Yuri and his wife Julia, together with Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, launched the Breakthrough Prizes - the world’s largest scientific awards, honoring important, primarily recent, achievements in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics. Yuri graduated in 1985 with an advanced degree in theoretical physics and subsequently conducted research in quantum field theory.
Yuri lives in Silicon Valley with his family. DST Global became one of the world’s leading technology investors and its portfolio has included some of the world's most prominent internet companies, such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Airbnb, Spotify, Alibaba, and others. He took that business public in 2010 and founded DST Global to focus on global internet investments. Yuri founded Group in 1999 and under his leadership it became one of Europe’s leading internet companies. Join us to realise untapped business and economics opportunities within the industry. How can space technology help manage disasters and conflicts? And what future challenges are in store for the exploration of space? It will gather chief executives, thinkers, policymakers and disruptive entrepreneurs from all over the world to debate what technological advances will further progress in space. The Economist Event’s inaugural global Space Summit focuses on the future of human space exploration. We will delve into the financial reality behind the hype: over the next few years where the industry will go, and what’s the real potential and unexpected opportunities for business on earth to move beyond our planet. Yet most of the money being spent in space remains with old government programmes and incumbent telecom providers. As they prove to be profitable they will grow further, and fast. Space travel is moving from the world of government procurement and aerospace engineering giants to venture-capital-funded start-ups that rely on ever-cheaper services for ever more customers. ‘Big data’ have transformed the planet into a gigantic set of data that can be both interrogated and extrapolated, transforming the way industries as diverse as farming and insurance operate. New capabilities, rekindled dreams and an atmosphere of entrepreneurialism mean a new wave of terrestrial tech has forged a well-worn path now profitably travelled.
Space is revolutionising the way people think about the Earth. You can read about the A New Space Age - including speakers, programme, and sponsors below.
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