CSBR Colorado Lunar Forum: Uniting Colorado to Lead the Next Era of Lunar Exploration

Advancing Lunar & Deep-Space Missions

January 14, 2025 8:00 am - 6:00 pm Advanced Space, Westminster, CO

CSBR Members $50 | Non-Members $75

CSBR Colorado Lunar Forum

The CSBR Colorado Lunar Forum is a strategic convening of Colorado’s space exploration community—uniting industry leaders, innovators, and emerging enterprises to shape the state’s competitive edge in the next era of lunar and deep-space missions.

Scheduled for Jan. 14, 2026, in Westminster, Colorado, this event is designed as a collaborative one-day working forum to mobilize the collective expertise of Colorado’s aerospace ecosystem to identify actionable strategies that strengthen the position our companies to win upcoming opportunities with NASA, the Department of Defense, Commercial and other national space partners.

Through focused discussions, panels, presentations, and cross-sector engagement, participants will identify roadblocks, evaluate opportunities, align strengths across industry and academia, and explore pathways to accelerate technology readiness and operational capability. The Colorado Lunar Forum fosters a shared vision for how our state can lead in spacecraft development, cislunar operations, lunar surface systems, science payloads, and mission services—ensuring Colorado remains at the forefront of America’s space exploration priorities.

Purpose-driven, collaborative, and forward-leaning, the CSBR Colorado Lunar Forum is where Colorado builds its roadmap for leadership on and around the Moon.

CSBR Members $50
Non-Members $75

CSBR Colorado Lunar Forum Agenda

8:00 AM
Check-in, Registration, and Networking Breakfast
9:00 – 9:10 AM
Welcome
Debra Wilcox, Chair Colorado Space Business Roundtable (CSBR)
9:10 – 9:30 AM
Setting the Stage for the Day
Bob Cone, CSBR Strategic Partnerships
9:30 – 10:30 AM
Dual Keynotes Why the Moon, Why Colorado?
  • The Artemis Roadmap –Rob Chambers, Lockheed Martin Space
  • The Small Innovative Pathfinders – Brad Cheetham, Advanced Space
10:30-11:00 AM
Networking Break
11:00 11:30 AM:
Five Fast Company Highlights
  • Volta Space
  • Origami
  • Ursa Major
  • Colorado Air & Space Port
  • GALXYZ LLC
11:30 11:40 AM:
Lunch Pause to get lunch items and return to seat
11:40 AM – 12:10 PM
Rockies on the Regolith: Brainstorming Colorado Lunar Collaboration Facilitator
Lee Steinke, CisLunar Industries
12:10 – 12:40 PM:
Five More Fast Company Highlights
  • Cislunar Industries
  • RockyTech
  • Space Lab
  • Rendezvous Robotics
  • Opertus
12:45 – 2:00 PM
Colorado Competitiveness
Moderator Dr. Angel Abbud Madrid
Panelists:
  • Parker White, Director, Colorado Competitive Council
  • Rachel Beck, Executive Director, Colorado Chamber Foundation
  • Daniel Faber, CEO, Orbit Fab
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Presentation – Colorado Workforce Initiatives
Tom Coakley & Grace Crain Wright, Colorado Space Institute at Arapahoe Community College
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Presentation – CO-LABS Resources in our Backyard
Dan Powers, CO-LABS
3:00 – 3:30 PM
Refreshment Networking Break
3:30 – 4:15 PM
Panel – Putting todays topics into Action
Grace Crain Wright
4:15 – 4:30 PM
Closing Remarks & Takeaways
Bob Cone
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Onsite Happy Hour – All