Alex Fielding is a leader and entrepreneur in the space and robotics industries, with over 25 years of experience in engineering, management, and innovation. He is the CEO and Chairman of Privateer Space and Orbital Insight; the leading privately traded geospatial intelligence platform company. He is also the Founder and Director of Ripcord, a company that uses vision guided industrial robots for digitization and cloud-based access.Alex has a proven track record of creating and scaling successful companies, products, and technologies that have a positive impact on the world. He co-founded GPS company Wheels of Zeus with Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak, which was sold in 2006. He was CTO at Power Assure and VP at Vigilent before starting Ripcord while a contractor at NASA. He is an advisor to Astra Space, a company that is reshaping how the space industry works with smaller and more frequent launches. He holds multiple patents in the fields of robotics, document management, and cloud computing. He is a founding member of Singularity University and an active contributor to the IETF. He is passionate about advancing the frontiers of science, technology, and education for the benefit of humanity.