Join NMTC for our Tech Update on Friday, June 15 and learn more about the technology industry in New Mexico from John Mierzwa, NMTC Board Member & CEO and Cofounder of Ingenuity Software Labs. Guest speaker M. Brian Barnett, B.S., M.A.S., Founder & CEO Solstar Space Co. will speak about the success of Solstar's recent Tweet from Space.
Agenda:
12:45: Networking
1:00pm: Introduction from Auri Vigil, Marketing and Event Coordinator, NMTC
1:10: Opening Speaker: John Mierzwa, NMTC Board Member & CEO and Cofounder of Ingenuity Software Labs
1:30:Guests Speaker: M. Brian Barnett, B.S., M.A.S., Founder & CEO of Solstar Space Co.
1:50: Q&A
About The Speakers
John Mierzwa
NMTC Board Member &
CEO / Cofounder at Ingenuity Software Labs
John Mierzwa is CEO & Cofounder of Ingenuity Software Labs. He is the Founder of Deep Dive Coding Bootcamps, a software development bootcamp in Albuquerque, acquired in 2014 by Central New Mexico Community College. John is also leading the DART effort to promote New Mexico as the best value in the U.S. for software development. John was Director at the CNM STEMulus Center in Downtown Albuquerque from inception. He helped forge partnerships with businesses, government agencies and foundations to build opportunities for low-income residents, people of color and others to learn to code.
Previously, John was VP of Sales & Operations for a $218M revenue company in Las Vegas, and founder of a language services company. He serves on the boards of Technology Leadership High School, Future Focused Education, and the New Mexico Technology Council. John holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management. He enjoys hiking, golf, travel, food, dogs, reading, helping startups, and spending time with family and friends
Brian Barnett, B.S., M.A.S.
Founder & CEO of Solstar Space Co.
M. Brian Barnett is a serial entrepreneur with 30 years’ experience at NASA, KPMG, and in the commercial space industry. He is Founder and CEO of Solstar Space Co., the first internet service provider for people, things, and machines in space. Mr. Barnett began his career at NASA where he provided Space Shuttle payload integration services and astronaut crew training for Spacelab missions. Later, as a management consultant for KPMG’s Space and High Technology group, he wrote dozens of business plans and market assessments for space and high tech companies. This is the group that very early and accurately, predicted that GPS applications would grow into the huge market it is today. Barnett wrote the initial business plan for the spaceport that eventually became Spaceport America, Virgin Galactic’s home spaceport. He began launching payloads out of Spaceport America beginning in 2011. On April 29th, 2018, Solstar demonstrated the first commercial wi-fi service in space and Tweet from space aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, using Barnett’s patent-pending technology. He earned a B.S. in microbiology from the University of Oklahoma, a Masters in Administrative Science from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and is a graduate of the International Space University.
Solstar Space is his third New Mexico-based start-up. His first two start-ups were ranked as two of New Mexico’s fastest growing companies by the Albuquerque Journal and New Mexico Business Weekly.
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