Stephanie Wan
Stephanie Wan
Methuselah Foundation Strategic Partnerships Advisor, Deep Space Food Challenge
Stephanie has 15 years of experience specialising in space policy and strategy, with a focus on international and interagency coordination, facilitating dialogues and government priorities and projects. She spent most of her time based in Washington DC, supporting US government agencies such as NASA, US State Department, and Dept. of Commerce, on a variety of issues such as Positioning, Navigation, and Timing, Commercial Space/NewSpace Industry Engagement, and STEM workforce planning. As a space foodie, she supports the Methuselah Foundation on the NASA Deep Space Food Challenge.
She also leads KPMG Australia's Space Industry Practice in Adelaide, working with businesses to help them grow and governments on their space initiatives. In her free time, she also helps to grow the space network for women locally and nationally in Australia, and underrepresented communities through the Zed Factor Fellowship Program.
She also leads KPMG Australia's Space Industry Practice in Adelaide, working with businesses to help them grow and governments on their space initiatives. In her free time, she also helps to grow the space network for women locally and nationally in Australia, and underrepresented communities through the Zed Factor Fellowship Program.
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Redesigning Our Food Systems for Space and a Healthy Planet
THU, OCT 19, 10:00 AM
Conference
With the increasing challenges of climate change and food security on Earth, it may be difficult to understand why we should devote so many of our limited resources to space travel and feeding astronauts. However, the innovations in space technology have tremendous value with terrestrial applications in how we can create resilient solutions with innovative food systems that can directly tackle food insecurity, and provide the necessary nutrition in areas of natural disaster or food deserts.
Our panel of experts will explore how innovations designed for space and new developments in alternative proteins can create a regenerative, circular agriculture system suitable for deep space travel, and also to support a healthy and biodiverse ecosystem here on earth.
