Founders Conference

The new Third Millennium global virtual research institute, dedicated to the ideas and vision of Sir Arthur C. Clarke, was launched on February 5, 2000 with an all day Founders' Conference. This immediately followed the Satellite 2000 Conference, where Prof. Joe Pelton delivered the Arthur C. Clarke lecture. The Founders' Conference was held at INTELSAT headquarters in Washington, D.C., with nearly 100 persons attending. The agenda was full, and we received the thoughts and expressions of well-wishers, contributed electronically, from around the world--including comments from Sir Arthur himself on tape from his home in Sri Lanka.

You can read the text of Sir Arthur's remarks to the conference here .

Walter Cronkite provided additional video greetings.

Written greetings were presented from: The Clarke Foundation of the U.K., Communications Research Centre of Canada, Communications Research Lab of Japan, Canadian Space Agency, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Japan-US Telecommunications Research Institute, Japan U.S. Science, Technology and Space Applications Program, Sidney Topol, and the University of Surrey.

There were remarks and keynote addresses from many leading people in the field including:

Joe Pelton, Acting Director of CITI
Keynote by Dan Goldin, NASA Administrator (Presented by Dr. Sam Venerri, NASA Chief Scientist)
Welcome by INTELSAT (Remarks of Conny Kullman, Director General)
Video Message from Walter Cronkite
John McLucas, Burton Edelson and Joe Pelton-The Organization and Current Plans for CITI and ACCFUS
David Thompson, Chairman and CEO, Orbital Sciences Corporation
Noah Samara, President and CEO of Worldspace
John Eger, Chairman, International Communications Center, San Diego State University, and Chairman of JUSTRI
Conny Kullman, Director General of INTELSAT and CITI host and Corporate Founding Patron
Prof. Joe Pelton (Acting Director of CITI) , David Thompson (Chairman and CEO, Orbital Sciences Corporation), Dr. Sam Venerri (NASA Chief Scientist), John Eger (Chairman, International Communications Center, San Diego State University, and Chairman of JUSTRI) , Noah Samara (President and CEO of Worldspace), John McLucas (Chairman of ACFUS), and Scott Chase (V. P. of Phillips Publishing)

All digital photography courtesy of Scott Madry and Peter Knight

Arthur C. Clarke Foundation of the U.S. (ACCFUS) Board

Burt Edelson (Patron)
Tim Logue (Secretary/Treasurer) (Friend and Supporter)
John McLucas (Chairman) (Patron)
Peter Marshall (Friend and Supporter)
Tedson Meyers (Executive Director) (Patron)
Joseph Pelton (Vice Chairman and Acting Director, CITI) (Patron)
Walda Roseman (Patron)
Fred Durant, ACCFUS Executive Director Emertus (Patron)

ACCFUS/CITI Staff

Janet Tingley, Press Officer
Susan Brott, Media
Houng Le
Elaine Schenberg
Suzanne Rabil
Gail Yamazaki

Arthur C. Clarke Foundation of the United Kingdom

Brian Thomas, Director
Peter Marshall, Advisory Board Member (Friend and Supporter)

ASTRA-SES

Dean Olmstead, V.P. (Patron)
Edward Ashford

Barber-Scotia College

Raynald Brouard

Communication Research Centre of Canada

Jack Rigley

Communications Research Laboratory of Japan

Takashi Iida, Director General

Communications Satellite Corporation

Jack Oslund

Center for Innovative Technologies

Nitin Pradhan
Jean Woods

Consultaire Technology Group

William W. Wu (Friend and Supporter)

CNES (National Center for Study of Space, France)

Vincent Sabathier

Discover How-To, Inc.

Neil Helm (Patron)

Dutchik Communications

Richard Dutchik (Patron)

ESATEL

Louis Bransford (Patron)

FUTUREWAVE

Mark Tigerman (Friend and Supporter)

GE Americom

Sunita Bali (Friend and Supporter)

GLOSAS, Global Systems Analysis and Simulation Association/Global University System (GUS)

Tak Utsumi, President
Ihor Katernyak, Director of Development, Ukraine Development Program
Uri Bar-Zemer
Lane Smith, US AID

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (GWU)

Paul Caffrey , Producer, GW Television
Ted Christensen, Vice President, GW Television
Peter Combes, Multi-Media Systems, GW Television
Henry Hertzfeld, Space Policy Institute

Hampshire College (Corporate Sponsor)

Gregory S. Prince, President (Friend and Supporter
Roy K. Bunce, Director of Development
Steven Weisler, Dean, Computer and Information Sciences

Hughes Network Systems International

Andrew Werth, President (Patron)

Hughes Space and Communications Company

Rienhard Schnabel, Vice President, Stuttgart, Germany

INTELSAT (Corporate Patron)

Len Dooley
Angela Kummel
Rosa Liu
Vishnu Sahay
Rodica Samata
Edward Stoner
Tony Trujillo

Informatics International, Inc.

Scott Madry, President (Friend and Supporter)

Irwin Communications

Susan Irwin

ITT Industries, Advanced Engineering and Systems (formerly STEL)

Louis Ippolito, Chief Scientist
Frank Loch, President

JUSTRI, Japan US Telecommunications Research Institute

John Eger, Chairman
Brian White, Director

JUSTSAP, Japan US Science, Technology and Space Applications Program

Sen. Matt Matsunaga, Chairman
Burt Edelson, Board Member (Patron)

Knight-Moore Telematics for Education and Development
Communications Development Incorporated

Peter Knight

L-3 Corporation

William Laziza

Lockheed Martin Global Telecom (Corporate Sponsor)

Kim Degnan (Patron)
Peter Kujawski
Pat Cooper

McGill University

Prof. Ram Jakhu

Mac Tan Inc.

Ronald Macallister

Metropolitan Microwave Corp

Arlene Krebs
John Zelenka, President

National Association of Broadcasters

Marcia DeSonne

NASA

Bob Spearing
Rudy Naranjo
Sam Venneri, Chief Scientist
Ramon DePaula
Omar Spaulding
Orlando Figueroa
Richard Barnes (Retired NASA) (Friend and Supporter)

National Technological University

Lionel Baldwin, President

NEC (Nippon Electric Corporation)

Tadahiro Sekimoto, Senior Board Member (Patron)

NORTHERN STAR USCX

Kenneth Manning, President (Patron)

Orbital Sciences

Joseph Bravman, Chief Scientist
David Thompson, President

PAHO (Pan-American Health Organization)

Roberto Rodriguez

Phillips Publishing (Corporate Sponsor)

Scott Chase, Vice President

San Diego State University

John Eger, Chairman, International Communications Center

Satlink Communications Inc.

Amit Maitra, President (Patron)

SELF (Solar Electric Light Fund)

Robert Freling, Director

SMITHSONIAN DOCENTS

Charles Phillips

Society of Satellite Professionals

Conny Beck

Space Systems Loral

Robert Berry (Patron)
Dennis Curtin

Synectics, Inc.

Jim Miller

TASC

Matt Redling (Friend and Supporter)
Pat Talty

Teleport Consulting Group

Stephen Tom

Trex Communications (Corporate Sponsor)

Ashok Rao, President
A.J. Rao

UNESCO

Frank Method

Unisat Satellite Technology Group

Uri Bar-Zemer

University of Surrey

Martin Sweeting, Director of the Space Technology Centre

VITA

Gary Garriott
Henry Norman, President

WORLD BANK

Rafael Hernandez

Worldspace (Corporate Sponsor)

D.K. Sachdev, Chief Engineer
Noah Samara, President
Eugene Reich

INDIVIDUAL PATRONS

Joseph Charyk, Retired President of the Comsat Corporation (Patron)
John Puente (Patron)
Marcia Smith (Patron)
Sidney Topol, The Topol Group (Patron)

NEWS MEDIA

Phillips Publishing (Now PBI Media)

Susan Stuelpner
Justine Wood
Nicholas Mitsis
Dave Bross

Space.Com

Leonard David

International Space Business Council

Scott Sacknoff

Space Data Resources and Information

Barbara Sprungman

Space News

Marsha Christoff Kurop
Stu Magnuson
Sam Silverstein
Tom Wiseman

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