How to Build a Space-Ready Team
Tue 08 Sept
|Online
Space and deep-tech companies can have the opportunity, the technology, and a genuine route to growth, then stall because they cannot build the team needed to deliver it.
Time & Location
08 Sept 2026, 19:00 – 20:30
Online
About the event
The specialist they need may be difficult to find or afford. The role may require a combination of skills and sector experience that very few people already have. At the same time, people with strong adjacent skills may have no structured route into the company, while smaller organisations rarely have the time or internal infrastructure to build that pathway alone.
In this 90-minute live conversation, Greg Mekkes and Ruta Kuisyte will explore a different approach to workforce development.
Greg co-founded AiTHENA, Artificial-intelligence Training and Hands-on Experience at NASA. The initiative brought emerging AI and machine learning capability into technical work alongside experienced domain specialists. What began with six participants expanded across multiple NASA centres, helping increase productivity, reduce project timelines, and prepare the workforce for future challenges.
Greg and Ruta will discuss what that looked like in practice, how the model was structured, what each party contributed, and which principles…