The Next Frontier: Introduction to the Philippine Space Agency

AmCham Philippines

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Event Details

The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Infrastructure and Logistics (IL) committees of the Chamber are conducting a session entitled: "The Next Frontier: Introduction to the Philippine Space Agency" on the 12th of October from 2:00 - 3:30 PM with Philippine Space Agency Director General, Dr. Joel Joseph Marciano, Jr.

Members

Two (2) complimentary passes.

Use this ticket if your company is a member of AmCham Philippines or if you are a member's proxy.

Register here

(you can email jeanne@amchamphilippines.com if you are unsure if complimentary passes are available for your organization)

Additional Members

Member companies may send additional representatives to our events, at the cost of ₱300 per head.

Standard Price: ₱300 + 10% | $7.00
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Standard Price₱300

Standard Price$7

Non-Members

For non-member company representatives.

Standard Price: ₱1,000 + 10% | $22.00
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Standard Price₱1,000

Standard Price$22

Speaker

Dr. Joel Joseph Marciano Jr., PhD

Director General of Philippine Space Agency

Dr. Marciano obtained his BS in Electrical Engineering from UPD and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He was a JSPS Fellow at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 2003; and the UP-Dado Banatao Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) in the University of California Berkeley and at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in 2004 and 2005, respectively. In 2007 and 2009, he was a Visiting Associate Research Scientist at UCSD. He served as the Director of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute (EEEI) of UP Diliman from 2009-2015 and the Interim Director of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Development (IIID) of the Philippines-California Advanced Research Institutes (PCARI) under the Philippines’ Commission on Higher Education (CHED) from 2013-2016. He has over 25 years of experience leading and managing research & development and operations in specialized areas of wireless communications (software-defined and cognitive radio technology, RFID, MIMO, etc), radiofrequency spectrum management and policy, rural connectivity, emergency response communications, sensor networks, and scientific earth observation microsatellites. As the Program Leader of the PHL-Microsat and STAMINA4Space programs from 2014-2020, he led a team in developing and operating the country’s first scientific earth observation microsatellites, Diwata-1 and Diwata-2, the Maya nanosatellites, and at least 10 more small satellites in various stages of development. These initiatives also include ground station and mission control operations, data archiving and distribution, remote sensing and artificial intelligence processing on geospatial data, academic program development, the establishment of local research and testing facilities in small satellites, and local industry engagement in space technology.

Dr. Marciano is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers of Japan (IEICE), and the ASEAN Engineers. He has received several recognitions for his teaching, research, and public service, including the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Teacher in UP Diliman, the Most Outstanding Electronics Engineer in the field of Education from the Institute of Electronics Engineers of the Philippines (IECEP), the 50 Men and Women of Science from the DOST, the 100 Outstanding Alumni Engineers from the UP Alumni Engineers (UPAE), the 2015 Manila Water Foundation Prize for Engineering Excellence, the 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award in Science and Technology from the University of the Philippines Alumni Association (UPAA) and Regional Winner in the 2019 Dangal ng Bayan Awards of the Civil Service Commission.