about
the organizers
The organizing team of the Space and Defense Innovation Showcase and VIP Reception at SXSW includes Foundation for the Future and Distinctive Edge Partners, whose founder has organized numerous private dinners, events, and VIP parties around SXSW, including last year’s Space and Defense Innovation VIP Reception.
Event Organizers
Distinctive Edge Partners is a full-service communications and marketing firm. We pair deep aerospace and defense communications expertise with creative and digital strategies to help clients build and maximize value, improve operations and turn risks and threats into opportunities. We are connectors that thrive on bringing the right people together to create opportunity and maximize ROI for our clients.
The Foundation for the Future is an education and advocacy non-profit dedicated to advancing the space economy by developing critical infrastructure to enable it, investment tools to finance it, and a workforce to power it.
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