About the Organizers

about
the organizers

The organizing team of the Space and Defense Innovation Showcase and VIP Reception 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 event management, communications, and marketing firm serving the aerospace and defense community. Our industry expertise enables us to go beyond traditional planning and execution services, bringing the right people, message, and brand experience together, helping aerospace and defense leaders solve problems and achieve their goals, and ensuring they excel at their business of changing the world.

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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