Name: Silicon Valley Space Week 2026
Start: 2026-10-27T00:00:00Z
End: 2026-10-29T00:00:00Z

Silicon Valley Space Week 2026

Affiliated Programs

Tuesday, October 27, 2026 - Thursday, October 29, 2026

Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA

Event Information

Wilson Sonsini is proud to sponsor Silicon Valley Space Week 2026, a premier gathering for the global space industry, bringing together leaders from commercial markets, defense, and government.

Wilson Sonsini Senior Of Counsel Curt Blake will be participating in the panel “Launch Isn’t Settled: Scarcity, Queues, and the 2029 Gap.” Demand outstrips supply, prices are rising across dedicated and rideshare, and analysts project a capacity rough spot in 2029 and 2030. The session will cover vehicle showcase to allocation economics: who gets a manifest slot through 2028 and what an anchor-tenant orbital-compute buyer does to everyone else’s queue.

The panel will take place on October 27 from 4:15 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Panelists include:

Curt Blake, Senior Of Counsel, Wilson Sonsini
Nishant Choksi, Director Commercial & International Sales, Blue Origin
Michael Creech, VP, Strategy & Business Development, Firefly Aerospace
Evan Hoyt, President, SEOPS
Clint Hunt, Senior Director, Government Operations, United Launch Alliance
Devon Papandrew, VP, Business Development, Stoke Space

Contacts

Rebecca Poizner

rpoizner@wsgr.com

Presenters

Curt Blake

Senior Of Counsel

Seattle

Curt Blake is Senior Of Counsel in the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is a member of the corporate practice. Curt is an attorney and senior executive with more than 25 years of experience leading organizations in high-growth industries—and over 10 years as CEO of Spaceflight, Inc.—at the forefront of the NewSpace revolution. He has extensive expertise in strategic planning, financial analysis, legal strategy, M&A, and space commercialization, with deep knowledge about the unique challenges of NewSpace growth and the roadmap to success in the that ecosystem. He has forged relationships with key commercial, civilian, and defense-related customers. Milestones include opening the Indian PSLV to U.S. commercial customers, the first dedicated rideshare Falcon 9 launch vehicle mission deploying a then-record 64 satellites, and launching the first non-governmental mission to the moon (SpaceIL), as well as developing, launching, and orbiting several flavors of Sherpa, the Spaceflight OTV.