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A globally recognized leader in Global Navigation Satellite Systems and high-latitude space environment characterization, Susan has spent her career building the technology and policy infrastructure that protects space-dependent operations. She has led national programs in GNSS technology for commercial aviation, maritime navigation, and spaceborne applications, including the GPS payload for the CanX-2 satellite mission.

Inducted as a Fellow of the Institute of Navigation in 2024 for sustained contributions to positioning, navigation, and timing, Susan served 27 years as a MARS officer in the Royal Canadian Navy (Reserves) alongside her academic career at the University of Calgary.

A space physicist holding the Canada Research Chair in Geospace Dynamics and Space Plasma Physics, Emma has spent more than two decades building the instruments and data systems behind the University of Calgary's auroral and space weather observation network. Her work with ground-based riometers, all-sky imagers, and field-deployed sensor platforms underpins one of the world's most extensive geospace monitoring arrays.

Emma co-leads Space Defence Technologies Alberta and leads the GDC-Ground project, a Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) initiative building the Canadian ground-based instrument array that complements NASA's Geospace Dynamics Constellation mission. She is also a graduate of the Royal Canadian Navy's Canadian Leaders at Sea program (CLaS).

Senior software architect who designs and builds the data infrastructure behind Sanari's space weather operations — from sensor ingestion pipelines handling billions of observations to the real-time APIs and dashboards used by operators and researchers across the globe.

With deep expertise in scalable data systems, remote instrument operations, applied machine learning for auroral imagery, and scientific software, Darren leads the effort to turn raw instrument output into Sanari's operational intelligence products. He specializes in research-to-operations (R2O) — maturing experimental science into hardened, continuously available systems.