ASCEND unites industry, government, academia, and emerging leaders to deliver clarity, alignment, and impact. This year's conference will cover a broad range of topics spanning space science and exploration, technology development and utilization, space economy, national security, and policy and law.
Members of Draper's Space Systems team will be in attendance.
The MPS World Summit is the premier international conference focused on advancing microphysiological systems (MPS) — including organ-on-a-chip and organoid technologies — to emulate human biology for drug development and safety testing. The 2026 summit will highlight advancements in 3D tissue models and non-animal alternatives.
Draper is a Gold Sponsor of the 2026 MPS World Summit.
Draper's Jeff Borenstein will deliver an invited talk, Development and Demonstration of a Robust and Reproducible Multiplexed Model of Respiratory Infectious Diseases with Real-Time Sensing, on May 29th at 11 am (Session 4.7).
Christine Fisher will deliver a contributing talk, Development of high throughput, instrumented human MPS for high and maximum containment, on May 29th at 9 am (Session 2.6).
Five members of Draper's Biotechnology Systems team will also present recent research results during the poster sessions on Wednesday and Thursday morning.
The SMD Symposium is the leading educational, professional development and networking event in the space and missile defense community. The symposium is widely attended by leaders and professionals from the United States and our allies around the world.
Members of Draper's Strategic Systems team will be in attendance.
The NDIA Emerging Technologies Conference provides a unique forum for exploration of the new emerging technologies that will shape national security for the next century. The conference programming focuses on the Department of Defense’s highest priority joint mission areas and highlights emerging technologies that are shaping the future of national defense.
Members of Draper's strategy and engineering teams will be in attendance.