The Moon: Gateway to the Solar System

Join us for the first of two Richard Campbell presentations all about the future on Monday and BC.NET at BCIT on Wednesday. Register for both, you won't regret it: https://www.meetup.com/NET-User-Group-of-BC/events/266450143/

In 1972, the last human to walk on the Moon headed back to Earth. Is it time to go back? Join Richard Campbell as he explores the potential of a return of humans to the Moon. Much has been learned about the Moon since the Apollo missions, and interest in the Moon as a place of science, exploration and learning is growing. Even today there are new spacecraft and new science being done on and around the Moon. The Moon can be a catalyst to humankind traveling the solar system - it's time to go back!

Speaker: Richard Campbell

Richard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry both on the hardware and software sides, development and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013 and was on the board of directors of Telerik which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today he is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms and is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org (http://www.htbox.org/)), a public charity that builds open source software for disaster relief. Richard is also the host of two podcasts: .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com (http://www.dotnetrocks.com/)) which publishes three shows a week to .NET developers and RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com (http://www.runasradio.com/)) which is a weekly show for IT Professionals. You can reach Richard at richard@pwop.com.