CEO Global Briefing

Sponsored byFulton Bank and Hill Wallack, LLP.

Featured Speaker Derrick Pitts

Chief Astronomer and Planetarium Director at the Franklin Institute.

Thursday, June 21, noon

The Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm, 5281 York Rd, Holicong, PA 18928. 

Derrick has served as a NASA Solar System Ambassador since 2009 and is the “Astrobiology Ambassador” for the NASA/MIRS/UNCF Special Program Corporation’s Astrobiology Partnership Program. One of his newest honors is an appointment to the outreach advisory board for the world’s largest telescope, the new Thirty-Meter-Telescope at Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

He appears regularly in the media as a science content expert including appearances on the “Colbert Report” on Comedy Central and “The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson” on CBS. For more than two decades, Derrick has hosted award-winning astronomy radio programs for Philadelphia’s two public radio stations and created signature astronomy television programming for PBS.

Derrick has received numerous awards including an honorary Doctor of Science Degree from La Salle University. He serves on the Board of Trustees for his alma mater St. Lawrence University. His twitter handle is @CoolAstronomer and his motto is “Eat, breathe, do science. Sleep later.”

$85 a person.

Space is quite limited.  RSVP by end of day, Monday, June 18, 2018