Carolyn Porco
From Saturn to the boardroom, Carolyn Porco inspires leaders to see beyond limits, blending space discovery with strategic foresight and innovation.
Why you should book Carolyn Porco for your next event
- As an award-winning scientist and celebrated TED speaker, she bridges the gap between cosmic exploration and organizational excellence with clarity and inspiration.
- Named among TIME’s 25 Most Influential in Space, she brings unmatched credibility and passion to every stage she steps on.
- As the leader of NASA’s Cassini imaging team, she reveals leadership lessons born from one of humanity’s most ambitious space missions.
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Exploring the Unknown: Lessons in Vision & Discovery
Renowned planetary scientist and Cassini mission leader, Carolyn Porco transforms cosmic discovery into actionable insight. Drawing on decades of NASA experience, she inspires organizations to embrace innovation, visionary leadership, and bold exploration. Her captivating keynotes reveal how curiosity and data-driven thinking can propel teams to achieve extraordinary breakthroughs.
Keynote Speaker Carolyn Porco is a world-renowned planetary scientist, space exploration visionary, and inspiring communicator celebrated for her groundbreaking leadership on NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn.
With a career spanning over four decades, she has played pivotal roles in the Voyager and New Horizons missions, contributing to humanity’s understanding of the outer solar system and shaping the future of planetary science. Recognized by TIME as one of the 25 Most Influential People in Space and awarded the Carl Sagan Medal for science communication, Carolyn’s impact extends far beyond the scientific community.
In her captivating keynotes, Carolyn bridges the vastness of space with the challenges of innovation, leadership, and resilience that organizations face today. She draws on lessons from leading global teams through complex, high-stakes missions to reveal how curiosity, collaboration, and visionary thinking drive extraordinary results. Her talks inspire business leaders to explore new perspectives, embrace uncertainty, and cultivate a culture of discovery and progress.
Whether addressing innovation, the power of perspective, or the importance of bold exploration, Carolyn engages audiences with passion, intelligence, and a rare ability to make the cosmos deeply relevant to human ambition.
Book Carolyn Porco for your event to empower your organization with insights from one of the most influential figures in modern science and inspire your teams to think beyond boundaries and reach for the stars.
Keynotes
Keynote by Carolyn Porco:
A Decade at Saturn
Carolyn gives the audience a sweeping tour through the Saturn system and all that Cassini has found there since its arrival in the summer of 2004, with a finale that brings into sharp focus the significance of humanity's interplanetary explorations.
Keynote by Carolyn Porco:
Promise of Enceladus
In this presentation, Carolyn focuses on the most startling and profound discovery made by Cassini at Saturn: the geysering, anomalously warm south polar terrain of the small, icy moon, Enceladus, and the conclusions drawn from these findings. A sea of salty liquid water, rich in organics, lies beneath the south pole of Enceladus, making this moon home to the most accessible extraterrestrial habitable zone in our solar system.
Keynote by Carolyn Porco:
Life and the Cosmos: The Greatest Story Ever Told
In this keynote Carolyn gives her take on the long-standing conflict between science and religion, weaving into her tale the perspective gained from post-Galilean scientific exploration of life and the cosmos.
Carolyn Porco: Is There Life in the Solar System?
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Flies us to Saturn by speaker Carolyn Porco
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