Speakers at the upcoming Sol Foundation Symposium include a Deputy Director from Lockheed Martin (!), a Japanese Member of Parliament, retired SASC staff member, and more…

The Sol Foundation is holding [its second, 2024 symposium on November 22-23](https://thesolfoundation.org/event/sols-2024-symposium/) in San Francisco, covering a wide array of perspectives on UAP in a serious and good-faith context.

The full list of speakers:

* **Yoshiharu Asakawa**, General Secretary of the UAP Caucus, Parliament of Japan
* **Dr. Eric Davis,** theoretical and applied physicist, Earthtech, formerly the Aerospace Corporation
* **Dr. Stephen Finley,** Chair of African and African American Studies, Louisiana State University
* **Rear Admiral (ret.) Dr. Tim Gallaudet,** former administrator, National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration
* **Ryan Graves,** Executive Director, Americans for Safe Aerospace
* **Leslie Kean,** journalist and author, *UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record*
* **Kirk McConnell,** staff member (retired), Senate Armed Services Committee
* **Eric Shrock**, former Deputy Director, Technology Development and Integration, Lockheed Martin **Dr.**
* **Jacques Vallée,** computer scientist and author, *Passport to Magonia* and *The Invisible College*
* **Dr. Beatriz Villarroel,** astronomer, the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) Project
* **Rizwan Virk,** entrepreneur and investor, founder of Play Labs at MIT, and author of *Startup Myths and Models* and *The Simulation Hypothesis*
* **Dr. Alexander Wendt,** Mershon Professor of International Security and Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University