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Jay Velasco Bsc has been a noteworthy cross-lateral thinker and innovator for over ten years across different industries and emerging technology spaces, from medicine and aerospace to AI and blockchain. As a seasoned jack-of-all-trades, he is passionate about advancing innovative solutions in health, space, and social impact. Previously, as Head of Marketing at Kinestry, an innovation studio based in Los Angeles, he led emerging technology education and awareness for business cases for brands like Renault, Vans, Crocs, and Philips, to name a few. Recently, he co-managed AI LA’s Fourth Annual Life Summit 2022 in collaboration with the NIH and RTI International. Jay has also co-authored and contributed to six published research papers in aerospace, medicine, and simulation training with the International Aeronautical Congress, IAC, in 2018, 2019, and 2022. Jay was an original member of AvatarMEDIC, INC, a frontier technology company developing real-time, remote medical relief for austere extreme environments and Space exploration. AvatarMEDIC was selected as a semi-finalist team into the US$10 Million ANA AVATAR XPRIZE competition. Jay is a veteran analog astronaut and join as a crew member with MAU Crew 1114 – Mars Medics mission in the inaugural first Space Medics Training mission under MMAARS (formerly Mars Academy USA, MAU) in 2016 and later selected as Crew Commander leading his own mission in Mojave Desert in California. In 2015, he was an executive team member supporting the integration of MMAARS analog astronaut training into Singularity University’s Executive Program at their location near NASA Research Park in Palto Alto, San Francisco.
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