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The Future of High Speed Transportation
Summary
Anita Sengupta discusses how space-age tech is revolutionizing green transportation from suborbital rocket flights, to electric airplanes, to space travel on the ground with the hyperloop.
Bio
Anita Sengupta is an aerospace engineer, rocket scientist, pilot, and veteran of the space program. She worked for NASA for 16 years where her engineering projects included her Ph.D. research on developing the ion propulsion system for the Dawn Mission (currently in the main asteroid belt), the supersonic parachute that landed the Curiosity rover on Mars, and the Cold Atom Laboratory (ISS).
About the conference
Agile India is Asia's Largest & Premier International Conference on Leading Edge Software Development Methods. Agile India is organized by Agile Software Community of India, a non-profit registered society founded in 2004 with a vision to evangelize new, better ways of building products that delights the users. Over the last 15 years, we've organized 58 conferences across 13 cities in India. We've hosted 1,100+ speakers from 38 countries, who have delivered 1,350+ sessions to 11,500+ attendees. We continue to be a non-profit, volunteer-run community conference.