Space Week Kickoff Breakfast: Hiring for the Next Frontier

As space and deep tech companies move from research, product development, and early traction into real growth, hiring becomes mission-critical. The conversation shifts from “who can help us build this?” to “how do we scale the team, preserve the culture, and bring in the people who can help us execute?” This breakfast is designed to create a warm, useful start to the week with networking, founder/operator conversation, and a panel-style discussion around the people side of scaling space and deep tech companies. We’ll bring together founders, operators, technical leaders, and hiring decision-makers for a conversation around: How fast-growing space companies think about hiring What changes as teams move from early build mode into scale How founders decide when to bring in specialists versus generalists What leadership and culture challenges emerge during rapid growth How the broader Seattle ecosystem can support companies building in space, deep tech, and emerging technology The goal is to create a useful morning gathering that brings the right people into the room, starts the week with momentum, and gives founders and hiring leaders a practical conversation around team-building and growth. Event Format 9:00–9:30 AM: Arrival, breakfast, and networking9:30–10:30 AM: Space-growth and hiring panel10:30–11:00 AM: Networking and follow-up conversations Who Should Attend This event is designed for founders, operators, hiring leaders, technical leaders, and ecosystem partners working across space, aerospace, deep tech, frontier technology, and related innovation sectors. It is especially relevant for companies that are growing, hiring, planning to hire, or thinking seriously about how to build stronger teams as they scale. About MeeBoss MeeBoss is a match-and-chat hiring platform built to make hiring faster, more direct, and more human. We help companies connect directly with job seekers through real conversations, creating a more transparent way for teams and candidates to meet. For Seattle Space Week, MeeBoss is helping bring together the companies and communities building the future and supporting the hiring conversations that help them grow. About Space Northwest Space Northwest supports and connects the regional space ecosystem across founders, companies, researchers, operators, and community leaders. Together, we’re creating a kickoff breakfast designed to bring the right people into the room and start Seattle Space Week with useful conversations, meaningful connections, and momentum. About Actuate Ventures Actuate Ventures works with founders and companies building across the frontier of innovation. As part of this breakfast, Actuate Ventures helps bring an investor and ecosystem lens to the conversation around how space, deep tech, and emerging technology companies grow from early momentum into scalable teams. By attending this event, I consent for the hosts and its affiliates to use my name, image, and likeness in any marketing related to the event.  This consent includes, without limitation, an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, fully-paid, royalty-free, sub-licensable, non-transferable license to use any photographs or video recording on me taken while in attendance at the event. I also consent to receiving emails from the event hosts.