Exploring Space: The Farthest

Join us for a private screening of The Farthest, followed by a conversation with award-winning filmmaker Emer Reynolds and technology leaders to discuss insights and discoveries from the exploration of space, investments in innovation, and advancements in technologies that push the boundaries of what's possible and how far humanity can go.

The event also kicks off the week of the NASA Space Apps Challenge New York, a 48-hour hackathon on April 29 to April 30, with participants coding apps to help save the planet as well as to help NASA do greater work. Everyone interested in participating in NASA Space Apps NYC must RSVP to this event and should come earlier at 5:30 p.m. to meet the Space Apps team and have a chance to speak to former NASA Chief Technology Officer Deborah Diaz.

Attendance is complimentary and by invitation only to the NYIT community and select communities. Seats are limited.

R.S.V.P. by Tuesday, April 25, at noon

Speakers and Special Guests

• Emer Reynolds – award-winning filmmaker and director; winner of Audience Award, Audi Dublin International Film Festival
  
• Nada Anid, Ph.D. – Dean, NYIT School of Engineering and Computing Sciences
  
• Deborah Diaz – Former Chief Technology Officer, NASA
• Joseph Spens – Team Leader, Space Apps Challenge New York
  
• Analisa Balares – CEO and Chief Innovation Officer, Womensphere Foundation and New Champions Womensphere Incubator Network

It is one of humankind's greatest achievements. More than 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our solar system and entering the void of deep space—the first man-made object ever to do so. Slowly dying within its heart is a nuclear generator that will beat for perhaps another decade before the lights on Voyager finally go out. But this little craft will travel on for millions of years, carrying a Golden Record bearing recordings and images of life on Earth. In all likelihood Voyager will outlive humanity. The Farthest celebrates these magnificent machines, the men and women who built them, and the vision that propelled them farther than anyone could ever have hoped. This is currently the only private screening of this new film in America.

Hosts and Organizers

The private screening of The Farthest will take place at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway. The New York Institute of Technology is a dynamic, highly ranked, and accredited not-for-profit university committed to educating the next generation of leaders, and to inspiring innovation and advancing entrepreneurship.

The event is hosted by Dean Nada Anid. The first female dean of NYIT's School of Engineering and Computing Sciences (SoECS), Dean Nada Anid oversees 80 engineering and computing sciences faculty members and nearly 3,500 graduate and undergraduate students at NYIT. Dean Anid is also working on strategic partnerships including the creation of NYIT's Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC) and its three labs focusing on information technology and cybersecurity, bio-engineering and health, and energy and green technologies.

The Womensphere Foundation is a New York-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that develops and deploys programs, initiatives, and communities accelerating women and girls to create the future. A Young Global Leaders’ initiative, the New Champions Womensphere Incubator Network runs programs that advance women and girls in leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation, sustainability, and science, technology, engineering, arts and design, and mathematics (STEAM), and is operated by the Womensphere Foundation.