Ryan S. Lewis - Vice President & Deputy Director, In-Q-Tel CosmiQ Works
Ryan Lewis is the Vice President & Deputy Director of CosmiQ Works, an In-Q-Tel (IQT) Lab dedicated to helping the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) understand and leverage emerging commercial space capabilities from the startup and open source communities. CosmiQ’s projects primarily focus on supporting new machine learning techniques designed to analyze remote sensing data at scale. Prior to co-founding CosmiQ Works in 2015, Mr. Lewis served for two years as the Director of Intelligence Community Support on IQT’s investment team. Prior to joining IQT, Mr. Lewis was an Account General Manager for Computer Science Corporation where he was responsible for a multi-million-dollar P&L within the U.S. Public Sector market. Mr. Lewis holds a bachelor’s degree from Truman State University and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy where he was named a Memorial Fellow.
Todd M. Stavish - Vice President & Deputy Director, In-Q-Tel Lab41
Todd Stavish is the Vice President & Deputy Director of Lab41, a division of In-Q-Tel Labs and co-founder of CosmiQ Works. CosmiQ Works' mission is to help the Intelligence Community leverage new and emerging commercial space capabilities against mission problems. At CosmiQ Works, Mr. Stavish leads the SpaceNet Challenge, a corpus of commercial satellite imagery and associated algorithm design competitions. The goal of SpaceNet is to foster innovation in the development of computer vision to automatically extract information from remote sensing data. Before working at CosmiQ, Todd was the technical lead on In-Q-Tel’s big data, geospatial, and commercial space investments. He spent his early career working in Silicon Valley start-ups. Mr. Stavish received a bachelor’s degree in Computational Physics from Saint Bonaventure University.
