A Tribute to American Heroes ~
Commerce Signals Leadership
Speaker Series & Executive Dinner

Commerce Signals and TransUnion invite you to join us for an extraordinary,
once-in-a-lifetime experience featuring former NASA Astronaut Mike Massimino, PhD
leading us on a Private VIP Tour of the NASA Space Shuttle Enterprise
followed by the Ad Council’s 2024 Public Service Awards Gala Dinner!

You will be transported to the stars on this unforgettable journey with the first person to tweet from space, the last person to work inside of the Hubble Space Telescope, and the team record holder for most spacewalking time on a single space shuttle mission. After the tour, we’ll cross the street to The Glasshouse to gather with industry luminaries and peers at the Ad Council’s Gala Dinner to honor Bob Iger, the CEO of the happiest place on earth. If you have any questions, please contact Laura Pauli.

Mike Massimino, Phd

The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum
Pier 86, W 46th Street and 12th Avenue New York, NY (Map)
Attire: wear comfortable shoes

The Ad Council’s 2024 Public Service Awards Dinner
The Glasshouse, 660 12th Avenue at 48th Street, New York City (Map)
Attire: black tie optional

  • 6:00pm – 7:00pm – Reception
  • 7:00pm – 9:45pm – Dinner & Program
  • 9:45pm – After-Party

Mike Massimino, a former NASA astronaut, is a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University and the senior advisor for space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. He received a BS from Columbia University, and MS degrees in mechanical engineering and in technology and policy, as well as a PhD in mechanical engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mike was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1996, and is the veteran of two space flights, the fourth and fifth Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions in 2002 and 2009. Mike has a team record for the number of hours spacewalking in a single space shuttle mission, and he was also the first person to tweet from space. During his NASA career he received two NASA Space Flight Medals, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, the American Astronautical Society’s Flight Achievement Award, and the Star of Italian Solidarity. Read more…

 

The Ad Council has created some of the most iconic campaigns in advertising history. Smokey Bear. Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Drunk. A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste. Love Has No Labels. They also have a long history of leading life-saving communications in times of national crisis, from World War II to September 11th, from Hurricane Katrina to COVID-19.

Bringing together leaders at the intersection of media, marketing, advertising, and technology, the Ad Council’s Annual Public Service Award Dinner is the organization’s largest fundraising event, with the last Annual Dinner in 2023 raising more than $8.1M to support the Ad Council’s national social impact programs.


Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger
will be receiving the organization’s
Award for Public Service at its
70th Public Service Award Dinner.

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