Tim Ventura is a futurist, startup founder, and technology executive working at the intersection of frontier science, emerging technology, and public communication. For more than 30 years, he’s focused on one recurring problem: how to translate complex technical ideas into decisions, narratives, and products that hold up in the real world.

Across multiple ventures, Tim has founded and exited companies in business coaching, marketing and advertising, and software—spanning desktop products and SaaS—while also pioneering early e-commerce in the 1990s. He’s held management roles on emerging-technology initiatives at organizations including AT&T Wireless, TCS, Verizon, and VeriSign, plus advisory work on growth.

His work has been covered in 80+ TV, radio, magazine, and online stories, and he’s built a reputation for “bridging worlds” between scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and the wider public. The through-line is consistent: identify ideas that matter, test them against expertise, and communicate them clearly enough to earn serious attention.

Tim Ventura Interviews is a long-form conversation series built for signal over noise—deep dives with subject-matter experts on the technologies, incentives, and unknowns shaping the future. Topics span advanced aerospace and propulsion, defense and national security, AI and the Singularity, life extension, SETI, and the UAP/UAPs phenomenon.

His interviewing practice began in the early 2000s, and the archive now includes 300+ recorded interviews—many available online in video form. Each episode stands alone as a structured exploration of one expert’s worldview, while the full catalog forms a wide-angle map of how fast-moving science and institutions interact.

Guests have included leaders and thinkers such as David Petraeus, David Deptula, Martin Rees, Seth Shostak, Avi Loeb, Robert Bussard, David Brin, Larry Niven, Ben Bova, and Arthur C. Clarke. The goal isn’t punditry—it’s building an accessible, durable knowledge base you can return to when the next “breakthrough” headline hits.

Alt Propulsion is Tim’s home base for exploring breakthrough aerospace ideas with a bias toward engineering, evidence, and clarity. It’s where he curates in-depth stories, connects researchers across disciplines, and helps audiences navigate the boundary between legitimate frontier science and unsupported speculation—without dismissing the weird stuff that might be real.

As Chair of the APEC Conference, Tim convenes a global forum on emerging propulsion physics and high-risk, high-reward aerospace concepts. APEC brings together innovators and has featured presentations by leading frontier-science physicists, engineers, and builders—creating a rare space where technical work, open inquiry, and community can coexist at scale.

The conference has earned coverage from outlets including Popular Mechanics, The Debrief, and Futurism.com, and it has become one of the most unusual and widely followed events of its kind. The mission is simple: bridge worlds, raise the quality of discussion, and give serious ideas a fair hearing grounded in expertise.