The Alternative Propulsion Engineering Conference (APEC) is a fully online, Zoom-based conference on emerging propulsion research. It began as a diversion from the COVID pandemic & political unrest, and has built an audience of thousands of viewers worldwide.

APEC is focused on gravity-modification, inertial propulsion, warp-drives, and field-effect propulsion. Anything you’d see in Star Trek, we’re interested in. We respect theoretical physics, but we’re an engineering conference, which means we’re always on the lookout for experimental methods to test & validate new ideas.

Our conference presenters & attendees include a diverse collection of PhD physicists, engineers & garage-experimenters who have come together in a single forum. Our participants range from theoretical physicists publishing peer-review papers on quantum & relativity theory to gravity-hackers trying to reverse-engineer UFOs in their garage. We view this diversity as a strength, as it helps cross-pollinate this research with a variety of perspectives.

Our audience is diverse, but we’re united by a shared belief –  rockets are the “horse and buggy” of the space age. APEC is about what comes next. We’ve already seen visions of future propulsion in over a century of science-fiction books, TV & movies – now it’s time to make it real. Humanity needs to move beyond rockets to continue exploring the universe, and the time to start that research is now.