Alberto Conti is director for New Business and Innovative Solutions of the Civil Space strategic business unit at Ball Aerospace. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is an American manufacturer of spacecraft, components, and instruments for national defense, civil space and commercial space applications. At Ball, he is responsible for managing new business activities for NASA, NOAA and other civilian U.S. government agencies as well as for academia and other science organizations. He joined Ball in September 2018.

Previously, he served as the innovation manager for civil space at Northrop Grumman. He also served as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) innovation scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, the current science operation center for the Hubble Space Telescope, and the future science and mission operation center for JWST. He served as the Hubble Space Telescope chief engineer for Data Management, the Development manager for the Community Missions Office, and the project manager for the data archive of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer space mission.

Alberto Conti has been a leader in developing data mining tools for the worldwide astronomical community. He has also been an early proponent of the use of modern data mining and visualization techniques across the astronomical community. Many will recognize him as the co-creator of the GoogleSky concept and a team member of Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope. Alberto Conti holds a M.S. from the University of Trieste, and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University.