Hosted by Jones Day
51 Louisiana Avenue, N.W., Washington DC, 20001
May 16, 2017
In Coordination with the Mobile Satellite Users Association, Satellite Industry Association, Society of Satellite Professionals International & Washington Space Business Roundtable
PROGRAM
7.00 Registration Opens
8:30 Welcome & Introduction
David Hartshorn, Secretary General, GVF
8.40 Keynote: Rewriting The Back of the HTS Napkin
- HTS’ Top Line, The Bottom Line & What’s in Between
- Got Debt?
- Less is More: Curbing OPEX and CAPEX
- How Much Risk Can Operators Tolerate?
- Margin Hunting in the Media and Connectivity Markets
Brad Grady, Senior Analyst, NSR
9.00 Operator Roundtable: New Links on the Value Chain
- LEO, Meet GEO
- For-Sale Signs: Blazing the HTS Acquisition Trail
- Trust Me: It’s Not Competition, It’s Co-opetition
- VSAT 1.0 – Is the Writing on the Wall?
- Reach for the Sky: UAVs, HAPs, and Balloons
Moderators:
David Hartshorn, Secretary General, GVF
Brad Grady, Senior Analyst, NSR
Ric VanderMeulen, VP Government Satcom, ViaSat
Daniel Lozada, Vice President of International Sales, Hughes
Michael Abad-Santos, Senior Vice President of the Americas, LEOSAT
10.00 Much Ado About Smallsats
- Why 2017 Is Not the ‘90s
- Business Case Closed – Who Signs the P.O.?
- GEO, Meet LEO… and MEO and HEO and…
- Playing the Silicon Valley Card
- Can I Borrow Your Rocket?
Moderators:
Tom Stroup, President, SIA
Armand Musey, Valuation & Financial Analysis Expert, Summit Ridge Group
David Lewis, Director and Co-Founder, Clarke Belt 2.0
Bruce Chesley, VP Global Broadband, Boeing
Rob Rainhart, VP of Engineering, Hawkeye 360
11.00 Refreshments
11.30 Hardware Everywhere – HTS Satcom Equipment Gets Moving
- From ESOMPs to ESIMs: The State of the Art in HTS Mobility
- What’s Your Best Price on 1 Million Flat Panels?
- L, C, X, Ku, Ka, Q & V – Expanding the Mobility Alphabet
- Interference Prevention as a Value Proposition
- Splitting the Difference: Land, Air and Sea
Moderators:
Catherine Melquist, President, MSUA
David Hartshorn, Secretary General GVF
David Helfgott, CEO, Phasor
Greg Quiggle, Vice President Emerging Products, Engineering, VT iDirect
John Finney, Founder, Isotropic Systems
Thad Pinney, Sr Solutions Architect, Kratos
Steve Richeson, SVP Global Sales & Business Development, Advantech Wireless
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Truth in Advertising: Is IoT the Next Big ‘Thing’? (Is 5G?)
- Deals on Wheels: Betting Big on Connected Cars
- Back to the Future: 3-5G Backhaul
- Rubbing the 6G Crystal Ball
- M2M, Big Data, The Cloud and Other Minor Details
- You Have Cyber-Security in Your Portfolio, Right?
Moderator:
Lou Zacharilla, Director of Development, SSPI
Paul Scardino, Senior Vice President, Sales Operation/Engineering and Marketing, Globecomm
Fred Morris, Vice President of Satellite Operators Market Vertical, Comtech EF Data
14.30 Regulatory Roundtable: We’re Going to Need a Bigger Lawyer
- How to Regulate 10,000 Satellites
- What the World Will Look Like After WRC-19
- Spectrum Frontiers: Share… Or Else
- Getting HTS Into the National Broadband Plan
- The Global Blanket-Licensing Scorecard
Moderator:
Bruce Olcott, Partner, Jones Day
Ric VanderMeulen, VP Government Satcom, ViaSat
Michael Abad-Santos, Senior Vice President of the Americas, LEOSAT
Suzanne Malloy, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, O3b
15.30 Refreshments
16.00 Space Segment: Constellations Reimagined
- Building Your Own Bird
- Inter-Satellite Links, Big Data and Other Design Drivers
- What the Customers Want… And What They Get
- The New Paradigm: Build ‘Em Cheap and Pile ‘Em High?
- Hosted Payloads
Moderator:
Erin Neal, WSBR
Denis Curtin, GVF
Rich Leshner, VP of Government Affairs, Planet
Scott Anderson, President & Co-Founder, SEAKR
Jeffrey Manbar, Managing Director, NanoRacks
Joseph Campagna, SVP of Operations, BridgeSat
Michael Gold, VP of DC Operations, Space Systems Loral
17.00 Closing Remarks
David Hartshorn, Secretary General, GVF
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