Strategies in Satellite Ground Segment 2026 - 30th September & 1st October - Park Plaza Victoria London Hotel - Registration 8.00am
Agenda
Welcome to Building Tomorrow Today: Strategies in Satellite Ground Segment 2026.
Please note Agenda and Topics are subject to change
08.00 - 09.00
Registration /Breakfast
09.00 - 09.20
Opening Address: Investing in UK Space
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Peter Fortune, MP
09.20 - 10.00
Fireside Chat: The Future of TV Reception: Ensuring continued Universal Access
Deepak Mathur, President, Media Vertical, SES & Kevin French, Publisher, TalkSatellite
10.00 - 10.45
Round Table: Broadcast / Video - Satellite Still Leads
Moderator: Kevin French, Publisher, TalkSatellite
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Deepak Mathur, President, Media Vertical, SES
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Sean McDevitt, Partner, Arthur D. Little
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Richard Wardle, VP Distribution Engineering EMEA, Warner Bros. Discovery
10.45 - 11.15
Networking Break: Sponsored by Miratlas
11.15 - 11.45
Presentation: From Infrastructure to Agility: Optimizing Ground Segment Costs for Next-Generation Services
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Alix Rousselière, Senior Consultant, Novaspace
11.45 - 12.15
Presentation: Can Satellite IOT take on the Terrestrial Cellular IOT Market and Win?
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Jamie Moss, Research Director, Space Tech & Advisory Services, ABI Research
12.15 - 13.00
Panel: From Compliance to Commercialization: Unlocking Satellite IoT Value
Moderator: Helen Weedon, SIG
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Jamie Moss, Research Director, ABI Research
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Laurence Russell, Senior Journalist, ADS Advance Magazine
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Rainer Wansch, Head of RF and SatCom Systems Department, Fraunhofer IIS
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Matthew Evans, Head of Global Licensing & Market Access, River Advisers
13.00 - 14.30
Networking Lunch: Sponsored by Skyloom
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DVB Workshop: Building NGSO systems on proven DVB foundations
14.30 - 15.15
Panel: Breaking the Bandwidth Bottleneck - The Future is Optical
Moderator: Alex Clark, Analysis Mason
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Sarah McKinnell, Director of Sales, Skyloom
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Bryan Tatman, Principal System and Firmware Engineer, Celestia STS
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Jean-Edouard Communal, CEO & Co-Founder, Miratlas
15.15 - 15.45
Presentation: Above & Beyond: Satellite Services for Enterprise
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Mohamed Alfaisal, Chief Business Development Officer, Saudi Net Link
15.45 - 16.15
Networking Break: Sponsored by Miratlas
16.15 - 17.15
Round Table: Sovereign Satellite Infrastructure: Opportunity or Constraint for Teleports?
Moderator: Randall Barney, Executive Director, WTA​
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Scott Mumford, CEO, GO Global Comms
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Andrew Bond, Sales & Marketing Director, ETL Systems
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Zakaria Alhaddad, Senior Product Manager, RF Products, Evertz
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Malachy Devlin, CEO, Celestia UK
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Alix Rousselière, Senior Consultant, Novaspace
17.15 - 18.00
Fireside Chat: European Space Agency
18.00 - 19.30
Networking Drinks / Awards Presentation
EARLY BIRD - Executive Pass
Executive Pass gives you access to the two day conference and Cocktail & Awards Event on the first evening. Refreshments and Lunch are included in the ticket price.
£400.00
09.00 - 10.00
Coffee & Registration
Badge collection
10.00 - 10.30
Opening Address
UK Government
10.30 - 11.15
Roundtable
Ground Segment for the VHTS Generation​
11.15 - 11.45
Presentation
Cloud Native 5G-NTN OpenSpace® Solutions
11.45 - 12.15
Coffee & Networking
Refreshments and Light Snacks
12.15 - 13.00
Roundtable
Unlocking the full potential of the software-defined satellites
13.00 - 13.20
Fireside Chat
Discover the advantages of real-time resource management for satellite networks
13.20 - 14.45
Lunch
Lunch & Networking Break
14.45 - 15.30
Roundtable Discussion
Earth Station / Teleport / Datacentre service strategies in a multi-band multi-orbit domain
15.30 - 16.00
Case Study
Regional ground system - Middle East
16.00 - 16.30
Coffee & Networking
Refreshments and Light Snacks
16.30 - 17.00
Presentation
Is AI the next big trend to impact satellite communication networks
17.00 - 17.30
Fireside Chat
MoD
17.30 - 20.30
Evening Reception
Networking & Awards
Agenda
Welcome to Building Tomorrow Today: Strategies in Satellite Ground Segment 2025