For the past three years, Steve has been Group Strategy Director, successfully steering Celestia and its group companies through a particularly ambitious development phase. Prior to this, Steve was a Co-Founder of Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd, where he played a major part in the company’s start-up and early business development and growth.

Professor Andy Sutton is a telecommunications network architect and design engineer with over 35 years of industry experience, he's also a BT Fellow. At BT he is the technical lead for aspects of 4G LTE and 5G RAN architecture evolution (including vRAN & Open RAN / O-RAN) and mobile backhaul (xhaul) architecture and strategy, he is also responsible for fixed radio links and satellite communications.

With over 20 years of experience in networking, spectrum management, and satellite regulations, Mr Timothy Adi Ashong has proven his dedication to the advancement of Africa’s telecom sector.

Henny is Head of Telecomms at the UK Space Agency where he is responsible for delivering the UK’s satellite and lunar comms programmes. Since 2018 he has played a pivotal role in delivering over a hundred innovation programmes and activities, covering areas from low-cost user terminals to developing end to end infrastructures in new and emerging satellite markets.

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Professor Aniko Ekárt is Professor in Computer Science at Aston University, specialising in Artificial Intelligence. Anikó is Director of the Aston Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Application (ACAIRA).

Dr. Eleni Patouni is currently the moderator of the European Defence Agency (EDA) Capability Technology Working Group Space. She joined EDA in 2020 and she led the reorganisation of the agency’s R&T activities for space defence.