Mark Holmes is the Editorial Director of Via Satellite, the Program Chair for the Global Connected Aircraft Summit and CyberSat. He is also Director of Strategic Content for the SATELLITE show. Mark has been at Access Intelligence (AI) over seventeen years, working on a variety of titles in telecoms, broadband, digital TV, aviation and satellite. Mark has been with AI's Aerospace Group for over nine years.

Mark has played a key role in building the 'Global Connected Aircraft Summit' event, which launched four years ago and has been a huge success story for AI.

Before joining Access Intelligence, Mark was deputy editor of leading Euromoney Institutional Investor title Global Telecoms Business. In this position, Mark interviewed the CEOs of many leading telcos world-wide including, BT, Verizon, France Telecom, Sprint, SBC etc. In the last 20 years, Mark has interviewed hundreds of C-Suite executives in the telecoms, satellite, broadcast, aviation, broadband and cable space.

Mark Dankberg is Chairman of the Board and Executive Chairman of Viasat, Inc. He co-founded the Company in 1986, and held the position of CEO until he became Executive Chairman in November 2020.As Executive Chairman, Mark focuses on advancing the strategic technology and business direction of the Company, as well as shapes the national and global space and broadband regulatory environments that are critical to Viasat's global strategy. Under his leadership as CEO, Viasat has consistently been one of America's fastest growing technology companies, and has been recognized multiple times by leading business and industry publications including BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, DefenseNews, SpaceNews, and Washington Technology for its leadership.

Mark is an acknowledged industry expert in aerospace, defense, and satellite communications, and is the leading visionary for a new generation of high-capacity satellite systems. He has co-authored several military standards on satellite networking, and holds a number of patents in communications and satellite networking technologies. He has participated on Department of Defense advisory panels and was invited to testify before a Congressional committee on high technology growth companies and IPOs.

Mark has received a number of awards for his industry and business leadership. He has also been an invited speaker on communication technology, entrepreneurship, and executive management at several universities including Rice University, NYU, and University of California at San Diego. He was a founding member of the board of directors of the San Diego Telecom Council (now CommNexus), and served on the San Diego County Regional Economic Advisory Board. In addition, he has been invited to serve as a judge several times at the local and national levels for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year program.

Mark began his career with the Collins Radio Division of Rockwell International, and at Linkabit Corp in San Diego, where he held positions in engineering, technical management and business segment management.

He earned B.S. EE and M.S. EE degrees from Rice University and is a member of the Rice University Electrical and Computer Engineering Hall of Fame.

Stéphane Israël is the Chief Executive Officer of Arianespace SAS, the world's leading launch services company. He also is Executive Vice President of ArianeGroup, in charge of Civil Launcher Programs - which gives him industrial responsibility for the Ariane 5 and Ariane 6 programs. In addition, he is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Starsem, the Euro-Russian company in charge of the commercial operation of the Soyuz launcher at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Stéphane Israël has high-level professional experience in both public economics and the aerospace industry. He holds degrees from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA). He was named a judge in the French Court of Auditors in 2001, where he participated primarily in missions concerning French space policy and the Ariane launch system. He joined Airbus Group in 2007, first as advisor to the CEO, then in various operational management positions in the group's space division. From May 2012 to April 2013, he was chief of staff in the cabinet of the French Minister for Productive Recovery, Ministry of Industry, Digital Economy, SMEs and Innovation. Stéphane Israël was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arianespace in April 2013. With the evolution of Arianespace's governance in April 2017, he became Arianespace SAS CEO and a member of the Executive Committee of its ArianeGroup parent company. Stéphane Israël is a member of the Boards of Directors of CDC International Capital, Havas and Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d'Ulm). Born on January 3, 1971, he is married and the father of three children.

William (Bill) Milroy currently serves as Chairman and CTO of ThinKom Solutions, Inc., located in Hawthorne, CA and focused on the design, development, and manufacture of innovative antenna access solutions for the Fixed and Mobile Broadband Wireless Communication markets.

Prior to co-founding ThinKom, Mr. Milroy held the position of Senior Engineering Fellow within the Electromagnetic Systems Department of Raytheon's Electronic Systems (ES) Segment. During his tenure at Raytheon (Hughes Aircraft), Mr. Milroy managed and led the RF antenna design, development, and manufacture of a wide range of antenna array implementations and products for radar and communication applications in both the commercial and military marketplaces including 1-D and 2-D Electronically-Scanned Arrays (ESA's).

Mr. Milroy is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, earning BSEE, MSEE, and Engineer (Ph.D. course, field, and examination requirements) degrees. He is the author or co-author of nine journal and symposia papers in the fields of Network Analysis, Circuits, Antennas, and Microwaves. He is the inventor or co-inventor of thirty-five awarded and pending patents in the fields of Electromagnetic Scattering, Materials, Microwave Devices, and Antennas. Mr. Milroy is a past Chairman of the Los Angeles Chapter of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS), Guest Lecturer at the UCLA Anderson School of Business Management, and a past Technical Reviewer for both the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the IEEE APS Transactions Journal.

Bladimiros (Blad) Stavropoulos has over 15 years of experience in the Satellite Communication industry and is currently the Sr Director Solution Engineering at Intellian Technologies. Blad led the development of the world's first automatic switching 2.4m multi-orbit & tri-band VSAT antenna system. Intellian's v240MT won the Satellite Technology of the Year Award in 2018.

Blad earned his PHD in Advance Cyber Security after completing his MBA at Universidad Metropolitana, Venezuela. He specializes in advanced network design, Cyber Security and the fundamentals of Cryptography. In addition to English, Blad is fluent in Spanish and Italian.

Blad is based in Florida but has traveled the world to share his expertise on Satellite Systems. In addition to traveling, Blad has a passion for Scuba Diving, Baseball and the Marvel universe.

Dan Goldberg became President and Chief Executive Officer of Telesat in 2006. Prior to joining Telesat, Mr. Goldberg served as Chief Executive Officer of SES New Skies, a position he held following the purchase of New Skies by SES. During that time, Mr. Goldberg also served as a member of the SES Executive Committee. Prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer, he served as Chief Operating Officer of New Skies and prior to that as New Skies General Counsel.

Before joining New Skies, Mr. Goldberg served as Associate General Counsel and Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs at PanAmSat. He began his career as an associate at Covington & Burling and then Goldberg, Godles, Wiener & Wright, law firms in Washington D.C.

Mr. Goldberg obtained an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, graduating with the highest honors and earned a law degree from Harvard Law School, where he graduated cum laude.

Caleb Henry is a SpaceNews staff writer covering satellites, telecom and launch. He previously worked for Via Satellite and NewSpace Global.

He earned a bachelor's degree in political science along with a minor in astronomy from Grove City College.

Mr. Baugh serves as the President and Founder of Northern Sky Research (NSR), which he created in 2000 to provide independent, actionable market research and consulting services to the satellite industry. Mr. Baugh directs all NSR multi-client research reports and single-client consulting projects, and manages a global team of analysts that stand at the forefront of satellite industry expertise.

Before forming NSR, Mr. Baugh served as Senior Analyst for Pioneer Consulting where he covered all aspects of the satellite market. Prior to Pioneer, Mr. Baugh was an International Trade Specialist and Economist for the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, DC. While at the Department of Commerce, Mr. Baugh was a recipient of the Charles F. Meissner Memorial Award for his work on trade negotiations in the International Trade Administration.
Mr. Baugh also has extensive legislative and analytical experience from his work for the Committee on International Relations and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, both in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Mr. Baugh holds a Bachelor's Degree from Westminster College and a Master's Degree in International Affairs from The George Washington University.

Amy Saunders has worked in the aerospace publishing sector for more than five years. She was appointed as Editor of Satellite Evolution Group in 2016, producing Satellite Evolution Asia, EMEA, Americas, NewSpace International and Global Military Communications.
Before joining Satellite Evolution, Amy edited several industrial materials B2B magazines and completed her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Sussex.

After graduating from HEC in 1992, Rodolphe Belmer began his career in the marketing department of Procter & Gamble France before joining McKinsey in 1998. In 2001, he joined Groupe Canal where he was appointed as Head of Marketing and Strategy in 2002. From 2003 onwards he oversaw the editorial division of the group, initially as CEO of Canal+, and from 2006 onwards, as head of all the pay-TV channels. He led the diversification of the Group into free-to-air television in 2011, notably through the acquisition and relaunch of D8 and D17. In 2012, he was appointed as CEO of Groupe Canal, in which capacity he focused on overhauling both the commercial and technological models of the company to enable it to rise to the challenge of OTT.

Steve Collar is the newly-appointed CEO Designate at SES, and has been the CEO of SES Networks since May 2017. SES Networks provides end-to-end network solutions to some of the world's largest Telecommunications, Maritime, Aeronautical and Energy companies as well as to Governments around the world. Prior to SES Networks, Steve was CEO of O3b Networks and guided the company through the successful build and launch of its constellation of state-of-the-art satellites. In 2015, O3b Networks became the fastest growing satellite operator in history. In 2016, O3b was fully acquired by SES and now forms an integral part of SES Networks.

Mr. Collar is a satellite industry veteran, having previously worked in a variety of commercial, business development and technical roles at SES WORLD SKIES, New Skies Satellites, Astrium and Matra Marconi Space (now Airbus).

Pradman P. Kaul is President and Chief Executive Officer of Hughes Communications, Inc. (HUGHES)and Chairman and CEO of Hughes Network Systems, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes. Hughes is the world's leading supplier of broadband satellite services and networks and a leading provider of managed network services using satellite, terrestrial and wireless technologies. With annual revenues of over $1 billion, Hughes is the leading provider of high-speed satellite Internet services in the U.S. Hughes also designs and manufacturs mobile satellite networks and terminals, and broadband LMDS point-to-multipoint systems. Headquartered in Germantown, Maryland, U.S.A., Hughes has offices in 11 countries and customers in over 100 countries.

Before joining Hughes, Mr. Kaul worked at COMSAT Laboratories in Clarksburg, MD.

Mr. Kaul received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He holds numerous patents and has published articles and papers on a variety of technical topics concerning satellite communications.

In October 2004, Mr. Kaul was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering. Mr. Kaul was selected as a "Distinguished Engineering Alumnus" of the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and "Distinguished Alumnus" at George Washington University, Washington DC in 2005. He was awarded the IEEE Third Millennium medal in 2000. In 2009, Mr. Kaul was inducted into the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) Hall of Fame and was awarded "Satellite Executive of the Year 2008" by Via Satellite magazine. He is also on the boards of several organizations.

As President and COO of SpaceX, Gwynn Shotwell is responsible for day-to-day operations and managing all customer and strategic relations to support company growth. She joined SpaceX in 2002 as Vice President of Bussiness Development and built the Falcon vehicle family manifest to more than 100 launches, representing more than $15 billion in business. Shotwell is a member of the SpaceX Board of Directors.

Prior to joining SpaceX, Shotwell spent more than 10 years at the Aerospace Corporation, holding positions in Space Systems Engineering, Technology and Project Management. She was promoted to the role of Chief Engineer of the MLV-class satellite program, managed a landmark study for the Federal Aviation Administration on commercial space transportation, and completed an extensive analysis of space policy for NASA's future investment in space transportation.

In addition to being included on Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020, Shotwell was awarded the 2020 Von Karman Wings award. In 2018 Shotwell was named the Satellite Executive of the Year and she was awarded the AIAA Goddard Astronautics Award as well as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Ralph Coats Roe Medal. Fortune Magazine placed Shotwell at #42 on their list of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders in 2018 and Forbes named her #55 on their list of Power Women in 2019. Gwynne was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 and in 2019 was appointed to the National Space Council Users' Advisory Group. In 2014, Shotwell was appointed to the United States Export Import Bank's Advisory Committee and the Federal Aviation Administration's American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Through leadership in both corporate and external science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs, Shotwell has helped raise over $1.8 million for STEM programs reaching thousands of students nationwide.

Shotwell received, with honors, her bachelor's and master's degrees from Northwestern University in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, and serves on their Board. She has authored dozens of papers on a variety of space related subjects.

Mark Boggett is CEO of Seraphim Capital a London based venture firm. The team manage the Seraphim Space Fund, a pioneering $90m fund backed by a range of leading space corporates such as Airbus, SES and Telespazio seeking investments in space related start-ups. He is also director of Seraphim Space Camp an accelerator backed by Rolls Royce, DSTL, Inmarsat, ESA and UK Space Agency. Mark is a director of UK Space Tech Angels and is Chairman of the London Co-investment Fund - one of the most active seed stage tech investors in Europe. Prior to Seraphim he was at YFM Equity Partners serving on their main board for a number of years and working on the British Smaller Company VCT 1 and 2. He has a Degree in Accounting & Finance, MA in Economics & Finance from the University of Leeds and a range of professional investment qualifications.

Mike Collett is Founder and Managing Partner of Promus Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Chicago investing in deep-technology software and hardware companies in the U.S. and Europe. Mike has been a venture capital investor in software and hardware for over 15 years. He has invested in more than 60 private technology companies, including areas such as artificial intelligence, space, virtual reality/ alternative reality, machine learning, robotics, natural language processing, autonomous vehicles/connected car, bitcoin/blockchain, computer vision, digital health, fintech, insurance, nanotechnology and others.
Mike has invested in such leading companies as AngelList, Rocket Lab, Kensho, and Mapbox and currently serves on numerous Boards of Directors of private technology companies, including Spire, Layer, Gauss Surgical, Dispatch and others.
Mike previously was Founder and Managing Partner of Masters Capital Nanotechnology Fund, a venture capital firm, where he invested in technology companies focused on quantum cascade lasers, quantum dots, photonic integrated optoelectronic devices, and others. While at Masters Capital, a hedge fund, Mike invested in private software and hardware technology startups.
Prior to venture capital, Mike was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch in their Mergers & Acquisitions group as well as an Associate at Duff & Phelps.
Mike holds a Bachelor's of Science in Math and Bachelor's of Arts in English from Vanderbilt University. He also holds a Masters of Business Administration in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis.
Mike and his wife Paige have four children and live in Chicago.
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Michael co-founded Masten Space Systems, was CTO of Seraph Group (a seed stage VC fund), is the CEO of the Waypaver Foundation, and the President of the Moon Society. He has helped build several startups over the years ranging from telecom consulting to social media. He received an MBA from Georgia Tech in 2011.

His experience building companies and teams from scratch, raising money for those companies, and investing in similar companies has given Michael a view both the successes and failures at every stage of building sustainable companies.

As leader of the firm's Transportation and Space Group in Washington, D.C., Dara's practice involves representation of satellite operators, aerospace manufacturers, launch services providers, communications companies, banks, private equity firms and hedge funds in debt and equity offerings, project, structured and vendor financings, mergers & acquisitions, financial restructurings and in negotiating commercial contracts. He also advises on regulatory, sanctions, anti-corruption, national security and export control matters.

Sunil Nagaraj is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ubiquity Ventures, a seed-stage institutional venture capital firm that invests in "software beyond the screen"™ startups. This includes B2B technology companies that utilize smart hardware or machine learning to solve business problems outside the reach of computers and smartphones. By transforming real-world physical problems into the domain of software, Ubiquity startups tap into large greenfield markets and offer more effective solutions.

Sunil currently serves on the boards of Esper, Halter, Kinetic, Parallel Domain, Safehub, Sensable, ThruWave and other undisclosed investments.

Prior to founding Ubiquity Ventures, Sunil spent six years as a venture capitalist with Bessemer Venture Partners where his work included leading the seed rounds of Auth0 (acquired by Okta) and Zapier as well as investments in Defense.Net (acquired by F5 Networks), Rainforest QA, Rocket Lab, Spire, Tile, and Twitch (acquired by Amazon). Prior to being an investor, Sunil was founder/CEO of Triangulate, a VC-backed online dating startup using machine learning and behavioral data to improve matching accuracy. He has also worked at Bain & Company, Cisco, and Microsoft.

Sunil holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He serves on several non-profit boards: NextGen Partners (a Bay Area VC networking organization), the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (as President-Elect), and the Harvard Business School California Research Center. He is also an Alumni Advisor to the Harvard MS/MBA program. He spends his free time playing piano, sailing, and nerding out on new technologies.

Thomas Van den Driessche is the president of the executive strategic board & chief commercial officer of ST Engineering iDirect, where he is responsible for defining our strategy, execution and communications to achieve short- and long-term goals.

Over the past 18 years, he has been active in the broadcast and satellite markets. Prior to ST Engineering iDirect, Van den Driessche was the CEO of Newtec where, during his 11-year tenure, he held various positions including sales and business development, VP of market strategy, and chief commercial officer, before becoming CEO.

Preceding Newtec, he began his career as a product manager in the broadcast and AV market, and received awards for his work by leading organizations such as NAB, Infocomm and Vanguard.

Van den Driessche holds a Master's degree in electronics and marketing from the University of Ghent.

Rachel Jewett is the managing editor of Via Satellite. She covers the space and satellite industry and manages Via Satellite magazine and daily news.

Bryan J. Hartin, has served as Iridium's Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing since December 2012. From June 2009 to December 2012, Mr. Hartin served as Senior Vice President of Sales, Distribution and Business Development of LightSquared, a telecommunications company. From May 2008 to June 2009, Mr. Hartin worked as an independent consultant to companies in the wireless telecommunications industry. From 2003 to May 2008, Mr. Hartin was Vice President--Indirect Distribution of Sprint Nextel Corporation. Mr. Hartin received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from LeMoyne College and a Master of Business Administration degree from The American University.

Peter Hadinger is Chief Technology Officer of Inmarsat, leading a team developing the next generation of global mobile connectivity. With four decades of engineering and innovation experience in the satellite industry, his background spans key roles in technology, regulatory, policy and business. Since joining Inmarsat 10 years ago, Peter was instrumental in the creation of the Global Xpress programme, ran the company's US Government business for several years and has helped to create many new and innovative products to meet challenging customer needs. He previously worked on advanced government satellite programmes at TRW/Northrop Grumman.

Ronald van der Breggen, Owner of Route206, has more than 20 years of experience in the telecom and satellite sectors. A native of the Netherlands, van der Breggen began his telecom career at Dutch Telecom incumbent KPN, rising to the position of VP IP Services. He then joined SES, one of the world's leading satellite operators as Vice President Customer Account Management. From 2015 to 2019 he served as Chief Commercial Officer of LeoSat, where under his leadership the company secure $2 billion in pre-launch commitments. With Route206, Ronald continues to help companies with brilliant technology to achieve commercial success through his decades of experience, structured approach and large industry network. Ronald holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Nijenrode University as well as a Masters in Business Telecommunications from the Technical University of Delft, both in the Netherlands.

Neil is the Chief Executive Officer of the global communications company OneWeb. He joined the company in October 2020 to lead it through the next phase of its growth under the new joint ownership of the UK Government and Bharti Global Ltd.

Before joining OneWeb, Neil spent over 20 years at Thomson Reuters in a number of roles, ultimately ending as co-COO of the global news, information and software group. In this leadership position he was responsible for over $6bn of revenues and oversaw 20,000 staff, ensuring both the profitability and overall business performance of the business across all of its marketing, digital, commercial operations, technology, cyber, and content functions.

During his career at Thomson Reuters Neil has built up an impressive track record of delivering outstanding operational results involving M&A/divestitures (20 in total), rapid scaling of services, cost take-outs (close to $1bn saved at enterprise level), organisational restructuring, and talent upgrading in senior executive roles.

Neil's most notable achievements during his stint as COO included: the successful reframing of Thomson Reuters' enterprise strategy; the leveraging of emerging technology and digital within the business; the delivery of new capabilities to add industry-leading data and content to the company's offer; and, the integration of 300 disparate businesses following a decade of acquisitions into one common culture and lexicon - all ultimately helping to deliver growth in market share that drove $8bn of value creation for shareholders.

Neil has also served in a number of independent senior advisory roles, including on the board of the financial information company Refinitiv and on the board of advisors for the global technology company IBM.

Before joining Thomson Reuters, Neil spent 10 years at KPMG. He has a BA in Geography from University College London and is a Chartered Accountant.

Thomas Choi has more than 30 years of experience in the Satellite and Aerospace industry. He was previously CEO of ABS, one of the fastest growing satellite operators in the world.

Prior to ABS, Tom was the founder and CEO of Speedcast. He also worked at Hughes Communications International and at Rockwell International. He has a MBA and B.S. in Aerospace Engineering both from the University of Southern California.

Tom is a member of the Board of Directors of the Asia Pacific Communications Council (APSCC) and previously served on the Board of CASBAA.

He was the Satellite Executive of the year in 2012 and the Satellite Executive of the year in Asia Pacific Award 2012 (APSCC).

Tom will be inducted shorty into the Satellite Hall of Fame by the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) for 2017.

Karen L. Jones is a senior project leader with The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Space Policy and Strategy. She has experience and expertise in the disciplines of technology strategy, program evaluation, regulatory and policy analysis, telecommunications, space, and environmental management. She is a former management consultant with IBM Global Services and Arthur D. Little. She has an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management.

Stephen has extensive experience at both established and entrepreneurial space firms. After beginning his career as an analyst at DFI International, a boutique aerospace consultancy, he subsequently served as sponsorship manager for the X PRIZE Cup and as Head of Sales for Excalibur Almaz, a private human spaceflight company. As a Vice President at Space Services Holdings, Stephen led sales and marketing for a group of four companies and a variety of launches of several different rockets. He then moved to Surrey Satellite US, helping establish the world's leading small satellite manufacturer's presence in North America. Now, Stephen Eisele serves as Vice President for Business at Virgin Orbit where he leads the commercial business and strategic development for the company, as well as oversees the Mission Management team.

Lilac Muller, Ph.D., is the Vice President of Product Management at Kymeta Corporation. She is responsible for product strategy, product definition and product launch activities. Lilac has extensive product development experience in the consumer electronics, medical devices and telecommunication industries where she has led cradle-to-grave product development efforts with a focus on performance, quality and customer experience. As a technical and business leader, she has a track record of delivering technically-challenging products that operate in complex ecosystems. Dr. Muller has a bachelors and masters degrees in aeronautics/astronautics from MIT and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley.

Frederik Simoens is the Chief Technology Officer at ST Engineering iDirect, where he is responsible for the oversight of all technology decisions and serves to drive the strategic direction for product development, technology roadmap and technology alliances.

Previously, Simoens worked at Newtec where he worked on physical layer technologies, launched the DVB-S2X standard within Newtec's platform, and in 2015, became VP of product management, which led to a promotion to CTO.

His key areas of expertise include physical layer technologies, satellite communications and digital modems. He is also a guest lecturer at the University of Ghent and is the author of 40+ publications.

Simoens obtained a Master degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. degree in digital communications, both from the University of Ghent. He also holds an MBA degree from the Vlerick Business School.

Mr. Desch, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Iridium Communications Inc., has more than 35 years of experience in telecommunications management, and more than 25 years in the global wireless industry. Joining Iridium in 2006, Desch has been responsible for leading the innovation and growth of Iridium, which includes taking the company public on Nasdaq (IRDM) in 2009, completing the financing and development of Iridium® NEXT, the company's $3 billion investment in upgrading the Iridium network with powerful new satellites, and launching Iridium Certus®, a multi-service broadband platform enabled by the upgraded constellation. With Mr. Desch at the helm, Iridium has more than tripled in subscribers, surpassing 1 million in early 2018, and more than quadrupled its operational earnings, while moving into important new services like global space-based aircraft tracking with its joint-venture, Aireon.

Mr. Desch began his career in software development with AT&T Bell Laboratories (now a part of Nokia). Before joining Iridium, he served as the CEO of New Jersey-based Telcordia Technologies, Inc., a major supplier of software and services to the telecommunications industry, now part of Ericsson. Prior to Telcordia, Mr. Desch worked for Nortel Networks for 13 years, leaving in 2000 as President.

In 2011, Mr. Desch was appointed as a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). The committee provides recommendations to the President and other U.S. government leaders on matters of security that relate to the nation's telecommunications infrastructure. An active pilot, Mr. Desch serves on the board of trustees of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA). He also serves on the board of Unisys, a global IT services and software firm. He formerly served as the Chairman of Airspan Networks and a member of the board of directors at SAIC.

Mr. Desch was named a "Tech Titan" by Washingtonian Magazine, is the only two-time winner of Via Satellite's Satellite Executive of the Year award, was inducted into the Space and Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) Hall of Fame and was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year for the Greater Washington Area. Mr. Desch has also been ranked as one of the world's most influential people in the telecommunications industry on Global Telecom Business's Power100 list.

Klaus Bruun Egeberg leads the strategic development of Maersk's technology and IT to deliver future customer-centric capabilities for one of the world's largest shipping lines. Throughout his career, he has created ground-breaking products and platforms for the company. He is an experienced maritime industry executive, skilled electrician, programmer, project manager, technical manager and technological strategist. He is passionate about technology and how it can be used to create and shape the future.

Will Mudge is the Vice President Engineering Operations at Speedcast developing global teleport and Low Earth Orbit Constellation strategies. Prior to his current roll; Will was the head of R&D engineering, Strategic Product Marketing Manager, and Program Manager at Speedcast and Harris Caprock. Will has a degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Engineering Physics.

Jeff serves as the Executive Editor of Via Satellite magazine and chair of the annual SATELLITE conference and exhibition in Washington D.C. He is also the host and producer of Via Satellite's On Orbit podcast and the host of Via Satellite's technology webcast series. Over the course of his nearly 15-year career, Jeff has become one of the most connected people in the space and satellite industry. He has interviewed prominent space and technology leaders such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Bea Perez, Emily Calandrelli, and Charles Bolden, as well as hundreds of policy makers, investors, influencers and executives from all over the world.

Rich Leshner has been working in the DC space policy community for fifteen years, working in the non-profit, government, and industry sectors. Rich's NASA experience had him working on international projects for collaboration in exploration, managing a $150 million portfolio of innovative small business research, and working in the Administrator's office. He worked for two years at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he supported the development of the 2010 National Space Policy as well as championed reforms to more fully integrate commercial space capabilities into national programs. He currently works for Planet, the small satellite Earth observing start-up based in California.

Paul Woods is the architect of the Global Fishing Watch technology platform. He served as interim CEO as the organization was set up as independent in 2017, and now leads development of new technologies and applications of big data and remote sensing to solving challenging problems in ocean ecosystems. Paul is a software engineer and veteran of several software startup companies working in finance, telemedicine, and big data. Prior to Global Fishing Watch, Paul served as Chief Technology Officer at SkyTruth, where he built a dedicated team of inspired technologists committed to using remote sensing, big data, and cloud computing to promote better environmental conservation around the world.

Nathan de Ruiter is a Senior Consultant, based in Montreal, Canada. Since joining Euroconsult in 2011, he has advised a wide range of international clients including satellite operators, manufacturers, equipment providers and financial institutions. Nathan's key interests revolve around high throughput satellites and satellite broadband services. Currently as a Senior Consultant for Euroconsult's Satcom practice, Nathan plays an integral role in contributing to the successful execution of client engagements through the development of project management, quality assurance and professional consulting and research methodologies.

Over the last three years, Nathan has managed and contributed to more than 25 consulting missions for satellite operators, ground network providers, satellite manufacturers and financial institutions, including Harris Corporation, Lockheed Martin, SSL, Ex-Im Bank and ESA. His speciality lies in commercial due diligence, market analysis, financial forecasting and strategic planning.

Nathan is also a major contributor to Euroconsult's research reports on satellite communications such as Satellite Communications & Broadcasting Markets Survey and Company Profiles: Analysis of FSS Operators. In addition, he is the Editor of two thematic reports on High Throughput Satellites and Hosted Payloads.

Prior to Euroconsult, Nathan was Senior Manager at S.M. International Financial Advisory, a boutique advisory firm dedicated to the infrastructure sector. Nathan also worked at seed capital firm Neotech Capital, which invests in new media and telecom start-ups. In this management role, Nathan assessed business plans and developed commercialization strategies for multiple technology start-ups.

Nathan holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands with a dual major in Strategic Management and Innovation Management. He is an invited speaker at several international conferences including World Satellite Business Week, SATCON, ICSSC Ka-band conference and PTC.

As part of the early team at Spire, Theresa focused
on building the initial business case and then taking
a lead role in business development, fundraising,
and corporate partnerships. In addition to
spearheading Spire's international expansion, she
signed Spire's first international MOU, first LOI, and
first million-dollar contract. Theresa now leads
Spire's engagement on special projects related to
space-as-a-service, satellite data licensing policy,
and new markets. Theresa sits on the Board of
Directors at Spire.
Prior to Spire, Theresa spent the past decade
working in emerging markets. Most recently,
Theresa managed the Latin America trade
syndications desk for Citibank out of NY, working at
the intersection of supply chain management, global trade, and development finance at the height
of the financial crisis. She also lived in Bangladesh while working for a USAID private sector
development and trade promotion project.
Theresa studied at Cornell University, The London School of Economics, and Columbia University
School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

Kyle Whitehill joined Avanti Communications Group plc (Avanti) in April 2018 as the Group Chief Executive Officer. He also the Vice-Chairman of EMEA Satellite Operator's Association (ESOA).
Kyle has extensive experience in the FMCG, mobile, fixed and converged products industries. Prior to joining Avanti, he served as CEO of Liquid Telecom South Africa, where he focused on operational excellence, customer experience and talent investment led to significant company growth during his tenure.
For 16 years Kyle held various senior leadership positions at Vodafone Group, including CEO of Vodafone Qatar Q.S.C. from 2013 to 2016, CEO of Vodafone Ghana from 2010 to 2013, COO of Vodafone India and Chairman of Vodafone India PTY from 2008 to 2010, Enterprise Business Unit Director and board member for Vodafone UK from 2004 to 2008 and Sales Director and Strategic Relationships Director for Vodafone UK between 2001 and 2004.
His early career was spent at fast moving consumer goods companies L'Oreal, Diagio and Guinness before he entered general management within the soft drinks division of PepsiCo.

Aarti Holla-Maini has been Secretary-General of the ESOA since 2004. She is a Member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Space, the WEF Global 5G Coalition Network, and the WEF Essential Digital Infrastructure & Services Network.

Under Aarti's leadership, ESOA & its member CEOs lead the effort to showcase the benefits of satellite communications for a more inclusive and secure society - vital to bridging the world's digital divide, achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, and realizing the 5G ecosystem.

Since joining the association, Aarti has led the expansion of ESOA from a European association to one that represents the interests of 21 global and regional satellite operators. She reports directly to their Chief Executives.

Aarti has 23 years experience in the aerospace industry, starting at Daimler-Benz Aerospace/EADS (now Airbus) in Germany. In 2000, she moved to Brussels, representing Airbus interests in the European satellite navigation program: Galileo.

Aarti holds a Masters of Business Administration from HEC, France & Stern Business School, NYC, USA. She qualified as Solicitor of the Supreme Court in the UK in 1995, holding a 2:1 graded LLB Hons Law with a German Law degree from King's College, University of London & the University of Passau, Germany. Aarti is of British-Indian origin and holds British and Belgian nationalities. She lives in Brussels, has 3 children and speaks 5 languages.

Mr Ruy Pinto was appointed Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at SES in January 2019. He had been the Deputy Technology Officer since 2017 and took on the additional role of Chief Information Officer (CIO) at SES in 2018, responsible for starting a Digital Transformation program at SES.
Mr Pinto joined SES from Inmarsat where he covered various technical and managerial roles between 1990 to 2016, including two years as CTO of the company. His last position at Inmarsat, from December 2013, was Group Chief Operations Officer (COO), responsible for all Inmarsat operational functions.
His external positions portfolio included two years as the Chairman of UKSpace, the UK space industry trade association, and four years as a Director and VP of Space for the Association of Defence, Security and Aerospace Companies (ADS). Mr Pinto has just completed a six-year appointment as Non-Executive Director of the Space Application Catapult, established by the UK government to foster the development of space applications in the UK. Previously, Mr Pinto worked with VSAT data communication networks and data communications software.
Mr. Pinto holds a degree in Electronics Engineering and completed post-graduate studies in Digital Telecommunications Systems, both from the Rio de Janeiro Catholic University (PUC-RJ).
Mr Pinto is a dual British and Brazilian national.

Marc-Henri, graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 2005 and from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 2008, began his career at the French Ministry of Finance and then in prime Minister staff. Then, he joined Thales Alenia Space where he was appointed Director of Engineering and Assembly Integration & Test payload for Observation and Sciences before becoming VP Domain Observation and Science France.

Marc-Henri has a strong experience in space activities, in particular in engineering, product policy, customer relationship, commercial offers and project management domains.

lodie Viau joined ESA as Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications from 1 September 2020. For 12 years prior to this, Ms Viau worked for SES. As Vice-President for Technology Program Management, she led new space segment development as well as end-to-end system design and implementation of new integrated services. Previously, she was the SES Program Manager of nine satellites built by Airbus. She gained two MSc: respectively from Télécom Sud Paris and from the International Space University complemented by an MBA from the Open University.

Andrey Kirillovich joined RSCC as Director of Integration Services and Turnkey Projects in September 2012 to take responsibility over turn-key satcom solutions and services on the foreign markets outside Russia. In his new role Andrey is developing a portfolio of satcom services to turn RSCC into global satcom service provider.

Prior to continuing his career in RSCC Andrey was Regional Sales Director in VT iDirect, Inc., where he managed sales and marketing of iDirect VSAT products in Russia and CIS. During almost six years in iDirect he brought this technology vendor to leading positions on VSAT market in the region.

Before iDirect Andrey spent seven years in RSCC at various sales positions where he was responsible for selling satellite bandwidth to international customers in EMEA and Aisa.

Andrey holds Ph. D. degree in Economics from Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics.

Yau Chyong Lim is MEASAT's Chief Operating Officer. In this role, he oversees the management of the company's operations.

Yau has more than 20 years in the satellite industry, with wide-ranging experience across multiple sectors including sales & marketing, business development and commercial operations.

He holds an MBA in Finance from Keele University, Staffordshire, UK and a BSc in Microelectronics & Physics from Campbell University, North Carolina, USA.

Roger Tong has been serving as AsiaSat's Chief Executive Officer since 2018. He joined AsiaSat as General Manager, Engineering in 2008, and has held positions of increasing technical responsibilities before being promoted to Chief Technical Officer in 2016. During his tenure, AsiaSat has added five large geostationary satellites to its fleet and has built an extension to the Tai Po Earth Station, significantly expanding the company's capabilities both in space and on the ground.

Roger graduated summa cum laude from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, with a Bachelor's degree in computer engineering and a Master's degree in electrical engineering. He was a gold medalist graduate of an MBA programme at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, and holds a doctorate in business administration from the University of Newcastle in Australia. Roger was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Roger has been serving as a director of the Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) since 2018, representing the interest of the satellite operator community and providing leadership in tackling various challenges faced by the video industry.

Teruo (Terry) Yamashita is Group President of Global Business Group at SKY Perfect JSAT and Chairman & CEO of JSAT International Inc. SKY Perfect JSAT is a leader in the converging fields of broadcasting and communications. It is Asia's largest satellite operator with a fleet of 18 satellites, and Japan's only provider of both multi-channel pay TV broadcasting and satellite communications services. Terry joined JSAT Corporation, which is current SKY Perfect JSAT, in 2001, and he has engaged in domestic and international sales and marketing of satellite communication services that mainly target telecoms and broadcasters for 20 years. In 2012, he was appointed as the first head of the Jakarta office with the responsibility to open the new office to strengthen sales in Indonesia, one of the key markets for SKY Perfect JSAT. In 2020, he became Group President of Global Business Group, the position to supervise the global business of SKY Perfect JSAT, including the management of the overseas offices, and he has been in the position as of today.

Jo is VP Market Development and Strategy at ST Engineering iDirect, where he is responsible for the team heading the company's vertical markets.
He previously held a similar position of VP Market Development at Newtec, where Jo was also responsible on the market development for HTS and constellations.
Prior to his position as VP Market Development, Jo was Product Manager and in this role he was responsible for the product definition and market launch of Newtec Dialog®.
Jo has over 20 years of experience in the satcom industry. He began his career at Newtec in 1996. In 2005, he became systems architect for Newtec's DVB-RCS system and further evolved to product manager and later Product Line Director of the Sat3Play Broadband Platform. Jo holds a Bachelor's degree in electronics from HTISA-Gent, Belgium.

Mr. David Adhiambo's responsibilities as Senior Manager Transport & IP Planning and Design include end-to-end transmission plan and build (Access, aggregation and core), data center and IP networking plan and build, regional connectivity as well as strategic partnership management.

Since joining Safaricom, Mr. David has grown from access transport planning engineer to Principal Engineer before moving into senior management handling both planning and support roles

Mr. David has been instrumental in championing and promoting access to broadband services by use of various technologies in Kenya. The main one was the launch of an aggressive plan to fiberize the sites, buildings, and homes as well as modernizing satellite teleport to support the growing backhaul requirement and regional enterprise opportunities

David has also held a leadership role in Qatar supporting the transformation of Qatar into a smart economy in preparation for 2022 World cup through 5G which included building a smart stadium.

Mr. David is a graduate of Strathmore University -Kenya in Executive Education in addition to holding a Bachelor of Technology Degree in Electrical and communication from Moi University Kenya.

Rakesh Kukreja is the founding member and Managing Director of iSAT Africa Ltd FZC that is part of Wananchi group. ISAT offers, along with standard terrestrial and satellite-based connectivity solutions, innovative solutions based on proven technologies but fine-tuned for Africa for niche markets like rural connectivity, GSM backhaul, maritime, broadcasting and others.

Rakesh has also played a major role in building SimbaNET and Wananchi Telecom brand in Enterprise and wholesale business areas. Under his leadership, Wananchi Business Services has grown more than 5 times and has expanded its geographical footprints from Kenya, to Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and UAE.

Rakesh is a Communication Engineer with 25 years of experience in the ICT industry, mostly in Africa and Middle East, and has led many organizations including new start-ups.

Rakesh is passionate about the use of ICT to bring social change and bridging the digital divide. He strongly believes that society deserves much more from ICT industry and professionals than what is being delivered.

I'm currently running the fastest growing satellite services company on the African Continent. I have over 20 years of experience in the satellite world and have been focused on Africa for the past 8 years. I run numerous platforms on a number of different satellites as well as multiple teleports.

Dr. I-Kang Fu received his Ph. D degree from the Department of Communication Engineering of National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, in 2007. He is currently a Director of Standard Strategy in MediaTek Advanced Communication Technology Division, contributing to Beyond 5G standardization in 3GPP TSG-RAN, driving the new technology initiatives such as cellular/satellite network integration, and exploring pre-6G technology trends. Prior to 5G, he was actively contributing to 4G standardization work in IEEE and 3GPP since 2005.

Dr. Lin-Nan Lee, vice president of Advance Development at Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), leads research and technology development in disciplines such as channel coding, modulation, multiple access, signal processing and data compression. He has participated in developing Third Generation (3G) wireless communications standards; DVB-S2 and DVB-S2X satellite broadcast standards; and IEEE802.11.n wireless local area network (WLAN) standards. Dr. Lee contributed fundamental technologies - most notably in the turbo codes for 3G and 4G wireless and in the low-density parity check codes for DVB-S2/S2X and IEEE802.11.n. Currently, he works on the 3GPP standardization process for the Fifth Generation (5G) Wireless Standard.

Prior to joining Hughes, Dr. Lee worked for Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) in various positions in the COMSAT Laboratory, and as Chief Scientist of the COMSAT System Division. Prior to COMSAT, Dr. Lee worked at Linkabit Corporation developing an experimental packet satellite network linking the ARPANET and networks in UK and Norway over an Intelsat satellite.

Dr. Lee holds a Bachelor of Science degree from National Taiwan University and a Master of Science and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. A Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), he authored or co-authored more than 60 U.S. patents and dozens of journal and conference papers. In 2019, Dr. Lee was recognized for "Distinguished Contributions to Satellite Communications" by the Communications Society Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee (COMSOC SSC-TC) of IEEE.

Georg Mayer is the Chairman of the Core Network and Terminals, Technical Specification Group of 3GPP (TSG CT). His current focus is on the coordination of 5G related work inside and outside 3GPP. He participates in the IETF and works closely with several of the new stakeholders in 5G, such as public safety, railways, autonomous systems and IoT service providers.

He is a published author and has co-authored a book on IMS, amongst other titles.

Georg Mayer holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Hagen, Germany and he works for Huawei Technologies.

Semir is ST Engineering iDirect's Head of Cellular Backhaul and Trunking. A seasoned telecommunications executive, Semir is an expert at bridging technology and business specifically in the Mobile and Internet spaces. Previously with Memotec Semir was vice-president of Marketing & Strategy, and Product Marketing director at Comtech. Prior to this tenure, Semir has launched startups and held several international assignments with Oz Communications (acquired by Nokia), Airwide solutions/Schlumberger & Sema Group in the areas of product management, solutions architecture and product development.
Semir holds a M.S in Electronics and Automatics from the University of Sciences of Montpellier, France and a M.S in Business Administration (major is strategy) from the Institut Francais de Gestion, France.

Nancy recently joined Global Eagle team as SVP of Aviation Connectivity and will have responsibility for the commercial and account teams. Nancy has a wealth of experience in the aviation and connectivity space, including having led network-related strategy, sales, product management and account management across a variety of verticals including business and commercial aviation as well as satellite communications and air to ground networks. Previously, Nancy served as Chief Commercial Officer, responsible for B2B sales and accounts, product management, and marketing for SmartSky Networks. Prior to that role, she was responsible for the launch and operations/accounts of several commercial airline IFC products while at LiveTV and Thales in a variety of roles in Programs, Accounts, Business Development and Engineering. With over 30 years of aerospace technology and IFC experience, Nancy holds a Masters and Bachelors in Engineering and has led commercial aviation activities in both the US and in Europe.

Joined Gulf Air in May 2018, Mr. Mohammed Jamsheer started his aviation career with the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain as Marketing Director with responsibilities including managing Gulf Air's brand, marketing campaigns, awareness, advertising and promotional activities. The role expanded in 2020 by building the airline's digital operations and development unit within commercial along with the global contact center operations, post-travel support, Falconflyer loyalty program and corporate communications.

Mr. Jamsheer joined Gulf Air with rich knowledge and experience from the telecommunications sector and customer experience solutions. Majoring in Marketing with degrees from Beirut and Boston, Mohammed leads total marketing strategy planning and activation for the national carrier which includes major events and sponsorship such as the Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix and was featured on the list of Forbes Storytellers: 50 Impactful Marketing & Communication Professionals in The Middle East 2020 and in Think With Google's Gulf Air Smart Bidding case study.

JOHN PADGETT
Chief Experience & Innovation Officer for Carnival Corporation
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John Padgett joined Carnival Corporation in 2014 as the chief experience & innovation officer spanning the company's nine global cruise line brands with a holistic focus on creating exceptional guest experiences. Leading a multi-disciplinary and cross-functional experience and innovation team, Padgett is responsible for guest experience innovation, development, creation and operations integration across creative, digital, technical and operational functions.

In his role, Padgett is creating game-changing guest experiences that are differentiated based on personal interactions, empowered by invisible technology and shared with the world via original media and gaming content.

Carnival took the CES2017 keynote stage to announce the OceanMedallionTM and the world's first experience Internet of Things (xIoT) as the hinge-pins to MedallionClassTM - a next-level guest experience based on personalization and frictionless service delivery. The Medallion and elements of the Ocean Guest Experience Platform already have been on the receiving end of multiple innovation awards including the CES 2019 Innovations Award, New York Design Award, Red Dot Award, Edison Award, ICX Assn Elevate Award, IDTechEX Award, Stevies Award, Skift Design Award-Best Cruise Experience and selected as the 2019 IoT Wearables Innovation of the Year by IoT Breakthrough.

Onboard MedallionClass ships from Princess Cruises, guests enjoy an effortless vacation with enhanced levels of personalization and guest service on board. The Medallion elevates the guest experience by enabling touchless embarkation and disembarkation, frictionless MedallionPay commerce both on and off the ship, and keyless stateroom entry, as well as additional contactless capabilities accessible using smart phones and tablets, including food, drinks and service delivery on demand; way-finding; family and friends locator; first-run movies and live TV on the go; an interactive events and activities planner; and interactive fun.

When the COVID pandemic hit the cruise industry particularly hard, five Princess Cruise ships were MedallionClass. Padgett not only used the pause to accelerate the conversion of the entire Princess fleet of 15 ships into MedallionClass vessels, but also to modify the Medallion to deliver the OceanOrbit contact tracing solution to other brands within the Carnival Corporation.

For Padgett, elevating the guest experience has also meant delivering MedallionNetTM - the best wifi at sea - which is helping to put an end to the cruise industry's dark age of slow connectivity.
 
On the media front, Padgett has marshalled an ambitious content production initiative that includes six Ocean Originals series that have been distributed on ABC, NBC, A&E, Univision and Telemundo; as well as Carnival's own digital streaming channel called "OceanView," available on Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV and ChromeCast - in addition to an app available on the Apple app store and Google Play, and across more than 80 of its ships.

Prior to Carnival Corporation, Padgett enjoyed an 18-year career with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts where he and his team led the company's shift to guest experiences grounded in personalization, customization, simplicity and connectivity as the vice president of game changer experience development. He spearheaded the invention, development and implementation of guest engagement innovations that include the MagicBand, FastPass+, Disney's Magical Express, Be Our Guest restaurant, Main Entrance access portals and Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique retail locations.

In his first decade at Disney, Padgett held a diverse number of business and financial planning executive roles within travel industry sales, consumer marketing, travel operations, facilities, utilities, engineering, transportation and manufacturing.

Padgett holds 35 patents and multiple innovation awards for wearable devices, experience itinerary scheduling and optimization, digital experience interaction platforms and operational processes.

He earned a master's degree in business administration with a concentration in management science and a bachelor's degree in finance from Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business.

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Born June 17th 1960 BE, EEE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees since 1992

Linden has over 30 years of experience in spectrum management and regulatory affairs.

He is currently the owner of Linden Petzer Consulting; an independent consultancy specializing in spectrum management and regulatory affairs.

Linden is an advisor to ESOA, and is involved in advocacy support for ESOA positions on satellite issues for the 2023 International Telecommunication Union World Radiocommunication Conference.

In 2020 he was the lead expert on satellite communications in a team developing a Masterplan for Aerospace and Defence in South Africa.

In 2019 worked as an advisor to the Global Satellite Coalition and ESOA in preparing positions on satellite issues for the 2019 International Telecommunication Union World Radiocommunication Conference.

From September 2008 to March 2019 he was the Chief Director: Radio and Satellite Communication at the Department of Telecommunications & Postal Services where he was responsible for national policy that ensures the effective deployment of radio and satellite-based technologies in South Africa.

In 2018 Linden was appointed as Chair of the SADC Committee of Satellite Experts to develop a SADC Shared Satellite Framework. The Committee was responsible for developing a governance framework, cost sharing models, principles in terms of how a SADC Satellite network would be shared and the related engagement framework.

In 2010, Linden was appointed as a Councillor in the South African Council for Space Affairs (SACSA), which is responsible for the implementation of national space policy and the regulation of space affairs in South Africa, as well as ensuring that these activities are carried out in compliance with the provisions of international treaties to which South Africa is a Party. He continues to hold this position. He is a member of the SACSA Scientific & Technical Committee, and also the Policy & Legal Committee.

He has been a member of the South African delegation to all ITU World Radiocommunication Conferences since 1995, and was the South African National rapporteur for Satellite Issues for the 2015 ITU World Radiocommunication Conference. In 2012, he was the Chairperson of the SADC WRC-12 Preparatory Working Group and also Chairperson of the South African WRC-12 National Preparatory Working Group.

Linden has actively participated in the ITU Radiocommunication Sector Study Groups, particularly Study Group 4.

He has been a member of the South African delegation to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) meeting and the Scientific & Technical Sub-committee as well as the Legal Sub-committee, and was involved in the development of International Guidelines for the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities.

Joseph Abakunda is currently the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of the Rwanda Space Agency. A skilled Space systems engineer, he brings a wealth of experience of 10+ years in strategy, policy & small-satellite development and has coordinated the drafting of Rwanda's national space policy & strategy.

He was also a member of the COVID-19 national task force as a technology project manager utilizing space technology in the mapping & mitigation of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Rwanda in support of national contact tracing efforts.

Before his current role as CSO, he was the National Coordinator for the Rwanda Space Program as well as Project Manager for RWASAT-1 - Rwanda's first satellite.

He previously led efforts on behalf of the Government of Rwanda to become the 62nd member of the Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS).

In addition to being a licensed Pilot, he holds a MSc in Space Systems & Business Engineering

Dr. Abimbola Alale is the current MD/CEO of the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT), Nigeria.
She is a Ph.D. degree holder of Security & Strategic Studies from Nasarawa State University, Keffi- Nigeria. She also holds a Master's degree in Space Studies (MSc) and an MBA degree from the International Space University, Strasbourg-France.
Other Certificates were obtained at the Massachuttes Institute of Technology, USA and the Management School, London.
Dr. Abimbola is a Fellow of African Scientific Institute (FASI), Certified Forensic Investigation Professional (CFIP), Member International Academy of Forensics (MIAF), Fellow of Chartered Public Diplomacy and Management (FCPDM).
She is a current Council Member 2021 of the World Economic Forum:- Global Future Council on Space.
She has pursued an active career in the Space Sector for over 20years.

A veteran of collaborative product and startup innovation within Space, MediaTech, and AgTech, Dr Tim Parsons leads the Australian NewSpace network Delta-V, while consulting widely to research organisations, tech-focused SMEs, startup accelerators and incubators nationally. A member of the SIAA's advisory committee, Tim's formal board experience extends from his role as a non-executive director of not-for-profit MediaTech incubator The Studio Pty Ltd, as well as Australian representative director of Vimond Media Solutions APAC Pty Ltd. He is also a director of both his own consultancy Super Lumina Pty Ltd and the Delta-V Newspace Alliance Pty Ltd. Tim is also a member of the establishment committee of the SmartSatCRC, as well as chair of the establishment committee of the SmartSatCRC's Australian Space Industry Startup Cluster Company. Tim holds a PhD in Rarefied Hypersonic Flow Simulation from Imperial College, London, and is married with two children.

Mike Carey is a co-founder and the Chief Strategy Officer of ATLAS Space Operations. Before ATLAS, he served in the US Air Force for thirty-two years, attaining the rank of Major General. In the years since, Carey has refined his skills and expanded his knowledge. He now leads by first tuning in to the ever-changing satellite communications needs of society and ATLAS' clients. In doing so, the work that he is responsible for is centered around the development of infrastructure and technology that will bring people and space closer together. Carey has distilled his mission and streamlined ATLAS' efforts to provide innovative and proven solutions for satellite operators. Carey holds a BA in History from the University of Central Florida, an MPA from the University of Oklahoma, and an MA in National Security & Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. He's proud to have returned to his home state of Michigan, this time creating jobs and driving innovation.

Richard (Ric) A. VanderMeulen is Vice President, Space & Satellite Broadband at Viasat the world's largest operator of Satellite Communication Capacity. In this position since 2009, VanderMeulen is engaged in Viasat's efforts serving government and commercial markets with broadband, fixed and mobile Satellite Communication Services, Satcom Ground Segment solutions, and Satcom Customer Premise Equipment solutions.

Bringing both engineering and business expertise during his more than 30 years in the Satellite Communications industry, Mr. VanderMeulen has held senior general manager and program manager positions at Viasat, The Boeing Company, and Rockwell Collins. Before the formation of Government Systems Division, VanderMeulen was Vice President General Manager Government Satcom. He was responsible for all Viasat's government Satcom programs.

He joined Viasat in 2001. Previously, he served as Director, Business Development for Boeing's Space and Communication Group new ventures. Mr. VanderMeulen began his business career with Rockwell Collins as a design engineer and eventually as a business leader responsible for design completion and transitioned to production of multiple Satcom Systems including Milstar, SMART-T, SCAMP, and others.

Ric was born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the University of Virginia and graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.

Aude is a space and aeronautics engineer (graduating from ENSICA, Toulouse) starting her career at the European Space Agency in the Netherlands. Aude has 25 years' experience delivering large and complex programs introducing new technology in the telecommunication, space and media industries.

Jeremy Hallett is CEO & Managing Director at Clearbox Systems, one of Australian's longest standing and most successful Defence and Space businesses. In Space, Clearbox Systems has a particular emphasis on Satellite Communications and Space Domain Awareness. Clearbox's solutions have been deployed extensively in Australia and Internationally and are renowned for their technology, dependability of delivery and responsiveness to emerging requirements.

In addition, Jeremy is a Non-Executive Director of Australia's peak Space industry body the Space Industry Association of Australia as well as being an angel investor including being an Investor and Mentor in the Moonshot Space Accelerator.

Jeremy is passionate about Australia's Space Industry and believes in the ability of Australia's Space Industry to provide world-leading technology and services. He is an enthusiastic advocate for Australia's Space Industry and has deep technical, commercial and operational knowledge in key sectors where Australian Space Industry has a competitive advantage.

Nick leads the Satellite Sales and Marketing teams at Optus - Australasia's No.1 satellite owner and operator, and No.2 Telco - with 5 satellites in operation today, and the forthcoming Optus 11 - an Airbus OneSat announced in July 2020 to be launched in 2023. Prior to this, Nick spent 7 years at Speedcast where he was Asia Pacific VP of Sales managing three disparate teams from Pakistan, to China, to Tahiti! Nick drove the business case for Optus 11, which as a software defined very high throughput satellite, will be one of the most advanced Ku-Band GEO satellites in the world at launch.
He has an MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management and is trained as a Telecommunications Engineer, starting his career at Optus in the Satellite Operations Centre. Nick has worked in Operations, Engineering, Marketing and Sales and now focuses on managing successful teams. His most recent successes have been renewing contracts with Australia and New Zealand's largest Pay TV operators - Foxtel and SkyNZ - both until 2031, as well as significant works with the Australian Department of Defence - extending the life of type of the Optus C1 Defence satellite until 2027.
Nick is a thought leader and underpins a lot of the strategic direction of the business.

David Hartshorn has more than 25 years of experience in the communications industry. He serves as CEO of Geeks Without Frontiers, a non-profit technology-neutral organization that applies financially sustainable innovation to solve connectivity challenges worldwide. Mr. Hartshorn leads the organization as it catalyzes public and private sector initiatives to bridge the "Digital Divide" and reach the UN "Sustainable Goals".

Whitney Lohmeyer is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Olin College and a Research Affiliate at MIT in Aeronautics and Astronautics. She leads the Olin Satellite + Spectrum Technology & Policy (OSSTP) Group, and manages and contributes to the field of satellite communications systems. She also works closely with industry to advise on end-to-end system design, antenna systems, RF power amplification, radiation tolerance and spectrum strategy. Whitney is passionate about enabling affordable Internet access in order to generate economic growth and improve healthcare and education. Whitney was the first engineer hired at OneWeb, a company launching hundreds of a low earth orbit communications satellites to provide global broadband and bridge the digital divide. While at OneWeb, she held a variety of roles both technical and policy-focused. As a Systems Engineer, she designed the RF Link Budget, and worked on the end-to-end communications system design, focusing on the LTE waveform and the user terminal antenna. In addition, she actively contributed to policy reform at the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and United Nations (UN) International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and represented OneWeb on the U.S. Delegation to the 2015 World Radio Conference, the culmination of a three-year regulatory review cycle. Prior to joining the OneWeb team, she worked as a hardware engineer at Google, and spent time in technical roles at Inmarsat and NASA. Whitney received her Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 2015, and her M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 2013, both funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. She earned her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from NC State University in 2011, as the only female in her class of approximately ninety students, and now currently serves on the board of North Carolina State University's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Department. She has been invited to speak at a variety of events including NC State's 2018 MAE Commencement Ceremony, the UN Women's Gender Equality and Mainstreaming (GEM) The Internet of Women: Challenge or Opportunity? and the UN's and ITU's Women's Leadership Workshop on Empowering Women in Radiocommunications Negotiations.

Dr. Michael Potter, is a co-Founder of Geeks Without Frontier and a Board Director at the International Institute of Space Commerce. He serves as a Distinguished Lecturer & Faculty Member of the International Space University. His articles on high technology business and policy have been widely published. Potter received his MS degree from the London School of Economics and was a member of the inaugural class of the International Space University held at MIT.

Dr. Hannah Kerner is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland. Her research involves developing new machine learning methods for analyzing remote sensing data for agricultural monitoring, food security, and other applications in Earth and planetary science. Dr. Kerner is the Machine Learning Lead and US Co-Lead for NASA Harvest, NASA's agriculture and food security initiative run out of the University of Maryland.

Clint Crosier leads the AWS Aerospace and Satellite Solutions business, responsible for providing commercial and government customers with tailored, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions for building satellites, conducting space and launch operations, and reimagining space exploration. Prior to joining AWS, he spent 33 years in the US Air Force and US Space Force retiring as a Major General. During his career, he operated GPS, SatCom, and missile warning satellite constellations, launched Atlas and Titan rockets putting national security payloads in orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office and Air Force Space Command, deployed to the Middle East during Operation Enduring Freedom as USSCENTCOM's Director of Space Forces, and led Requirements and Strategy Development for the entire US Air Force. He has commanded at the Squadron, Group, and Wing levels, and held leadership roles as a US Senate Staffer and in the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. Prior to retiring from military service, he was the lead planner and architect of the stand-up of the US Space Force, the first new military service in 72 years.

Dr. Sara Spangelo worked on small satellites and autonomous aircraft at the University of Michigan and was a lead systems engineer at both NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and Google X. Her expertise is in modeling and optimizing satellite constellations to maximize impact and business opportunities. Sara holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and in 2017 was a Top 32 Canadian astronaut candidate.

David Meltzer has 30 years of experience in the satellite and humanitarian industries. Mr. Meltzer currently leads the Global VSAT Forum which is the largest global trade association for the commercial satellite industry. As GVF's Secretary General, he leads advocacy efforts on behalf of the industry with national and international regulators while providing members with benefits in areas such as online and classroom training, organizing industry conferences, and leading industry working groups on topics that include international regulatory matters, sustainable space operations, and disaster relief. Prior to leading GVF as its Secretary General, Mr. Meltzer worked for sixteen years at the world's largest communications satellite operator -- Intelsat -- and served as Intelsat's General Counsel and Executive Vice President for Regulatory Affairs. Following Intelsat, Mr. Meltzer served for thirteen years at the American Red Cross leading its international disaster relief and development activities and served as the American Red Cross' General Counsel for over five years. Mr. Meltzer has extensive experience working with senior members of government and has made numerous appearances before media, the U.S. Congress, the United Nations, ITU, and other national and international organizations.

Robert Bell serves as the Executive Director of both the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) and World Teleport Association (WTA), where he is responsible for the programs, finances and operations of the organizations. Mr. Bell has led business development missions to cities in Asia and the US; authored articles in Asia-Pacific Broadcasting, Satellite News, Satellite Executive Briefing, The Municipal Journal of Telecommunications Policy, Telecommunica¬tions and Asian Communications; and appeared in segments of ABC World News and The Discovery Channel. He is a frequent speaker and moderator at industry conferences including SATELLITE and NAB. He also authors WTA's research reports including Satellite Operator Benchmarks, Best Practices in Teleport Valuation, and Teleports in a Gigabit World.

Marco Brancati is CTO of Telespazio, which he joined in 1990, coming from Selenia Industrie where he had dealt with System Analysis activities for Electronic Defence division.
After some experiences as subsystem project manager in the frame of Italsat F1 and SAX satellite missions, he has been Program Manager up to 2001 for the Operations Engineering and O&M activities relevant to Iridium and Astrolink programs.
Key Account Manager for UE and Eumetsat from 2002 to 2003, he has managed Telespazio Studies Unit within Studies and Innovative Projects Business Unit from 2004 to 2005.
Responsible for Telespazio Institutional Programs up to beginning of 2007 (Sicral 1B and Athena-FIDUS among the others), he has been Head of Marketing & Commercial Planning in the frame of Telespazio Commercial Directorate up to August 2008.
In September 2008 he was appointed as Vice President of Telespazio Network & Connectivity Business Line, being responsible for the development all TLC and TV programs and product in the company.

Joe Landon is Vice President of Advanced Programs Development for Lockheed Martin's Commercial Civil Space line of business. He is responsible for Lockheed Martin's Space Exploration strategy, and he leads an organization accountable for new business growth, strategy and R&D for human spaceflight, robotic deep space exploration, commercial communications, weather and Earth science markets. Previously, Joe served as CFO of Planetary Resources and co-founded Space Angels.

Joe is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Space, an Associate Fellow of AIAA and a Member of the International Academy of Astronautics. He holds a BS in Engineering Physics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, an MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Al Tadros is the Vice President of Space Infrastructure and Civil Space at Maxar. For more than 29 years, Tadros has worked with both commercial enterprises and government agencies to develop space systems for communications, satellite servicing, remote sensing, and exploration.
At Maxar he has held increasingly responsible engineering and business development positions, and has most recently led significant innovation in next-generation spacecraft design and space infrastructure; integrating robotics and on-orbit satellite manufacturing, servicing, and assembly capabilities. He also works to draw attention to the value of commercial satellite technologies, hosted payloads and system solutions for government missions. Over the course of his career at SSL he has participated in 13 missions and launch campaigns, many of which deployed cutting-edge communications and remote sensing systems.
Tadros holds patents in the field of attitude control systems, and was responsible for early telerobotics research for the International Space Station. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering and a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Andrew Penn is a Director at Avascent where he provides strategic guidance to spacecraft & launch manufacturers, commercial satellite operators, service providers, national space organizations, and transactional clients. A leader within Avascent's space and satellite communications practice, he has supported over 100 engagements ranging from market growth/entry strategies and M&A transactions, to adjacent market studies and joint venture business case analyses. He has served as lead advisor on numerous space industry transactions, including Triton Bidco's 2019 acquisition of Inmarsat.
Andrew is a sought-after contributor in leading space and SATCOM industry press for his market commentary and analysis, having contributed perspectives and Op-editorials in Via Satellite, SpaceNews, Avionics Today, and The Connected Aircraft link. He is also an frequent moderator and panelist at the annual Satellite show in Washington DC and The Connected Aircraft Summit.
Prior to joining Avascent, Andrew worked in the energy practice at NERA Economic Consulting. Andrew holds a BA from Northwestern University in Economics and Mathematics and completed the certificate program in Financial Economics from the Kellogg School of Management.

2014 - until present: Co head of European Telecom and Satellite Equity Research - Barclays
2003- 2014: Director - Senior Equity Analyst - European Telecom and Satellites Equity Research - Exane BNP Paribas
2000-2003: Equity Analyst - European Telecoms - Bank of America; DLJ
1998-2000: Fund Manager - Latin America - Merrill Lynch Asset Management

Brian Weeden is the Director of Program Planning for Secure World Foundation, and Executive Director of CONFERS. In his role with SWF, Dr. Weeden directs strategic planning for future-year projects to meet the Foundation's goals and objectives, and conducts research on space debris, global space situational awareness, space traffic management, protection of space assets, and space governance. Dr. Weeden also organizes national and international workshops to increase awareness of and facilitate dialogue on space security, stability, and sustainability topics. He is a member and former Chair of the World Economic Forum's Council on the Future of Space Technologies, and is also a member of the Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES) to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Prior to joining SWF, Dr. Weeden served nine years on active duty as an officer in the United States Air Force working in space and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) operations. Dr. Weeden holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University, a Master's Degree in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Public Administration from George Washington University in the field of Science and Technology Policy.

Peter Kant is CEO of Accion Systems. Peter Kant brings two decades of experience at the nexus of business, government, technology and policy including leadership positions in state and federal government, large companies, start-ups, and non-profits. He also currently serves on multiple corporate boards and advisory boards of venture funds.

Peter was previously CEO of Synapse Technology, which developed computer vision artificial intelligence technologies for the security industry. He took Synapse from pre-revenue to $6M in ARR resulting in a successful exit acquisition in just over 12 months.

Peter previously served as Vice President, Federal Partnerships at SRI International. SRI is a large non-profit research and development institute headquartered in Silicon Valley and provides R&D in multiple science and technology disciplines including artificial intelligence, bioscience, computer science, education policy, robotics and space. In his role he led SRI's overall strategy and relationships in support of all fits $400M+ federal government programs and activities. While at SRI, Peter led SRI's Center for Innovation Strategy and Policy as Executive Director. The Washington, D.C.-based Center focuses on the impacts of science and technology on public policy and strategy.

Prior to joining SRI in 2014, Peter served as Executive Vice President at OSI Systems, Inc, a publicly-traded security and medical technology firm. Over his 10-year career at OSI, he held multiple positions (primarily at Rapiscan Systems) including, leading the International Division, leading the US Division and he also held senior roles in global government affairs and business development. During his tenure Rapiscan grew annual revenues from ~$200M to over $900M

Peter started his career in government service working in political positions at the state and federal levels. He worked for Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II; served as Policy Director for the Texas House of Representatives; and served as an appointee in President Clinton's administration at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and on Vice President Gore's Domestic Policy staff.

Peter earned his undergraduate degree in politics and economics from Brandeis University and his Masters of Public Policy at Duke University.

Carolyn Belle engages in space industry growth and diversification, with expertise in the market dynamics of on-orbit servicing, emerging satellite applications, and the creation of diversified space architectures. Carolyn currently works with commercial and government satellite operators to pursue new approaches to on-orbit operations and ways to secure space sustainability in her role at Astroscale U.S., where she serves as the Director of Advanced Systems. She previously led KSAT's standardized ground network development in the U.S. and, as a consultant and industry analyst, advised companies throughout the value chain on key opportunities & strategic direction. She started her career in astrobiology research before focusing her passion for space on building the business environment and underlying infrastructure necessary to facilitate dynamic industry expansion.

Carolyn holds a Bachelor's degree from The Colorado College with a focus in Biology and Chemistry and completed the International Space University's multidisciplinary Master's program in Space Management. She has been active in leading STEM outreach initiatives as well as efforts to strengthen women's roles and recognition within the space industry.

Anirudh Sharma is the co-founder and CEO at Digantara, building India's first active space situational awareness solution based in space. Digantara is developing a patent-backed comprehensive SSA solution suite for modelling centimetre-sized Resident Space Objects (RSO) and space weather in Low Earth Orbit.

Back in 2016, I started a research project about the spherical motor with my partner Sam. We were studying this topic in a laboratory in EE, National Cheng-Kung University. In the meanwhile, there comes an opportunity that our lab is helping the National Space Organization in Taiwan to build a single-axis reaction wheel.

By participating in that reaction wheel development work, we found a pain point for satellites, "attitude control system take a significant portion of the weight and volume from a satellite." Therefore, we started to aim our spherical motor for satellite applications and tried to resolve the obstacles for satellite minimization.

After years of research, we finally worked out a feasible solution and spin-out from NCKU as a startup company in 2019. We hope that our spherical motor solution can help people save more costs and extract more value from a space mission. Ultimately, make people invest more resources into it. That's the dream and driving force for me and Tensor Tech to go forward.

A graduate of California State Polytechnic University Pomona, obtaining his Master Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1981.

Mr. Balkheyour has 25 years of experience in the Telecommunication field starting with the Saudi Ministry of PTT later known as Saudi Telecommunication Company (STC). He was the Vice President of Operations and Maintenance.

He held the position of Executive Vice President for Marketing and Sales in Lucent Technologies, formerly known as AT&T, from 1999 to 2003.

In May 2003 he was selected to head the Arab Satellite Communications Organization (ARABSAT).

Mr. Johnsen is Chief Financial Officer of SpaceX, overseeing the long-term financial development of the company, interfacing with the financial community and managing the company's internal financial operations. Bret brings more than 20 years of financial leadership experience to SpaceX, mostly in highprofile, publicly traded companies. He has served in this role since joining SpaceX in 2011.

Previously, Bret spent nearly a decade at Broadcom Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, where he helped transform the company into a leading Fortune 500 technology company. Starting out as Controller for a number of business groups within Broadcom, he quickly rose through the ranks. He ultimately was named Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, overseeing an 80-member accounting organization in nine countries.

Naia Butler-Craig is an Aerospace Engineering PhD Student and GEM Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is a member of GT's High-Power Electric Propulsion Lab. She obtained her B.S in Aerospace Engineering with a special concentration in Astronautics and a minor in Computational Mathematics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. She is also a NASA Pathways intern in the Science and Space Technology Systems branch at Glenn Research Center.
During her undergraduate career, she had the opportunity to gain invaluable research experience as a McNair scholar, undergraduate research assistant, NASA student, and GEM Fellow with Los Alamos National Laboratories. Her experience thus far has been in spacecraft test and development, sub-kilowatt electric propulsion, spacecraft attitude simulation, kinetic simulations, and astrophysics.
She is involved in a variety of professional, philanthropic and developmental extra-curricular activities on and off campus. She has served in multiple capacities, including on the regional board, in the National Society of Black Engineers. She founded both the dance club (Embry-Riddle Dancing Eagles) and the ERAU chapter of the Society of Women in Space Exploration (SWISE) at Embry-Riddle. And finally, she volunteered in Dreams Soar Inc. working as their STEM Programs Lead, and community outreach analyst. She has been a speaker at various STEM outreach events as well as technical speaker at academic conferences.
Her ultimate goal is to become a mission specialist astronaut and participate and contribute to deep space exploration.

Marcus is an aerospace engineer with a specialisation in spacecraft electric propulsion systems. A dual-national with both British and Slovak citizenship, he completed Master's degree in Spacecraft Engineering from the University of Southampton in July 2018. His masters project concerned the development, manufacture and testing of a neutraliser for a Microwave ECR Gridded Ion Thruster, the first successful testing of such a neutraliser outside of Japan. This project received the highest grade of any Masters project in the engineering faculty at Southampton and was shortlisted for the university's design excellence award.
Marcus moved to Germany in 2018 to work on spacecraft propulsion systems at Ariane Group at the Orbital Propulsion Centre in Lampoldshausen. In 2019, Marcus joined the SUPREME project, contributing to the preparation of a Horizon 2020 proposal to develop an Applied-Field Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster incorporating superconductors. Following the proposal submission, Marcus co-founded the new start-up Neutron Star Systems, aiming to commercialise superconductor technology for space applications, where he acts as the CTO.

Thierry LEMOINE is CTO of MIS THALES Business Line.
He works for THALES since 1985 with a background in physics. He was formerly involved in component and equipment development and industrialization, mainly for microwave application. As CTO of THALES activity in microelectronics, he was in charge in particular of T/R module design and production for airborne and seaborne radars and counter-measure defense systems. Since 2005, as CTO of THALES MIS, he managed R&D activity in TWT (Traveling Wave Tubes) and eletric propulsion (HEMPT), in particular for space applications.

Jim Maser is Senior Vice President of Aerojet Rocketdyne's Space Business Unit. In this role, he is responsible for leading the design, development, test and manufacturing for launch and space propulsion systems.

Mr. Maser has more than 32 years of global aerospace experience and leadership, spanning entrepreneurial space launch, human spaceflight as well as commercial and military jet engines. He previously served as president of James G. Advisors, LLC, a strategy, leadership and technical execution consulting firm. Prior to that, he held a number of roles within Pratt & Whitney between 2006 and 2017, including vice president of the F135 engine program and president of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, where he was responsible for the design, manufacture and performance of power and propulsion systems across numerous platforms.

A long-time leader in the aerospace industry, Mr. Maser has extensive experience in program management, design and engineering leadership. Beginning with the Boeing Delta and Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle programs in structural design, he became lead of advanced studies in systems integration and was one of the key architects of the evolution of Delta II to Delta IV. In 1998, he transitioned to chief engineer of Sea Launch. Before joining McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) in the 1980s, he was a research fellow at NASA/Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center.

Mr. Maser graduated magna cum laude from the University of Akron with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and a Master of Science in Engineering. He later received a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2000, the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) honored him with its George M. Low Space Transportation Award.
Additionally, he currently serves on the board of trustees and as a past president of AIAA. Mr. Maser also serves as an Advisory Board Member for Firefly Aerospace Inc. He previously served on the board of directors of the Space Foundation as well as the California Chamber of Commerce.

Brad brings over 22 years of software development experience in the aerospace industry to the ATLAS team. He has designed, developed, tested, and deployed satellite command and control, mission planning, and data management applications throughout his career. Now, Brad is oversees the ground-breaking Freedom™ Software Platform. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Northern Illinois University.

Miranda Pirrie, President of Satellite Management Services Division and member of the SSC Executive Team.
Chartered Aerospace Engineer and has worked for 30 years within the space and aviation industry. Her prior positions in the Space sector were as President, Aviation at Inmarsat and Global Sales & Marketing Director and UK National Director of ENS Satellites at Airbus Space.
Having worked at Airbus Group, Inmarsat, Rolls Royce Aero Engines and GoAir Airlines in India, Miranda brings with her valuable experience for the journey that lies ahead for SSC in the Satellite Ground Network Services domain.

Dedi David Haziza - CEO and Founder
Entrepreneur with deep technological background ranging from Microwave circuitry and Antennas through various communication systems both for terrestrial networks and space. Led the technology innovation center for Google Air, developing space, air and ground platforms for Global connectivity. Over 20 years' experience spanning from Israeli defense and space industry through commercial Industry in the US [Companies like CalAmp, DirecTV, Google, WaveBender and few others], Function as the System Architect of Wafer Technological innovation.
Holds a BSc. In Electrical Engineering Suma Cum Laude from the Technion Haifa and MSc. In Physical Electronics From Tel-Aviv University as well as an MBA, holds over 30 patents.

Sean Yarborough is a Vice President of Product Management at ST Engineering iDirect. In this role, Yarborough oversees the strategies for iDirect's platform portfolio which includes managing the entire lifecycle from conception to end of life.
Prior to joining ST Engineering iDirect, Sean was a Vice President of Service Assurance, with Spirent Communications, where he managed a portfolio of mature and new service assurance solutions for voice, video, and data services in the telecommunications and enterprise markets. These solutions ranged from traditional hardware appliances to SaaS based solutions. At Spirent, Sean advised leading service providers around the world on best practices for activating, monitoring, and troubleshooting business, wireless, and residential services.
With over 25 years of experience in the IT, mobile, telecom, and satellite markets, Sean offers a unique blend of knowledge and cross-functional experience to educate the global community on the importance of satellite technology and its continued alignment with telco initiatives.
He has a BS in Electrical Engineering (University of Virginia) and an MBA (University of Maryland - College Park).

Mr. Rousseau has more than 25 years of experience in the space and satellite sector and has worked in various functions in business, management, consulting, research, administration and marketing communications throughout his career.

He joined NSR in 2006 where he currently acts as Research Director, responsible for market research and consulting engagements in sectors such as mobility via satellite (aeronautical, maritime, land-mobile, unmanned aerial systems), government and military satcom, energy, satellite manufacturing and launch services and Earth Observation. He provides regional expertise in Europe, the Middle-East and Africa region.

Mr. Rousseau was previously with the International Space University (ISU), a higher education institution for which he managed Professional Development Programs. He later co-founded Futuraspace, an international space consulting firm. Earlier, he worked for the Canadian Space Agency where he held various positions in administration, management and strategy.

He has a B.Sc. with majors in Physics and Astrophysics from the University of Calgary (Canada) and a Master of Space Studies (MSc.) from the International Space University (France). Mr. Rousseau is based in Strasbourg, France.

Dr. Teresa Segura is currently the Space & Connectivity Principal in the Boeing HorizonX Ventures Portfolio Development organization, focused on value creation, new technology insertion, and project management for the portfolio companies. Prior to joining Boeing, she served as Vice President of Business Development and Strategy at Accion Systems and led corporate strategy, sales, and partnerships. Previously, she was Director of Marketing and Sales for Space Systems/Loral (now Maxar Technologies) responsible for sales strategies for customers in Asia and the Americas. Before joining SSL, she was a business development campaign manager for Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems and led engineering design and capture for spacecraft missions targeted for the solar system. Early in her career, Dr. Segura held various space science positions within NASA and Academia, publishing several papers on the climatology of Mars. Dr. Segura earned her bachelor's degree in astrophysics from Columbia University, and her Master's and Doctorate in astrophysical, planetary, and atmospheric sciences from the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Dr. Vigeant-Langlois is a Managing Director at AE Industrial Partners, LP. Her primary focus is on portfolio management, new business development, and aircraft and engine leasing. She currently serves on the boards of AE Industrial Partners' portfolio companies Alpine Air, Applied Composites, Columbia Helicopters and UAV Factory, and is a board observer with FLYR Labs.

Prior to joining AE Industrial Partners, Dr. Vigeant-Langlois worked for GE Aviation as Chief Executive Officer of the GE Passport joint venture and program management executive responsible for the Passport, CF34-3 and CF34-8C engines on Bombardier and Mitsubishi's business and regional aircraft. Previously at GE, Dr. Vigeant-Langlois played a key role in launching and growing GE Additive to become a leading force in industrial 3D printing, and led the strategy and global marketing team supporting the sale of GE Aviation's engines, systems and services across commercial, business and military aviation.

Before GE, Dr. Vigeant-Langlois led commercial, product and engineering teams in aerospace and high-tech industries. At Sikorsky Aircraft (now part of Lockheed Martin), she launched new engineering innovation programs. At aircraft lessor CIT (now Avolon), she gained increasing responsibilities in the acquisition of over $9B of aircraft and engines. At The Weather Company (part of IBM), she led the democratization of cockpit weather information and the launch of SiriusXM Aviation Weather. She also previously transported air freight flying Learjets across North America.

She received a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University, SM and PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and is a graduate of the International Space University space studies program. She is certified as an FAA commercial pilot with Learjet privileges and is a flight instructor in gliders. She serves as an advisor to tele-medicine company Triangulate Labs LLC, and has previously served as a trustee with iSPACE and on the boards of IAWA, ATRIF and the MIT Enterprise Forum.

Peter Beck is the founder and chief executive of Rocket Lab, a space technology company and global leader in dedicated small satellite launch. Since founding the business in 2006, Peter has grown Rocket Lab to become a globally recognised industry leader in space and a billion-dollar company employing hundreds of world-class engineers and technicians.
Peter established Rocket Lab's Electron orbital launch program in 2013. Electron is the world's first fully carbon-composite launch vehicle, powered by 3D printed, electric turbopump-fed rocket engines. Since the first Electron launch in 2017, Rocket Lab has delivered scores of satellites to orbit, enabling operations in space debris mitigation, Earth observation, ship and airplane tracking, and radio communications. Peter also oversees the development of Rocket Lab's satellite program, Photon, which develops spacecraft buses tailored for a range of small satellite missions to LEO, lunar, and interplanetary destinations.

Dawn Harms is the Chief Executive Officer at Momentus and member of their board of directors. A proven leader in the global satellite and launch services industry, Ms. Harms formerly served as Momentus' Chief Revenue Officer. She was previously the Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at Boeing Satellite Systems International and has held executive positions at International Launch Services (ILS) and Space Systems Loral (now MAXAR). She received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has long served on their engineering advisory board. She is chairwoman emeritus of the Space and Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) and currently serves on ManSat's board of directors.

With more than 35 years of industry experience, Mr. Novotney and Ensign-Bickford have been at the forefront of separation technologies used on launch vehicle, human space, and satellite/spacecraft platforms. Ensign-Bickford has been the primary domestic supplier of stage, fairing, and payload separation systems for more than 60 years.

Jay Skylus is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Engineer of the Aether Transport System of Aevum. Jay establishes the corporate direction and is responsible for leading all facets of the company including product development. He has a proven track record in aerospace leadership that includes the design and hot fire of seven different rocket engines, development of six launch vehicles, and the growth of four space startups prior to Aevum.

Jay's aerospace career includes leadership launch positions in legacy companies, government agencies, and the commercial space sector - an advantageous, comprehensive background most space startup founders do not have. At the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), he helped develop an autonomous interplanetary shockwave detection technology that could improve NOAA's early space weather forecast capabilities for satellites in near-Earth orbits. Following CSPAR, he helped develop and test nuclear fuel elements for the next generation of nuclear thermal rockets (NTR) at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). It was during his time at NASA MSFC that NASA engineers and directors mentored Jay to help him achieve his dream of democratizing space access.

Following his nuclear work, Jay led a small team in the design, build, and demonstration of an in-orbit servicing spacecraft platform capable of autonomous rendezvous and docking in NASA's Flight Robotics Laboratory. His work in space weather and nuclear rockets was published at the International Astronautical Congress in Naples, Italy, where he was one of the youngest speakers at the time. Following NASA, Jay worked to design and hot fire the rocket engines at Moon Express, which went on to win a milestone prize of $1.25 million from the Google Lunar XPrize. Jay's other notable positions include Propulsion Systems Integration and Analysis at Boeing, Chief Engineer of Conspire Technology (predecessor of Aevum), and other commercial small launch programs.

Brian joined Isotropic Systems in its early days in 2017 and currently leads the Product Team ensuring successful productization of Isotropic's ground-breaking technology. His expertise in the design and development of mmWave communication, radar, and electronic warfare systems, cultivated during his years at Northrop Grumman, has helped Isotropic push the envelope in solving their customers' most challenging requirements.
Most recently, at L3Harris Specialty Applications Division, Brian led the hardware design team in successful delivery of a wide variety of unique, rapid turnaround specialty products for government customers.
Brian received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Bucknell University and his M.S. in RF Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Pls see my Bio from Sat2019

Ram Rao has over 30 years of satellite and terrestrial communications experience and expertise in both technical and management roles. His areas of expertise range from systems level to components level under commercial satellite systems, earth stations, and networks. Ram has held experience in Government and Commercial industry in both technical and management roles.

Ram is currently Director of Advanced Engineering technologies at Leonardo DRS Global Enterprise Solutions that a leading contractor providing mission-critical Communications and security solutions to US Government and DoD. He is currently involved in the LEO ecosystems (Satellite, Ground, User Terminal Segments) and 5G networks. His earlier work includes Technical Consultancy at Federal Aviation Administration on Satellite-based Augmentation System (SBAS) for Position, Navigation, Time-(PNT) and Aircraft Navigation applications. Ram worked at Director of Systems Engineering and Vice President of Network Engineering at WorldSpace Satellite Digital Radio, as well as Senior Technical Manager at Hughes Network Systems in the area of Mobile Satellite Systems.

Ram holds MBA in International Business from Georgetown University and Master of Engineering from Bangalore University.

Doug Schroeder
Office of the Secretary of Defense, OUSD(R&E), JCTD Directorate
Oversight Executive, and Director of FNC3 Mission Prototyping

Doug Schroeder became an Oversight Executive within the JCTD office in February 2019 after serving USD(A&S) as Deputy Director, C4ISR Division and Branch Chief for National Intelligence Systems since July 2016.
A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mr. Schroeder was commissioned an officer in the U.S. Navy upon graduation from Purdue University in 1982.
He later earned Master of Science degrees at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and also the National Defense University / Industrial College of the Armed Forces (NDU/ICAF).
During his 26 years as a naval officer, Mr. Schroeder was designated as a Naval Flight Officer, Engineering Duty Officer, Joint Specialty Officer, and Acquisition Workforce Professional in Program Management, Systems Engineering Test and Evaluation, and Information Technology.
He served multiple tours on Navy Staff and Air Staff, and one tour on Army Staff.
Duty assignments included the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Strategic Systems Programs Office, National Reconnaissance Office, SPAWAR Space Field Activity (plank-owner), Transformational Communications Office (as Director in command), and the National Security Space Office. He concluded his naval career a Navy Captain as the senior space-qualified Engineering Duty Officer in the Navy, and as the Space Systems Engineering community mentor.
Following his transition from the U.S. Navy in 2008, Mr. Schroeder worked in private industry and as an independent consultant for eight years as a space systems engineer, an acquisition professional, a program manager, and as a senior executive in business development for material solutions providers such as Intelsat General and Raytheon in spaceborne solutions and capabilities. He returned to the Pentagon in 2016 to advise Navy Staff on the tactical exploitation of national capabilities, and later the Office of the Secretary of Defense in defense and intelligence work specializing in space acquisition, program management, systems engineering, and satellite communications enterprise architectures.

Dr. Juan Deaton is currently a research scientist at Envistacom, where he is using his 20 years of telecom experience and research to build virtualized transport satellite systems. In his previous employment with Comtech EF Data, he was engaged in a variety of different types of research like anti-jam waveforms, satellite channel models, and developing LDPC codes for Versa FEC 2. Before working at Comtech EF Data, he worked for the Idaho National Lab, where he researched spectrum optimization, spectrum modeling, and emergency communications. Before the INL, Juan worked for Motorola's CDMA network division where he was the recipient of the 2005 CDMA quality award for developing hands-on training for CDMA cellular equipment deployments. His patented and published work includes spectrum sharing in cellular networks, wireless airborne emergency communications, and mobile advertising. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees were earned from Virginia Tech and BSEE from the University of Idaho.

Doctor Vigil holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Central Florida where he specialized in modem waveforms and communications signal processing. Doctor Vigil's career has loosely focused on migrating major communication systems from analog formats to digital formats. He was the first to publicly demonstrate In-Band On-Channel FM Digital Audio Broadcasting, the precursor to HD Radio, and he holds four patents in this area. He holds another four patents in Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) digital broadcast television (DTV). Dr. Vigil is now a Senior Scientist with Systems Technologies, Inc (Systek) supporting the U.S. Army Product Manager, Wideband Enterprise SATCOM Systems (PdM WESS), where he serves as the lead Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance Subject Matter Expert (SETA SME) on SATCOM Modems, on Digital Signal Processing in general and on Digital IF in particular. In this capacity, Dr. Vigil quickly recognized DOD SATCOM's growth challenges, quantified its geometric growth rates, and began, as early as 2007, to champion and advocate for the migration of the DOD SATCOM Earth segment architecture from L-Band to Digital IF. Dr. Vigil is an IEEE Senior Member, holds the 2001 IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award in recognition of contributions to Digital Audio Broadcasting and is a member of the MILCOM Technical Program Committee.

Mr. Grady has been involved in the Satellite Communications industry since 2005, joining NSR in 2010. He is NSR's Energy market subject matter expert, and a core member of NSR's mobility research practice for both civil and government markets. He regularly provides his insights and analysis to NSR's single-client consulting practice, and is also a regular contributor to leading industry publications and forums.
Before joining NSR, Mr. Grady served as the Sustainable Development Projects Coordinator Intern with the Global VSAT Forum where he worked regularly with the GVF Secretariat and the Regulatory Working Group on many of the forum's initiatives. Working with the Regulatory Working Group, Mr. Grady helped develop and implement various RWG initiatives aimed at protecting satellite spectrum, increasing awareness of satellite services, and working to promote regulatory reforms across the globe.
Mr. Grady holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park where his research focused on renewable/alternative energies, Information Communication Technologies and the Satellite Communications Industry. He works in NSR's Washington DC office.
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Suzanne E. McBride, has served as Iridium's Chief Operations Officer since February 2019. Ms. McBride served as Chief Operating Officer of OneWeb, Ltd., a company that is building a new satellite constellation, from October 2018 to January 2019 and as its Senior Vice President from June 2016 to October 2018. Previously, she was employed by Iridium Satellite LLC, our primary operating subsidiary, in a series of positions with increasing responsibility from 2007 until June 2016, most recently serving as its Vice President, Program Management Office and Launch Services, a role in which she oversaw the launch program for the Iridium NEXT constellation. Ms. McBride has more than 25 years of experience in the satellite industry, including building and launching the original Iridium satellite constellation while at Motorola's Satellite Communications Group as a senior engineer in the 1990's. Ms. McBride received her Masters of Business Administration from the University of Tennessee in the Executive Aerospace and Defense program, and her dual undergraduate degrees are from Columbia University in Industrial Engineering and Claremont McKenna College in Management Engineering. Ms. McBride also holds a master's degree in Program Management from George Washington University and is Project Management Institute certified.

Shey Sabripour is the founder and CEO of CesiumAstro, Inc. Shey has nearly three decades of leadership success in design, development and execution of LEO and GEO telecommunication satellites, launch vehicles, and other interplanetary space vehicles.

During his 24 years of continuous career with Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Shey served as a design engineer, technology innovator, program manager and ultimately, the Director of Spacecraft Design responsible for an organization of 370 engineers, scientists, and business professionals in missions ranging from $100M to $1B.

From 2001 through 2005 Shey served as the Director of Agile Payload Program, where he led a multidisciplinary team for design, development, qualification and successful flight of the first Lockheed Martin Commercial Active Phased Array Payload. His last program at Lockheed Martin was in the design, development, qualification and production of the United States Navy's first MUOS communication satellite. Shey was recognized 14 times by Lockheed Martin Corporation as a visionary innovator and program leader. He was named person of the year in 2005 at Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems.

From September of 2014 to December of 2016, Shey served as the CTO for Firefly Space Systems, a startup rocket company in Austin Texas. In that role, Shey was responsible for technical and program management of the Alpha Rocket. He was instrumental in growing the small team of 11 engineers to more than 160 in 2016. His team successfully bid and won the NASA VCLS mission and two DARPA contracts at Firefly.

Shey earned his B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from North Dakota State University in 1985. He has pursued continuing education in both electrical engineering and executive business management at institutions such as New Jersey Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Santa Clara University, University of Maryland and Lockheed Martin Center for Leadership excellence.

Morten Hagland Hansen is responsible for managing iNet's extensive 4G LTE / 5G NR terrestrial wireless network that enables companies to achieve the full range of benefits from a digital transformation of their field operations. Most recently, Hansen was vice president, Commercial Maritime & Energy Sales at SES S.A. (SESG:EN Paris). Before SES, he was senior vice president - Business Services and chief technology officer at RigNet, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNET). Hansen holds an MBA in Energy from the BI Norwegian Business School.

Dr. Jeffrey Freedman, PhD is the CEO of Kythera Space Solutions and the Chief Technical Officer of RKF Engineering. With more than 30 years of telecommunication engineering and software development experience, Dr. Freedman has been responsible for designing satellite systems, software systems, communication networks and supporting technologies for customers such as Facebook, Google, NBNCo, TerreStar, NASA, DISA, SES, Intelsat, DirecTV, Terrestar, Pegasus, Disney, Turner Broadcasting, and many others.

Jeff holds over 70 patents in antenna design, satellite payload architectures, beamforming, processor architectures, space debris detection, satellite resource management, telecommunication architectures, and computer animation. He is highly regarded as a subject matter expert in optimizing satellite and space network performance through the design of both hardware and software systems.

Jeff also designed several award-winning software products, including "CAGE" which won the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC Software of the Year Award, and "3d Choreographer" which won Windows Magazine's Win 100 Award.

Jeff holds a BSEE from North Carolina State University, an MSEE from Cornell University, and a PhD in EE from the University of Maryland.

Charity joined Astroscale U.S. in July 2019. She coordinates and synchronizes Astroscale's global policy efforts towards spaceflight safety and long-term space sustainability.

Charity brings a rich experience in aerospace operations, advocacy, and diplomacy. She is a 23-year veteran of the Royal Canadian Air Force, was previously Senior Director of Policy at the Satellite Industry Association, and formed a consulting business to support the space industry.

Charity serves as the Chair of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee, is a fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, and is a mentor for the Brooke Owens Fellowship.

Charity received her Bachelor of Engineering in mechanical engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada and a Master of Science in space science from the University of North Dakota. She is an alumnus of the International Space University Summer Session Program.

Gregg Daffner is co-founder and CEO of GapSat, which leases in-orbit, operational satellites to satellite operators for use in their orbital slots for interim periods of time, generally until the operator launches its own satellite.

Previously Gregg co-founded and was president of Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS). He headed satellite services for Hong Kong Telecom, was VP for PanAmSat and Lockheed Martin, and Director of International Policy for the US government's National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

Gregg is a founding member and current President of the Asia Pacific Satellite Communications Council (APSCC) and is Chairman of the AVIA (formerly CASBAA) Satellite Wireless Action Group.

Gregg is an attorney who began his career as a New York based filmmaker and video artist.

Simonetta Di Pippo is Director of UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), a position which sees her lead the Office's strategic, policy and programmatic activities and advising the UN Secretary-General on space affairs. Prior to joining UNOOSA, she served as Director of Human Spaceflight at the European Space Agency, and previously also as Director of the Observation of the Universe at the Italian National Space Agency, ASI. She is an Academician of IAA and a member of WEF Global Future Council on Space Technologies since 2016 and its co-chair since 2020. She co-founded Women in Aerospace Europe in 2009 and in 2017 became a UN International Gender Champion.



She holds a Master's Degree in Astrophysics and Space Physics from University "La Sapienza", and Honoris Causa Degree in Environmental Studies, and an Honoris Causa Degree of Doctor in International Affairs. Ms. Di Pippo was knighted by the President of the Italian Republic in 2006 and, in 2008, the International Astronomical Union assigned the name "dipippo" to asteroid 21887 in recognition of her efforts in space exploration. She was also featured in a publication HERstory: A Celebration of Leading Women in the United Nations, a tribute to women's participation in the development of the UN. Among other awards, she was awarded the Hubert Curien Award in 2018 as the first woman laureate.

With over 30 years of wireless experience, Alan Tilles is viewed as one of the "go-to" attorneys in the industry regarding spectrum utilization. From radio manufacturers, to frequency coordinators, radio engineers, public safety agencies, railroads and utilities, he is frequently called upon to create innovative answers to complex technological problems. A client recently noted, "Alan and his staff provided unparalleled legal representation for Mobile County. We would have been taken advantage of had it not been for the persistence, experience and knowledge base that the firm brought to the table." Other clients note that they always want Alan on the phone during negotiations because he understands the technology.

Alan's work in wireless goes well beyond simply reviewing contracts and writing FCC comments. Using his extensive background owning and running radio stations, Alan has been at the forefront of conceiving and proposing rules at the FCC to address problems faced by the wireless industry. Major projects include: authoring rules for land mobile radio narrowbanding; representing hundreds of public safety entities in 800 MHz rebanding; working with the Telecommunications Industry Association on its Smart Building Initiative, authoring rules defining interference; writing and evaluating Requests for Proposal to implement public safety radio systems; and helping railroads acquire spectrum for Positive Train Control. He is a co-founder of the Government Wireless Technology & Communications Association.

Considering this background, both technically and legally, data privacy work was a natural outgrowth of Alan's expertise. As a member of the Shulman Rogers Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Practice, he helps companies implement data privacy policies, provides important assistance when breaches occur, and partners with the Firm's litigation and government contracting teams on cyber litigation issues. Alan's service on the Board of Trustees of Capitol Technology University further aids his insight into the world of data privacy.

However, there's another side to Alan's legal work. As a musician since childhood, Alan represents numerous bands and entertainers. The breadth of his work includes working on recording contracts, television and live performance agreements, as well as copyright and trademark issues. As a result, he has received appreciative mentions in a number of albums by several musicians and in 2018 appeared on the East Bay Soul CD "Conversation."

As one of the most sought-after public speakers in the country, Alan can be seen at seminars and webinars nationwide on a regular basis, including the International Wireless Communications Expo and the Global Transport Forum. His writing can be seen on websites such as Urgent Communications, and he is a regular contributor on Federal News Radio.

Luc Riesbeck (he/they) is a Space Policy and Research Analyst at Astroscale U.S., where he engages in collaboration across the space community to find comprehensive solutions to orbital sustainability challenges and advocate for sustainable stewardship of space. A recent graduate of the Space Policy Institute Master's program at George Washington University, his research interests include space sustainability, orbital debris mitigation, and ethics in science and technology. Riesbeck also holds a bachelor's degree in Social Science and a minor in Global China Studies from New York University Shanghai. In 2018, he was selected as a Fellow in the Brooke Owens Fellowship's second annual class. He fosters a targeted professional interest in creating a policy environment that encourages innovation and creativity in sustainable aerospace technologies, across commercial and governmental space projects.

Artiom is President and Space Advocate at Noosphere Ventures, a prominent U.S. investment firm founded by Dr. Max Polyakov, focused on financing, and cultivating promising space technology companies. Noosphere's space portfolio includes orbital launch provider Firefly Aerospace, in-space electric propulsion firm SETS, synthetic aperture radar satellites venture EOSSAR and remote sensing data analytics platform EOS among others.

Artiom is a licensed attorney (NY) with a graduate degree in Space Law and a life-long passion for commercial exploration and use of outer space.

Charles Mudd is the founder and principal of Mudd Law. He has positioned his firm and practice at the forefront of space law and the expanding commercial space industry. Charles regularly speaks and writes on space law and policy internationally. He regularly participates in United Nations space law events, having served on a panel at the 2019 United Nations Conference on Space Law and Policy in Istanbul, Turkey and participated significantly in the UNOOSA Dark & Quiet Skies Conference in 2020. In 2020, he spoke on space law at an ITechLaw conference in Bangalore, India, provided a regulatory workshop at SmallSat, and guest lectured at Samara University in Russia. Charles is a founding member of the Internet Law Leadership Summit. He serves as a board member of ITechLaw, NewSpace Chicago, and his high school alumni association. In 2020, the International Institute of Space Law admitted him to its membership. He also maintains memberships in the AAS, AIAA, ECSL, and IEEE. When not spending his free time with family, he regularly takes graduate astrophysics courses at the University of Chicago.

Head of the Line of Business Satellite Communication at Telespazio.
Graduated in Electronic Engineering at the University La Sapienza of Rome. More than 15 years of experience in the satellite sector for primary European companies such as Telespazio and Eutelsat.
Since September 2016, he has been appointed Head of the Line of Business Satellite Communications at Telespazio.

Deepak Mathur is Executive Vice President, Global Sales, Video, at SES the world's leading satellite operator, with over 70 satellites operating in both the GEO and MEO orbital arcs. Previously, he had been Senior Vice President, Commercial at SES for Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. He is responsible for driving growth and strategy for SES's global video business, including in some of the most dynamic markets in the world, while providing customers with world-class satellite and content delivery solutions across a range of platforms.

With more than 20 years of experience in the industry, Deepak has a keen understanding of customers' satellite requirements and works directly with them to ensure they have the satellite capacity they need to achieve their ambitions. Deepak has been the Chairman of the Satellite Industry Committee of CASBAA, a member of the Board of Directors of APSCC and is a member of the Board of Directors of Yahlive, a partnership between SES and Yahsat.

Ramesh Ramaswamy is vice president of International Sales and Marketing in the International Division at Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes). In this capacity he is responsible for the strategic development of products and services to be offered by Hughes in the international market.

Mr. Ramaswamy began his career at Hughes in 1986 as a software engineer and was one of the original designers of the VSAT (very small aperture terminal) satellite product line. Prior to his current position, Mr. Ramaswamy was assistant vice president and general manager of the Asia/Pacific Region, responsible for business development and profit and loss for the region. Previously, he was responsible for business development in the Middle East/Africa region and before that, was responsible for program management including installation of and technical support to VSAT systems around the world.

Mr. Ramaswamy holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas, Arlington, Texas, USA and a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Madras in India.

Ignacio Sanchis joined Hispasat as Chief Commercial Officer in January 2013. In his role, he is responsible for global Sales, Marketing, Customer Engineering and Quality of Service areas within Hispasat Group.

Before joining Hispasat, Ignacio worked for five years in Nagravision as General Manager for Spain and Portugal, leading the growth of this company in Iberian TV market.

Prior to this, Ignacio spent ten years in Philips, where he held several Sales and Marketing positions within the Telecommunications and Consumer Electronics Business Units. In his last role at Philips, Ignacio was responsible in Spain and Portugal for Philips' Home Networks Business Unit, which comprised Set-Top Boxes, telephony and networking businesses.

Born in Madrid, Ignacio holds a Master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Amit Somani is the Chief Strategy Officer at Yahsat, the UAE based satellite communications company.
He joined Yahsat in January 2010 from Booz & Company bringing with him a wealth of experience from an 18 year career including 15 years spent at leading consulting firms in the ICT industry covering strategy, operations and technology. He has spent significant portions of his career in North America, South America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

Amit develops the Yahsat strategy and growth agenda and oversees major strategic initiatives for the company. He is also responsible for sourcing and driving forward key business development opportunities. In parallel, Amit oversees the Regulatory and Spectrum Management and Corporate Communications functions for the company, and is also responsible for seeing through the successful set-up and launch of the company's operations in Brazil.

Amit graduated from the University of Nottingham in the UK with a Masters in Electronic Engineering with French and also earned an MBA from London Business School.

Lisa Dreher is President for the Mobile Satellite Users Association (MSUA) - (msua.org). MSUA is a not-for-profit organization that has served the interests of mobile satellite users and providers for nearly 30 years. We are dedicated to promoting the mobile satellite industry and development of the mobile satellite market worldwide.

Lisa Dreher also serves as Managing Director of GuideForce (guideforce.com), a company working with new space and established satellite and space industry companies to grow by engaging, captivating and moving customers to act. She brings over 25 years business development, product management, and marketing leadership experience in the new space, satellite and information technology and communications (ICT) industries.

She has a unique perspective that is at the intersection of the enterprise IT, communications and satellite industries. Her work has helped new space and technology startups and established enterprises grow faster and define clear paths to profitable revenue. She partners with CEOs and executives to navigate the startup through enterprise evolution and the development of partner ecosystems to scale their businesses faster.

In his role as Deputy Chief Technical Officer (CTO), Adnan Al Muhairi is committed to designing and developing technological solutions with his team to better serve Yahsat and Thuraya customers. This responsibility includes addressing parts of the world that do not have access to communications and enabling robust, secure, government communication systems in an innovative, cost-effective and reliable manner.

Adnan has had a distinguished career in the space industry. He was part of the development program in South Korea as a research and development engineer on the UAE's first successful remote sensing spacecraft, Dubaisat-1 and Dubaisat-2. He has also worked on the UAE's first communication spacecraft, Al Yah 1 and Al Yah 2, and he was the Program Director of the Al Yah 3 space communications system - a highly advanced space network that expanded Yahsat's services into Brazil.

Adnan obtained a BSc. in Avionics/Engineering Management from the Higher College of Technology. He then completed an intensive course in satellite systems engineering in South Korea, before completing masterclass training in frequency coordination at RPC telecommunications. This was followed by ground station operations and maintenance training at VIASAT in USA, before he earned an MBA from the Global Executive Program at the McDonough School of Business from Georgetown University in Washington DC.

Brian Pemberton leads corporate sales and marketing activities for Omnispace, which is redefining mobile connectivity for the 21st century. In this role, he is responsible for establishing the global distribution strategy, developing the product marketing strategy, and building the brand for the world's first seamless, 5G-based 'one global network.'

Brian brings more than 20 years of experience in global wireless, terrestrial and satellite communications to his role. Most recently as the Vice President and General Manager of Iridium Communications Inc.'s Aviation and Maritime businesses, Brian was responsible for ensuring the success of two key global growth initiatives for the company. He led the company's award-winning broadband initiative, Iridium Certus, which provided unprecedented mobile satellite services for aviation, maritime and terrestrial customers. He also led the development and launch of the Iridium GMDSS enhanced safety service which offered reliable coverage at sea. Prior to that, Brian held senior marketing and engineering roles at commercial and military aviation leader ARINC, which is now part of Collins Aerospace.
Brian holds a master's degree in business from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech University.

Shadrach "Benny" is the Founder and CEO of ESpace Networks Inc. an innovating startup building a digital platform for procuring and operating satcom services. Benny has vast experience in developing and implementing SDN solutions for hybrid satellite services in Aero and Maritime markets. Before ESpace, Benny was leading advanced engineering in Global Eagle Entertainment. Benny has a Bachelor's degree in communications engineering and is currently based in Miami, FL.

As Chief Regulatory and International Strategy Officer, Mindel De La Torre leads efforts to secure spectrum rights for Omnispace LLC's global non-geostationary satellite system. Prior to joining Omnispace, she was Chief of the International Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for more than seven years where she led the agency's efforts internationally - both on a bilateral and multilateral basis. She oversaw the International Bureau's functions with regard to licensing of international and domestic satellites, international telecommunications and broadcast, and submarine cables.

Ms. De La Torre was president of the Telecommunications Management Group, Inc. (TMG), a consulting firm in the Washington, DC area from 1998-2009. Her work at TMG included advising businesses, international organizations, and regulators on issues relevant to liberalization and commercialization of the telecommunications sector, as well as spectrum resources.

She has held numerous leadership positions on U.S. delegations to ITU conferences, including the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC), World Telecommunication Development Conferences, and Plenipotentiary Conferences. She has actively participated in regional telecommunications organizations, such as CITEL, ATU and APEC, as well as the OECD.

Ms. De La Torre has a bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University and a law degree from the University of Texas. She is a member of the Texas bar and the Federal Communications Bar Association.

Martin Coleman is a Board Member at the Satcoms Innovation Group (SIG). Martin is active in spearheading initiatives, leading the advance in new tools to resolve all types of VSAT interference using SatGuard and the campaign to introduce Carrier ID across all SCPC/MCPC transmissions and subsequent ongoing activities. Martin regularly addresses the industry on the issue of innovation in the satellite industry at global industry events and contributes to SIG workshops throughout the year.

Emily Calandrelli is a producer and the host of Xploration Outer Space, a nationally syndicated educational TV show where Emily shows viewers the most exciting projects in the space industry today. Emily has a technical background with Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering degrees from West Virginia University and Masters degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics as well as Technology and Policy from MIT. She's won a number of national awards for her leadership in science including the Goldwater Scholarship and the Truman Scholarship. She's been profiled in Cosmopolitan and the Boston Globe and is passionate about exciting students about science and space exploration.

Daniel L. Jablonsky was appointed to the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of Maxar Technologies and to the Company's Board of Directors on January 13, 2019.

Previously, Mr. Jablonsky had served as President of DigitalGlobe since October 2017, when the company became part of Maxar Technologies. He joined DigitalGlobe in 2012 as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, and also held the role of General Manager, International Defense & Intelligence from 2015 to 2017.

Prior to DigitalGlobe, Mr. Jablonsky was a shareholder at the law firm of Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, Schreck, LLP from 2011 to March 2012, where he practiced corporate and securities law. From 2010 to 2011, Mr. Jablonsky served as the Interim Co-General Counsel of Flextronics International Ltd., and from 2007 to 2010, he held the role of Senior Corporate Counsel, Securities and Mergers & Acquisitions at Flextronics. Mr. Jablonsky previously was in-house counsel at UBS Financial Services, Inc., served in the enforcement division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and practiced corporate and securities law with O'Melveny & Myers LLP. Mr. Jablonsky holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Washington School of Law. Prior to law school, Mr. Jablonsky was an officer and nuclear engineer in the U.S. Navy.

Sunil Bharti Mittal is the Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, one of India's first generation corporations, with interests in Telecom, Space, Insurance, Real Estate, Hospitality and Food. Bharti has joint ventures with several global leaders: SingTel, SoftBank, AXA, Del Monte, the UK Government, amongst others.

Bharti Airtel, the flagship company of Bharti Enterprises, is a global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across South Asia and Africa. The company ranks amongst the top three mobile operators globally and covers a population of over two billion. Airtel is India's largest integrated telecom provider and the second largest mobile operator in Africa. At the end of March 2021, Airtel had over 470 mn customers across its operations.

Bharti Global in partnership with the UK Government recently acquired OneWeb - a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. This new-age Space initiative will provide high-speed, low-latency broadband connectivity in deep rural, maritime, aviation and defense sector across the globe by 2022. Sunil is the Executive Chairman of OneWeb.

Sunil is a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, one of India's highest civilian honors, awarded to individuals for demonstrating distinguished services of high order. He has also been awarded Harvard Business School's Alumni Achievement Honor - the utmost honor accorded by the institute to its alumni. He is the recipient of GSMA's prestigious Chairman award, besides being decorated with numerous industry honors. Sunil has been conferred Honorary Doctorates by several leading universities in India and Europe.

Sunil serves on many international bodies and think tanks; He served as the Chairman of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the Chairman of GSM Association (GSMA) concurrently from 2016 to 2018. He has been a Trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) from 2009 to 2021. He is a member of International Business Council-WEF and Commissioner of the Broadband Commission, a member of the Global Board of Advisors at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Member of Board of Trustees at Education Above All Foundation, Qatar and on the Board of Qatar Foundation Endowment. He has also served as the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the premier industry body in India. Sunil has served on the boards of several multinational companies including Unilever PLC, Standard Chartered Bank PLC and SoftBank Corp.

Sunil is closely associated with spearheading the Indian industry's global trade initiatives - he has served on the Prime Minister of India's Council on Trade and Industry. He is also a member of the India-US, India-UK and India-Japan, India-Sweden CEO Forums. He is Co-Chair of the India-Africa Business Council.

Deeply associated with the cause of education, Sunil is on Harvard University's Global Advisory Council and has served on the Board of Dean's Advisors at Harvard Business School.

Sunil believes that a responsible corporate has a duty to give back to the community in which it operates. This belief has resulted in Bharti Foundation, which operates more than 180 Satya Bharti Schools as well as supports over 790 government schools to ensure holistic education. Over 4.5 lakh underprivileged children in rural India have benefitted from the programmes of Bharti Foundation since its inception. Sunil was ranked among the Top 25 Philanthropists in the World in 2009 by the Barron's Magazine.

A satellite and Telecoms industry veteran with over $2 billion in new revenue creation directly attributed to his leadership having pioneered significant success for start-ups Huawei (founded Huawei in Europe) and O3b (founding employee and Chief Commercial Officer) along with other major leadership roles such as global business unit leader for Alcatel-Lucent.

John has been identified as a Top 40 Executive by Global Telecoms Business three years in succession.

Dan has 30 years' experience in communications and networking and a passion for connecting people and building great products and disrupting markets. Dan has served in executive leadership roles in Silicon Labs, NXP, Atheros, Qualcomm and Ruckus Networks. Dan joined Facebook in August 2018 to lead Facebook Connectivity, a team focused on bringing more people online at faster speeds. He holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree from the University of Texas at Austin where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Kevin Steen is chief executive officer of ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in IP-based satellite communications. Steen joined the company in 2010 and has served as a key member of its leadership team, where he has been responsible for charting the company's strategic growth across sales, operations and business development. Steen has led a major effort across ST Engineering iDirect and its global partner base to advance the role of satellite technology in the end-to-end telecom network; identify new market opportunities for satellite communications, and collaborate with ST Engineering iDirect's ecosystem to co-develop industry-leading technology.

Steen has more than 20 years of experience in technology business development and operating executive positions. Prior to joining ST Engineering iDirect, he was Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions at SAP Americas, where he participated in strategic M&A activities.

Steen holds an MBA from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Denver. He sits on several boards in a financial and operations advisory capacity.

Brent is the CEO of the newly formed NanoAvionics US Inc. and is in charge of standing up the US office and factory as well as securing new business in the US and Latin America. Before joining NanoAvionics, Brent was the CEO and head of North American operations for AAC/Clyde Space. Prior to that, he held several senior roles at Surrey Satellite Technologies US (SST-US), where he was instrumental in landing the joint US-Taiwanese COSMIC-2/Formosat-7 constellation and payload supplier for the NASA CYGNSS constellation. He also started the hosted payload program at SST-US with the first all commercial hosted payload satellite OTB-1 (Orbital Test Bed) leading to >$80 Million revenue of follow-on business with OTB-2 and 3. Prior to joining Surrey in 2008, Brent served as a business development manager at Honeywell Defense & Space for 8 years and also invented their new Miniature Momentum Control System using Control Moment Gyros. His background also includes work as an engineer at Honeywell Commercial Aviation. Abbott is a registered professional engineer and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Iowa State University.

Frank DeMauro is sector Vice President and General Manager of Tactical Space Systems
division for Northrop Grumman's Space Systems sector, a premier provider of space and launch
systems serving national security, civil and commercial customers. In this role, DeMauro leads
the division including responsibility for the company's national security satellites, civil and
commercial satellites and spacecraft, and space components and services.
The division portfolio includes key Space programs such as NASA's Commercial Resupply
Services (CRS) initiatives as well as various national security-related programs.
Previously, DeMauro was the Vice President and General Manager of Northrop Grumman's
Space Systems division within the Innovation Systems sector where he was responsible for the
company's Human Space Systems, Satellite Servicing and Commercial Communication Satellite
business segments.
DeMauro also served as the Program Director of the CRS program for Orbital ATK where he
managed the development, production and delivery of multiple Cygnus spacecraft and oversaw
several successful cargo delivery missions. He also held the position of Vice President of
Engineering as well as numerous leadership and program management positions in Northrop
Grumman's commercial communications satellite group.
In his 31-year career, DeMauro has held positions in Subsystem Development, Systems
Engineering, and Business Development.
DeMauro has received the NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal, the Rutgers School of
Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award, the National Space Society Space Pioneer Award,
and the Pete Rustan Civil Space "Courage to Innovate" Award. As a member of the Cygnus
team, he has also received the AIAA Space Systems Award and the RNASA Stellar Award for
the COTS Development Program.
A native of New Jersey, DeMauro holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical and aerospace
engineering from Rutgers University.

Hervé Derrey is Chief Executive Officer of Thales Alenia Space.
He was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Thales Secure Information and Communications Systems Global Business Unit.
In 2011, he was named Vice President, Strategic and Infrastructure Networks, then from 2012 to 2016 served as Vice President for Thales' global Radiocommunication Products Business Line.
From 1991 to 2011, Hervé Derrey held various management positions in France and abroad, first at Alcatel, then Alcatel Lucent, with a particular focus on mobile networks and applications, broadband internet, and digital transformation.
A graduate of École Polytechnique and Telecom ParisTech, Hervé Derrey, 53, also holds a degree from the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (IHEDN), the national defense college.

Chris Johnson leads the Space Programs Delivery organization at Maxar, which provides advanced satellites and spacecraft systems for customers in the U.S. government, civil and commercial sectors.

Before joining Maxar in May 2021, Mr. Johnson spent more than two decades at Boeing, most recently serving as President, Boeing Satellite Systems International where he was responsible for strategy, capture, development and manufacturing of Boeing's commercial satellite business. Prior to that role, he was vice president of Boeing's commercial satellite services division and held a number defense and intelligence-related engineering management and business development roles at the company.

He has a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Science in systems architecting and engineering from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas.

Ryan Reid is President of Boeing Commercial Satellite Systems International, Inc. (BSSI), which oversees the strategy, integration and execution of Boeing's commercial satellite business. Reid is responsible for general management of all Boeing commercial satellite, ground system and services contracts. Reid also leads the team that is designing and building the next generation of spacecraft in the Boeing satellite factory.
Prior to his current position, Reid was the director of the O3b mPOWER satellite program where he led the Boeing team responsible for the development and execution of an advanced 11-satellite constellation for SES.
Previously Reid was the director of Space System Architectures, where he led the engineering team responsible for cybersecurity implementation in space applications, architecture modeling, simulation, analysis, system development and deployment. Since joining Boeing in 1999 as a payload systems engineer supporting commercial satellite programs, Reid has held engineering, management and program leadership roles across both commercial and government businesses.
Reid received his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from University of California Riverside and a master of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California.

David Howgill is Founder and President of Huckworthy LLC, a Washington DC based applied wireless technology company specialized in 3G/4G/5G networks and cross industry consulting. David is also the US representative for SiRRAN, a global leader in Mobile Network Software Architectures, and for Secure Mobile, a provider of end of end mobile encrypted solutions for enterprise communications and transactional security.
David brings over 25 years international experience launching new technology and methodologies into international markets; with a long history of management and building strategic partnerships with cross-industry global leaders in the wireless, satellite, security, energy and scientific communities. Huckworthy is a prior Protégé of The Boeing Company under the Department of Defense's Mentor Protégé Program.

Adrian Morris is executive vice president and CTO at Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) where he is responsible for leading the development of products at Hughes Communications, Inc.

Mr. Morris' career at Hughes began in 1982 as a hardware designer for the TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) product lines, as well as DAMA (Demand Assigned Multiple Access) and FDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access) products. He was the systems and project lead on a number of first-to-market systems, including the SCPC (Single Channel per Carrier) TES™ (Telephony Earth Station) product and the Italsat SS-TDMA (Satellite Switched TDMA) system. He has been involved in the design of mobile satellite communications for over 15 years and led the engineering team on the Hughes digital air-to-ground system developed for ATT, comprising ground systems, gateways, air terminals, and user handsets.

Mr. Morris received a Bachelor of Science honors degree in electrical engineering from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and a Master of Science degree in digital techniques from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He worked as a hardware designer at Ferranti Electronics and Electro Optics Systems Division before joining Hughes. He holds a number of patents in digital communications, has several published papers, and has presented at a number of technical conferences. Mr. Morris is a member of the IEEE.

Hughes Network Systems, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Communications, Inc.

David Bettinger is a business and technology visionary with 30 years of experience in system engineering, focused on innovative satellite communications. He is a strategic thinker with a track record of capturing opportunities, cultivating partnerships, and transforming startup ventures into a competitive position.

Before joining SpaceLink, Mr. Bettinger was VP of the Communications Systems and Advanced Development Group at OneWeb. He was a founding member of the satellite network operator, which was established in 2014, and he led a team of satellite, aerospace and communications engineers to design its first- and second-generation satellite payloads, user terminals, and ground segment.

At OneWeb he was successful in supporting investment activities and was responsible for the corporate technology roadmap. His expertise includes communication systems architectures, RF and digitally regenerative satellite payloads, optical inter-satellite links, electronically steered phased array antennas, and network architectures.

Previous to his role at OneWeb, Mr. Bettinger spent more than a decade as CTO and Senior VP of Engineering at ST Engineering iDirect, a $250 million satellite communications technology company which provided VSAT solutions to over 400 customers in 120 countries.

In this role he was responsible for the oversight of all technology decisions and led the technology team to make iDirect the largest TDMA enterprise VSAT manufacturer in the world. He drove the strategic direction for product development, research, technology alliances, and mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Bettinger began his career at Hughes Network Systems where he was a member of the Technical Staff in the Satellite Networks Division. There he contributed to the development of several generations of the Personal Earth Station (PES) satellite network, which was Hughes' flagship product line at the time. He was also a member of the design team that developed and deployed the Claircom air-to-ground telephony system for commercial and private aircraft.

A graduate of Virginia Tech, Mr. Bettinger earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1989 and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1992. A frequent spokesperson at industry events, he has authored more than 50 technical papers and articles and holds seven patents in satellite communications.

Gus Anderson served in the U.S. Army for 29 years as a Telecommunications Corps officer. During that period he commanded numerous tactical and strategic communications organizations, to include the 509th Signal Battalion, Vicenza, Italy, and the Regional Signal Group SHAPE, NATO HQ (Belgium). During his military career he also served as an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy, and as the military speechwriter for two Secretaries of Defense. He retired as a Colonel in 2008. Currently Gus Anderson leads the business development organization for Leonardo DRS' Global Enterprise Solutions (GES) business unit . Gus has been with Leonardo DRS for 10 years. His initial assignments were as a program manager, overseeing satellite networks supporting NATO forces in the Balkans; Coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan; and networks supporting other U.S. Federal and International agencies. In the past several years, Gus' efforts have turned to business development, helping grow customer and market understanding of DRS' Information and Communications Technology Ecosystem - a global network that provides secure managed satellite and terrestrial services to major DoD, US Federal, and international agencies.

As Program Executive Officer for Command, Control, Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T), Brigadier General Robert M. Collins guides a workforce of more than 1,600 personnel who acquire, field and support the communications networks, radios, satellite systems and other hardware and software Soldiers require for information dominance on the battlefield. BG Collins took command of PEO C3T on June 1, 2020.
BG Collins comes to PEO C3T after serving as the PEO for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (IEW&S) since May 2019. As the PEO IEW&S, he provided technical and managerial oversight of the development, acquisition, fielding, and life cycle support of the Army's portfolio of intelligence; electronic warfare; cyber; integrated base defense; force protection; position, navigation, and timing; biometrics; and target acquisition programs.
BG Collins was commissioned through ROTC in 1992 into Armor with a Bachelor of Science from Shippensburg University. As a junior officer, he served at Fort Carson as a Tank Platoon Leader in 2-77th Armor Battalion, 4th Infantry Division. Following his branch detail to the Signal Corps, he served in Fort Gordon as a Communications Platoon Leader in the 124rd Signal Battalion, and in Germany as a Battalion Signal Officer and Company Commander with the 1st Infantry Division.
He was then selected into the Acquisition Corps in 2000 and was assigned to U.S. Army Signal Center in Fort Gordon as a Training and Doctrine Command Systems Manager and Combat Developer. BG Collins went on to serve at Fort Monmouth as an Assistant Product Manager (APM) for Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T), and an APM of Software Integration with Future Combat Systems. BG Collins then served in the Pentagon as a Department of the Army Systems Coordinator for Tactical Army Communications systems, and later selected as the Executive Officer for the Army Acquisition Executive and Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology).
From April 2010 to July 2013, BG Collins served as the Product Manager for the WIN-T Increments 2 and 3 ACAT 1D programs within PEO C3T. Following War College, he was selected to serve as the Army's Project Manager for Distributed Common Ground System-Army, PEO IEW&S, from June 2014 to July 2018. Prior to becoming the PEO IEW&S, BG Collins served as the Assistant PEO IEW&S from August 2018 to April 2019.
BG Collins holds Masters Degrees from Webster University, Oklahoma University, and the National Defense University. He completed the Combined Arms Services Staff School and Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as well as the Armor Officer Basic Course, Signal Branch Qualification, Signal Advanced Course, and Systems Automation Course. He is a graduate of Eisenhower School of Strategic Studies at Fort McNair, where he received a Master's Degree in National Resource Strategy. BG Collins is a member of the Acquisition Corps and is Level III certified in Program Management.

Bruno Fromont leads Intelsat's corporate strategy team, focusing on business strategy, network investments, market and business development and spectrum strategy.
Mr. Fromont joined Intelsat in 2000 as Program Manager of Ground Systems Engineering. Since then he has held positions of increasing responsibility including Vice President of Corporate Strategy in which he was responsible for overseeing Intelsat's strategy and innovation, most notably the business development of the Intelsat EpicNG® program.
Prior to joining Intelsat, Mr. Fromont held senior management positions with Aerospatiale and Alcatel Space. He started his career as a researcher in Artificial Intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Mr. Fromont earned a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from Supelec Paris, an MSEE from Institut Polytechnique in Grenoble, France and an Executive Certificate from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Clare A. Grason is Chief, Commercial Satellite Communications (COMSATCOM) Office, assigned to Headquarters United States Space Force, Washington, D.C. She is responsible for delivering COMSATCOM capabilities to support the joint warfighter, federal agencies and international partners. Her portfolio includes the Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) Program Office, the EMSS Gateway and Capabilities Office and the Department of Defense COMSATCOM Solutions Office.
EMSS is an $800 million global satellite program that provides the Department of Defense, federal and coalition partners with unlimited access to the commercial Iridium constellation, a mesh-network of 66 on-orbit cross-linked satellites, through a dedicated, EMSS controlled gateway.

The COMSATCOM Solutions Office acquires any commercial satellite capability for any customer, anywhere, and has $4.6 billion under management.
Prior to this role, Ms. Grason was the SATCOM Division Chief, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). In this role she managed the Department of Defense Enterprise Gateways Program Office, the SATCOM Operations Integration Branch, and the COMSATCOM portfolio described above, prior to its Congressionally-directed transfer to the AFSPC. Other assignments include Program Manager, EMSS and Program Manager for a classified telecommunications system within DISA's National Leadership Command Capabilities Center (NLCC). Ms. Grason began her career in government with DISA as a contracting officer, and served as the Chief, Special Projects Contracting Branch, which held a contracts portfolio valued at over $2 billion.
Prior to joining the government, Ms. Grason was a retirement funds analyst for T. Rowe Price.
Ms. Grason received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from West Virginia University, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Ms. Grason is DAWIA Level 3 certified in contracting.

Scott Scheimreif is the Executive Vice President, Government Programs at Iridium Communications Inc., the only satellite communications company that offers truly global voice and data coverage. He is responsible for Iridium's overall relationship with the Department of Defense and U.S. government programs including development and growth of the company's DoD business. Mr. Scheimreif is also an active member of the Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association and The Satellite Industry Association. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Salisbury University.

Mr. Palerm joined NSR as an analyst in 2015. His primary areas of focus are Capacity Supply, Satellite Broadband and Ground Segment covering key growth areas such as new markets unlocked by HTS, opportunities opened by innovations in ground segment, how SatCom integrates in the telecom ecosystem or Cellular Backhaul and 5G. He is the lead author for NSR's Wireless Backhaul via Satellite (WBS) report, industry's unique Commercial Satellite Ground Segment (CSGS) report and co-authors the Global Satellite Capacity Supply and Demand (GSCSD) report. Mr. Palerm regularly participates in consulting projects related to supply and demand forecast for new satellite systems, new markets entry strategy or ground segment equipment and services demand for emerging opportunities among others.

Prior to joining NSR, Mr. Palerm worked at Zero2Infinity in technical and business roles. While involved in the startup, he worked in the mission analysis for the company's microsat launcher project and leaded the development of a rocket engine prototype successfully tested. He also contributed to the project's business plan with market research and financial assessment. Lluc undertook fund raising efforts and built the relation with customers.

Graduated as an Aerospace Engineer from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2011), he collaborated with one of its research centers developing CFD codes (CTTC). Afterwards, he received a Master's in Management from ESADE Business School (2012) specializing in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Jean-Philippe Gillet leads Intelsat's Networks business. He is responsible for the development of Intelsat's broadband strategy, product development and execution of Intelsat's broadband initiatives worldwide.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Gillet served as Intelsat's Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa from 2014-2017. From 2006-2013, he served as Intelsat's Vice President, Sales for Europe and the Middle East. From 2003-2006, he served as Intelsat's Vice President, Media Sales.

Prior to joining Intelsat in 2003, Mr. Gillet served for five years as Vice President of International Sales for Globecast North America (France Telecom Group). Prior to that position, he served three years as Globecast's Director of Sales for Europe, the Middle East and North America. Before joining Globecast, Mr. Gillet served as Sales and Marketing Manager for France Telecom from 1990-1995.

Mr. Gillet earned a Master of Science Degree in Information Technology from Ecole Superieure de Commerce in France. Prior to his Master's program, he studied at the Ecole Superieure d'Informatique Engineering School in France.

Mr. Hofeller is SpaceX's Vice President of Commercial Sales, with primary responsibility for commercial business development efforts across the globe. Prior to joining SpaceX in 2007, Mr. Hofeller worked on satellite payloads at Raytheon as a mechanical engineer. Mr. Hofeller received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a degree in Technology Commercialization from USC's Marshall School of Business.

Wesley leads strategic partnerships and business development with global satellite service providers and operators, where he develops and drives programs to achieve Facebook Connectivity goals of bringing more rural people online to a faster internet. Previously, Wesley was CTO at Azercosmos and Executive Director at Yahsat, where he was responsible for business development, strategic planning, program management, procurement and operations activities. Prior to that, he performed senior leadership roles at Boeing Satellite Systems, SS/L and Hughes Space & Communications.

Wesley holds an MBA from UCLA, MSEE from the University of Southern California and BSEE from the University of Michigan.