Friday 5 March 2021
9am |
Virtual Platform open for participants to log-on, complete their profile and familiarise themselves with the platform. Meeting hub will be open to schedule meetings with colleagues and sponsors. Meetings can take place on the platform from 9am to 6pm from Monday 8 March to Friday 12 March. |
Tuesday 9 March 2021
13:45 |
IET & Chairman’s welcome and introduction Dave Davis MBE, Technical Director, ST Engineering iDirect |
Milsatcom landscape |
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14:00 |
MoD Keynote Senior Representative, MoD, UK |
14:30 |
The role of satellite communications in the digital backbone: a communications services convergence view
Justin Hodges, Senior Specialist, Major Government, BT |
15:00 |
Networking and exhibition
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15.20 |
Break |
Defining your space strategy |
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15:30
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Delivering certainty in an uncertain world: the path to growth and sustainability in military satcom Nick Shave, Vice President, Strategic Programmes, Inmarsat Global Government, UK |
16:00 |
Evolving landscape of milsatcom and what can be learnt from enterprise and consumer solutions
Neil Fraser, Director – Defence and Space Programmes, NSSLGlobal Ltd, UK |
16:30 |
Technology and Partnerships: Driving Innovation Richard Budd, Head of Secure Communications UK & US, Airbus Defence and Space |
16:40 |
Networking and exhibition
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17:00 |
Close |
Wednesday 10 March 2021
13.45 |
Chairman’s welcome Kevin Shaw, SKYNET 6 Programme Director, MOD UK Strategic Command, UK |
14:00 |
Building scalable, resilient and innovative infrastructures
Mike Rudd, Head of Telecommunications Strategy, UK Space Agency, UK |
14:30 |
Deliver, Innovate, Prosper for the UK Richard Budd, Head of Secure Communications UK & US, Airbus Defence and Space |
14:40 |
Isotropic |
15:10 |
Networking and exhibition
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15:30 |
Break |
Overcoming space threats |
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15:40
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Mitigating the impact of extreme weather and dynamic space environment on satellite communication
Gemma Attrill, Principal Scientist, Space Environment Project Technical Authority and Space Weather Lead, Dstl, UK |
16:10 |
Overcoming security challenges through Space Situational Awareness
Serge Plattard, Deputy Director, Space Domain, UCL, UK |
16:40 |
Networking and exhibition
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17:10 |
Close |
Thursday 11 March 2021
13:45 |
Chairman’s welcome John Parkinson, General Manager, SES Defence UK |
Industry trends |
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14:00
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Emerging markets and challenges for the milsatcom industry Ian Annett, Deputy CEO for Project Delivery, UK Space Agency, UK |
14:30
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What secondary payloads makes sense for a military comsat?
Stuart Eves, Director, SJe Space, UK |
15:00 |
Networking and exhibition
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15:20 |
Break |
15:30
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Changing times and how to deliver Service Management in a smarter, more agile, user friendly and flexible way
Russ Hogan, Service Operations Manager, GovSat |
16:00
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The Convergence of Terrestrial and Space Communications for Mission Critical Networks
Andy Sutton, Principal Network Architect, BT |
16:30 |
Networking and exhibition
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17:00 |
Close |
Friday 12 March 2021
13:45 |
Chairman’s welcome Dave Davis MBE, Technical Director, ST Engineering iDirect, UK |
Upcoming technologies |
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14:00
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Assessing the disruptive technologies for milsatcom
Ralph Thiele, President, EuroDefense, Germany |
14:30 |
Exploiting Mega-constellations for Hybrid Positioning and Connectivity
Paul Febvre, CTO, Satellite Applications Catapult, UK |
15:00 |
Networking and exhibition
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15:20 |
Break |
15:30 |
The future of satellite terminals - technology trends for small terminals
Jon Godfrey, General Manager, Paradigm Communications Systems, UK |
16:00 |
Proliferated LEO architectures and Milsatcom use cases
Dylan Browne, Head of Government, OneWeb, UK |
16:30 |
Additional Questions Jon Godfrey and Dylan Browne |
16:40 |
Participant engagement/gamification prize and closing remarks |