Session

After SPCX: The Public Market’s Verdict on Space

Top analysts read on SpaceX’s first public financial results and what they reveal about everyone else.

• Alexis Sáinz MODERATOR Partner Hogan Lovells
• Mike Collett Managing Partner Promus Ventures
• Karl Schmidt Managing Director KippsDeSanto & Co

Regulators as Capacity Allocators

How government licensing decisions now determine which satellite networks get to grow.

• Brian Weimer MODERATOR Partner; Space & Satellite Practice Leader Sheppard
• Dr. Yaswant Devarakonda Manager for the Space & Spectrum Policy Center CCIA
• 👤 Kevin Kelly Partner Actum
• Scott Patrick Executive Director, Office of Spectrum Management National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Orbital Data Centers — Investable Infrastructure or Thermodynamic Bet?

The largest capital and engineering story of 2026.  Can AI data centers be built in space? Believers and skeptics argue the engineering and the economics.

• Janna Lewis Senior VP of Policy & General Counsel Astroscale U.S. Inc.
• Jason Aspiotis CEO & Co-Founder OwlO Cloud
• Rob DeMillo CEO & Cofounder Sophia Space
• Filip Rezabek Co-founder & CTO SpaceComputer
• Dr. Slava Turyshev Senior Research Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
• Joseph Yaffe Chief Operating Officer & Chief Legal Officer Cowboy Space Corporation

The Ground Bottleneck: GSaaS, the SCN, and the Capital Squeeze

Ground is the under-programmed bottleneck, and the money agrees: a $100 million Series B for a ground startup in January, a collapsed incumbent divestiture, and a federal facilities line tripling. Ground as the programma

• Steven Kaufman MODERATOR Partner Hogan Lovells US LLP
• Dan Adams CEO KSAT – KONGSBERG SATELLITE SERVICES
• Ron Faith President & CEO RBC Signals
• Chris Faletra President & CEO COMSAT
• Dr. Yonatan Winetraub Founder Aptos Orbital

Launch Isn’t Settled: Scarcity, Queues, and the 2029 Gap

Demand outstrips supply, prices are rising across dedicated and rideshare, and analysts project a capacity rough spot in 2029 and 2030. The session is reframed from vehicle showcase to allocation economics: who gets a ma

• Curt Blake MODERATOR Senior Of Counsel Wilson Sonsini
• 👤 Col., USAF (Ret.) Clint Hunt Senior Director, Intelligence and Defense Programs United Launch Alliance – ULA
• Devon Papandrew VP Business Development Stoke Space

Sovereign Constellations and the Fragmenting Market

Europe and China are building government-backed satellite networks. What that does to American companies.

• Drew Svor MODERATOR Partner Sheppard
• Ian Canning President & CEO Eutelsat Network Solutions
• Alex Mueller-Gastell CEO and MD ND Satcom
• Mary Walker Co-Founder and CEO Symphony Space Inc

Deep tech as the catalyst for growth in the space economy

• 👤 Aashu Virmani Sr. Vice President Cambridge Consultants

Buses vs. Vertical Integration: Who Builds the Proliferated Era

The factory question: standardized satellite platforms versus companies that build everything themselves.  The fight is who builds the proliferated era and who finances production before contract certainty. The industria

• Noel Rimalovski MODERATOR Managing Partner GH Partners
• 👤 Melanie Preisser Executive VP and General Manager York Space Systems
• 👤 Shey Sabripour Founder & CEO CesiumAstro
• 👤 Gil Shacham VP Product & Marketing MDA Space

Building Warfighter-Ready Space Systems: Autonomy, Logistics, and On-Orbit Servicing

Looking at how the military is trying to change its orbital architecture from fragile, stationary targets into a dynamic, sustainable fleet. Here is a breakdown of the core concepts to be discussed. 1. Warfighter-Ready S

• Prof. Andy Kwas MODERATOR NG Fellow Northrop Grumman
• Dr. Robert Antypas Space Access, Mobility, and Logistics Mission Area Lead US Air Force Research Laboratory – AFRL
• Dr. David Denhard Chief Scientist & Technical Advisor US Air Force – Space Systems Command
• John Rood Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO Momentus

The Space Data Network: Backbone or Single Point of Failure?

The budget made the mesh decision; the fight now is execution and concentration. 2027 shifts transport from SDA’s Tranche 3 plans to an SDN backbone and instead funds a $1.6 billion Proliferated LEO SATCOM line identifie

• Preston Dunlap MODERATOR Founder and Managing Partner Arkenstone Capital
• Michael Geist SVP Strategy, Innovation & Growth SES Space & Defense
• Dr. Rajeev Gopal VP, Advanced Programs Defense Division Hughes Network Systems
• Dr. Lucy Hoag Founder and CEO Violet Labs
• John Malsbury CEO & Founder AnySignal
• Jim Scott Chief Strategy Officer US Electrodynamics

Buy What We Can vs. the Build-First Budget

• Chris Quilty MODERATOR CEO & President Quilty Space
• Justin Langlois Deputy Director, Commercial Systems Program Officer National Reconnaissance Office – NRO
• Rich Pang Principal Business Development Lead Amazon Leo Government
• Bob Pescatore General Manager/Vice President – Products Voyager
• Col Timothy Trimailo Director, Commercial Space Office (COMSO) Space Systems Command (SSC)

Golden Dome – Accelerating Industrial Capability on a 2028 Clock

Twelve companies won contracts to build missile interceptors in space. Can industry actually deliver by 2028.

• Phil Carrai MODERATOR President, Space, Training & Cyber Division Kratos Space, Training and Cybersecurity
• Dr. David Baughman VP, BD and Strategy Frontier Aerospace Corporation
• 👤 Mike Conschafter Director of Business Development, Spectral Solutions L3Harris
• 👤 Myland Pride Director, OPIR and Tactical Space Strategy and Customer Engagement Lockheed Martin
• John Trionfo CEO Aeonyx

Commercial GEOINT for the Battlefield

Commercial satellite photos are entering military decisions. How are they being used and by whom.

• Dr. Dr. James Crawford MODERATOR CSO Privateer Space
• Robert Cardillo Chief Strategist and Chairman of the Board Planet Labs Federal
• Scot Currie Senior Vice President of US Government Engagement Blacksky
• Dr. Didi Kuo Principal Deputy Director, GEOINT National Reconnaissance Office

Space Control as a Market: RG-XX, RPO, and the Limits of Commercial Combat Support

The military is hiring private companies to watch, refuel, and guard satellites.  It is is moving away from massive, static satellites and toward agile, commercially supported fleets that can actively maneuver in a conte

• Dr. Eric Anderson MODERATOR President And One Technologies
• COL(ret) Joe Guzman Founder and CEO Space Cowboy ADR
• Dr. Richard Nederlander Founder & CEO Spargo Space
• Courtney Sayles Chief Product Officer Scout Space

GPS Under Attack: Jamming, Spoofing, and the PNT Fight

The Space Force office buying missile interceptors and surveillance satellites explains its sprint.

• Ahsun Murad MODERATOR Cofounder, President and CEO Optimal Satcom
• Brian Manning CEO & Co-Founder Xona Space Systems
• CMSgt Kevin Pfister Senior Enlisted Leader, Mission Delta 3 US Space Force
• Dr. Sumant Sharma Co-founder and CEO EraDrive, Inc.

How Commercial Space Companies Can Support Future Defense Space Architectures with speed, flexibility, and affordability

The "future architecture" is heavily proliferated. This means relying on hundreds or thousands of smaller, cheaper, networked satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). If an adversary disables one, the rest of the network sea

• Janna Lewis MODERATOR Senior VP of Policy & General Counsel Astroscale U.S. Inc.
• Allyson Jenkins Vice President, Public Sector Pixxel
• Sho Nakanose Founder & CEO GITAI USA Inc.
• Dr. Robbie Robertson CEO & Co-founder Sedaro
• Karl Stedman CEO Pulse Space
• Brian Rishikof Co-Founder and CEO Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C.