09:30
10:15
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.
Session
Tracks
Tue, Oct 27
5 sessions
11:00
11:45
Regulators as Capacity Allocators
How government licensing decisions now determine which satellite networks get to grow.
12:15
13:00
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.
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Janna Lewis
Senior VP of Policy & General Counsel
Astroscale U.S. Inc.
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Jason Aspiotis
CEO & Co-Founder
OwlO Cloud
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Rob DeMillo
CEO & Cofounder
Sophia Space
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Filip Rezabek
Co-founder & CTO
SpaceComputer
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Dr. Slava Turyshev
Senior Research Scientist
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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Joseph Yaffe
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Legal Officer
Cowboy Space Corporation
14:00
14:45
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
16:15
17:00
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
Wed, Oct 28
6 sessions
09:00
09:45
Sovereign Constellations and the Fragmenting Market
Europe and China are building government-backed satellite networks. What that does to American companies.
10:00
10:45
11:15
12:00
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
14:00
14:45
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
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Prof. Andy Kwas
MODERATOR
NG Fellow
Northrop Grumman
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Dr. Robert Antypas
Space Access, Mobility, and Logistics Mission Area Lead
US Air Force Research Laboratory – AFRL
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Dr. David Denhard
Chief Scientist & Technical Advisor
US Air Force – Space Systems Command
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John Rood
Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO
Momentus
15:15
16:00
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
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Preston Dunlap
MODERATOR
Founder and Managing Partner
Arkenstone Capital
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Michael Geist
SVP Strategy, Innovation & Growth
SES Space & Defense
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Dr. Rajeev Gopal
VP, Advanced Programs Defense Division
Hughes Network Systems
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Dr. Lucy Hoag
Founder and CEO
Violet Labs
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John Malsbury
CEO & Founder
AnySignal
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Jim Scott
Chief Strategy Officer
US Electrodynamics
16:30
17:15
Buy What We Can vs. the Build-First Budget
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Chris Quilty
MODERATOR
CEO & President
Quilty Space
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Justin Langlois
Deputy Director, Commercial Systems Program Officer
National Reconnaissance Office – NRO
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Rich Pang
Principal Business Development Lead
Amazon Leo Government
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Bob Pescatore
General Manager/Vice President – Products
Voyager
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Col Timothy Trimailo
Director, Commercial Space Office (COMSO)
Space Systems Command (SSC)
Thu, Oct 29
5 sessions
10:00
10:45
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.
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Phil Carrai
MODERATOR
President, Space, Training & Cyber Division
Kratos Space, Training and Cybersecurity
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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
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John Trionfo
CEO
Aeonyx
11:15
12:00
Commercial GEOINT for the Battlefield
Commercial satellite photos are entering military decisions. How are they being used and by whom.
12:15
13:00
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
14:00
14:45
GPS Under Attack: Jamming, Spoofing, and the PNT Fight
The Space Force office buying missile interceptors and surveillance satellites explains its sprint.
15:15
16:00
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
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Janna Lewis
MODERATOR
Senior VP of Policy & General Counsel
Astroscale U.S. Inc.
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Allyson Jenkins
Vice President, Public Sector
Pixxel
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Sho Nakanose
Founder & CEO
GITAI USA Inc.
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Dr. Robbie Robertson
CEO & Co-founder
Sedaro
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Karl Stedman
CEO
Pulse Space
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Brian Rishikof
Co-Founder and CEO
Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C.