Satellite Innovation

Keynote with Bank of America

• Dr. Ronald J Epstein Managing Director Bank of America Securities

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 – Center at the Computer & Communications Industry Association
• Katherine Gizinski Board Member River Advisers
• Kevin Kelly Partner Actum LLC
• Karl Kensinger Special Counsel, Space Bureau FCC
• Scott Patrick Executive Director, Office of Spectrum Management National Telecommunications and Information Administration

RF Intersatellite Links: The Growing Mesh in Space

Aptos will present an overall framework for RF-Based intersatellite links and discuss in-space experience and the value of offering an always-on, no pointing required mesh network in space.

Part 100: A New Era for FCC Space Licensing

A heads-up on Space Licensing, Rebuilt: What the FCC’s Part 100 Rules Change

• Kathryne Dickerson Shareholder Greenberg Traurig, LLP

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
• Dr. Oleg Demidov General Partner Beyond Earth Ventures
• Matt Oguz Chief Investment Officer Venture Science
• Karl Schmidt Managing Director KippsDeSanto & Co

Adaptive Thermal Control for Satellites: From Coatings to Integrated Radiators

Satellites face changing thermal conditions as they move between sunlight and eclipse and as payload power demands vary. This presentation will explore a passive, adaptive approach to managing these conditions. We will i

Orbital Data Centers — Radiators, Watts, and Orbits

The actual hardware for computing in orbit: how you power it and how you keep it cool.

• Dr. Paul Struhsaker CEO Arrasar Partners

Radiation Testing for the New Space Era

Radiation in the space environment induces errors in electronic devices and systems from single event effects (SEE), which must be carefully accounted for during mission planning. The scarcity of testing facilities makes

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.

• Dara Panahy MODERATOR Partner Milbank LLP
• 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

Photonic Inertial Navigation for the Space Domain

Star trackers get interrupted. GNSS can be degraded. Between those fixes, a spacecraft depends on its gyros to hold orientation. Kazem Zandi explains how optical gyros work, what OSCP’s MEMS and optical-gyro IMUs offer t

Orbital Infrastructure as a Service

Hitchhiker Orbital (HHO) is developing modular orbital infrastructure that enables research, manufacturing, technology demonstration, and commercial operations in space. We believe orbital infrastructure should become as

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 General Manager KSAT Inc. KSAT – KONGSBERG SATELLITE SERVICES
• Ron Faith President & CEO RBC Signals
• Chris Faletra President & CEO COMSAT
• Dr. Diana Gamzina Founder and CEO Elve
• Dr. Yonatan Winetraub Founder Aptos Orbital

The implications of Starlink’s market dominance in broadband and D2D

• Dr. Tim Farrar President TMF Associates

From GovCon Award to Audit-Ready: GovCon Accounting Readiness for your U.S. Government award (SBIR, T&M & CPFF Contracts)

This session prepares space companies to hit the ground running the moment they're awarded a U.S. Government contract—whether it's an SBIR grant, or a Time & Materials (T&M) or Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) contract

Trends and Players in Germany’s New Space Sector – Insiders’ View

• Rainer Müller MODERATOR Senior Manager Germany Trade & Invest
• Ashley Fieglein Johnson President and Chief Financial Officer Planet
• Dr. Florian Schwandner Director for Applications and Science Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt – German Aerospace Center
• Dennis Wilkens Director USA, San Francisco Office Germany Trade & Invest

How Orbotic Systems Got CMMC Level 2 Certified

Orbotic COO Jane Ielmini and Atomus co-founder Joel Joseph share how a small space startup got CMMC Level 2 certified in 8 months, and what to copy.

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
• Nishant Choksi Director, Commercial & International Sales Blue Origin
• Dr. Tim Farrar President TMF Associates
• Evan Hoyt President SEOPS
• Clint Hunt Senior Director, Government Operations United Launch Alliance
• Devon Papandrew VP Business Development Stoke Space

Mission Software Lessons of 2026

What this year’s AI surge teaches the industry about software directions for growth.

• Austin Spiegel Co-founder & CEO Sift

License to Operate: The Crowded Highways of LEO

The side effects of launching thousands of satellites: A look at tracking catalogs, monitoring traffic, and the advocacy for real space-traffic coordination..

• Adam Marsh VP, Technical Solutions LeoLabs

What Ames Will De-Risk For You: The Silicon Valley Center as Commercial Infrastructure

• Dr. Eugene Tu Center Director NASA Ames Research Center

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
• Tina Ghataore Strategic Business Development Aerospacelab
• Alex Mueller-Gastell CEO and MD ND Satcom
• Armand Musey President and Founder Summit Ridge Group
• Merry Walker Co-Founder and CEO Symphony Space Inc

Protected PNT: The Unfunded Resilience Buy

Backup systems for GPS exist, but almost nobody is paying for them.

• Patrick Shannon Founder, CEO TrustPoint, Inc.

Orchestrating the D2D network of networks

An exploration of how to ensure interoperability across satellite and mobile networks, build successful MNO/SNO commercial models, and lay the path to the autonomous networks of the future.

• Aashu Virmani MODERATOR Senior VP Cambridge Consultants
• Greg Ewert Board Member HAPS Alliance
• Tarun Gupta Co-founder and Chief Business Officer Skylo Technologies
• Greg Pelton Chief Technology Officer Iridium
• Jason Trembley VP Commercial Solutions Terrestar Solutions/Mobile Satellite Services Association (MSSA)

Using Knowledge and Statistical Based Agents for Anomaly Detection & Root Cause Analysis

This presentation examines the use of knowledge-based and statistical agents for anomaly detection and root cause analysis in space systems. Statistical methods reliably identify deviations in high-rate spacecraft and gr

Can You Prove It Came from Space? Verifiable Earth Observation Data and Beyond

Earth observation data increasingly informs commercial, environmental, and national-security decisions. But can a customer verify where an image came from, what software processed it, whether the workload ran in the expe

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
• Carl Couch VP, Strategy & Business Development Terran Orbital
• Patrick Haddox Co-Founder and CEO Samara Aerospace
• Melanie Preisser General Manager/Executive Vice President York Space Systems
• Shey Sabripour Founder & CEO CesiumAstro
• Gil Shacham U.S Business Development Lead MDA Space Satellite Systems