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SVSW 2026 · Oct 27 – 29 · Mountain View
Satellite Innovation
Formats
Locations
Tue, Oct 27
16 sessions
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09:30
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.
10:15
10:30
WRC-27: The Clock Starts Now
A heads-up on the 2027 world conference that divides radio frequencies among satellite operators.
10:30
11:00
Break
11:00
11:45
Regulators as Capacity Allocators
How government licensing decisions now determine which satellite networks get to grow.
11:45
12:15
Orbital Data Centers — Radiators, Watts, and Orbits
The actual hardware for computing in orbit: how you power it and how you keep it cool.
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
13:00
14:00
Lunch Sponsored by COMSAT
14:00
14:40
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
14:40
14:55
Mission Software Lessons of 2026
What this year’s AI surge teaches the industry about software directions for growth.
14:55
15:35
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
15:35
15:50
Break – Hors d’oeuvres
15:50
16:30
16:30
17:15
The Three-Stack D2D Contest
Feasibility of D2D ended in October 2025 when Starlink Mobile went commercial; the live question is now operator economics inside a three-stack war: SpaceX claiming wholesale intentions while spending over $20 billion on
17:00
17:15
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..
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09:00
09:30
10:15
10:30
11:00
11:45
12:15
13:00
14:00
14:40
14:55
15:35
15:50
16:30
17:00
08:00
09:00
Breakfast
09:00
09:30
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.
10:15
10:30
WRC-27: The Clock Starts Now
A heads-up on the 2027 world conference that divides radio frequencies among satellite operators.
10:30
11:00
Break
11:00
11:45
Regulators as Capacity Allocators
How government licensing decisions now determine which satellite networks get to grow.
11:45
12:15
Orbital Data Centers — Radiators, Watts, and Orbits
The actual hardware for computing in orbit: how you power it and how you keep it cool.
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.
-
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
13:00
14:00
Lunch Sponsored by COMSAT
14:00
14:40
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
14:40
14:55
Mission Software Lessons of 2026
What this year’s AI surge teaches the industry about software directions for growth.
14:55
15:35
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
15:35
15:50
Break – Hors d’oeuvres
16:30
17:15
The Three-Stack D2D Contest
Feasibility of D2D ended in October 2025 when Starlink Mobile went commercial; the live question is now operator economics inside a three-stack war: SpaceX claiming wholesale intentions while spending over $20 billion on
17:00
17:15
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..
Wed, Oct 28
9 sessions
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09:00
BreakFast
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.
09:45
10:00
Protected PNT: The Unfunded Resilience Buy
Backup systems for GPS exist, but almost nobody is paying for them.
10:00
10:45
10:45
11:15
Break
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
12:00
12:15
Commercial EO’s Government Dependency Problem
Satellite-imagery companies depend on a few government contracts, and that dependence is now a business risk.
12:15
13:00
13:00
14:00
Lunch
08:00
09:00
09:45
10:00
10:45
11:15
12:00
12:15
13:00
08:00
09:00
BreakFast
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.
09:45
10:00
Protected PNT: The Unfunded Resilience Buy
Backup systems for GPS exist, but almost nobody is paying for them.
10:45
11:15
Break
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
12:00
12:15
Commercial EO’s Government Dependency Problem
Satellite-imagery companies depend on a few government contracts, and that dependence is now a business risk.
12:15
13:00
13:00
14:00