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 Chief Executive Officer River Advisers
• Kevin Kelly Partner Actum LLC
• Karl Kensinger Deputy Chief of the Satellite Division FCC – Federal Communications Commission
• Scott Patrick Executive Director, Office of Spectrum Management National Telecommunications and Information Administration

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
• Alyssa Goessler Goodwin Vice President AE Industrial Partners
• Sunil Nagaraj Founding Partner Ubiquity Ventures
• Karl Schmidt Managing Director KippsDeSanto & Co

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.

• Janna Lewis MODERATOR General Counsel Rocketdyne
• 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

How chip-scale photonic gyroscopes deliver precision attitude determination and timing for spacecraft operating beyond GNSS.

Orbital Infrastructure as a Service

Introducing HitchHiker Orbital: Autonomous orbital platform with the essential services for research today—and manufacturing soon. Built to replace the capacity ISS Express Racks leave behind in 2030. https://www.hitchhi

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. 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 Government award (SBIR, T&M & CPFF Contract)

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

Trends and Players in Germany’s New Space Sector: An Insider’s View

• Rainer Mueller MODERATOR Senior Manager Germany Trade & Invest
• Ashley Fieglein Johnson President and Chief Financial Officer Planet
• Marta Mager Head of International / Global Business Operations German Space Agency ( Deutsche Raumfahrtagentur im DLR)
• Dennis Wilkens Director USA, San Francisco Office Germany Trade & Invest

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
• Michael Creech VP, Strategy & Business Development Firefly Aerospace
• 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 and 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
• Mary 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 Vice President Joby Aviation
• Thierry Klein President Nokia Bell Labs
• Jason Trembley VP Commercial Solutions Terrestar/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
• Patrick Haddox Co-Founder and CEO Samara Aerospace
• Peter Krauss President and Chief Executive Officer Terran Orbital
• 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