Conference

SATELLITE 2008: The Sixth Decade

SATELLITE 2008: The Sixth Decade will look to the future of the satellite-enabled communications market and where new technology will take us.

The verticals we serve – enterprise, military, commercial, broadcast, government, among others – continue to shape the satellite-enabled communications landscape. Ever-changing demand, new applications, and degrees of profitability will determine future business opportunities.

From global broadcasting and telephony to satellite-based backup networks for corporate, government, and other telecom grids, satellite solutions are reinforcing their importance in traditional services while innovating in others. Mobile voice and video communications, satellite services across continents, decreasing costs for hardware and equipment, creative strategic alliances between space segment providers and terrestrial networks . . . all point to a robust commercial, military, enterprise and new uses space-based architecture poised for robust and profitable expansion fifty years after Sputnik.

The SATELLITE 2008 Conference and Exhibition will focus on new areas of growth and business developments as we enter the Sixth Decade. Here are just a few of the can’t miss sessions at SATELLITE 2008:

Opening General Session: Expanding Market Growth and Driving Applications

Global systems are the backbone of satellite-enabled communications, and the CEOs who run these businesses establish the pace for expansion of market growth and development of new applications. They set priorities and, ultimately, create opportunities. With existing businesses as the base, and massive resources as the trump card, these CEOs approach the challenge of increasing profitability and managing costs in ways that define how satellite will build its share of the global telecommunications marketplace.

Moderator: Scott Chase, Chairman, SATELLITE 2008

Mobile Satellite Services: MSS Industry Leaders Stake Their Claims

MSS operators in 2008 will have to deliver on their promises of innovative new capabilities, which can address a much wider market than the niches MSS has served to date. With the launch of ICO and TerreStar’s new satellites, we will see whether ATC really is the magic bullet that has attracted so much attention on Wall Street. Virtually all players need to raise more financing to fund their business plans. Will the markets cooperate, or is the cycle of bankruptcies we saw in late 1990s doomed to repeat itself? Hear what the CEOs have to say about their plans, and why they believe in the future of MSS.

Moderator: Tim Farrar, President, MSUA

Non-Stop Telco Networks: The Satellite-Enabled Proposition

Interconnecting satellite with terrestrial networks to provide advanced, uninterruptible services for telco customers is the next step in providing risk mitigation in telecom networks. In non-stop telco networks, the satellite fail-over fully complements the terrestrial network, increasing total network availability and mitigating the risk of outages.

Speaker: Andreas Georghiou, President, Spacenet