Conference Update – Downlink Issue 8

We would like to thank everyone who spread the word about our new Startup Space entrepreneur pitch contest happening on Tuesday, March 7 in the SATELLITE 2017 expo hall’s SATELLITE Unveiled Theater! The event is produced in partnership with the Space Frontier Foundation. We received nearly 100 applications from new start-ups to participate in the competition! We can confirm the first half of our contestant pool. The confirmed contestants so far are:

• • Emile de Rijk, CEO,  SWISSto12
  • David Shaw, Co-Founder,  Astrapi Corporation
  • Alain Gachet,  Founder,  Radar Technologies International
  • Christopher Richins, CEO,  RBC Signals
  • Christianna Taylor, CEO & Co-Founder,  Intelligent Space
  • Scot Loach, CTO,  Aterlo Networks
  • William Hosack, CEO,  Orbital Micro Systems
  • Jim Gledhill, President,  Teleira

We will announce the second half in the next issue of Downlink! Stay tuned!

More Conference Updates!

Newtec CEO Serge Van Herck and Yahsat Chief Strategy Officer Amit Somani have confirmed to speak during the session “Delivering Critical Mass through Standardization” on Tuesday, March 7 at 1:45 p.m. The session aims to discuss if standardization could help lower the cost of terminals in a market where bandwidth prices are decreasing – similar to what GSM has done for cellular telephony.

Paul Febvre, Chief Technical Officer of Satellite Applications Catapult and Thuraya VP of Business Development Jassem Nasser will speak during the session “IoT (Internet-of-Things) & the Uber-Connected Society” on Tuesday at 3:15 p.m. The Internet of Things remains a very popular discussion at the SATELLITE conference in 2017. This session, which is part of our new 5G Forum being produced in partnership with the EMEA Satellite Operators Association (ESOA), will focus on how satellites can serve as a key enabler of IoT and offer strategic advantages over terrestrial in various geographies and applications. Key applications would include connecting remote assets, mobility services (such as connected cars), as well as augmenting and backhauling terrestrial capacity where needed.

Carissa Christensen, Managing Partner of The Tauri Group, will join PlanetIQ Founder and CEO Chris McCormick and NovaWurks Chief Technologist Talbot Jaeger for a presentation titled “How Have Emerging Space Markets Changed the Supply Chain?” on Wednesday, March 8 at 11:30 a.m. The presentation is part of our Innovation Forum and will educate attendees on what the “traditional” space industry supply chain looks like and how the “New Space” has impacted the traditional supply chain.