Satellite Show 2025

Opening Day Luncheon Keynote - SES CEO Adel Al-Saleh

Speaker: Adel Al-Saleh
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Room: Ballroom A/B

SATELLITE 2025 welcomes all conference attendees to join us for our opening day keynote luncheon sponsored by MDA Space. We are honored to announce this year's opening keynote speaker: Adel Al-Saleh, CEO of SES. This keynote comes at an exciting moment for the multi-orbit global satellite operator as it is celebrating a 40-year historic milestone, and preparing to move forward with a merger agreement with another leading global satellite operator - Intelsat. Adel will discuss the future of satellite connectivity services in a competitive environment and the legacy of SES in its mission to connect the world. The keynote presentation will open with a welcome address from MDA Space CEO Mike Greenley. Open to all conference attendees!

Tuesday Opening General Panel Session: Global Operator CEOs on Improving the Customer Experience

Speaker: Adel Al-Saleh
Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Room: Ballroom A/B

There are more active satellites in space today than ever before, and the number of satellites continues to multiply each year. This brings a ton of new capacity to orbit and gives satellite operators the ability to serve millions of new customers, businesses, and organizations around the world. Whether through organic growth, or strategic mergers (or both), leading global operators are scaling up their businesses in the quest for new revenue sources. At SATELLITE 2024, the CEOs on our Tuesday Opening General Session agreed that there is "enough room for everyone." This year's marquee session focuses on quality over quantity in an ultra-competitive environment. As operators take on more customers and utilize more bandwidth, how are they ensuring that they will meet the market's needs with secure, high-quality, high-performance service that sets them apart from competitors - especially those that are about to launch massive new systems of their own? Via Satellite Editorial Director Mark Holmes sits down with executives from five of the world's leading satellite operators to discuss their plans to improve the service experience for a rapidly growing number of customers.

CTO Forum: The Future of Space and Satellite Hardware

Speaker: Dr. Xavier Bertrán
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Room: Tech Theater

CTOs discuss the satellite industry's search for the "USB" of satellite networks - the dream standards and interoperable terminals for a multi-orbit, plug-and-play era. Can we make this dream a reality?

The Role of Cloud Computing in Agile Satcom Networks

Speaker: Sergy Mummert
Time: 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Room: Tech Theater

The ground is changing for satellite communication systems. Operators are seeking to move towards digital teleport infrastructure to reduce physical infrastructure, enable seamless modem upgrades, and avoid vendor lock. This session will explore the role of cloud computing in this new path forward. Speakers will share use cases of vendors working with optimized waveforms in the Cloud for commercial and government customers, and discuss trade-offs in flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency.