Sponsored by:

NORAD

Canadian Forces Director General Space

Irish National Space Centre

Endorsed by:

United States Coast Guard

European Space Agency

Platinum Sponsor

Special thanks:

Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC

Reception sponsored by:

Thursday Lunch Sponsored by:

Program

7 November 2012

0845 Administrative Remarks   Lt Cdr Paul Collier, Canadian Forces, Assistant Naval Attaché (Engineering), CDLS(Washington)
0850 Event Outline   Guy Thomas, Director, C-Sigma Centre

0900

Welcome

 

MGen Nicholas Matern, Defense Attaché, Embassy of Canada, Washington, DC

0910 Key Note  

Mr. Chirag Parikh, Director, Space Policy, National Security Council (Invited)

0940 DHS S&T   Paul Benda, DHS S&T Chief of Staff
1000 Canadian Space   CDR Moe AuCoin, Canadian Forces Space Requirements Office 
1020 NORAD’s Role   Capt(N) Kurt Salchert, Canadian Forces, NORAD Liaison Officer Washington
1040

Lunch sponsored by:

   

1215

Space -Based AIS

Overview

Guy Thomas

1220

 

ORBCOMM

Greg Flessate, Director, ORBCOMM

1245

 

exactEarth

David Martin, Vice President , Product Management, exactEarth

1310

 

LuxSpace

Dr. Gerd Eiden, LuxSpace, Luxembourg

1330   Space Quest Dr. Dino A. Lorenzini, President & CEO

1350

Radar Satellites

Overview

Guy Thomas (Confirmed)

1355

 

MDA

Bill Jefferies, CTO, MDA

1420

 

DLR

Dr Juergen Drescher, Director, DLR America

1445

Break

 

 

1455

Optical Systems

Overview

Guy Thomas

1500

 

GEOEYE

Dejan Damjanovic, Director MDA, GeoEye
1525   Pleideas Drew Hopwood
Technical Sales Engineer, Astrium GEO-Information Services

1550

 

SAARPSCO

Hans J. Niebergall, Esq., President & CEO, SAARPSCO, South Asia & Africa Regional Port Stability Cooperative

1615 Commercial Uses of Space Data Vessel Tracker Carsten Bullemer, Managing Director, vesseltracker.com (confirmed)
1600      

1645

RECEPTION

Sponsored by:

 

 

8 November 2012

0800

Welcome

Canadian  Host 

Lt Cdr Paul Collier, Canadian Forces, Assistant Naval Attaché (Engineering), CDLS(Washington) (Confirmed)

0810

 

Event Outline

Guy Thomas (Confirmed)

0820 US Space Industry Supply Chain Analysis   Chris Nelson, Deputy Director, Industrial Studies, US Department of Commerce (Confirmed)

0845

Comms Systems

Overview

Guy Thomas (Confirmed)

0900

 

ORBCOMM

Greg Flessate, Vice President,
Maritime Systems,
ORBCOMM

0920

 

InMARSAT

Peter Blackhurst, Director of Security, InMARSAT

0940 Break    

0950

 

ARGOS

Ben Minichino, Vice President, CLS America

1015

Dynamic Data Analysis

Overview

Guy Thomas

1020   GSTS Richard Kolacz, Co-Founder and President, Global Spatial Technology Solutions (Confirmed)
1045   KSAT Tony Bauna, Director, Product & Service Dev't. Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) (Confirmed)
1130 C-SIGMA CENTRE Irish National Space Centre & its C-SIGMA Centre Rory Fitzpatrick, CEO, Irish National Space Centre

1200

Lunch sponsored by:

 

 

1300   GEOEYE/SST/exactEarth Chan Smith, VP COM DEV USA

1325

 

Geo Morse

Narayanan Manoj, CEO, Loka Wireless

1350

 

JAXA

Jun Gomi, Director,Satellite Applications Ctr, JAXA

Koichi Oshimura, Associate Senior Engineer

1440

Break

 

 

1450 EUCOM Perspectives and ARC Sat  

Martin Kress, Executive Director of the Von Braun Center for Science & Innovation   

Stephen L. Spehn, Deputy Science Advisor, EUCOM
1530 Frequency Use Issues   Joe Hersey, Spectrum Manager, USCG

1600

Break

 

 

1630

Governance Discussions/ Policy Update on the Use of Space for Maritime Domain Awareness

 

 

1730

Adjourn

 

 

 

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