Welcome Address
Dr. Nongluck Phinainitisart, President, Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council (APSCC)

Satellite Industry Leaders Briefing
Satellite’s Top CEO’s give perspective on key issues that are prevalent to the profitability of their business and offer initiative to the development of the Asia-Pacific satellite market.

Moderator
Kevin French, Founder & Publisher,Talk Satellite

Panelists
Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman & CEO,Arianespace
Huang Baozhong, Vice President, China Direct Broadcast Satellite Co. Ltd
Amiram Levinberg, Chairman & CEO,Gilat Satellite Networks
Dave Bettinger, CTO, iDirect

Satellite Industry Leaders Roundtable

Moderator
David Hartshorn, Secretary General, GVF

Panelists
Huang Baozhong, Vice President, China Direct Broadcast Satellite Co. Ltd
Amiram Levinberg, Chairman & CEO, Gilat Satellite Networks
Dave Bettinger, CTO, iDirect
Dr. Nongluck Phinainitisart, President, Thaicom Public Company Limited
Bahram Pourmand, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Hughes Network Systems, LLC

The Convergent Evolution of DTH: From Broadcast Bouquets to the Multiplay Services Market

Interests of the satellite and broadcasting industries are coming together to address HDTV transitions and interactive services issues. With advanced technologies, broadcasting services continue to extend their influence on the society challenging the conventional delivery of digital streams to the home. In this roundtable, a panel of industry experts will review the Asian DTH market and innovations as well as new demands that service providers are facing.

Moderator
Patrick French, Senior Analyst, NSR

Panelists
Dr. Eui K. Koh, President, ProtoStar Asia
David Justin, CEO, GlobeCast Asia
Thomas Choi, CEO, Asia Broadcast Satellite
Paul Brown-Kenyon, COO, MEASAT
David Ball, VP, Intelsat
Andrew Jordan, President & CEO, SAT-GE

From "Broadband" as Bandwidth to "Broadband" as Content
For the broadband communications user, the end-product imperative is not the technology that enables access, but the content which becomes cost-effectively and reliably accessible as a result of an informed choice between technologies. In a technology competitive marketplace, what is the satellite industry doing to ensure that the end-user’s informed choice fully incorporates the distinct and unique capabilities of satellite? In marketing successful satellite business models how can the industry develop a greater market penetration as potential alternatives deploy their commercial strategies? Do competitive expectations of Return on Investment render the satellite model a viable competitor in the short, medium, and long term?

Moderator
Simon Bull, Senior Consultant, Comsys

Panelists
Mark Dankberg, CEO, Viasat
Titus Yong, Vice President, SingTel
Dave Rehbehn, Senior Director, Hughes Network Systems
Cynthia Dickins, President, SES Asia
Patompob Swansiri, Head of Marketing, Thaicom Public Company Ltd

Emergency Communications
Regular and frequent natural disasters of various types are an all-too-well known occurrence around the globe, and large sums of money are expended in seeking to predict, and thus to mitigate their damaging consequences through the application of disaster recovery, emergency management and business continuity procedures and
programmes. Increasingly, it is recognised that the critical path to the most effective application of such procedures and programmes is wholly dependent upon the deployment of wireless communications which facilitate the coordinated movement of logistical, rescue and first responder resources into, and within, regions threatened by or recovering from – a disaster situation. Terrestrial wireless equipment is only useful when communications towers and other fixed equipment are in place to connect wireless equipment to the local and global communications backbone. In the majority of emergency situations, this infrastructure has either been destroyed or damaged as a consequence of the disaster, or was not available in the first instance. It is this reality which makes it critical for local government and emergency workers to have access to a wireless communications network that operates independently of from disasters. In this session the satellite imperative for emergency communications will be clearly elaborated.

Moderator
Dr. Eui K. Koh, President, ProtoStar Asia

Panelists
Dr. Harald Skinnemoen, President, Founder & Managing Director, AnsuR Technologies
Poh Kwee Lin, Director, Sales and Business Development, SingTel Satellite
Wu Guoxiang, Chief, Space Technology Applications Sector, United Nations ESCAP

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