Silicon Valley Space Week #SVSW

Standardized satellite platforms vs. companies that build everything themselves. This panel gets into who actually wins the proliferated-constellation era. Oct 27 | 11:15 AM | Satellite Innovation Speakers: Noel Rimalovski (Moderator) – Managing Partner, GH Partners Melanie Preisser – GM/EVP, York Space Systems Shey Sabripour – Founder & CEO, CesiumAstro Gil Shacham – U.S. Business Development Lead, MDA Space Satellite Systems Patrick Haddox – CEO, Samara Aerospace Peter Krauss – CEO, Terran Orbital See the full agenda and grab your pass 👉 svspaceweek.com #SVSW #SiliconValleySpaceWeek #SatelliteInnovation #NewSpace

Speaker Focus: Dr. Ronald Epstein, Managing Director in Americas Equity Research at Bank of America Securities. Ranked a top-three aerospace and defense analyst in the Institutional Investor poll for sixteen straight years, and a research scientist at Boeing Phantom Works before Wall Street. He opens the week with "The Satellite Industry Repriced" on Tuesday, October 27 from 9:00 to 9:30 a.m. in the Hahn Auditorium. It is the first talk of Silicon Valley Space Week #SVSW. Register: https://lnkd.in/eJ8HZiWU Read more: https://lnkd.in/eAxZ5npY #SVSW2026 #SatelliteInnovation

4 weeks until Silicon Valley Space Week 2026! 120+ speakers, 75+ exhibitors, one building. See you Oct 27–29. Join us! https://svspaceweek.com/ #SVSW

Speaker Focus: Allyson Jenkins, Vice President of Public Sector at Pixxel. Eighteen years in the geospatial intelligence community, starting as an imagery analyst at NGA. She joins "How Commercial Space Companies Can Support Future Defense Space Architectures" on Thursday, October 29 from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. in the Hahn Auditorium, moderated by Janna Lewis of Rocketdyne. It is the final full session of the symposium. Register: https://lnkd.in/eJ8HZiWU Read more: https://lnkd.in/gdyuEsj9 #SVSW2026 #MilSatSymposium

The budget made the mesh decision - now the fight is execution and concentration. A reconciliation-funded, heavily SpaceX-anchored backbone versus proliferation doctrine: a debate worth having. 📅 Oct 28 | 3:15 PM | MilSat Symposium Speakers: Preston Dunlap (Moderator) – Founder and Managing Partner, Arkenstone Capital Michael Geist – SVP Strategy, Innovation & Growth, SES Space & Defense Dr. Dr. Rajeev Gopal – VP, Advanced Programs Defense Division, Hughes Network Systems Dr. Lucy Hoag – Founder and CEO, Violet Labs John Malsbury – CEO & Founder, AnySignal Jim Scott – Chief Strategy Officer, US Electrodynamics See the full agenda and grab your pass 👉 svspaceweek.com #SVSW #MilSatSymposium #SpaceForce #DefenseSpace

How to ensure interoperability across satellite and mobile networks, build successful MNO/SNO commercial models, and lay the path to the autonomous networks of the future. Oct 28 | 10:00 AM | Satellite Innovation Speakers: Aashu Virmani – Senior VP, Cambridge Consultants Greg Ewert – Vice President, Joby Aviation Thierry Klein – President, Nokia Bell Labs See the full agenda and grab your pass 👉 svspaceweek.com #SVSW #SatelliteInnovation #DirectToDevice #Connectivity

Speaker Focus: Katherine Coens, System Program Director of the Narrowband SATCOM Division at Space Systems Command. Her ACAT I program supplies UHF narrowband to more than 150,000 joint warfighters and weapon systems. She sits for "Interview - Managing a Major Acquisition Category" on Thursday, October 29 from 9:00 to 9:30 a.m. in the Hahn Auditorium, interviewed by Maj. Gen. (ret) Kimberly Crider, Founding Partner at ElaraNova. It is the first talk of the symposium's final day. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eHri5Bjt Register: https://lnkd.in/eJ8HZiWU #SVSW2026 #MilSatSymposium

Meet Kathryne Dickerson, Shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, LLP and a market brief speaker at #SVSW2026. She has spent nearly two decades before the FCC, the NTIA, the Department of Commerce and international regulators, representing satellite operators, earth station operators, broadcasters and emerging space companies. She has obtained Supplemental Coverage from Space authorizations for direct-to-device systems, secured modifications to existing satellite licenses, and obtained U.S. market access for foreign-licensed systems. She joined Greenberg Traurig from Wiley Rein in February 2025 and practices in Washington. When the FCC adopted its Part 100 licensing overhaul in July, she wrote her firm's first alerts on what it changes. At Silicon Valley Space Week she has fifteen minutes to walk the room through it. "Part 100: A New Era for FCC Space Licensing" Tuesday, October 27, 10:15 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., Hahn Auditorium. It follows the Regulators as Capacity Allocators panel, which seats the FCC's deputy satellite division chief and NTIA's spectrum management director at the same table. Read More: https://lnkd.in/e8ZY5CcR Register: https://lnkd.in/eJ8HZiWU

Who owns space superiority, and how much of it can commercial actually carry? Speakers: Dara Panahy (Moderator) – Partner, Milbank LLP Col. Tim Trimailo – Director, Commercial Space Office (COMSO), Space Systems Command (SSC) See the full agenda and grab your pass 👉 svspaceweek.com #SVSW #MilSatSymposium #SpaceForce #CommercialSpace

Why is 'dual use' now the pitch, not the caveat, for space startups? Here’s a clip of Chris Quilty explaining this shift in the industry at Silicon Valley Space Week last year. Join the MilSat Symposium this year at Silicon Valley Space Week for more discussions like this. #SVSW #Milsat #DualUse