Events

London, UK, Nov. 17, 2018 – The GVF-EMP Partnership ‘HTS Roundtable 2018 - GEOs... MEOs... LEOs: Enabling a Brave New World’ (www.uk-emp.co.uk/current-events/hts-roundtable-2018/), has declared a pre-registration full house for the 4th December programme at London’s Strand Palace Hotel.

by Naoakira Kamiya

Tokyo, Japan, November 16, 2018--There is no doubt that the buzz word at the show floor of  InterBEE2018 was 4K8K. It is because the advanced satellite broadcasting is scheduled to start from 10:00 A.M. on December 1, 2018. At the booth of A-PAB (The Association for Promotion of Advanced Broadcasting Services), 14 broadcasters and their 19 channels are classified in three categories and displayed.

by Martin Jarrold

London, UK, November 2, 2018--In my previous column I referenced the GVF’s contribution to the forthcoming International Telecommunication Union’s World Radiocommunication Seminar 2018 (WRS2018), December 3rd to 7th, which will take the form of a pre-Seminar Workshop Symposium, November 29th to 30th, focused on capacity building amongst the world’s regulators. A number of organizations will be supporting and contributing to the Workshop Symposium, including (at the time of writing) Hughes and SES, together with other GVF members currently finalizing their inputs.

London, UK, , Nov. 1, 2018 — The latest program in the GVF-EMP Partnership portfolio, the HTS Roundtable 2018 - GEOs… MEOs… LEOs: Enabling a Brave New World, has been released. The program, which will offer an in-depth exploration of the drivers and trends behind the continuing massive growth potential in the market for satellite-based broadband solutions, and which is supported by – Comtech EF Data, Hughes, and Newtec – and Guest Sponsors – SES Networks, C-COM Satellite Systems and Integrasys – will take place at London’s Strand Palace Hotel on 4th December 2018, the day following the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) Better Satellite World Awards dinner.

London, UK, October 25, 2018 ­– ­The 21^st edition of AfricaCom is shaping up to be an impressive event.  The number of speakers, visitors and exhibitors grow year on year, mirroring the expanding influence that technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) is having on the world at large.

London, UK, Oct. 11, 2018 – In partnership with Africa’s leading accelerators and innovation hubs, the AHUB program is designed to highlight the critical role of entrepreneurship in fuelling Africa’s digital economy and connect African tech start-ups and scale-ups to investors and corporate partners.

 Isle of Man, Oct. 9, 2018 – The Satellite Interference Reduction Group today announced it is expanding its reach to encompass all types of innovation within the satellite communications industry. As part of that expansion, it has changed its name to Satcoms Innovation Group (SIG). SIG was officially launched today during Satellite Technology Asia in Singapore. The event is being co-hosted with Intelligence-Sec.

by Martin Jarrold

London, UK, October 3, 2018--The fourth quarter 2018 calendar features two of GVF’s regular major events – one in Washington DC in October presented in partnership with COMSYS, the other in London at the beginning of December, part of the GVF-EMP portfolio – and in November we have another of the association’s important innovations, a Workshop Symposium collaboration with the International Telecommunication Union.

by Blaine Curcio

Wuhan, China, October 1, 2018--Late September saw the fourth edition of the China Commercial Aerospace Forum, held in Wuhan, in south-central China at the intersection of the Han and Yangtze rivers. As an American who has spent most of my adult life of China, the conference took place at a fascinating time for me, in the midst of a potential trade war between my home country and my adopted home country.

Paris, France, September 19, 2018 — Consulting firm Euroconsult announced the recipients of both its Annual Awards for Excellence in Connectivity and Satellite Communications as well as Earth Observation and Information on the occasion of the World Satellite Business Week, its annual senior executive event, of which the 22nd edition took place in Paris from Sept. 10 to 14. These annual awards recognize companies and their management for their outstanding accomplishments. Winners are chosen by a panel of industry experts who assess candidates using rigorous qualitative (innovation, strategic decisions, impact) and quantitative (financial performance indicators, such as EBITDA or revenue growth or size/nature of a commercial agreement) criteria.