Sponsors

Gold Sponsor
SES Networks

SES Networks is the world-leading satellite operator and the first to deliver a differentiated and scalable GEO-MEO offering worldwide, with more than 50 satellites in Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) and 12 in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). SES focuses on value-added, end-to-end solutions in two key business units: SES Video and SES Networks. The company provides satellite communications services to broadcasters, content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators, governments and institutions. SES’s portfolio includes ASTRA, O3b and MX1. 
About SES Networks: SES Networks is a provider of Global Managed Data Services. As part of the SES Group, SES Networks has the global support and infrastructure to empower more people than ever before. With the only network solutions powered by the O3b fleet of MEO satellites, together with the reach GEO satellites, it is on a mission to provide more than just connectivity. It’s bringing people, communities and businesses into the heart of opportunity. 

Bronze Sponsors
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES)

Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) is the global leader in broadband satellite technology and services for home and office. Its flagship high-speed satellite Internet service is HughesNet®, the world’s largest satellite network with over 1.4 million residential and business customers across the Americas. For large enterprises and governments, the company’s HughesON™ managed network services provide complete connectivity solutions employing an optimized mix of satellite and terrestrial technologies. The JUPITER™ System is the world’s most widely deployed High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) platform, operating on more than 20 satellites by leading service providers, delivering a wide range of broadband enterprise, mobility and cellular backhaul applications. To date, Hughes has shipped more than 7 million terminals of all types to customers in over 100 countries, representing approximately 50 percent market share, and its technology is powering broadband services to aircraft around the world.

Headquartered outside Washington, D.C., in Germantown, Maryland, USA, Hughes operates sales and support offices worldwide, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), a premier global provider of satellite operations. For additional information about Hughes, please visit www.hughes.com and follow @HughesConnects on Twitter.

ThalesAleniaSpace

Thales Alenia Space combining 40 years of experience and a unique diversity of expertise, talents and cultures, Thales Alenia Space architects design and deliver high technology solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Governments, institutions and companies rely on Thales Alenia Space to design, operate and deliver satellite-based systems that help them position and connect anyone or anything, everywhere, help observe our planet, help optimize the use of our planet's – and our solar system’s – resources. Thales Alenia Space believes in space as humankind’s new horizon, which will enable to build a better, more sustainable life on Earth. A joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space also teams up with Telespazio to form the parent companies’ Space Alliance, which offers a complete range of services and solutions. Thales Alenia Space posted consolidated revenues of about 2.6 billion euros in 2017 and has 7,980 employees in nine countries.

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd (NASDAQ, TASE: GILT) is a leading provider of satellite broadband products and services. Gilat develops and manufactures a wide range of high-performance satellite terrestrial segment equipment oriented to nowadays HTS satellites and consumer market. Gilat offers a comprehensive line of terminals for all types of users and applications: B2C, B2B, B2O, including mobile terminals and terminals for main channels. Also Gilat provides network management services and projects turn-key implementation, including installation, starting-up and adjustment works, and support.

Operators, enterprises and service providers in 90 countries all over the world use Gilat effective and reliable satellite telecommunication solutions. Satellite HTS networks in Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America are built today on the base of Gilat innovative solutions. Today several thousand aircraft have been equipped with Gilat satellite modems. Gilat is the world leader in providing CBH (Cellular Backhaul) services for mobile operators - leading mobile operators around the world choose Gilat to build their networks in hard-to-reach places. Moreover, Gilat holds a leading position in manufacturing antennas and networks for broadband satellite communications in move, for cars, airplanes, trains, yachts, etc.

Gilat has been present in Russian market since 2000. In 2009, a full-fledged subsidiary named Gilat Satellite Networks (Eurasia) Ltd. with its office in Moscow was opened. The Russian company is staffed by a highly professional team of specialists who sell equipment and complex services for installation, warranty maintenance, technical support and repair of VSAT equipment. For many years Gilat equipment has been actively used by key Russian telecommunications companies. The presence of a full-fledged Russian company allows selling equipment in rubles and providing services for satellite networks turn-key installation and adjustment, network management outsourcing, technical support, equipment repair, and specialists training.

Ingosstrakh Public Joint-Stock Insurance Company

Ingosstrakh Public Joint-Stock Insurance Company has been working on both the international and the domestic market since 1947. It is one of the most famous all-in-one insurance companies operating at the federal level.
Ingosstrakh Company offers a full range of traditional insurance services. The Company is authorized to render all types of insurance services (in accordance with the insurance company specialization) specified in cl. 32.9 of the Insurance Law of the Russian Federation, as well as reinsurance services.
High financial and economic indicators and considerable level of transparency of Ingosstrakh Company are certified by Standard&Poor’s and A.M. Best international rating agencies and also Russian Expert RA agency.
Among Ingosstrakh's clients and partners are major Russian and foreign banks, industrial enterprises, representative offices of foreign companies, governmental and business entities. The company maintains contractual business relations with over 500 insurance and reinsurance companies all over the world.
Ingosstrakh's services are available all over the territory of the Russian Federation due to an extensive regional network comprising 83 branches. Ingosstrakh is liable to its clients for the full amount of possible losses thanks to its high financial stability, considerable amount of internal funds and reliable reinsurance programs. Ingosstrakh policy is recognized in over 130 countries.
License of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation SL No. 0928 of September 23, 2015, SI No. 0928 of September 23, 2015, OS No. 0928 - 02 of September 23, 2015, OS No. 0928 - 03 of September 23, 2015, OS No. 0928 - 04 of September 23, 2015, OS No. 0928 - 05 of September 23, 2015, PS No. 0928 of September 23, 2015.

Session Sponsor
EASTAR

EASTAR is a Russian developer and manufacturer of satellite networking equipment. The company was founded in 2005 with the purpose of development and production of modern satellite communication systems. EASTAR created and constantly develops an unique VSAT platform UHP (Universal Hardware Platform), intended for the construction of satellite networks and communication channels of any topology. Innovative UHP VSAT platform has a huge number of competitive advantages that has allowed this technology to take its rightful place in the world market of satellite communications. A product portfolio includes a full range of hardware and software, including central and subscriber stations, control and network management system. The equipment is manufactured in Russia and Germany. There are above 370 networks have been already deployed in 50 countries worldwide. UHP equipment is certified in Russia, the European Union and in other countries.

With the Participation of
ООО «Иридиум Коммьюникешенс»

Iridium Communications LLC is a Russian company licensed to provide Iridium services within Russia. Iridium is the only mobile voice and data satellite communications network that spans the entire globe. Iridium enables connections between people, organizations and assets to and from anywhere, in real time. Together with its ecosystem of partner companies, Iridium delivers an innovative and rich portfolio of reliable solutions for markets that require truly global communications. The company has a major development program underway for its next- generation network — Iridium NEXT. Iridium is replacing its existing constellation by sending 75 Iridium NEXT satellites into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket over 8 different launches until mid-2018. SpaceX has already successfully launched 40 of Iridium's next-generation satellites. 

АО «АМТЕЛ-СВЯЗЬ»
AMTEL-SVYAZ is one of the leading satellite communications operators in Russia, who provides telecommunication services based on VSAT technologies. In 14 years of successful work on the Russian satellite communications market, the company has realized thousands of projects for the government, large and small business, communication operators and social sector.
The company provides full range of communication services: 
  • High-speed two-way satellite Internet access, corporate networking, telephony, video, audio and tele conferencing, mobile VSAT, call-centers; 
  • Dedicated and reserved satellite communications channels; 
  • Collective Internet Access; 
  • Marine VSAT services. 
The satellite fleet of the company currently covers all territory of Russian Federation: from Kaliningrad and Crimea to Kamchatka and Chukotka.
Information Space Center «Severnaya Korona»

Information Space Center «Severnaya Korona» is a Russian company working in the field of high technologies for more than 20 years.

The main competencies of the company, first of all, include:

  • development of satellite systems and complexes for various purposes (communication, navigation, remote sensing), including the justification of the ballistic structure of the orbital constellation, the calculation of link budget, evaluation of quality characteristics of navigation and remote sensing systems, analysis EMС of NGSO systems, etc.;
  • frequency-territorial planning of networks of professional radio communication of GSM-R, DMR, LTE standards, etc. taking into account requirements of EMC;
  • modernization and delivery of CAD "Albatros" - a line of application software systems designed to perform the analysis, calculation, planning and modeling of satellite and terrestrial radio information transmission systems.
Intersputnik

Intersputnik, one of the world’s first satellite operators uniting 26 countries, is a full-scale supplier of satellite capacity and engineering solutions on the global market. Intersputnik’s core business is leasing satellite capacity to telecommunications operators and broadcasters under agreements with partner operators: RSCC, Eutelsat, Intelsat, ABS. Intersputnik also offers its customers a full set of solutions in the field of satellite network installation and operation via its proprietary subsidiary Isatel. In cooperation with partners, Intersputnik is implementing full-scale projects aimed at procuring and deploying spacecraft in Intersputnik's own orbital positions.

AltegroSky GC

AltegroSky GC  is a leading VSAT satellite communication operator in Russia and Eastern Europe.  The Group includes satellite operators:  Race Telecom CJSC ,  Set Telecom CJSC and MT CJSC, system integrator Altegro Engineering LLC. AltegroSky provides a wide range  of broadband communication services for businesses, telecom operators, government customers: high-speed satellite Internet access, VoIP, multicasting,  backup communication links, organization of distribution television and broadcasting networks, construction of networks with complex architecture, dedicated channels on SCPC/CnC technology,  Trunking (Mesh, ACM, MCPC),  service SubVNO, Up-Linking, Backhauling, wireless communication channels ( UMTS / LTE), satellite communication on the move.