COMNEWS sums up Satellite Russia & CIS 2014
The forum was held with the support of Rossvyaz, the National Satellite Communications Assembly (NP NASC), the Global VSAT Forum (GVF), the Mobile Satellite Users Association (MSUA), the National Association of Television and Radio Broadcasters (NAT) and the GIS Association.
The general partner of SATELLITE Russia & CIS 2014 was the national commercial satellite operator Gazprom Space Systems (GKS), the general sponsor was Thales Alenia Space. The official partner of the forum is ZAO National Satellite Company (Tricolor TV), bronze sponsors are the global satellite operator SES and the largest Russian insurer Ingosstrakh, the registration sponsor is the European aerospace concern Airbus Defense and Space, the lunch sponsor is the Israeli space company Gilat Satellite Networks. Conference session sponsor - iDirect company, technical session sponsor - Unique Broadband Systems company. SATELLITE Russia & CIS 2014 was held with the participation of Istar and Iriduim.
The conference was opened by Mikhail Kaygorodov, Deputy Director of the Infrastructure Projects Department of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, outlining key steps in his report on eliminating gaps in the legal field and increasing competition in the satellite communications market in Russia. Igor Chursin, Deputy Head of the Federal Communications Agency, outlined in his welcoming report the range of tasks facing satellite operators today and outlined the priority directions for the market development. Dmitry Sevastyanov, Director General of Gazprom Space Systems, reported on the development program of the orbital constellation of Yamal satellites and its use in national interests. Boris Sidorov, Deputy Head of the Sectoral Economic Cooperation Department of the Economic Cooperation Department of the CIS Executive Committee, made a report on the cooperation of the CIS member states in the space sector. Sergey Stavropoltsev, Acting Director, spoke about the development of satellite TV broadcasting in Siberia. Director General, Director of Regional Development of CJSC National Satellite Company (Tricolor TV). Vladimir Terekhov, Head of the Representative Office of Airbus Defense and Space in the Russian Federation, presented the updated brand of the company and shared his experience of cooperation between European and Russian manufacturers of space technology. The plenary session concluded with a presentation by Nikolay Vedenkin, Director for Project Management at NPP Dauria LLC, on modern opportunities and growth prospects for the small spacecraft market. The session leader, executive director of the space technologies and telecommunications cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation, Aleksey Belyakov, summing up the session, noted that the trend of space commercialization, so-called. Space 2.0, is gaining momentum in Russia.
The session continued with an open discussion on how to solve the problems of reliability and resource of satellites and effective ways of overcoming the difficulties in organizing joint production. The discussion was attended by Project Management Director of NPP Dauriya Nikolay Vedenkin, First Deputy General Designer of Gazprom Space Systems Oleg Grafodatsky, Head of Sector in the Head Design Department of FSUE SRPC TsSKB-Progress, Head of Department - Deputy Director Scientific and Technical Center “Scientific Research Institute of Nuclear Research”, Oleg Mentus and Vladimir Terekhov, Head of the Representative Office of Airbus Defense and Space in the Russian Federation, Vladimir Terekhov.
The second session was devoted to VSAT and satellite broadband access in the B2B and B2C segments. Timur Sarsenov, CEO, Gilat Satellite Networks Eurasia, told about the technological superiority of solutions and new business models from Gilat when introducing satellite broadband access in Russia and the CIS. Sergey Zinenko, Director of Sales for Russia, VT iDirect Inc, continued the topic with a report on iDirect innovations to improve the performance, efficiency and scalability of VSAT networks. Pavel Bakanov, Deputy General Director of Istar LLC, spoke about special technological solutions of EASTAR UHP for work with the Ka-band. Vladislav Tamarkin, deputy head of the center of JSC NIIAS, made a presentation on the current state and development trends of mobile broadband access systems in railway transport. Leonid Rogozin, Director General of the National Satellite Communications Assembly (NP NASS) Non-Profit Partnership, summed up the session with a report “On some problems of the frequency support of radio-electronic networks in the format of generalized decisions of the SCRF”.
The afternoon session was devoted to the development of satellite communications and broadcasting services in Russia and the world. An overview of the satellite communications services market in Russia, Europe and the world was presented by Prashant Butani, senior analyst at NSR. The development of satellite communications services at the present stage of development of the media market was told by Julia Shakhmanova, General Director of Satellite Satellite Television (STV). Gez Draycott, SES Senior Sales Engineer, presented a report on new technologies for communications at mobile sites. The report “Iridium Russia: now and NEXT” was delivered by Gennady Moldavsky, Iridium Communications Sales Director in Russia.
The topic was developed in a round table on the plans of satellite operators and competition in the Russian satellite resource market. Alexander Vyshlov, representative of AMOS in Russia, Gez Draycott, SES Senior Sales Engineer, Jean Philippe Gilles, Vice President for Europe of Intelsat SA, Igor Kot, Deputy General Director for Marketing and Business, shared their vision and problems on the market. -planning of Gazprom Space Systems, Oleg Kolesnikov, Technical Director of NTV-Plus, Gennady Moldavsky, Sales Director for Russia at Iridium Communications, Christopher Spor, Senior Sales Director for ABS and Timofey Abramov, Commercial irektor MOX "Intersputnik".
The evening round table was devoted to the specifics of financing and insurance of space projects. Natalia Ramazanova, Deputy General Director for Economics and Finance, Gazprom Space Systems, Anton Dodonov, Head of Insurance Underwriting Department shared their experience aviation and marine risks SOGAZ IG, Alexander Shevchenko, Head of the Insurance Department for Space Activities of Ingosstrakh Insurance Company, Alexander Mikhailov, Head of the Space and Telecommunications Department of the Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank), Timur Belikov, Head of the Project and Export Finance Directorate OJSC Gazprombank, Elena Glazkova, Deputy Head of the Directorate for Project and Export Financing of OJSC Gazprombank and Andrei Rubin, Economist of the Export Credit Directorate of the Export Financing Department of the State Corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank).
The second day of the conference was held at the site of the Shchelkovo telecommunications center in the Moscow region. Dmitry Sevastyanov, General Director of Gazprom Space Systems, opened the second conference day with a welcoming speech. Alexey Antonenko, Director of Network Resources Planning Directorate, Orange Business Services, Alexey Sergeev, General Director of Web Media Services (HeliosNet), Konstantin Lanin, Head of Representative Office, Regional Director of Hughes Network, talked about barriers and new opportunities in the fixed-satellite communications market in Russia. Systems, Timur Sarsenov, General Director of Gilat Satellite Networks Eurasia, Denis Dianov, Technical Director of Raduga-Internet LLC, Evgeny Usov, Technical Director of Dzhi Ti T Ti and Vladimir Dubrovsky, Vice President of Contracts The work of SS Gonets OJSC.
Vladimir Sokolov, Sales Consultant, Unique Broadband Systems, presented a solution for satellite broadband access and ground satellite communications equipment.
The second half of the day was devoted to the inspection of the Shchelkovo telecommunications center and informal communication of the conference participants.
The audience of the conference praised the representative composition of the speakers, the possibility of establishing business relations, as well as the overall level of organization of the event.
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