Space‑Enabled Mobility: Unlocking a Competitive, Resilient, and Sovereign Future

Space-Enabled Mobility: Unlocking a Competitive, Resilient, and Sovereign Future 

How space-enabled mobility can drive competition, new service capabilities, resilience, and sovereign alignment.

Global connectivity is entering a decisive moment, and the industry stands at a pivotal juncture. As space-enabled mobility becomes critical infrastructure, outcomes will be shaped not only by technology choices, but by how access, coordination, and governance frameworks are structured across borders and systems.

This program examines how the next generation of space-enabled mobility can be designed to preserve competition, unlock new service capabilities, and align with sovereign priorities, while strengthening resilience and expanding choice. Discussions span architectural and interoperability decisions, infrastructure sharing and integration models, alignment across networks and borders, and the frameworks that determine who can participate, deploy, and innovate at global scale.

Taken together, these choices will influence whether space-enabled mobility delivers an environment of sustained competition with trusted connectivity, and economic opportunity across regions, or evolves along a constrained path with market concentration.

Agenda

Opening Fireside Chat: A Moment of Opportunity: Policies that will shape the Future of Space-Enabled Mobility | 3:00PM - 3:45PM

This opening keynote sets out a vision for the future of space-enabled mobility, grounded in the pillars of choice, resilience, and sovereignty.

This opening keynote frames advanced NTN direct-to-device connectivity as an inflection point in global mobile communications. As satellite networks integrate into everyday digital infrastructure, early choices around standards, interoperability, and governance will shape competition, resilience, sovereignty, and the scale of new economic opportunities across land, sea, and air.

Keynote Speakers:

• Mark Dankberg, Viasat, CEO & Chairman
• Karim Sabbagh, Space42, Managing Director 

Session 1: Why Sovereignty Matters for Space-Enabled Mobility | 3:45PM - 4:25PM

Policy decisions made in the next 2–3 years will determine long-term market structure and resilience.

As space-enabled mobility becomes critical infrastructure, sovereignty emerges as a strategic and operational imperative. This session debates on why governance of spectrum, orbital resources, cybersecurity, and data stewardship are required to shape national autonomy, user privacy, market resilience, and operator freedom of action, and how aligned frameworks can foster competition while avoiding long-term dependency.

Session 2: Leveraging Standards to Scale: How Interoperable NTN Networks Enable Competition and Choice | 4:25PM - 5:15PM

How open, interoperable NTN networks give operators the flexibility to extend coverage globally, compete on economics, and meet demand for ubiquitous connectivity while preserving independence.

This session intends on debating why standards are required to drive interoperability to enable seamless roaming between TN-NTN networks. It dives into architectural decisions that require adoption by the standards to ensure operators can extend coverage globally, strengthen resilience, preserve sovereignty, and compete on economics while retaining flexibility, supplier choice, and long-term freedom of evolution.

Reception and Drinks | Starting 5:30PM