GovSatCom for European Defence and Security 2017

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Sabine LECRENIER

Joining the European Commission in 1985, Ms Lecrenier has worked in various services in the context of the Internal Market (Free Movement of Goods and Services, Intellectual Property Rights, Notification Directive 98/34) and International Trade (Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade). Ms Lecrenier studied law at the University of Liège and holds a post-graduate degree in European Law at the “College d’ Europe" in Bruges, Belgium. She is “Maître de Conférence” at the University of Liège in the field of EU Institutions and Cooperation with Developing Countries.

Magali VAISSIERE

Magali Vaissiere was born in 1957. From France, she has an Executive MBA from the “Centre de Perfectionnement aux Affaires”, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Stanford and an Engineering Diploma of the “Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications” of Paris.

In 2005, Mrs. Vaissiere joined ESA as the Head of the Telecommunications Department within the ESA Directorate for Telecommunications and Navigation. Now she heads the new Directorate of Te...lecommunications and Integrated Applications, one of several Directorates that were created in an organisational change triggered by ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and endorsed by the ESA Council.

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François RIVASSEAU

Mr. Rivasseau has spent much of his career working on disarmament, security, and multilateral affairs. Following an early tour at the French Embassy in Colombia (1986-1989), he served as the head of the NATO desk in the Strategic Affairs and Disarmament department at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 1993, Mr. Rivasseau became the head of political affairs at the Ministry’s United Nations Directorate. Two years later, he moved to Geneva to serve as the Deputy Permanent Representati...ve at the French Mission to the Conference on Disarmament. During his time in Switzerland, he took part in negotiations over the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the Ottawa Convention banning land mines.

In 1998, Mr. Rivasseau was appointed the Deputy Spokesperson and Assistant Secretary for Information and Communication at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; he was promoted to Spokesperson two years later.

In 2003, Mr. Rivasseau returned to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva as the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of France, where he chaired the Geneva Forum. In 2006, he was elected for a year president of the Third Review Conference on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which restricts the use of inhumane armaments such as mines, lasers, and incendiary weapons.

Mr. Rivasseau holds degrees from the “Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux” and University of Bordeaux III, as well as a Ph.D. in law from the University of Bordeaux I. He studied at the “École Nationale d’Administration” in Paris, France (1979-1981) and served as a as an administrative court counsellor in Poitiers and Bordeaux (1981-1986).

Mr. Rivasseau has been honoured with the Chevalier of the French Order of the Legion of Honour, the Officer of the French Order of Merit, and the Chevalier of the German Order of Merit (2nd degree).

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Peter ROUND

Air Commodore Pete Round joined the European Defence Agency in 2012 and is now Director Capability, Armament & Technology. He joined the RAF in 1979 as a University Cadet at Manchester University. After officer and flying training he flew Buccaneers in the maritime strike/attack role from RAF Lossiemouth. He became a RAF Qualified Flying Instructor in 1990 and a T37 Instructor Pilot and Flight Commander at the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training School at Sheppard Air ...Force Base Texas in 1992.

After a tour as Deputy Chief Flying Instructor at the Central Flying School he became a Staff Officer in the Ministry of Defence working for the Director of Military Operations with particular responsibility for Arms Control issues. He completed Joint Advanced Command and Staff Training in 1999 and went on to become Chief Instructor at RAF Linton-on-Ouse running RAF Basic Fast Jet Training. This tour was followed by an operational tour to become the RAF Detachment Commander at Prince Sultan Air Force Base, Saudi Arabia with responsibility for Air Operations over Southern Iraq.

He then completed a tour as an Operations Team Leader at the Permanent Joint Headquarters with responsibility at different times for UK Operations in Afghanistan, the Balkans and all UK supported UN Operations. This was followed by a tour on the Policy Director's staff in the Ministry of Defence with particular responsibility for International Defence Relations Policy, UK/US policy staff interaction and during which time he was a co-author of Defence Strategic Guidance 05. He took command of No 1 Elementary Flying Training School in 2005 with responsibility for initial flying training for all Royal Navy, Army and RAF aircrew.

He was then the United Kingdom National Liaison Representative to NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia. Most recently he was the Assistant Director Flying Training with responsibility to Director Flying Training for all aspects of pre-OCU flying training for the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force as well as the introduction of the United Kingdom Military Flying Training System in partnership with Ascent. He has a Master’s Degree in Defence from Kings College, London

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Patrick CHATARD MOULIN

Patrick is responsible for the files related to Space Security and Defence in the Space Policy Unit of the European Commission (DG GROW). With his team he manages the implementation of the Space Surveillance and Support framework and prepares the GOVSATCOM initiative.

Prior to joining the European Commission in 2011, he worked in the Council General Secretariat and later in the European External Action Service on Space, Security and Defence issues. His duties included the operational direction ...of the EU Satellite Centre and he also contributed to the development on the security dimension to the European Space Policy.

Prior to joining the Communities, he served as a Project Officer in the Capability Directorate of the newly established European Defence Agency (EDA). For a couple of years, he created and chaired several expert groups and initiated several cooperative projects including on SATCOM.

Patrick has served for more than 15 years in the French Air Force as an Engineering Officer working mainly on Space and Information Systems.

Patrick graduated the French Air Force Academy, and later Telecom Paris as a SATCOM Engineer. He is an Alumnus of the International Space University where he has been invited to lecture.

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Reimund KUEKE

Reimund Kueke is working at airobotics GmbH as a consultant in the areas of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) and Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR).

He is looking back on more than 25 years of experience in the aerospace industry working for Astrium, Rheinmetall Defence Electronics and Airbus Defence and Space in the fields of advanced projects and disruptive technologies.

He holds a scientific university degree in solid state physics and a PhD in electronic engineering.

Lucien HOFFMANN

Prof. Dr Lucien Hoffmann is director of the Environmental Research and Innovation (ERIN) department of the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technologies and Vice-President of the Luxembourgish Space cluster

The ambition of the ERIN department is to implement a smart green vision, accelerating innovation towards the sustainable management of natural resources. The ERIN department brings together with its teams made of 170 life, environmental, and IT scientists and engineers, the necessary in...terdisciplinary knowledge and skills to tackle major environmental challenges our cities are facing today: climate change mitigation, ecosystem resilience, sustainable energy systems, efficient use of renewable resources, environmental pollution prevention and control. To tackle these challenges the ERIN department is developing integrated space solutions for environmental risk monitoring and management

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Jeremy WARD

Jeremy started his career in Malvern in 1983 at the UK MOD’s Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE), as a Higher Scientific Officer after completing his PhD at Durham University. RSRE had sponsored his PhD on “The Application of Number Theory to Digital Signal Processing”. He continued working on parallel computing and DSP after joining RSRE. After a period running the MOD’s Science and Engineering Fast Stream he became a Technical Manager for the Land “Digitisation of the Batt...lefield” Programme in 1996. Two years later he became one of the first DERA Business Group Managers and then Department Manager for “Battle Management Systems”.

In 2002 he moved to a Corporate Business Development role covering all C4ISTAR areas across the Company. He then became Technical Director and subsequently Sales Director of QinetiQ’s Command and Intelligence Systems Division.

Jeremy created a Consultancy Practice within QinetiQ in April 2008. The Practice provided Client side advice in the areas of Air and Missile Defence, UK Military Communications Programmes – including Satellite Communications, ISTAR programmes and Information Exploitation. The group was 95 strong with approximately one fifth of its revenues overseas.

In July 2010 Jeremy became Managing Director of QinetiQ’s C4ISR business. This included QinetiQ’s programme in support of the Galileo programme and cryptography programmes. In April 2011 this expanded to include QinetiQ’s Radar, Electronic Warfare and Land Survivability businesses with approximately 500 staff. Following subsequent reorganisations this business grew to have a turn-over of approximately £115m, whilst meeting all business targets.

Jeremy Ward was appointed as the QinetiQ Group Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in November 2014 to promote Innovation across the Group and manage the Internal R&D (IRAD) programme - £10M in FY17. In addition the Group CTO role he is responsible for the Group’s Scientific and Technical Strategy, Academic Engagement, the QinetiQ Fellow s scheme and acts as the Company’s Senior Information Risk Owner.

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Radu STATE

• Master of Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA (Computational Biology), 1998
• Ph.D, INRIA, France (Network Security and Management), 2001
• Habilitation, Université de Lorraine, France, 2008
• Senior Researcher at INRIA, France
• Professor of Computer Science, Telecom Nancy, France
• Head of SEDAN research group at SnT
• Research Topics: network security, Big Data and management of emergent Fintech infrastructures…..
• Senior Scientist at SnT, University of Luxembourg

Rupert SWINHOE-STANDEN

Rupert Swinhoe-Standen is the Regional Business Manager - Security Systems for Kelvin Hughes Security Division.

Following 17 years’ British Army experience culminating in command in the Royal Artillery, Rupert has garnered a wealth of commercial defence industry experience over 15 years operating both in the UK and overseas. He has extensive experience of the LAND, STA and C4I environment, having worked as a "practitioner" in both peace and war, as a MOD staff officer and as a commander of s...pecialist troops.

Rupert’s defence sales, marketing and BD experience is similarly international as well as UK. He is part of the emerging Security Business Unit of Kelvin Hughes, whose surveillance and security solutions are capable of detecting the smallest targets in the worst conditions, both on land and over water.

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LCL. E.A. Jaime L. Sánchez MAYORGA

Lieutenant-Colonel E.A. Jaime L. Sánchez MAYORGA is in charge of the Spanish Space Unit, in the Programs Management Sub-Directorate of Armament and Material.
Since his graduation in the Air Force Academy, he has followed numerous courses and defence studies, supplemented by university studies in network systems.

Before his actual position, he was in charge of the Technical Squadron and was Deputy to the Spanish Center for Aerospace Observation Systems, Head of the Spanish Pleiades program, re...sponsible for the SatCom Program, and MoD representative in the Surveillance and Space Tracking (SST) Consortium.

As representative in national and international working groups, he follows the evolution in 4 areas of application in space: communications (GovSatCom), observation (PAZ and SEOB EDA), navigation (GNSS-Galileo) and surveillance and space tracking (SST EU).

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Edmond MALDAGUE

Edmond Maldague is a seasoned senior executive in "Mission & Critical Communication" Solutions & Services, since about the last 25 years.

Edmond holds a degree of "Doctor of Infrastructure & Technology", from Phoenix University, completed by a MIT degree in Technology & Space (Boston). Prior to this, Edmond achieved a Master degree in "Economy & Politics" within the University of Namur (Belgium).

Edmond was nominated in 2011 as CEO of Redu Space Services: a joint Venture between SES and Qinit...iQ Space, a company focused on "Ground & Space Sharing & Pooling Services and Solutions" for the Governmental & Institutional Market.

Prior joining the SES/RSS, Edmond had successfully held different CEO and high executive level functions in companies like: Zenitel, Siemens, Fujitsu Services & IBM.
Edmond had the opportunity to lead, in the last 15 years, very significant Government & Institutional Projects in cooperation's with: Thales, Airbus, Google and many others in the scope of (eg.) : Space Balloon Monitoring, Border Security & Surveillance, ISR, Radar Vessel Traffic Systems, Government VSAT networks...."

Edmond's top experience resides in: End-to-End Mission Critical Solutions Development & Setup of related operations.

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Hermann Ludwig MOELLER

Ludwig is Head of the Institutional and European Programmes Office within the Directorate of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications at ESA HQ.

He has been with ESA since 25 years and was closely associated with the establishment of the Copernicus Earth Observation Programme as Head of the Space Segment Office. Since 2013, Ludwig is responsible for the co-operation between the ESA ARTES Programme (Advanced research in Telecommunications Systems) and related R&D and Programme initiatives ...of the EU institutions. This includes ESA’s preparations for GOVSATCOM, in cooperation with ESA member states, EDA, the EC and in partnership with European space industry. Ludwig holds a Master in telecommunications following studies at TU Darmstadt and ENST Paris.

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Holger LUESCHOW

Mr. Lüschow is Programme Manager Satellite Communication and Project Officer Radio Spectrum within the Capability, Armament and Technology Directorate of the European Defence Agency in Brussels. He took over this responsibility on 1st July 2016.

Before his move to Brussels, he served for 30 years in the German Air Force where he holds the rank of a Lieutenant-Colonel. Within his military career, Mr. Lüschow served on several posts in the CIS/IT domain ranging from IT-Security to procurement t...o spectrum policy. His national appointments have been complemented by a tour in the NATO Component Command Air in Izmir, Turkey, where he served in the Operations branch.
In the last 6 years before changing to the EDA, Mr. Lüschow served in the German Federal Ministry of Defence being responsible for the German national satellite communication programme, as well as the radio spectrum policy of the Bundeswehr.

He holds a Master in Electrical Engineering following studies at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich.

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Koen WILLEMS

Koen Willems has more than 18 years’ experience working in different technology industries.

Before joining Newtec, he was Product Marketing Manager for Europe at the electronics giant TOSHIBA.
Currently, Koen holds the position of Market Director with focus on the government, defense and humanitarian SatCom markets at Newtec. In his role, he is in charge of developing the government and defense market worldwide for Newtec and managing large key projects and programs.

Koen has a Master's degr...ee in English & Scandinavian Languages (University Ghent, Belgium, 1997) and a Master's degree in Marketing Strategy and Management (Vlekho Business School in Brussels, 1998). More recently Koen also received the degree for ‘High Studies in Security and Defense’ at the Belgian Royal Higher Institute for Defense.
You may know Koen as a Newtec technology evangelist through his regular appearance in editorials in satellite-focused publications, white papers and speaking slots at conferences around the world.

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Pascal Rogiest

Thomas Beer

Patrick Heuline

Mobile Communications Networks Head of Marketing, Thales Communications and Security

Patrick HEULINE joined THALES in 2000 after 3 years spent in Alcatel Space where he was in charge of the Milsatcom Products and Bid Department During this period and the previous one in Thomson-Csf, Mr HEULINE has been working with European industrial partners for the definition of the various approaches of the post 2000 Milsatcom capabilities in Europe such as TRI-MILSATCOM, GEFSATCOM and SYRACUSE 3. In THAL...ES Communications, Mr HEULINE has managed the strategy and marketing regarding Milsatcom Ground segments for 5 years and has successfully given right directions to the product policy. This has contributed to position THALES as leader in secured Satcom Ground Segment with up to date technologies in military modems, On-The-Move land, naval and airborne solutions.
After 5 years spent between France and the UK as Marketing Director of THALES e.Security , a THALES company specialized in Information Security, Mr HEULINE is managing the Strategy and Marketing of Mobile Communications Networks activity of THALES Secure Communications & Information Systems Global Business Unit (SIX GBU).
Mr HEULINE was educated at the Paris XI University and is post graduated in signal processing.

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Previous moderators

Gordon Black

Space and Security Business Development Manager, QinetiQ

Carlo Simon

owner of H0.Engineering

Carlo Simon, Lieutenant-Colonel retired, is the owner of H0.Engineering. He has a degree in electrical engineering from the former “Institut Supérieur de Technologie”, the ancestor of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) of the University of Luxembourg and is “Licencié en sciences sociales et militaires” by the Royal Military Academy of BRUSSELS.
Further military training included combat service support, the Logistics Executive Develop...ment Course and the Command and General Staff College, all with the US Army.
From 1998 to 2011, LtCol SIMON was head of the Government Communication Center (CCG), part of the Office of the Prime Minister. CCG is in charge of all secured official communications of the Luxembourg Government. In this function he served as the national representative with the NATO COMMAND CONTROL and COMMUNICATION BOARD (NC3B) and with the GALILEO SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE of the EUROPEAN UNION.
As chairman of the “Comité National des Télécommunications” (CONATEL), he was involved in crises management planning, and participated as end user in the EU U2010 research project and in the PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS FORUM (PSCE) initiated by the EU Commission.
Carlo SIMON was a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust of the University of Luxembourg, with the mission of defining and building a research program in Public Safety Communications and Network Security.

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Gaston Reinig

General (ret.)

Christine Leurquin

Vice President, Institutional Relations and Communications, SES

09:00	Registration and morning coffee
09:30	Welcome speech and opening speech	MORE +
10:00	EU Panel 1
11:00	Coffee break
11:30	Panel 2
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Panel 3
14:45	Coffee break
15:00	Panel 4
16:30	Closing comments by Conference Chairman (Gerard Donelan)

18:30	Evening reception – Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain
19:00	Key note speaker
20:00	Seated dinner

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