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PROGRAM 2008

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Presentations are informing about news from the worldwide satellite navigation systems in operation and in development.

      Chairman:
Prof. Dr. František Vejražka, Vice-Rector of the Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
      Presentations:
Sylvain Loddo, System, Ground Segment and Operations Manager ESA Navigation Programmes, European Space Agency (ESA), Paris, France
     Status of Galileo

Lt Col Harold Martin, US Air Force Space Command, USA
     Status of the Global Positioning System and its Modernization

Sergey G. Revnivykh, Deputy Head of Mission Control Center, Moscow, Russia
     Status and Future of the Russian GLONASS System

Dr. Jing Guifei, Head of Navigation Division of National Remote Sensing Center of China, Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing, China
     Status of the Chinese BEIDOU/COMPASS

Satoshi Kogure, Associate Senior Engineer, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
     Status of the Japanese Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS)

Sharafat Gadimova, Office for Outer Space Affairs, United Nations Office at Vienna, Austria
     International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG): A System of Systems

 
 
11:00 - 11:30 hrs - Morning Coffee.
 
 
 
Brief presentations from the Munich scene reporting on news and activities of the Bavarian satellite navigation network of excellence of the high-tech cluster of satellite navigation.

      Chairman:
Dr. Martin Haunschild, Executive Board, bavAIRia e.V., Munich, Germany
      Presentations:
Oliver Juckenhoefel, Head of Future Projects, EADS Astrium GmbH, Ottobrunn, Germany

Dr. Stefan Bedrich, Head of Satellite Navigation Department, Kayser-Threde GmbH, Munich, Germany

Dr. Guenter Heinrichs, Director of Customer Applications and Support, IFEN GmbH, Poing, Germany

Prof. Dr. Bernd Eissfeller, Institute of Geodesy and Navigation, University FAF Munich, Germany

Dr. Michael Meurer, Institute of Communication and Navigation, German Aerospace Center - DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Thorsten Rudolph, CEO, Anwendungszentrum GmbH, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

 
 
12:30 - 13:30 hrs - Lunch Break.
 
 
 
 
What about guarantees for the Galileo service? How do they look like? Are we going to certify the ionosphere and troposphere for the signal-in-space or what means certification? Who is liable and gives us the insurance?


      Chairman:
Prof. Andrzej Felski, Director of the Institute of the Navigation and Marine Hydrography of the Naval Academy in Gdynia,and Head of the Polish Institute of Navigation, Gdynia, Poland

      Panel Members:
Guillaume de Dinechin, Executive Vice President, International Space Brokers France, Paris, France

Martin Grzebellus, Managing Director, NavCert GmbH, Munich, Germany

Kenneth Kvinnesland, Head of Space Activity of DNV, Oslo, Norway

Mario Musmeci, Head of Galileo Management Office, Telespazio, Rome, Italy

Francisco Salabert, Head of the GNSS Policy Office, Eurocontrol, Brussels, Belgium

 
 
Is the real drive in satellite navigation coming now from handheld devices as we can read it in market studies? Which GNSS or type of cell phone device will dominate in near future? Who will be the winner in this emerging market? Are now the big companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft entering the satellite navigation scene?

      Chairman:
Dr. Walter Doellinger, Director Space, German Aerospace Center - DLR, Bonn-Oberkassel, Germany

      Panel Members:
Herbert Blaser, Vice President Marketing, u-blox AG, Thalwill, Switzerland

Frank van Diggelen, Technical Director, GPS Systems, Broadcom Corporation, San Francisco, USA

F. Michael Swiek, Executive Director, U.S. GPS Industry Council, Washington, DC, USA

Li Lei Tsien, European Director of Marketing, SiRF Technologies, Inc., Brussels, Belgium

 
 
15:45 - 16:15 hrs - Afternoon Tea.
 
 
 
If satellite navigation becomes a profitable market, are there still enough specialists to build up Galileo? Interesting findings and analyses from a GSA study are presented for discussion. Do we know what we have to do to maximize the outcome of the chain education - research - innovation in satellite navigation?

      Chairman:
Dr. Daniel Ludwig, Senior Programme Advisor, European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA), Brussels, Belgium

      Panel Members:
Andrew Davies, Managing Director, ESYS plc, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom

Prof. Dr. Giorgio Franceschetti, Professor at the University Federico II of Naples, Italy, and Adjunct Professor University of California Los Angeles, USA

Luis Ruiz, Aerospace Valley Cluster, Toulouse, France

Joaquín Cosmen-Schortmann, CEO Advisor, gmv, Madrid, Spain

 
 
Worldwide GNSS manufacturers and service providers announce and briefly present their new products.

      Chairman:
Glen Gibbons, Editor and Managing Partner, Inside GNSS, Eugene, USA

      Panel Members:
Peter A. Grognard, Founder and Managing Director, Septentrio nv, Leuven, Belgium

Ronald Hatch, Director of Navigation Systems Engineering, Principal and Co-founder of NavCom Technology, Inc., Torrance, USA

Dr. Guenter Heinrichs, Director of Customer Applications and Support, IFEN GmbH, Poing, Germany

Rainer Horn, Managing Partner, Spacetec Capital Partners AG, Munich Germany

Dr. Herbert Landau, Managing Director, Trimble Terrasat GmbH, Hoehenkirchen, Germany

Henk Luinge, Research Manager, Xsens Technologies b. V. Enschede, The Netherlands

Neil Gerein, Senior GNSS Systems Engineer, NovAtel Inc., Calgary, Canada

Dr. Stefan Sassen, Director Navigation Services, EADS Astrium Services, Ottobrunn, Germany

 
 
 
Evening -   SUMMIT SPACE NIGHT 2008


20.00 hrs - EVENING RECEPTION
Reception sponsored by EADS Astrium in  Hotel Königshof, Karlsplatz 25, 80335 Munich

 
 

 

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