Opening Ceremony
10:00 – 11:30, Popov Room
The GLIS 2016 Opening Ceremony will outset the Conference and set the pace
for the following five panels. Kiyoshi Higuchi, IAF President, and Houlin Zhao, ITU Secretary General, will welcome the international delegates and present the general scope and aim of the event. Chris Welch, IAF Vice President for Education and Workforce Development, will present the results of the SpaceUp GLIS, the unconference that took place on Sunday. To follow, prominent international speakers will deliver high-level keynotes: Jennifer Warren, Lockheed Martin’s Vice President for Technology Policy & Regulation Trade & Regulatory Affairs will present the industry view on the conference topics while Badri Younes, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Communications, and Karsten Geier, Head of the Cyber Policy Coordination Office in Germany, will present an agency and government perspective. To conclude, Jean-Yves Le Gall, CNES President and IAF Incoming President, will deliver a talk on the COP21 results.
Houlin ZHAO
Secretary General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Switzerland
Keynote speakers
Karsten GEIER
Head, Cyber Policy Coordination Staff in Germany’s Federal Foreign Office
Germany
Sponsors
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