SATCON has expanded its partnership with the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI). In addition to the esteemed Future Leaders Dinner the evening before SATCON, we are partnering to bring a state of the industry address from today's and tomorrow's business leaders.

The Keynote address if "Leadership Dialogue: Present Priorities, Future Vision."
Join a moderated dialogue between leaders of today's satellite business and the winners of SSPI's 2013 Promise Awards, satellite executives under the age of 35 who have been identified by their employers and an independent jury as potential leader of tomorrow's industry. The dialogue will explore the most profound trends shaping technology, markets and business models in coming decades, from HTS to launch vehicles, ubiquitous communications to in-orbit industries. It will challenge the assumptions undergirding today's business - dominated by complex, purpose-built satellites requiring long lifetimes to achieve profit goals - and ask what a drastically different industry might look like. From different perspectives, present and future leaders will try to define what the world's first and most successful space industry will look like when today's young executives are in the C-suites of tomorrow's companies.

SPECIAL EVENT: The SSPI Future Leaders Dinner
(Separate registration required - not included with your SATCON pass.) Join the Society of Satellite Professionals International the evening before SATCON (November 12), for the 2013 Future Leaders Dinner. Since 2006, this annual event, site of the Promise and Mentor Awards, has honored men and women under 35 with the talent and motivation to advance into leadership positions in the satellite industry, as well as one executive recognized for mentorship of the next generation. Location: The Harmonie Club, 4 East 60th Street in Manhattan.