Jan 21, 2017

3RD ORF Kalpana Chawla Annual Space Policy Dialogue

New Delhi

February 16-18, 2017

Dialogue Programme
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Programme
Day 1: February 16, 2017
Venue: The Dome, Vivanta by Taj Ambassador

18.30-19.00 Registration

Welcome Remarks
19.00-19.05
Sunjoy Joshi, Director, Observer Research Foundation

Inaugural Address
19.05-19.20 G. Madhavan Nair, Former Chairman, ISRO and Former President, International Academy of
Astronautics

Release of the Book and Special Address by

19.20-19.40
V.K. Saraswat, Member, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog)

19.40-20.30 Satellite Internet for Digital India

Sriram Jayasimha, Chairman, Signion Systems

Sathya Narayanaswamy, Country Manager, ViaSat India
Neha Satak, Co-Founder and CEO, Astrome Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Harsh Verma, Sales Director India & South East Asia, O3b Networks
Moderator:

20.30-22.00 Dinner

Day 2: February 17, 2017

Venue: Tamarind, Habitat World, India Habitat Centre, Entry Gate 1

09.00-09.30 Registration and Tea/Coffee

09.30-11.15 Space Finance

Pamela L. Meredith, Chair, Space Law Practice Group, Zuckert, Scoutt & Rasenberger, L.L.P.
Benjamin Baseley-Walker, Senior Director, Global Engagement-EMEA, Planetary Resources
Ali Asghar, Chief Operating Officer, elseco Limited
Jacob Gullish, Director of Digital Economy, U.S.-India Business Council
Moderator:

11.15-11.30 Tea/Coffee Break

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Spotlight Speaker
11.30-12.00 Lt. Gen. B. S. Nagal (retd.), Former Commander, Strategic Forces Command
Outer Space and Strategic Stability

12.00-13.45 Transponder Capacity for Broadcasting and Collective Governance of the Global
Broadband over India Commons

Venue Tamarind Casuarina

K. Krishna, CTO & Regulatory Head, Hughes
Communications India Ltd.
D. S. Govindarajan, President, Aniara Space
Prashant Butani, Senior Sales Director for
South Asia, MEASAT
Moderator: Smita Jha, Hindustan Times
13.45-14.45 Lunch
Rakesh Sood, Distinguished Fellow, Observer
Research Foundation
Vladimir Korovkin, Head, Research in
Innovations and Digital Technology, Skolkovo
Institute of Emerging Markets Studies,
Moscow
Sergio Marchisio, Full Professor of
International Law, University La Sapienza of
Rome
Francois Rivasseau, Special Envoy for Space,
Head of Security Policy and Space Division,
European External Action Service
Daniel Porras, Associate, LMI Advisors
Moderator: Jarmo Sareva, Director, United
Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
(UNIDIR)

Spotlight Speaker
14.45-15.15 A. Sivathanu Pillai, Honorary Distinguished Professor, ISRO
Elucidating the Components of Indias National Space Policy

15.15-17.00 Private Players NewSpace, SMEs and Emerging Space Actors

Established Players

Venue Tamarind Casuarina

M. V. Kotwal, Former Senior Vice President, Rafal Borek, Chief of Space Technologies
Heavy Engineering Division, L&T Section, Polish Space Agency
Amardeep Sibia, Chief Technology Officer, Mazlan Othman, Project Director, Mega
Earth2Orbit Science 3.0, Academy of Sciences, Malaysia.
Jayant Damodar Patil, Senior Vice President, Salem Humaid Al Marri, Assistant Director
L&T General, Scientific & Technology Affairs,
Ramesh Kumar, Assistant General Manager Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre, United
Arab Emirates.
Marketing, Godrej Aerospace
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Sridhar Ramasubban, Sales & Marketing Hubert Foy, Director & Research Scientist,
Lead, Team Indus African Centre for Science and International
Security, Ghana
Moderator: Victoria Samson, Washington DC
Officer Director, Secure World Foundation Fermin Romero Vazquez, Board Member,
Mexican Society of Aerospace Science and
Technology
Moderator:

Spotlight Speaker
17.00-17.30
Yasushi Horikawa, Technical Counselor, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Space Sustainability and Global Governance

Day 2: February 17, 2017 - ORF-ICRC Dinner Panel

Venue: Family Room, Hyatt Regency

18.30-19.00 Registration and Tea/Coffee

19.00-19.10 Opening Remarks

Sunjoy Joshi, Director, Observer Research Foundation
Jeremy England, Head, ICRC Regional Delegation for Bhutan, India, Nepal and Maldives

19.10-20.30 Role of Satellites during HA/DR Contingencies

Guilhem Ravier, Head, Unit Protection of the Civilian Population, International Committee
of the Red Cross
Leon Prop, Head, International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Country Office
Mukund Rao, Adjunct Faculty, National Institute of Advanced Studies
Riaz Lamak, International Programme Director, Global VSAT Forum
Moderator:

Day 3: February 18, 2017

Venue: Tamarind, Habitat World, India Habitat Centre, Entry Gate 1
08.45-09.15 Registration and Tea/Coffee

09.30-11.15 Current and Evolving Challenges to Space Sustainability

Moriba Jah, Director, Space Object Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona

Victoria Samson, Washington Officer Director, Secure World Foundation
Jean Jacques Tortora, Director, European Space Policy Institute
Dibyendu Nandi, Head, Centre of Excellence in Space Sciences, Kolkata
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Gp. Capt. Puneet Bhalla, Indian Air Force

Moderator: Laura Grego, Senior Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists

Spotlight Speaker
11.15-11.45 Jacques Blamont, Founding Member, CNES
India-France Cooperation on Space Defense Applications
11.45-11.55 Tea/Coffee

11.55-13.40 Derivatives from SpaceScoping the Downstream Applications

Jaya Singh, Director, BKC Weathersys Pvt. Ltd.

Gp. Capt. Ajey Lele (retd.), Senior Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
Col. Vinayak Bhat (retd.)
Rajesh Mathur, Advisor, Esri India Technologies Ltd.
Prateep Basu, Analyst, Northern Sky Research
Moderator: Mukund Rao, Adjunct Faculty, National Institute of Advanced Studies

13.40-14.10 Lunch

14.45-15.15 Spotlight Speaker

Lt. Gen. Bali, Director General Perspective Planning
A New Frontier: Boosting Indias Military Presence in Outer Space

15.15-17.00 Making the Case for Indias National Space Policy

Air Marshal M. Matheswaran (retd.), Former Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff,
HQ IDS
Ashok G. V., Advocate on commercial disputes resolution, Bengaluru
K. R. Sridhara Murthi, Director, International Institute for Aerospace Engineering &
Management (IIAEM), Jain University
Marco Aliberti, Resident Fellow, European Space Policy Institute
Narayan Prasad, Co-Founder, Dhruva Space
Moderator: A. Sivathanu Pillai, Honorary Distinguished Professor, ISRO

17.00-18.00 Valedictory Session

17.00-17.20 Chair: Sunjoy Joshi, Director, Observer Research Foundation

Concluding Remarks
C. S. R. Murthy, Chairperson, CIPOD, JNU
Victoria Samson, Washington DC Officer Director, SWF
Narayan Prasad, Co-Founder, Dhruva Space
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17.20-17.40 Special Addresses

B. L. Chawla, Father of Late Dr. Kalpana Chawla (TBC)
Sergei Avdeyev, Russian Cosmonaut

17.40-17.55 Valedictory Address

Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, India

17.55-18.00 Vote of Thanks

Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, Senior Fellow and Head, Nuclear and Space Policy Initiative,
Observer Research Foundation
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