Preliminary Programme

Please find below an overview of the preliminary programme. This programme is subject to change, and a final version will be published closer to the event dates.

Monday 31 August 2026
TimetableSessions
14.00 - 15.30Introductory session / key notes from European Commission,
the European Space Agency and from 3GPP leadership


Keynote speakers
  • Agustin Diaz-Pines | European Commission - DG CNCT
  • Antonio Franchi | ESA
  • Flavian Ronteix | European Commission - Joint Research Centre
  • Younsun Kim | 3GPP TSG-RAN Chair
15.30 - 16.00Coffee Break
16.00 - 17.00NTN for the user: Expectations and capabilities (for IoT / D2D)

Panellists
  • Peter Hudson | Sepura
  • Additional names to be confirmed
Moderator
  • Thierry Bérisot | Novamint
17.00 - 18.00NTN for the user: Expectations and capabilities (for Broadband / VSAT)

Panellists
  • Olivier Hauw | Airbus Upnext
  • Sanjeewa Herath | Toyota
  • Yosuke Akimoto | Sharp
  • UIC | To be announced
  • Additional names to be confirmed
Moderator
  • Xavier Pons | Airbus Defence and Space
19.00 - 22.30Social Event


Tuesday 1 September 2026
TimetableSessions
09.00 - 10.30Regulatory and standardisation aspects

Panellists
  • Nicolas Chuberre | Thales Alenia Space France
  • Vincent Durepaire | Anfr
  • Additional name to be confirmed
Moderator
  • To be confirmed
10.30 - 11.00Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.30NTN development/deployment status 
Including experimentations - Part 1 (IoT-NTN)


Panellists
  • Andjela Ilic-Sovoia | Iridium Satellite
  • Dominic Richter | Deutsche Telekom IoT GmbH
  • Marco Guadalupi | Sateliot
  • Prasanna Negarajan | OQ Technology 
  •  Das Nandan | Viasat 
  •  Kristian Saether | NordicSemiconductors

Moderator

  • Alexander Hofmann | Fraunhofer IIS

12.30 - 14.00Lunch Break
14.00 - 15.30NTN development/deployment status 
Including experimentations - Part 2 (NR-NTN)


Panellists
  • Christian Calamarte | Airbus Upnext
  • Cyrill Valadon | MediaTek
  • Daniele Finocchiaro | Eutelsat Group
  • José Luis Alcolea Coronel | Hispasat
  • Reiner Stuhlfauth | Rohde & Schwarz International
  • Luca Lodigiani | Aalyria
Moderator
  • Maria Guta | ESA
15.30 - 16.00Coffee Break / Demonstrations session
16.00 - 16.30Free space optics for NTN

Speaker
  • To be confirmed
16.30 - 18.00Demonstrations session


Wednesday 2 September 2026
TimetableSessions
09.00 - 10.30Vision for NTN looking ahead to the future
10.30 - 11.00Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.20NTN Forum: What’s next?
12.20 - 12.30Closure of Colloquium & General Assembly