| 26th May |
| Time | Subject | Speaker |
| 13.00 | Registration |
| 14:00 | Welcome address from the Ministry of Transport | Mrs. Dita Schautova, Deputy Minister |
| 14.10 | Welcome address from the Czech Air Navigation Services | Mr. Ivan Hubert, Director of Corporate Development & International Coordination |
| 14:20 | Welcome address from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports | Mr Vlastimil Ruzicka, Deputy Minister |
| 14:30 | Welcome address from ESA | Magali Vaissiere, Director of TIA |
| 14:40 | Overview of the Single European Sky | Nicolas Warinsko, EC |
| 15:10 | Deployment and regulatory approvals for Satcom | Filippo Tomasello, European Aviation Safety Agency |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 | SESAR approach for next generation communications | Nikos Fistas, SJU P.15.2.4 Project Manager
& Pierpaolo Tavernise, SJU P.15.2.6 Project Manager |
| 16:30 | Overview of ESA Iris Programme | Nathalie Ricard, ESA |
| 17:30 | Cocktail sponsored by Honeywell
|
| 27th May |
| 08:00 | Registration |
| 08:30 | Overview of SESAR | Philippe Renaud, SESAR Joint Undertaking |
| 09:00 | Requirements and technical hypotheses for the system design | Andrea Santovincenzo & Catherine Morlet, ESA |
| 09:40 | Regulatory/spectrum issues | Tony Azzarelli, ESA |
| 09:50 | System Design: THAUMAS study | Laurent Bouscary, EADS Astrium,
& Dale Irish, Inmarsat |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 | System design: ANTARES study: |
| Overview | Luca Pighetti, Thales Alenia Space Italy |
| Visibility analyses | Paolo Conforto, Thales Alenia Space Italy |
| User Terminals | Radek Zaruba, Honeywell
Will Birkinshaw, Thales Avionics UK |
| System Options | Paolo Conforto and Giacinto Losquadro, Thales Alenia Space Italy |
| Ground Segment architecture options | Bruno Lobert, Thales Alenia Space France |
| Communication system design: figures of merit | Joan Manuel Cebrian, INDRA Espacio |
| 12:30 | Lunch break
Sponsored by the Czech Space Office |
| 13:30 | Operation studies (HERMES, OPERA and SIRIO): |
| Overview: |
| HERMES Study | Dale Irish, Inmarsat |
| OPERA study | Mervyn Harris, SITA |
| SIRIO study | Manuela Rossi, Telespazio |
| Panel session with the Project Managers: |
| Presentations addressing the service model, revenue model, technical constraints and deployment timeline | Dale Irish, Inmarsat & Carlos Hernandez, AENA; Mervyn Harris, SITA & Robert Smith, SES Astra; Manuela Rossi, Telespazio & John Korna, NATS |
| 14:30 | Q&A session |
| 15:15 | Conclusions and next steps | Franco Ongaro, ESA |
| 15:30 | Close |
