• Launch of Optus’ D-Series satellites to meet the demand for future growth capacity requirements
• New satellite service offerings and what can consumers expect in the near future

• Addressing the REAL market for satellite communications. How big really is it?
• Size of the VSAT market developing trends 
• Address cost, flexibility and ownership issues in satellite communications

•     A regulatory approach that promotes benefits to end-users and contributes to an efficient and competitive Australian communications industry
• Efficiency in the planning, allocation and use of national resources such as radiofrequency spectrum
• The fostering of industry self-regulation in a way which addresses public and national interest considerations without imposing undue financial and administrative burdens on industry

• Understanding current and future opportunities and threats from wireless and satellite
• Strategies to successfully design, implement and manage hybrid terrestrial and satellite networks 
• Identifying appropriate frequency ranges for your communications systems

• What do WiMAX and the OPEL deal mean for rural and regional Australia? 
• What is the cost impact on users and opportunities for satellite to 'backhaul' WiMAX in remote areas? 
• What impact is the consolidation of satellite and communications industries having on communication services for different vertical markets? 
• What are some of the potential applications for WiMAX over satellite?

Table 1: practical issues with deploying WiMAX, Wi-Fi and integrated VSAT netowrks in the South Pacific
Table Captain: Tony Waters, Director, Oceanic Broadband Solutions

Table 2: identifying challenges delivering IPTV and triple play over satellite
Table Captian: Mike Kenneally, NewSat 

 Table 3: determining satellite role in your communications mix
Table Captain: Sandeep Kumar, Sales Director Australia & South Pacific, SES New Skies

• To what extent is Australia immune to the interference problems affecting satellite operations across the Asia-Pacific region?
• The interference culprits... civilian and military; broadcasters and VSAT
• To what extend is the satellite interference problem getting worse, and what are the economic losses?

Karl Rossiter, Independent Consultant to the Satellite, Broadcast and New Media Industries, New Zealand

• The Communications dilemma for sparsely populated Island regions
• Serving Rural without the support of USO
• The importance of choosing the right technical solution
• What happens when you don’t!
• The Challenges in rural and remote communications
• Innovation and getting the most out of you investment

• What impact has HDTV and DTH transmission had on the satellite, media and broadcasters? 
• Identifying financial and technical issues for satellite compression technologies
• Understanding the special requirements of live broadcasting to ensure the delivery of video, audio and IP content
• Challenges and opportunities delivering IPTV and triple play services over satellite

• Analysing the latest opportunities satellite communications offers enterprise communications
• What’s driving the consolidation of satellite operators overseas and what impact this could have on satellite services, operators and the market in Australia?
• What’s driving the demand for satellite services in Europe, Asia and North America?

• Ensuring rapid mobilisation and demobilisation through state of the art equipment and services
• Delivering reliable, scalable backup systems for terrestrial services to maintain operational capacity
• Cost reduction strategies and initiatives for emergency services
• The changing nature of disaster management through satellite technology
  

• Providing greater access to secondary education for all young Territorians
• Better engaging young people and their families in secondary schooling
• Improving student performance in secondary education across the Northern
  Territory

• Providing first responder/dispatch and disaster management communications over satellite networks 
• Using satellite to support officer safety in operations 
• Establishing the interconnectivity potential within and external to Queensland Police 
• Managing the network and satellite assets and establishing diverse and resilient satellite communications

• Understand how a new generation of IP based satellite services are revolutionising network access for remote users 
• Identifying and tuning your satellite service to the requirements of the applications being used to increase network performance 
• Learn why installing specific application servers achieves better network performance that generic caching systems and data accelerators

• Benefits of accessing multiple geostationary satellites through the CSIRO's MultiBeam antenna system
• Understanding the CSIRO’s development of Ka-band antennas and transponders for FedSat
• Using high performance, compact, Ka-band feed systems for optimal satellite performance
• Dual band X/Ka and Ku/Ka-band antenna feeds which allow access to the enhanced data rate offered by Ka-band transponders while simultaneously providing access to the X or Ku-band transponders