SMi Group's 7th annual Mobile Deployable Communications conference & exhibition returns to Amsterdam in February 2014

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“A very interesting and reliable conference...it was inspiring
and it will help me hugely in the future.”
SMi present their 7th Annual Conference…
Mobile Deployable
Communications
6th - 7th
FEBRUARY
2014
Mövenpick City Centre Hotel, Amsterdam
Top-Ranked Speaker Faculty Includes...
Colonel Horst Treiblmaier, Chief of Communication,
Ministry of Defence, Austria
Colonel (BG-A) Krasimir Yordanov, IT & Security Branch
Chief, CIS Directorate, EUMS, European External Action
Service
Aurel SABO, Deputy Commander of Mobile CIS Base, HQ
Mobile CIS Base, Mobile CIS Base of Slovak Armed Forces
Karl Thurnhofer, Director Communication Section,
Command Support Centre ICT Engineering Division,
Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports, Republic of Austria
WO2 (YofS) RM Stephen Scott MBE, COMUKAMPHIBFOR
Yeoman of Signals, J6, Royal Marines
Martin Jarrold, Chief, International Programme
Development at Global VSAT Forum
Event’s Highlights Include:
• Hear the UK MOD most recent update on UK Land Environment
Tactical CIS
• Join the discussion on EU militaries working towards a truly
mobile communications system during an interactive panel
discussion
• Learn about the Italian view point on Network Centric Warfare
• Listen to a focused energy supply presentation from the
Ministry of Defence, Austria
• Hear how the challenges of SOA - based communications in
the tactical domain will effect ongoing operations from the
Polish Institute of Military Communications Institute
PLUS AN INTERACTIVE HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Wednesday 5th February 2014, Mövenpick City Centre Hotel, Amsterdam
Mobility & Deployability for Emergency
& Post-Disaster Recovery Communications
Sponsored by
Hosted by: Martin Jarrold, Chief, International Programme Development
at Global VSAT Forum
12.30 - 17.30
www.mobiledeployable.com
Register online or fax your registration to +44 (0) 870 9090 712 or call +44 (0) 870 9090 711
GROUPS DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE

2. MOBILE DEPLOYABLE COMMUNICATIONS
www.mobilede
Day One | 6TH FEBRUARY 2014
08.30
Registration & Coffee
09.00
12.20
Chairman's Opening Remarks
Networking Lunch
13.50
Experience with the Operation of Mobile CIS System of Slovak
Armed Forces
• Introduction
• Mission and Tasks
• Capabilities of Deployable CIS System
• Upgrading Existing Communication System to Achieve NextGeneration Operability
• Operational Concept of the Mobile CIS System
• Mobile CIS System – Deploy Experience
Aurel Sabó, Deputy Commander, Armed Forces of the Slovak
Republic
14.30
Session reserved for sponsor
15.10
Afternoon Tea
15.40
The Italian land Forces digitization process and the program
FORZA NEC
• Forza NEC is the main program started by the Italian MoD to digitize
the Land Force Component, including the Amphibious assets.
Program development in three main phases:
- Project definition
- CD&E
- Full capability acquisition
• The first phase is over and the second phase is ongoing, with
two major contracts signed and another one to be finalized
by the end of this F.Y.Forza NEC is going to develop a wide
range of different platforms: vehicles, UAV, UGC, soldier
platform, network devices, radios (SDR), radars, EW,
Command Posts and so on.
• All of these platforms have one common characteristic: they
are linked to a common network, wide, robust, secure, that is
the glue of the program, wiring and connecting almost everything
• In this network are present and have to work together :
portable handheld radios, vehicular C4 applications,
Command post radios, etc..
• Cooperation of all these devices and more, is the main goal
we have to achieve to get a real "Network Enabled Capabilities"
Lt. Gen. Antonio Gucciardino, Former Director General of the
Italian Land Armaments, Industrial Engineering, University of
Roma-Tor Vergata
16.20
The various communication technologies applied in the Italian
program Forza NEC".
• The network is a mix of different technologies:
- Satellite
- SDR
- Tactical radios
- Switching systems
- SOTM
- Computer
• Each technology is the state of the art today available, like
the Hand Held SDR Radio, the switching system MSR and the
Satcom On The Move. Let's illustrate them and highlight their
main characteristics.
Colonel Gervasio, Italian Army
17.00
Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
Nigel Beer, Principal Consultant, Communications and
Electronics Practice, PA Consulting Group
Keynote Presentation:
09.10
The future of UK Land Environment Tactical CIS
• The Current state of the UK Tactical CIS in the Land Enviroment
• The short term future of the current solution
• The future challenge facing the UKs tactical CIS
• The possible future solutions to meeting the demand
Senior Representative, BOWMAN and tactical Communication
& Information Systems, DE&S
WORKING TOWARDS A MORE EFFECTIVE MOBILE DEPLOYABLE
COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
09.50
Working towards a more effective Mobile Deployable
Communications System
• Energy requirements determination
• Possibilities to meet the energy requirements
• A road map for the future
Horst Treiblmaier, Chief of Communication, Ministry of Defence,
Austria
10.30
Morning Coffee
11.00
Challenges of SOA - based communications in the tactical
domain
• SOA applications in the tactical domain
• SOA challenges in disadvantaged grids
• Solutions in terms of communications, security and protocol
stack
• Ongoing work of NATO CSO and EDA on the tactical SOA –
based communications
Joanna Sliwa, Head of C4I Systems, Military Communications
Institute
11.40
Deployable Communications Package (DP) in support of EU
military exercises and operations
• DP Shelter project status
• Deployable CIS in support of EU military exercises and
operations
• DP deployment during MILEX13 (problems and achievements)
• DP way ahead
Colonel (BG-A) Krasimir Yordanov, Chief IT & Security Branch,
EU Military Staff
Register online at: www.mobiledeployable.com • Alternatively fax
SMi Defence and Security Forward Planner
NOVEMBER
Global MilSatCom
5th - 7th November 2013, London, UK
Social Media within the Military
and Defence Sector
20th – 21st November 2013, London, UK
UAS 2013
20th – 21st November 2013, London, UK
DECEMBER
Military Airlift & Rapid Reaction Operations
3rd – 4th December 2013, Seville, Spain
FEBRUARY
Joint Forces Simulation & Training
3rd - 4th February 2014, London, UK
Mobile Deployable Communications
6th - 7th February 2014, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
MilSatCom Middle East & Africa
24th – 25th February 2014, Dubai, UAE
Border Security
26th – 27th February 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria
MARCH
Milspace
31st March – 1st April, London, UK
APRIL
ISR
7th – 8th April, London, UK
MAY
MilSatCom Asia
14th – 15th May 2014, Singapore

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08.30
EUROPEAN NATION PROGRAMME UPDATES
Re-Registration & Coffee
09.00
Day Two | 7H FEBRUARY 2014
Chairman's Opening Remarks
Nigel Beer, Principal Consultant, Communications and
Electronics Practice, PA Consulting Group
09.10
11.40
Deployed Communications in the Littoral Environment
• Introduction
• What is the Littoral environment
Key Note Presentation
Breaking the Paradigms: The US Army Mobility Project
• CSDA is changing how soldiers access knowledge, training,
data across the Training, Admin and Operational Domains
• The Army continues to lead the efforts to bring mobile
computing technologies to the soldier at the leading edge of
the battlefield.
• The Army continues to share Insights and Lessons Learned from
the CSDA project across DoD and Agencies and Departments
of the Government
Michael McCarthy, Director of Operations and Program
Manager, US Army
• Tactical communications
• Strategic Communications
• Contingency planning
Steve Scott, Yeoman of Signals, 30 Commando Communications
Squadron, Royal Marines
12.20
Networking Lunch
13.50
The scope and the importance of technical certifications for the
DCIS Operational Readiness
• The DCIS Operational Readiness Concept
• The DCIS Training Aim
09.50
Mobile Deployable Communications & the Military Role in
Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Recovery
• The Military & Non-Military Agency Mobile Communications
Environment
• The Inter-Agency Space: Building Robust Communications
Systems for non-Military Stakeholders in the Field
• Combining Inter-Agency Satellite Communications Platforms:
Case Studies in Emergency Response, Emergency
Management, and Humanitarian Development Programmes
Martin Jarrold, Chief, International Programme Development,
Global VSAT Forum
• The Generational gap
• The Qualification challenge
• The Certification Process
• Conclusion
Giuseppe Curro, Head of Training Management, NATO
Communications And Information Systems Operating and
Support Agency
14.30
Panel Discussion - EU militaries working towards a truly mobile
communications system
Horst Treiblmaier, Chief of Communication, Ministry of Defence,
10.30
Morning Coffee
11.00
Mobile Deployable Communications under Spatial Grasp
Technology
• Dependency of requirements to communication systems from
organizational models and strategies in civil and military areas
• The over-operability model of integral global-goal-driven
solutions in dynamic environments versus traditional
interoperability organizations
• Spatial Grasp Technology (SGT) of intelligent control in
distributed systems and its implementation via deployable
mobile communications
• Expressing asymmetric solutions to asymmetric problems in
high-level Spatial Grasp Language drastically reducing
communications in critical situations
• Gradual transition to unmanned systems in crisis management
applications under unified command and control provided by
SGT
Peter Sapaty, Director of Distributed Simulation and Control,
Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems, Ukraine
Austria
Martin Jarrold, Chief, International Programme Development,
Global VSAT Forum
Giuseppe Curro, Head of Training Management, NATO
Communications And Information Systems Operating and
Support Agency
15.10
The demand for capacity in deployable mobile satellite
communications
• How can satellites meet global mobility requirements
• What band and capacity for what DiPlatform?
• Quenching the bandwidth demand thirst of airborne and
unmanned aerial systems
• The impact of high-throughput satellites on mobile deployable
communications
Claude Rousseau, Senior Analyst, Northern Sky Research (NSR)
15.50
Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
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Supported by

4. HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE
WORKSHOP
Wednesday 5th February 2014,
Mövenpick City Centre Hotel, Amsterdam
12.30 - 17.30
Mobility & Deployability for
Emergency & Post-Disaster
Recovery Communications
HOSTED BY:
Overview of workshop
This half-day Workshop will bring together expertise from
the satellite and satellite-hybrid communications industry
membership of the GVF, companies which, amongst other
products and services such as fixed satellite solutions,
supply mobile and deployable satellite and wireless
broadband communications solutions to military and
civilian agency/NGO environments, including in situations
where such agencies collaborate in the field to deliver
effective disaster recovery and emergency management
responses. It will explore the complexities of the range of
combined activities of military forces and civilian
agencies/NGOs, and explain how the respective
satellite/wireless broadband networking requirements of
each of these types of collaborator affect and inter-relate
with the communications demands of the other.
Programme
12.30 Registration and Coffee
13.00 Introduction to Workshop
Host Martin Jarrold, Chief, International
Programme Development, GVF
13.10 Introduction of Workshop Participants
13.20 Session 1
• Overview of the Military & Non-Military
• Agency Mobile Communications Environment
14.10 Session 2
• Exploring Robust Communications Systems:
The Military & NGOs in the Field
15.00 Coffee Break
15.30 Session 3
• Comms-on-the-Move/Comms-on-the-Pause for
Multiple Stakeholders:
Connecting Military Information Hierarchies to
Civilian Agency Disaster Response Field Teams
16.20 Session 4
• Case Studies in Emergency Response,
Emergency Management, and Humanitarian
Development Communications Mobility &
Deployability
17.10 Concluding Roundtable Discussion & Closing
Remarks
About your workshop host
Martin Jarrold has worked for GVF for 12 years,
having been appointed GVF Chief of
International Programme Development in
June 2001. His particular responsibilities include
outreach to the member organisations of the
GVF and for the further development of the profile of the
Forum within the satellite communications industry, and
across the global telecommunications policy and
regulatory community. This extends to the development
and delivery of programmes focused on extending the
understanding of, and promoting the use of, satellitebased communications in various key end-user vertical
markets. Mr. Jarrold is Chairman of the GVF Oil & Gas
Communications Conference Series, and the GVF
Broadband Maritime Conference Series. He is also coChairman of the GVF High Throughput Satellites
Roundtable Series.
GVF (Global VSAT Forum) is the non-profit association of
the satellite communications industry, focused on
advancing the use of satellite systems and services. The
Forum consists of more than 180 members from
80countries in every major region of the world and from
every sector of the industry. www.gvf.org

5. Sponsored by
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including
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that includes teleports on six continents,
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local presence in 23 countries, and over
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