Satellites at Every Altitude: How LEO, MEO & GEO Are Reshaping Global Connectivity

Christophe leads the Enterprise & Mobility product management team at SES, including MEO and GEO satellite-based connectivity solutions for Enterprise, Backhaul, Energy and Mobility.

He and his team thrive to understand and anticipate customer needs and shape the industry in designing multi-orbit connectivity solutions.

Christophe held former roles in both satellite and terrestrial wireless industries including at Intelsat, OneWeb, Andrew Corp. and CommScope.

Deepu Pillai is a Senior Manager at the Strategy and Market Intelligence department of SES, focusing on the Data Network business. He supports SES's corporate and Go-To-Market strategic plan by providing vertical insights and analysis. Deepu is also the front-facing market analysis and competition intelligence interface for sales teams across all global regions. In addition, he is a seasoned speaker at numerous industry conferences, customer events, and regional team sessions.

He has over 15 years of experience in the Space and Satellite communication industry, working presently at SES and earlier at ISRO, Antrix Corporation, Belgium Satellite Services, and InterSat Africa. Deepu was instrumental in authoring market-leading & widely published reports on the HTS, fixed, mobile backhaul, and government satellite markets and has successfully managed and executed multiple consultancy projects globally covering the satellite communication markets.

Diego is based in SES’s Washington, DC office and is currently focused on clients in the Americas and leveraging SES’s multi-orbit satellite constellation capabilities, which include existing and future GEO assets as well as the next-generation MEO system, O3b mPOWER to support new use cases and new segments. He is responsible for evaluating markets and helping existing and new clients plan for their future by aligning SES’s solutions in GEO & MEO to solve our customers’ problems. SES’s primary model is to establish distribution partnerships with local and regional integrators, telcos, and MNOs to enable end users to access SES solutions. O3b mPOWER’s capabilities in particular will allow customers to solve connectivity problems previously out of reach with traditional satellite communications.

Diego Paldao has more than 25 years of experience in the global telecom industry. Beginning in 1997 while at UUNET, Diego worked with satellite operators during the Internet boom to connect the first countries and communities to the internet via satellite. After spending his early satellite years with SES, Diego expanded his industry knowledge with various companies that focused on different parts of the satellite solution including teleport operators, service providers and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) companies, prior to re-joining SES to focus on business development opportunities and strategic projects.

Linda Hardesty is Chief Analyst, Communications Technologies, for Fierce Network Research, covering wireless and wireline networks, broadband and communications service providers. She oversaw broadband coverage as former Editor in Chief of Fierce Telecom and Executive Editor for the award-winning Fierce Network. She's been a trade journalist since the mid-1990s covering the business and technology of telecommunications networks. Her editorial content for Fierce Network won a 2024 Eddie and Ozzie Award in the Planned or On-location Coverage category for Fierce Network's 2024 reporting from Mobile World Congress. Prior to Fierce, she wrote for SDxCentral, Communications Technology/CableFax, and Cable World.