For the 15th consecutive year, SATELLITE NEWS, Via Satellite magazine and the 1995 World Satellite Directory announce “Satellite ’96: Emerging Global Markets,” Feb. 7-9, 1996, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, in Washington, D.C. Satellite ’96 has grown to be the most important commercial communications satellite conference and exhibition in the United States.

Via Satellite magazine Publisher and Editor Scott Chase will serve as conference chairman again this year. SATELLITE NEWS Managing Editor David Bross will again serve as conference co-chair.

As in the past, the conference will be run in conjunction with the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) and the Washington Space Business Roundtable. Satellite ’96 also will be the site of the most-anticipated satellite social event of the year: the SSPI Hall of Fame Black Tie Dinner-Dance and Scholarship Awards. To register, call 800/777-5006 or, outside the United States, +1 301/424- 3338.

Wednesday, February 7, 1996 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Welcome and Introductions

Scott Chase, David Bross, Cynthia Boeke

9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Opening General Session: World and U.S.

Industry Leaders Roundtable

Moderators: Scott Chase and David Bross

* Irving Goldstein, Intelsat

* Neil Bakmann, Intersputnik

* Fred Landman, PanAmSat

* W. Neil Bauer, Orion Atlantic

* Kevin McGrath, HCI

* Mary Jane McKeever, AT&T Skynet

* John Connelly, GE Americom

11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Washington Space Business Roundtable

Luncheon

* Speaker: TBA Track A 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Communicating Via Satellite in Latin America

Moderator: Cynthia Boeke, Editor,

Via Satellite

* Joe Del Riego, Exec. VP and COO,

Galaxy Latin America

* Elie Boubli, Pres, Fofiel Int’l.

* Eckart Schober, V.P. and CEO,

Nahuelsat S.A.

* Lourdes Saralegui, Sr. VP, PanAmSat

* Dolores Martos, Group Director,

Latin America, Intelsat Track B 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. The Big LEO Debate Continues

Moderator: Clayton Kunz, Editor,

MOBILE SATELLITE NEWS

* Robert Kinzie, Chair/CEO, Iridium

* Douglas Dwyre, Pres, Globalstar

* Roger Rusch, program dir, Odyssey

* Patrick McDougal, V.P., Bus Dev,

ICO Global Communications

* Martine Aliana Rothblatt, V.P.,

Strategy, WorldSpace Track A 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. EuroScene: Reaching Out for World

Markets

Moderator: Gerald Oberst, Attorney,

Hogan & Hartson, Brussels

* Jeremy Rose, Principal Consultant,

Communication Systems Ltd.

* Guiliano Beretta, Dir of Bus

Development, Eutelsat

* Peter Ekelund, Dir of Strategy,

Nethold Services B.V.

* Antoine Valdes, V.P., Video and Audio

Services Business Unit, France

Telecom Track B 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. World Satellite Manufacturers: Bringing

New Technology to a Mature Market

Moderator: Scott Chase, Publisher,

Via Satellite

* Don Cromer, President, Hughes Space

and Communications

* Robert Berry, President, Space

Systems/Loral

* Russ McFall, President, Lockheed

Martin Commercial Astro Space

* Armand Carlier, Chairman and CEO,

Matra Marconi Space

5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. SSPI Champagne Reception 7:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. SSPI Industry Innovators/Hall of Fame

Black Tie Dinner-Dance

SSPI Industry Innovators and

Scholarship Awards

Thursday, February 8, 1996 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. General Session II–The Satellite World

View from Wall Street: Global

Dealmakers Speak Out

Moderator: Paul Dykewicz, Editor

SATELLITE NEWS

* George Reed-Dellinger, V.P., NatWest

Securities Corp.

* Nancy Mattson, Managing Dir, The

Argent Group

* Carl Eric Stal, Senior Manager, ING

Lease Structured Finance

* Frederick Sampliner, Principal, S.S.

Sampliner & Co. Inc.

* Howard Rosencrans, Director of

Research, HD Brous & Co.

* Wolfgang Demisch, Managing Dir, BT

Securities Track A 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Asia Pacific: Ocean of Opportunity

Moderator: Tim Logue, Analyst, Reid and

Priest

* Peter Jackson, CEO, AsiaSat

* Dr. Eui Koh, Group Dir, Asia Pacific,

Intelsat

* Harry Mahon, V.P., Video Services,

Columbia Communications Corp.

* Dr. Seon Jong Chung, V.P., Satellite

Communications Div, Electronics

and Tele-communications Research

Institute

* Dr. Shuichi Samejima, Satcom Systems

Lab, NStar, Nippon Telegraph and

Telephone Track B 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. DBS: One Year Later

Moderator: David Bross, SATELLITE NEWS

* Michael Alpert, President, Alpert &

Associates

* Eddy Hartenstein, President, DirecTv

* Murray Klippenstein, President,

AlphaStar

* Bill Pritchard, President, W.L.

Pritchard

* Representative, Primestar

* Carl Vogel, President, EchoStar

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Satellite Executive of the Year Luncheon 1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m. Satellite ’96 Keynote Address featuring

James Noblitt, President, Boeing

Commercial Space Company 1:20 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. Satellite Executive of the Year 1995

Award honoring Steven Dorfman,

President,Hughes Space and

Telecommunications Co. Track A 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Private Networks Find Global Appeal

Moderator: Susan Irwin, President,

Irwin Communications

* Gino Picasso, President, GE Spacenet

Corp.

* Fred Kelly, V.P., Business

Development, SSE Technologies

* Eileen McNamara-Raisch, President,

AT&T Tridom

* Sal Benti, V.P., Worldwide Sales and

Bus Dev, ComStream Corp.

* Paul Gaske, V.P., Hughes Network

Systems

* Simon Bull, Consultant, Communication Systems Track B 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. What Broadcasters Really Want from

Satellite Operators

Moderator: Katie Schuerholz, Via

Satellite

* Bob Zitter, Sr V.P. Tech, HBO

* Mary Frost, V.P., Price Waterhouse

* Brent Stranathan, V.P., CBS

* Richard Wolfe, Director, ABC

* Stephen Tom, President, WIT

Friday, February 9, 1996 8:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. General Session III–The Policy Debate:

World

Satellite Industry Regulators Speak Out

Moderator: Dr. Delbert Smith, Partner,

Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay

* Scott Blake Harris, Chief, FCC Int’l

Bur.

* Karl Savatiel, Chairman, SSPI

* Chuck Hewitt, President, SBCA

* Dr. Jorn Christensen, Christensen

Consultants

* John Lewis, Space Services Department,

ITU

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. General Session IV: Emerging Global

Markets

Moderator: Cynthia Boeke, Editor, Via

Satellite

* John Mattingly, V.P. and G.M., Comsat

World Systems Division

* Gounde Adadja, Director General,

RASCOM

* L.S. Satyamurphy, Dir, ISR O

* Jock Anderson, Orbicom, South Africa

* Louk Jurgens, Managing Director, PT

Satelindo

* Dan Ozley, V.P., Scientific-Atlanta

Inc.