Space based Communications, Applications and Technologies in the 5G Era:
Moving forward to the Third Decade of the 21st Century

General Co-Chairs
Nader Alagha, European Space Agency (ESA), The Netherlands
Daniel Gratton, Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Canada

Organizing Committee
AIAA CMSTC
Peter Garland,, MDA Corporation, Canada
F. Ayhan Sakarya, LinQuest Corporation, USA
Australia
Rowan Gilmore, EM Solutions, Australia
AIAA JFSC
Hajime Fukuchi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
USA
Tom Butash, Innovative Aerospace IS, USA

Technical Program Committee Chairs
Ifiok Otung (Co-chair), University of South Wales, United Kingdom
Tho Le-Ngoc (Co-chair), McGill University, Canada

Regional Technical Co-Chairs
Asia/Japan
Naoto Kadowaki, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
USA
Tom Butash, Innovative Aerospace IS, USA
Canada
Tony Stajcer, COM DEV International, Canada   

Colloquium Co-Chairs
Jean-Luc Agostini, MDA, Corporation, Canada
Antonio Franchi, European Space Agency (ESA), Netherlands

Technical Program Committee
Jean-Luc Agostini, MDA, Corporation, Canada
Liping Ai, George Washington University, USA
Tom Butash, Innovative Aerospace IS, USA
Hampton Chan, SSL, USA
Barry Evans, University of Surrey, UK
Peter Garland, MDA Corporation, Canada
David Grace, University of York, UK
George Haddad, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
James Hinds, Airbus Defence and Space, UK
Fun Hu, University of Bradford, UK
Naoto Kadowaki, NICT, Japan
Nafiz Karabudak, Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA
Farbod Kayhan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Andrew Lucas, Comtech EF Data, UK
Emilio Matricciani, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
Amane Miura, NICT, Japan
Prashant Pillai, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Denise Ponchak, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
Richard Reinhart, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
Jonathan Rodriguez, Institute of Telecommunications (IT), Aveiro, Portugal
Tony Stajcer, COM DEV International, Canada
James Stegeman, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
Glyn Thomas, Airbus Defence and Space, UK