Satellite Futures Summit 2025
The global space economy is rapidly expanding; now worth up to $600 billion, with satellites driving more than 70% of global space revenue. This summit brings together innovators, policymakers and industry leaders shaping the UK’s future in satellite technology.
The Satellite Futures Summit explores how satellite systems are transforming connectivity, supporting the UK’s industrial strategy and unlocking new commercial opportunities across multiple sectors.
Past activities
Campaigns
Awareness Day: AI in Intelligent Networks
As the telecommunications industry accelerates toward AI-native networks, we invite innovators, researchers, and thought leaders to share their insights and breakthroughs. AI-native wireless technologies represent a fundamental shift in how networks are designed, deployed, and operated—moving beyond incremental evolution to a transformative reimagining of connectivity.
These initiatives seek to transform the UK’s mobile telecommunications landscape by creating an open, intelligent, high-performance Radio Access Network platform. Strengthening software automation, improving interoperability, and advancing edge AI will enable new levels of network performance, personalization, and autonomy.
Breakthroughs in Satellite Connectivity
This campaign aims to showcase the transformative impact of advanced technologies to non-terrestrial networks, focusing on innovations prompted by satellites services and applications.
techUK's Future Private Networks Week 2022
techUK's Future Private Networks campaign week 2022 celebrated the technology, innovation and expertise in the UK’s private networks sector, as we look to accelerate adoption, increase demand and help the UK realise the benefits of advanced connectivity for enterprise and the public sector.
WRC Series 2023 #ITUWRCtechUK
Read techUK's members and stakeholders contributions to the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC), a critical forum for reviewing and, if necessary, revising the Radio Regulations, the international treaty governing the use of the radio-frequency spectrum.
Optical Communications Roadmap
This initiative brings together roundtables, workshops, and thought leadership to spotlight cutting-edge advances in optical wireless communications (OWC).
The techUK Optical Communications Roadmap highlights the transformative potential of creating a "network of networks" that can ensure the UK remains a leader in global telecommunications.
To participate, please reach out to [email protected]
Reports
Network Convergence: techUK’s vision for a connected future
The techUK position paper on Network Convergence highlights the transformative potential of integrating terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks (TN-NTN), creating a "network of networks" that can bridge the digital divide, enhance economic opportunities, and ensure the UK remains a leader in global telecommunications.
Private networks: a new user guide by techUK
As technology innovation continues to allow the UK to grow its economy, technology trade association techUK has today released a new guide outlining the benefits of private networks adoption, ‘Private networks: a user guide by techUK’.
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Our team
Tales Gaspar
Sophie Greaves
Josh Turpin
Tales Gaspar
Tales has a background in law and economics, with previous experience in the regulation of new technologies and infrastructure.
In the UK and Europe, he offered consultancy on intellectual property rights of cellular and IoT technologies and on the regulatory procedures at the ITU as a Global Fellow at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI).
Tales has an LL.M in Law and Business by the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and an MSc in Regulation at the London School of Economics, with a specialization in Government and Law.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- +44 (0) 0207 331 2000
- Website:
- www.techUK.org
- LinkedIn:
- www.linkedin.com/in/talesngaspar
Sophie Greaves
Sophie Greaves is Associate Director for Digital Infrastructure at techUK, overseeing the Telecoms Programme, the Data Centres Programme, and the UK Spectrum Policy Forum.
Sophie leads our work across telecoms networks, security and resilience, supply chain diversification, advanced communications technologies, spectrum policy, and data centres - bringing these areas together into a dedicated Digital Infrastructure unit. She was previously Head of Telecoms and Spectrum Policy.
Prior to joining techUK, Sophie completed a masters in Film Studies at University College London; her dissertation examined US telecoms policy relating to net neutrality and content distribution.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 0207 331 2038
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophiegreaves/,https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophiegreaves/
Josh Turpin
Josh joined techUK as a Programme Manager for Telecoms and Net Zero in August 2024.
In this role, working jointly across the techUK Telecoms and Climate Programmes, Josh is responsible for leading on telecoms infrastructure deployment and uptake and supporting innovation opportunities, as well as looking at how the tech sector can be further utilised in the UK’s decarbonisation efforts.
Prior to joining techUK, Josh’s background was in public affairs and communications, working for organisations across a diverse portfolio of sectors including defence, telecoms and infrastructure; aiding clients through stakeholder engagement, crisis communications, media outreach as well as secretariat duties.
Outside of work, Josh has a keen interest in music, painting and sailing.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 020 7331 2038
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-turpin/
