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Air Vice Marshal Peter Squires

Director Military Aviation Authority
UK Ministry of Defence
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Alex Kugajevsky

Adoption Principal
NATO Innovation Fund
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Arbo Probal

UXS and C-UXS Programme Manager
Estonian Armed Forces
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Brigadier General Ilmars Lejins

Deputy Commander
NATO Multinational Division North
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Brigadier Stu Nasse

Drone Capability Coalition Lead & Head (Land) Capability Coalitions
British Army HQ
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General Dame Sharon Nesmith DCB ADC

Vice Chief of the Defence Staff
UK Ministry of Defence
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General Sir Rob Magowan CB CBE ADC RM

Commander
Cyber & Special Operations Command
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James Gavin

Deputy Director, UKDI & Head of Technology Transition
National Armaments Director Group
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John Ridge

Chief Adoption Officer
NATO Innovation Fund
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Lieutenant General Krzysztof Król

Advisor to the Chief of the General Staff
General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces
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Major General (Retd) Karl Ford CB CBE

Director of Defence Planning, International Staff
NATO
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Major-General Constantin-Adrian Ciolponea

SACT Representative in Europe
NATO ACT
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Zoe White

Head of Industry, Partnerships and Policy Section and Industry Engagement Unit
NATO

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2026 Mission Sets

Interoperability and integration of uncrewed systems across European and NATO partners
  • Integration and interoperability of crewed and uncrewed forces across domains
  • Optimising the balance between high-end and low-cost capabilities
  • Coordinating cross-domain command and control
  • Building resilience against cyber and EW threats
Autonomy at scale: from capability to competitive overmatch
  • Utilising autonomy to gain decisive operational advantage
  • Sustaining autonomous operations under contested conditions
  • Adaptation and iteration at the speed of the frontline
Deep Precision Effects: Generating Combat Power Through Long-Range and Precision Strike
  • Deep reconnaissance and strike capabilities
  • Synchronising ISR and digital targeting webs for precision effects
  • Integrate sovereign and allied long-range strike systems
  • Sustaining tempo and joint effects for protracted operations
Countering undersea threats and protecting critical infrastructure

  • Detect, track and neutralise undersea and hybrid threats

  • Maintain persistent surveillance and deny access to critical subsea infrastructure

  • Deploy layered sensing, precision effects and resilient architectures to sustain advantage in contested maritime environments

Countering low-cost, rapidly proliferating UxS threats
  • Detection and discrimination of small, low signature threats
  • Balancing layered and cost-effective defeat mechanisms
  • Attritable and mobile C-UxS capabilities
  • Integrate cross-domain and allied Counter-UxS operation

 

Enhancing layered and integrated air and missile defence across domains
  • 360-degree surveillance and real time threat identification
  • Cross domain integration within IAMD
  • Adaptable and scalable engagement mechanisms across the spectrum
  • Resilient command and control
Fighting in a denied, degraded and contested battlespace

  • Spectrum management in an increasingly contested and congested EMS

  • Speed of adaptation: tactical EW adaptation loops

  • Building cyber and EW effects at scale

  • Exploiting and sustaining access to space for C3 and targeting

Deep-dive breakout sessions to workshop and problem solve

  • Sustaining Forces in Contested and Extreme Environments

  • Enhancing the Decision Advantage

  • Crewed-Uncrewed Teaming

  • Innovation at the Speed of the Frontline

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