Apex Europe Speakers


2026 Mission Sets

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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

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Winning Autonomous Warfare at
Scale and Mass

  • Utilising autonomy to gain decisive operational advantage

  • Sustaining autonomous operations under contested conditions

  • Adaptation and iteration at the speed of the frontline

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Generating Combat Power Through Deep Precision Effects

  • 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

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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

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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 alliedCounter-UxS operations

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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

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Fighting in Denied, Degraded and Contested Battlespace

  • Spectrum management in an increasingly contested andcongested 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

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Deep-Dive Breakout Sessions to Workshop and Problem-Solve

  • Sustaining Forces in Contested and Extreme Environments

  • Enhancing the Decision Advantage / Data Fusion / Integration

  • Crewed-Uncrewed Teaming

  • Exploiting the Electromagnetic Spectrum & Cyberspace

  • Innovation at the Speed of the Frontline