25 - 27 June, 2019
Hilton London Olympia , London, United Kingdom
Hilton London Olympia , London, United Kingdom
Conference Day 1, 26th June 2019
8:00 - 9:00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
9:00 - 9:10 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
Major General (retd.) Andrew Sharpe
Director of the British Army’s Centre for Analysis and Conflict ResearchStrategy and Security Institute
9:10 - 9:50 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: DEVELOPING GAME CHANGING TECHNOLOGIES AT THE INFORMATION LABORATORY
- The Data Analysis and Assessment Center (DAAC): providing visualization and analysis tools and support services to enable the analysis of an ever-increasing volume of data
- The Department of Defense (DOD) Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC): delivering high performance computing (HPC) resources to DOD scientists and engineers across the Nation
- Developing, modernizing, and maintaining software to address DoD's science and engineering challenges
- Exploring, evaluating, and applying emerging High Performance Computing technology to advance DoD productivity
Dr. David A Horner
Director of the Information Technology LaboratoryU.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
9:50 - 10:20 PUTTING AI TO WORK: EXAMPLES FROM THE CIVIL AND DEFENCE WORLD
· What is AI and what can we do with it?
· How is AI already addressing challenges across industries?
· How can AI technology be implemented?
· What tools and techniques can be applied to defence?
Sponsored by: Deloitte
10:20 - 11:00 THE FUTURE CHALLENGES OF BIG DATA ANALYTICS AND AI
- Exploiting and protecting data
- Overcoming the challenges and seizing the opportunities of digitalisation
- Achieving information superiority over the enemy
11:00 - 11:30 MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING
11:30 - 12:10 THE ARTEMIS PROJECT: A MASTER PLAN TO DEVELOP BIG DATA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- State of the art and main challenges
- Applications for defence field
- The need of the ecosystem
- Different projects for operational use and to develop technologies
Colonel Jerome Lemaire
Digitization & Artificial Intelligence Master Plan LeaderDirectorate General of Armaments
12:10 - 12:30 AI IN DEFENSE: IT’S ABOUT THE DATA
In his talk, Mr. Bechtel will be discussing the issues of BigData and its relationship to Artificial Intelligence(AI) in Defense and Intelligence operations. He intends to touch on the following points:
The issues around the efficacy of AI in defense are all related to data.
- Data and new data sources have proliferated beyond human ability to monitor and/or contextualize each discrete piece of information.
- Artificial Intelligence, including Machine Learning and Deep Learning, offer the best promise for dealing with the flood of data and reporting.
- Once we pursue AI, we must have data systems that assemble and care for the reporting in a way that does not hinder and in fact enables our AI algorithms
- Legacy database systems cannot respond to our data requirements for AI going forward.
- Our new systems must be able to collect, ingest, govern, secure, and make accessible the whole volume of data.
- The qualities of that new system can be delineated as flexible, scalable, and clean.
Sponsored by: MarkLogic Corporation
12:30 - 13:10 ACCELERATING THE DEVELOPMENT AND AWARENESS OF BIG DATA SOLUTIONS FOR DEFENCE
- Overview of past and present data challenges run by DASA
- The areas of data interest in the Front Line Commands
- The DASA route to funding for big data and data analytics solutions for defence
13:10 - 14:40 NETWORKING LUNCH
14:10 - 14:50 THE INFLUENCE OF BIG DATA IN DECISION MAKING PROCESS: A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE BRITISH ARMY
- Mitigating data overload on the battlefield
- Assessing how much reliability can be attributed to Big Data: can we trust current systems?
- Future prospects: speculating the changes that Big Data will bring to decision making in the defence sector, and how it will affect the OODA loop
Colonel Alex Porter
Assistant Head of Strategic Concepts, Directorate of CapabilityBritish Army
14:50 - 15:10 THE VALUE OF IP INTELLIGENCE
17:10 - 17:50 INCREASING CYBER INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN EUROPEAN ARMIES
- Integrating cyber command structures in army’s structures
- The challenge of communication: could European armies use common cryptographic systems?
- Raising awareness to weakest link: training the European soldier how to behave in the cyber environment
Mr Mario Blokken
Head Permanent SecretariatEuropean Land Force Interoperability Center (Finabel)
15:50 - 16:30 AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING
16:30 - 17:00 BRIDGING THE TECHNOLOGICAL GAP BETWEEN THE MILITARY AND THE CIVIL SECTOR
- JHub’s programme for Big Data Analytics and AI
- Improving the operation of the UK armed forces
- Re-purposing and combining existing technologies available elsewhere in the defence and civil sectors to deliver new functionality
17:00 - 18:00 PANEL DISCUSSION: ADVANCING INNOVATION IN DEFENCE
Speakers:
Major General (retd.) Andrew Sharpe Director of the British Army’s Centre for Analysis and Conflict Research Strategy and Security Institute
Brigadier General Jennifer Buckner Principle advisor for Cyber Operations to the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army US Army
Adrian Holt Innovation Scout jHub
Ralph Wilkins Innovation Partner Defence and Security Accelerator
James Kuht Innovation Scout JHub
Major General (retd.) Andrew Sharpe Director of the British Army’s Centre for Analysis and Conflict Research Strategy and Security Institute
Brigadier General Jennifer Buckner Principle advisor for Cyber Operations to the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army US Army
Adrian Holt Innovation Scout jHub
Ralph Wilkins Innovation Partner Defence and Security Accelerator
James Kuht Innovation Scout JHub
- How does innovation get rewarded in defence
- Bringing non-traditional partners into defence procurement
- Skills and cultural change required for machine speed warfare
Major General (retd.) Andrew Sharpe
Director of the British Army’s Centre for Analysis and Conflict ResearchStrategy and Security Institute
Brigadier General Jennifer Buckner
Principle advisor for Cyber Operations to the Deputy Chief of Staff of the ArmyUS Army
18:00 - 18:10 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS AND END OF CONFERENCE DAY ONE
Major General (retd.) Andrew Sharpe
Director of the British Army’s Centre for Analysis and Conflict ResearchStrategy and Security Institute
18:10 - 19:30 DRINKS RECEPTION
Sponsored by: Defence IQ
