25 - 27 June, 2019
Hilton London Olympia , London, United Kingdom
Hilton London Olympia , London, United Kingdom
Conference Day 1, 26th June 2019
8:00 am - 8:50 am REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
8:50 am - 9:00 am CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
Major General (retd.) Andrew Sharpe
Director of the British Army’s Centre for Analysis and Conflict ResearchStrategy and Security Institute
9:00 am - 9:40 am 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
Doctor David A Horner
Director of the Information Technology LaboratoryU.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
9:40 am - 10:10 am 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
10:20 am - 11:00 am 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
11:00 am - 11:30 am MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING
11:30 am - 12:10 pm 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
12:10 pm - 1:10 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: ADVANCING INNOVATION IN DEFENCE
- 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
1:10 pm - 2:40 pm NETWORKING LUNCH
2:10 pm - 2:50 pm 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
2:50 pm - 3:30 pm 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
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING
4:00 pm - 4:40 pm UTILISING BIG DATA TO ENHANCE STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING
- Assessing the way data is integrated; the impact on decision making and how AI and data will change NATO’s approach to future challenges
- A future where subordinate echelons are given decentralized control of capabilities and the impact this will have on command and control architectures
- The Netherlands’ approach to Big Data analytics.
4:40 pm - 5:20 pm 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)
5:20 pm - 5:30 pm 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