Conference Day 2: Thursday, 7 May 2026
C4ISR GLOBAL
8:50 am - 9:00 am CHAIR'S OPENING REMARKS Matt Roper - Chief, Joint ISR, NCIA, C4ISR Global 2025 Chairman
C4ISR GLOBAL
9:00 am - 9:30 am INFORMATION SECURITY FOR THE GERMAN MILITARY Vice Admiral Dr Thomas Daum - Chief of the Cyber and Information Domain Service, Bundeswehr• The risks associated with digitalisation in today’s geopolitical landscape
• The operation and protection of IT infrastructure
• Certification and cross service collaboration
C4ISR GLOBAL
9:30 am - 10:00 am INDUSTRY INSIGHTS: HENSOLDT Jürgen M. Halder - Vice President Airborne SIGINT, Hensoldt
C4ISR GLOBAL
10:00 am - 10:30 am COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION RESILIENCE IN THE EVOLVING THREAT CONTEXT Brigadier General Răzvan-Marian Tudose - Commander of Cyber Defense Command, Romanian Armed Forces• The importance of secure communication networks
• Innovative developments to cyber space technology
• Integration across domains
Brigadier General Răzvan-Marian Tudose
Commander of Cyber Defense CommandRomanian Armed Forces
Space Operations Summit
8:50 am - 9:00 am CHAIR'S OPENING REMARKS Julie Holt-Jones - CEO, Space4Sight
Space Operations Summit
9:00 am - 9:30 am NATO ACT’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPACE DEFENCE POLICY Major General Devin Pepper - Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategic Plans and Policy (DCOS SPP), NATO HQ• Formulation of policies, strategies, engagements
• Analytical practices to provide strategic foresight, planning and strategy
• Strategic engagement with allied partners
Major General Devin Pepper
Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategic Plans and Policy (DCOS SPP)NATO HQ
Space Operations Summit
9:30 am - 10:00 am RESERVED FOR INDUSTRY INSIGHTSSpace Operations Summit
10:00 am - 10:30 am STRATEGIC PRIORITIES OF THE ITALIAN AIR AND SPACE OPERATIONS COMMAND Major General Luca Maineri - Commander, Air and Space Operations Command, Italian Air Force• Modernisation and investment in next-generation air and space capabilities
• Closing operational gaps amid emerging multi-domain threats
• Enhancing interoperability through NATO and EU partnershiP
10:30 am - 11:00 am
MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING
C4ISR Global
11:00 am - 11:30 am RCAF INSIGHTS INTO TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION• Driving innovation in resilient C4ISR technologies
• Supporting future operating forces in alignment with the evolving global threat
landscape
• Investment priorities going forward
C4ISR Global
11:30 am - 12:00 pm KONGSBERG’S CONTRIBUTION TO NATO ISR FORCE, SIGONELLA Einar Berntsen - Senior Business Development Manager C4ISR, Kongsberg• NATO approved coalition shared databases
• Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance solutions
• Industrial partner for achieving NATO’s Multi Domain Operations
C4ISR Global
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm ACCELERATING UK INVESTMENT IN DATA, AI, AND CLOUD SERVICES FOR DEFENCE INNOVATION Dina Kakaras - Deputy Director, Defence Digital & Head of Commercial X, UK Ministry of Defence• Delivering the Strategic Defence Review
• Driving Commercial Engagement for Emerging Technologies
• Speeding Technology Delivery to Frontline Force
Space Operations Summit
11:00 am - 11:30 am ADVANCING MILITARY OPERATIONS THROUGH COMMERCIAL SPACE INNOVATIONS: SPACEWERX PRIORITIES AND DEVELOPMENTS Arthur Grijalva - Director, SpaceWerx• Key initiatives and technologies improving Space Situational Awareness and other
space capabilities
• Validating dual-use commercial capabilities: Exploring commercial technologies with
potential military applications
• Opportunities for industry, academia, and government collaboration
Space Operations Summit
11:30 am - 12:00 pm DUAL-USE SATCOM TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT• Bolstering European networked infrastructure
• Ensuring encryption, EW resistant and high speed data transmission
• Current capability gaps
Space Operations Summit
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm DUAL USE, INNOVATION DRIVEN CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT IN SPACE Colonel Ludovic Monnerat - Commander, Swiss Space Command• Civilian-military, private/public approach for capability building
• Innovation as a key factor for agile and sovereign development
• Partnering globally to accelerate growth and ensure interoperability
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
LUNCH AND NETWORKING
C4ISR Global
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm PERSPECTIVES FROM NATO’S C2COE Colonel Mietta Groeneveld - Director, Command and Control Centre of Excellence, NATO• Research into enhancing information and knowledge management
• Experimenting and validating new processes
• Ensuring systems are robust, adaptable, and capable of meeting current and future
challenges
C4ISR Global
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm SOVEREIGN INTEROPERABILITY: COALITION DATA SHARING IN ZERO TRUST ENVIRONMENTS Angel Smith - President, Global Public Sector, VirtruDon Yeske - Senior Solutions Architect, Federal, Virtru
• Data Sovereignty in Coalition Operations – Leveraging commercial hyperscale cloud
for national security without foreign control
• The Zero Trust Interoperability Paradox – Why zero trust security makes connecting
coalition partners and legacy systems challenging
• Open Standards for Secure Data Exchange – Leveraging the Trusted Data Format
(TDF) to enable mission-critical sharing across security boundaries
C4ISR Global
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm C2 RESILIENCE AND COMMAND ADVANTAGE Alec Bain - Senior Principal C2 Analyst, DSTL - UK MoD• Command Advantage as the critical edge gained by ensuring that our command and control (C2) capabilities (Joint Functions) consistently outperform our adversaries
in every scenario.
• Treating C2 as a key capability, on par with Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR), or Fires
• Ensuring that we are agile, coherent, proactive and providing operational advantages
Space Operations Summit
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm URUGUAYAN INVESTMENT INTO SPACE OPERATIONS Colonel Gerardo Tajes - President of the Space Affairs Commission, Uruguayan Air Force• Formation of a dedicated space command
• Sharing of information with allied partners
• Reference Unit in the space sector, in alignment with the national strategy
Space Operations Summit
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm RESERVED FOR INDUSTRY INSIGHTSSpace Operations Summit
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm UPCOMING PERUVIAN INVESTMENTS INTO SPACE TECH Lieutenant Colonel Javier Ildefonso - Commander of Perúvian Space Operations Center, Peruvian Air Force• Procurement pipeline
• Collaboration with allied nations
• Our ambitions
Lieutenant Colonel Javier Ildefonso
Commander of Perúvian Space Operations CenterPeruvian Air Force
C4ISR Global
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONSSpace Operations Summit
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS Giulia Pavesi - Research Fellow Security and Defence in space, European Space Policy Institute
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING
C4ISR Global
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm DATA-DRIVEN JOINT DOMAIN APPROACH Brigadier General Friedrich Teichmann - Commander, Communication & Information Systems and Electronic Warfare, Austrian Armed Forces• Operational needs for CIS, Cyber, Geo and EW Data
• Data and COP for Joint Domain
• Interoperability, Electronic Warfare, ICT-Security and Information Management
Brigadier General Friedrich Teichmann
Commander, Communication & Information Systems and Electronic WarfareAustrian Armed Forces
C4ISR Global
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm C5ISR & SPACE AS A KEY ENABLER FOR AIR POWER AND ITS INTEGRATION Colonel Gianluca Chiriatti - Head, C5ISR and Space Branch, Joint Air Power Competence Centre• Advancing the seamless integration of information across all domains to gain a
shared understanding of the operational environment
• Work to support decision-making while securing the network from attack or
compromise
• Multi-Domain Operations to deliver Air Power integrated and synchronised
with other militaries
C4ISR Global
5:30 pm - 5:35 pm CHAIR'S CLOSING REMARKS Matt Roper - Chief, Joint ISR, NCIA, C4ISR Global 2025 ChairmanSpace Operations Summit
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm HARNESSING THE SPACE DOMAIN TO INCREASE FUTURE COMBAT AIR’S LETHALITY AND PRECISION Flight Lieutenant Luke Hilton - Space Requirements Manager, Future Combat Air, Global Combat Air Programme, UK MOD• Strategic overview of our priorities
• Collaboration with allied partners to advance capability
• Aligning with the evolving threat context
Flight Lieutenant Luke Hilton
Space Requirements Manager, Future Combat AirGlobal Combat Air Programme, UK MOD
Space Operations Summit
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm AEROSPACE FORCE PRIORITIES FOR MODERNISATION AND CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT• Expanding ISR platforms and data fusion to improve situational awareness
• Developing national satellite capabilities
• Collaboration with allies
