Meet the 2027 Speakers

Conference Chairs

Matt Roper
Chief of Joint ISR
NCIA

Lieutenant General (ret.) DeAnna Burt
Former Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Operations Cyber, and Nuclear
United States Space Force

Lieutenant General John Rafferty
Commanding General
US Army Space and Missile Defense Command

Lieutenant General Matthew Jones
Chief Defence Intelligence
UK Cyber & Specialist Operations Command

Air Vice-Marshal Mark Ridgway
Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff, Futures & Force Design, (ACDS (F&FD))
Military Strategic Headquarters

Vice Admiral Heidi Berg
Commander, Fleet Cyber Command, Navy Space Command, 10th Fleet
U.S. Navy

Major General Chris McKenna
Commander 1 Canadian Air Division/ Commander Canadian NORAD Region
Canadian Armed Forces

Major General Carlos Javier Frias Sanchez
Head of Force Development Division
Spanish Defence Joint Staff

Major General René van den Berg
Commander, Defence Cyber Command
Netherlands Armed Forces

Major General Tibor Králik
Commander, Joint Operations Command
Slovak Armed Forces

Major General Vasileios Chatzidakis
Director, Information Technology and Cyberspace Directorate
Hellenic National Defence Staff

Major General Mariusz Chmielewski
Commander
Polish Army - Cyber Command

Brigadier General Carl-Fredrik Edström
Director Air and Space Systems Division
Swedish Defence Materiel Administration

Brigadier General Răzvan-Marian Tudose
Commander of Cyber Defense Command
Romanian Cyber Defence Command

Brigadier General Radek Haratek
Commander Cyber and Information Warfare Command
Czech Armed Forces

Brigadier Neil Lakin
Head of Space Capability
UK Space Command

Brigadier Dan Blackmore
Commander, Joint Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities Group
UK Strategic Command

Air Commodore Sally Courtnadge
Commander
National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence

Colonel Chris Castle
Deputy Commander
US Space Forces - Europe and Africa

Colonel Patrick Heim
Director
NATO Space Centre of Excellence

Colonel Gianluca Chiriatti
Head, C5ISR & Space Branch
Joint Air Power Competence Centre

Colonel Mietta Groeneveld
Director
NATO Command & Control Centre of Excellence

Colonel Albert Harris III
Commandant, National Security Space Institute
United States Space Force

Lieutenant Colonel Jim Cheesman
Capability Development Manager
UK Space Command

Lieutenant Colonel Endre Miszori
Education, Training, Exercises & Evaluation Officer
NATO Space Theatre Component

Greg Ivey
Director, Armaments and Major Capability Programmes
NATO

Arthur Grijalva
Director
SpaceWERX

Peter Saunders
Director General Integrated Air and Missile Defence
Royal Canadian Air Force

Philippe Rosius
Head of Situational Awareness
European Union Agency for the Space Programme

Charlotte Gerhart
Deputy Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Satellite Communications and PNT
US Space Systems Command

Professor Anu Ojha OBE
Chief Technology Officer
UK Space Agency

Dr. Cagatay Soyer
Alliance Future Surveillance & Control Project Manager
NSPA

Piotr Szyja
Chief Expert for Space Policy
Polish Ministry Of National Defense

Tõnis Saar
Director, Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence
NATO

Major General (ret.) Pascal Legai
Senior Security Advisor to the Director General of ESA
European Space Agency

David Byrne
Head of Unit, Information Superiority
European Defence Agency

James Black
Deputy Director, Defence & Security; European Lead, Space
RAND Europe

Dr. Balázs Bartóki-Gönczy
Director, Institute of Aerospace and Telecommunications Law
Ludovika University of Public Service

Alec Bain
Senior Principal Analyst
DSTL - UK MoD

Colonel Marcin Mazur
Vice President
Polish Space Agency, Subject to Final Confirmation

Representative TBD
Main Directorate for Electronic and Cyber Warfare
Armed Forces of Ukraine

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