Meet the Speakers

2025 Conference Chairmen

Major General (Ret'd) Gary Deakin CBE
Former Chief of Staff
NATO Joint Force Command

Lieutenant General Juan Pablo Sánchez De Lara
Commander, Combined Air Operations Center
NATO Allied Air Command

Lieutenant General Frank Lozano
Portfolio Acquisition Executive Fires
United States Army

Lieutenant General Iulian Berdila
Deputy CHOD for Operations and Training
Romanian Defence Staff

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

Rear Admiral Craig Wood *Subject to Final Confirmation
Deputy Commander
STRIKFORNATO

Brigadier General Glenn Henke
Commandant
US Army Air Defence Artillery School

Colonel Stuart Hay
Commander 7 Air Defence Group
British Army

Colonel Bradley Son
Project Manager, SHIELD
PAE Fires

Colonel Rómulo García
71st Air Defence Artillery Regiment Commander
Spanish Armed Forces

Volker Becker
Division Chief for Ground Based Air and Missile Defence
BAAINBw

Colonel Jörgen Axelsson
Director Nordic Division
Swedish Air Force

Colonel Mano-Mikael Nokelainen
Inspector of Ground-based Air Defence
Finnish National Defence Forces

Colonel Kevin Stonerook
Deputy Commander
JFCC IMD

Arda Karakaya
Head of Plans
NATO Operations Division

Michael Santaspirt
Chief Futures Officer
U.S. Army - DEVCOM Armaments Center

Deven Lowman
Director of C4 & Missile Defense, Strategic Space and Intelligence Office
OUSD A&S

Martin Suitters
Head of Innovation & Capability, Complex Weapons
UK Defence Solutions Centre

Dr. Gillian Bussey
Deputy Chief Science Officer
US Space Force

Emmanuel D’Almeida
Modular GBAD Principal Project Officer)
NSPA

Dr. Maxime Bagnoud
Project Manager
Armasuisse

Jay (Gee) Simmons
Deputy Air & Missile Defense Capability Area Lead
DEVCOM AvMC

Lieutenant Colonel Magnus Stegmark
Commander
Swedish Air Defence Combat School

Dr. Michael Helle
Principal Scientist for Directed Energy Physics, SSTM
Naval Research Laboratory

Lieutenant Colonel Kim Vogt
SME IAMD
JAPCC

Dr Charlotte Peet
Head of Joint Effects
Royal Navy

Uzi Rubin
Former Director
Institute for Strategy and Security

Creid Johnson
Divisional Director, ACC/A5X Futures Division
US Air Force

Thomas Withington
Associate Fellow
RUSI

James Williams
Senior Engineer
RAND

Doug Werner
Director
Pennsylvania State University

Dr Carmine Clemente
Director of the Centre for Signal and Image Processing
University of Strathclyde

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