Meet the Speakers

2026 Conference Chairs

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

Bess Dopkeen
Former Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for R&E
United States Department of Defense

Lieutenant General Frank Lozano
Portfolio Acquisition Executive Fires
United States Army

Air Vice-Marshal Andrew Martin
Director
IAMD Directorate, Military Strategic Headquarters

Major General Julien Sabéné
Deputy Commander
French Air and Space Force

Brigadier General Jörgen Axelsson
Director Nordic Division
Swedish Air Force

Brigadier General Mattia Zuzzi
Commanding Officer, Air and Missile Defence HQ
Italian Army

Rear Admiral Craig Wood
Deputy Commander
STRIKFORNATO

Colonel Stuart Hay
Commander 7 Air Defence Group
British Army

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

Colonel Pat Farrell
Project Manager, PM STRIKE
PAE Fires

Colonel Alexander Rasmussen
Chief Capability Officer
Space Development Agency

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

Colonel Bradley Son
Project Manager, SHIELD
PAE Fires

Colonel Olav Spanjer
Commander, Netherlands Groundbased Air Defence Command
Netherlands Army

Dr. Maxime Bagnoud
Project Manager
Armasuisse

Emmanuel D’Almeida
Modular GBAD Project Manager
NSPA

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

Lieutenant Colonel Magnus Stegmark
Commander
Swedish Air Defence Combat School

Lieutenant Colonel Kim Vogt
SME IAMD
JAPCC

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Barclay
MACCS Integration Branch Head
Marine Corps Combat Development Command

Eleftherios Liakakos
Section Leader - Ammunition Support Partnership Branch
NSPA

Bogusz Madej
Policy Officer
NATO International Staff

Anand Bahadur
Project Officer
PM Close Combat Systems

Uzi Rubin
Former Director
Institute for Strategy and Security

Nicholas O'Donoghue
Senior Engineer, Signal Processing Expert
Rand Corp

Dr. Sidarth Kaushal
Senior Research Fellow
Royal United Services Institute

Thomas Withington
Associate Fellow
RUSI

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

Colonel (rtd) Anthony Walters
Sustainment and Services Director, Requirements & Capabilities
Raytheon, an RTX business

Brigadier General (rtd) Ignacio Ojeda González-Posada
Military Consultant
INDRA

Tom Driscoll
Co-Founder & CTO
Echodyne

Beat Benz
Marketing & Product Portfolio Manager
Rheinmetall Air Defence AG

Mark Jones
Head Defence & Security UK&I
Robin Radar

Sukdea Yu Ph.D
Leader of Air Defence System TF
Hanwha Aerospace Co. LTD

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