Meet the Speakers

2026 Speakers

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

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

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

Colonel Jörgen Axelsson
Director, Nordic Airpower Concept
Swedish Armed Forces

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

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

Colonel Kevin Stonerook
Deputy Commander
JFCC IMD

Dr. Gillian Bussey
Deputy Chief Science Officer
US Space Force

Arda Karakaya
Head of Plans
NATO Operations Division

Dr. Maxime Bagnoud
Project Manager
Armasuisse

Emmanuel D’Almeida
Modular GBAD Principal Project Officer)
NSPA

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

Dr Charlotte Peet
Head of Joint Effects
Royal Navy

Lieutenant Colonel Magnus Stegmark
Commander
Swedish Air Defence Combat School

Uzi Rubin
Former Director
Institute for Strategy and Security

Doug Werner
Director
Pennsylvania State University

James Williams
Senior Engineer
RAND

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

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