2026 Speakers

Conference Chairs

Lieutenant General (Ret'd) Stuart Skeates
Former Deputy Commander of JFC Brunssum, NATO
Former Director General for Strategic Operations, British Army

Former Director General for Strategic Operations, British Army

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Tony Aguto
Former Commanding General
Security Assistance Group Ukraine

Osman Tasman
Former Land Armaments Advisor
Defence Investment Division, NATO HQ

Military & Government Speakers

Lieutenant General Simon Hamilton CBE
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
DE&S *Subject to final confirmation

Lieutenant General John Mead OBE
Deputy Commander
NATO Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum

Brigadier General Steven Carpenter
Commander, 56th Artillery Command
US Army

Brigadier Mark Comer
Deputy Chief of Staff (DCOS) PLANS
Joint Support and Enabling Command (JSEC)

Brigadier Adam Fraser-Hitchen
Deputy Commander 3 UK Division
British Army

Brigadier General Serhii Baranov
SME for Artillery
Ukrainian Armed Forces

Brigadier General Olivier Coquet
Director Of The French Army Technical Branch
French Army HQ

Brigadier General Dimitrios Tagkalakis
Director of Artillery
Hellenic Army

Brigadier Paul Hughes
Head of Engineering Assurance – Land Domain
Defence Equipment & Support

Brigadier Robert Alston
Chief Joint Fires and Influence Branch
ARRC NATO

Colonel Freeman Bonnette
Project Manager, Self-Propelled Howitzer Systems
PEO Ground Combat Systems, US Army

Major General (Ret'd) Steve Maranian
Former Commander, 56th Artillery Command
U.S. Army

Colonel Kris Reeves
Commander,
Multinational Brigade Latvia

Colonel János Pölöskei
Director, Transformation Command, Doctrine & Regulation Development Directorate
Hungarian Defence Force

Colonel Charles Brown
AH Strategy & Force Design, Army Futures
British Army

Colonel Roman Bobal
Commander, Fires Centre of Excellence
Slovak Armed Forces

Colonel Jost Hügel
Commander of the German Artillery School and General of the German Artillery
Bundeswehr - Germany

Colonel Stephan Sjöberg
Chief of Artillery
Swedish Armed Forces

Colonel Gregory M. Tomlin PhD
Capability Manager for Division Artillery Formations
US Army

Colonel Frank Maxwell
Commander, 41st Field Artillery Brigade, V Corps
US Army

Colonel Patrick Mestdagh
Head Of The Artillery Transformation Service
Belgian Armed Forces

Colonel Petri Majuri
Inspector of Artillery, Army Command
Finnish Defense Forces

Colonel Antonio Moya López
Commander, 11th Field Artillery Regiment
Spanish Land Forces

Lieutenant Colonel William Taylor
Product Manager, Soldier Precision Targeting Devices, PEO Soldier
US Army *Subject to Final Confirmation

Lieutenant Colonel Dejan Sibilja
Artillery Capabilities Development Officer / General Staff SVN-A
Slovenian Armed Forces

Christelle Collet
Land Munitions Officer
NATO

Andrius Sujeta
Ammunition Branch, Technician
NSPA

Major Simon Hare
Officer Commanding Fires
British Army - Combined Arms Manoeuvre School

Garry Jones
Principal Engineer - Gun Systems
Dstl

Anthony Lewis
Principal Engineer- Gun Systems
Dstl

Mike Wright
Chief Engineer for Fire Control, DEVCOM
US Army

Peter Burke
Deputy Capability Program Executive for Ammunition & Energetics (CPE A&E)
U.S. Army

Dave Musgrave
Chief Engineer Artillery Fire Control, DEVCOM AC
US Army

Matthew Glaser
Deputy Project Manager Combat Ammunition Systems (PM CAS)
US Army

Tom Newbery
Senior Principal Scientist – Land Survivability
Dstl

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