2026 Speakers

Brigadier General David Pack OBE
Head, Personnel Strategy
British Army

Brigadier General Mark Parsons CD
Commander, 5th Canadian Division & Director General Capability Development
Canadian Armed Forces

Brigadier Nick Wight-Boycott
Commander
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

Lieutenant Colonel Martin S. Spensberger
G3 Staff Officer Infantry Branch Army Concepts & Capabilities Development Centre
Logistikkommando der Bundeswehr

Major Niels - Jorgen Gunnar
Head of Section for Armored and Mechanized Infantry
Royal Danish Army

Major Sebastian Langvad
Teacher, Complex Operations
Norwegian Defence University College

2026 Chairman

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

2025 Speakers Included

General Markus Laubenthal
Chief of Staff
NATO SHAPE

Rear Admiral Jens Nykvist
Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff
Swedish Armed Forces - Royal Swedish Navy

Colonel Ryan Wylie
Director, Close Combat Lethality Task Force
US Department of Defense

Colonel Massimo Moncada
Director
NATO Security Force Assistance Centre of Excellence

Colonel Jon van Dam
Commander- Manoeuvre Education and Training Center
Royal Netherlands Army

Lieutenant Colonel Dmitri Kondratenko
Estonian Military Academy Lecturer
Estonian Defense Forces

Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Kolotõgin
Commander of the Kalev Infantry Battalion
Estonian Defence Forces

Lieutenant Colonel Ladislav Pfeifer
Deputy Commander- 601st Special Forces Group
Czech Armed Forces

Lieutenant Colonel Lukáš Smycek
Squad Commander- 601st Special Forces Group
Czech Armed Forces

Richard Waldrom
Senior Program Manager- Dismounted Close Combat, SoldierWorks
British Army

Andy Fraser
UK Managing Director
Saab

Hans Lindgren
Director Business Development
Saab AB Training & Simulation

James Scott
Lead- Barracuda Signature Management Products
Saab

Ronnie Hammarström
Deputy Head of Strategy and Portfolio
Saab (Ground Combat Business Unit)

Tim Moore
Director of International Business Development
Colt Canada Corporation

Brigadier Nick Wight-Boycott
Commander
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

Brigadier Rob Singleton
Commander
Combat Manoeuvre Centre

Brigadier General David Pack OBE
Commanding General (Plans), 82nd AB Division
British Army

Colonel Pete Brunton
Programme Manager, Land Environment Tactical CIS (LETacCIS) and Assistant Head,
British Army

Colonel Alessandro Vivarelli
Head of the Capability Development Branch
Italian Army

Colonel Gregory M. Tomlin PhD
Fires Transformation and Lessons Learned Manager
US Army

Colonel Todd Hopkins
Camp Blanding Joint Training Center
Florida National Guard

Dr. Charlotte Coombs
Senior Physiologist, Army Health and Performance Research (AHPR)
Uk Ministry of Defence

Joseph Lyden
Chief Procurement Officer
NATO Support and Procurement Agency

Dr. Andrew Roberts
Head of Army Recruit Health & Performance Research
British Army

Major Sebastian Langvad
Teacher, Complex Operations
Norwegian Defence University College

Anders Palm
Project Manager
Swedish Defence Materiel Administration

Lieutenant Colonel Martin S. Spensberger
G3 Staff Officer Infantry Branch Army Concepts & Capabilities Development Centre
Bundeswehr

Natalia Zwarts
Research Leader
RAND Europe

Dr. Nicola Armstrong
Senior-Principal Physiologist
DSTL

Dr. Tom Reed
Senior Principal Scientist
DSTL

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