Modernise. Mobilise. Secure.
The leading event in partnership with the Lithuanian Land Forces at the epicentre of NATO’s eastern flank, driving integrated capability and regional deterrence.

9 - 10 December 2025 | Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Center Litexpo Vilnius, Lithuania
Colonel Rainer Peltoniemi

Colonel Rainer Peltoniemi

Plans and Policy Division Finnish Defence Command
Colonel Rainer Peltoniemi

Since 1987 Peltoniemi has served in The Finnish Defense Forces. He has served in a variety of units and positions, like as Vice Rector in The National Defence University, Infantry Inspector in Army Command, Chief of Staff for the Kainuu Brigade, as a Director of Research for the Armed Forces, as Commander of the Guard Battalion, Deputy NCC and COS Finnish Contingent in the ISAF operation in Afghanistan. In his position as an infantry inspector, he has been the director of the Finnish Defense Forces' key capability projects, ex. mobility, firepower and protection, for several years. His military education includes Officer's Degree in Military Academy, General Staff Officer Course, Senior Command Course, High Command Course, National Defence Course and various other military courses. Peltoniemi has a doctoral dissertation from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Helsinki University of Technology in 2007.

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