28 - 30 May, 2019
Copthorne Tara Hotel London Kensington, London, United Kingdom

MAIN CONFERENCE DAY ONE | 29 MAY

8:00 am - 9:00 am REGISTRATION & COFFEE

Lieutenant General Raymond Palumbo, Former Director for Defense Intelligence - Warfighter Support at U.S. Department of Defense

Lieutenant General Raymond Palumbo

Former Director for Defense Intelligence - Warfighter Support
U.S. Department of Defense

9:15 am - 9:55 am HOST-NATION OPENING ADDRESS: ENHANCING C2ISR FOR FUTURE MULTI-DOMAIN OPERATIONS

·         Outlining next generation capability strategy
·         Delivering Future Beyond Line of Sight (FBLOS) communications for the Armed Forces
·         Assessing the Dismounted Situational Awareness Programme and initiatives supporting crypto, cyber, and interoperability capabilities
·         Overview of the ‘Autonomous Warrior’ exercise and the role of RAS in ISR 

Major General Rupert T.H. Jones, Commander Standing Joint Force at UK Joint Force Command

Major General Rupert T.H. Jones

Commander Standing Joint Force
UK Joint Force Command

9:45 am - 10:15 am MODERNISING THE ARMY FOR THE FUTURE

·         Focusing on flexibility, collaboration, and speed to deliver capability to the warfighter
·         Enabling rapid prototyping to field innovative technologies
·         Harnessing advances in AI and big data analysis to accelerate processing of information and identification of modernisation trends
·         Integrating the future operational environment, threat, and technologies to develop and deliver future force requirements
·         Assessing implications of modernizing an increasingly electronic multi domain battle space, with a focus on the land domain
Lieutenant General James M. Richardson, Deputy Commander at US Army Futures Command

Lieutenant General James M. Richardson

Deputy Commander
US Army Futures Command

10:15 am - 11:45 am PANEL DISCUSSION: SECURING ASYMMETRIC ADVANTAGE AGAINST PEER AND NEAR-PEER ADVERSARIES

·         Examining the role of future, manned, unmanned, and optionally-manned variants of vertical lift reconnaissance platforms in enhancing situational awareness
·         Assessing challenges associated with AI for optional manning
·         Evaluating survivability, agility, and lethality of future attack reconnaissance aircraft
·         Developing rotorcraft designs for a revolutionary increase in capability
·         Enhancing interoperability and evaluating modular open systems approach  for quick upgrades
·         Seizing, retaining, and exploiting the information advantage derived from airborne assets to give ground force commander an asymmetric advantage against peer and near-peer adversaries
Instituting mobile and expeditionary network infrastructure to enable operations where the electromagnetic spectrum is denied or degraded

11:15 am - 11:45 am MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING

11:45 am - 12:15 pm ACCELERATED WARFARE: AN AUSTRALIAN ARMY PERSPECTIVE

·         Enabling human-machine teaming to lighten the cognitive burden for the Warfighter
·         Assessing the role of RAS at the tactical level – pairing individual Soldiers with multiple UAS
·         Human in the loop: ethical considerations associated with RAS employment
·         Addressing human-AI teaming and its impact on the OODA loop 

Brigadier Ian Langford, Director General Future Land Warfare at Australian Army

Brigadier Ian Langford

Director General Future Land Warfare
Australian Army

12:15 pm - 12:45 pm ACCELERATING RAPID REACTION THROUGH NETWORK ENABLED TECHNOLOGIES

·         Technological Innovation and Canada’s new Defence Policy
·         Enhancing situational awareness, C2, and provision of real-time actionable intelligence
·         Outlining future plans and integration of S&T 


Colonel Mark Parsons, Director of Land Command Information at Canadian Army

Colonel Mark Parsons

Director of Land Command Information
Canadian Army

12:45 pm - 1:35 pm INDUSTRY INSIGHTS VITEC


1:15 pm - 2:30 pm NETWORKING LUNCH

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm INDUSTRY LEADERS PANEL DISCUSSION

·         As the commercial sector is developing at a rapid pace, how can industry ensure that armed forces retain advantage against asymmetric adversaries in the future operating environment?
·         How can industry support the defence sector in the objective to increase the agility of acquisition?
·         How can we advance innovation from non-traditional defence companies and SMEs?
·         What technological enablers will transform C2ISR and allow armed forces to retain the competitive edge against near-peer opponents and asymmetric threats?
·         How will air, cyber, and space assets feed into unified land operations? 

3:15 pm - 3:55 pm THE FUTURE ROLE OF TACTICAL UAVs IN SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

·         Examining capabilities of the Watchkeeper Force
·         Outlining the evolving role of TUAVs in ISR
·         Providing actionable intelligence and accelerating decision-making in the context of multi-domain operations
Colonel James Anderson, Commander Watchkeeper Force at British Army

Colonel James Anderson

Commander Watchkeeper Force
British Army

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm IMPLEMENTING ROBUST SOLUTIONS FOR JISR

·         Digitising the intelligence cycle in tactical land operations
·         Implementing NATO's Joint ISR concept within the German Army
·         Evaluating centralised analytical capabilities, early warning, and big data analysis
·         Enhancing communications and IT within the broader battle management system 

Colonel Georg Miarka, Chief, Army Intelligence at German Army

Colonel Georg Miarka

Chief, Army Intelligence
German Army

·         Assessing Russia’s information warfare strategy and
·         countermeasures
·         Outlining NATO’s information capabilities and analysis of
·         hostile disinformation activities
·         Recognising and impeding hostile propaganda

Colonel Saulius Guzeviciusm, nalysis, Assessment & Military Liaison Officer  Strategic Communications Unit at NATO

Colonel Saulius Guzeviciusm

nalysis, Assessment & Military Liaison Officer Strategic Communications Unit
NATO

5:30 pm - 5:40 pm CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS AND END OF CONFERENCE DAY ONE

Lieutenant General Raymond Palumbo, Former Director for Defense Intelligence - Warfighter Support at U.S. Department of Defense

Lieutenant General Raymond Palumbo

Former Director for Defense Intelligence - Warfighter Support
U.S. Department of Defense