Meet the Speakers

Conference Chairmen

Lieutenant General (Ret'd) Corneliu Postu
Former Director
Romanian Defence Staff

Lieutenant General Ralph Wooddisse
Commander
NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC)

General Gheorghiță Vlad
Chief of Defence
Romanian Defence Staff

Lieutenant General Dragos-Dumitru Iacob
Deputy Chief of Defence
Romanian Defence Staff

Lieutenant General Ciprian Marin
Chief of Land Forces Staff
Romanian Armed Forces

Lieutenant General Jez Bennett
Deputy Commander
NATO Allied Land Command

Lieutenant General Cristian Dan
Commander
Multinational Corps Southeast HQ

Lieutenant General Maciej Klisz *subject to final confirmation
Operational Commander
Polish Armed Forces

Major General Massimiliano Quarto
Deputy Commander
NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC)

Lieutenant General Michel Van Strythem *subject to final confirmation
Chief of the Drones and Innovation Taskforce
Belgian Defence HQ

Major General Jarosław Górowski
Commander
NATO Multinational Division North-East

Major General Cezary Wiśniewski
Polish National Military Representative
NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE)

Major General Constantin-Adrian Ciolponea
SACTREP Europe
NATO HQ

Brigadier Chris Gent
Deputy Chief of Staff, Transformation and Integration
NATO Allied Land Command

Brigadier General John Mountford
Deputy Commanding General - Readines
U.S. Army V Corps

Brigadier Matt Baker
Incoming Head Strategic Concepts and Warfare Development
UK Ministry of Defence

Brigadier General Martin Jawurek
Chief of Strategy
Austrian Ministry of Defence

Brigadier General Zsolt Molnár
Deputy Commander (Land Forces)
Hungarian Defence Forces Joint Operations Command

Oksana Ferchuk
Deputy Minister of Defence for Digital Transformation
Government of Ukraine

Mr. Siim Sukles
Undersecretary for Defence Industry and Innovation
Ministry of Defence Republic of Estonia

Greg Ivey
Director, Armaments and Major Capability Programmes
NATO

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

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

Colonel Mietta Groeneveld
Director
NATO Command & Control Centre of Excellence (C2COE)

Colonel Stefan Okos
Commander, 51st Helicopter Wing
Slovak Air Force

Colonel Simon Pope
Commander, UAS Group
UK Ministry of Defence

Colonel Orlin Nikolov
Director
Crisis Management and Disaster Response (CMDR) COE

Colonel Kevin Grenier
Operations and Integration Division Chief
The Joint Staff

Mr. Tõnis Saar
Director
NATO Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE)

Jyoti Hirani-Driver
Acting Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer
NATO Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA)

Alex Kugajevsky
Principal
NATO Innovation Fund

Allan McLeod
Life Cycle Management Director
NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA)

Andrew Kaye
Incoming Director of Commercial X
UK Ministry of Defence

Cristina Dragomirescu
Vice President
Romanian Agency for Technological and Industrial Cooperation for Security and Defense (ARCTIS)

Magnus Hallberg *subject to final confirmation
Chair
NATO NAAG LCGDSS and EDA CEG FSS

Dr. Matthew Willis
Director of Army Innovation Programs
US Army

William Owen
Author
Euclid’s Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today

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