Seabed Security Speakers

2026 Chairman

Rear Admiral (Ret'd) Eric Lavault
Former Head of Seabed Warfare Department
French Navy

Rear Admiral Tanguy Botman
Chief of Navy
Belgian Navy

Rear Admiral Eric Rozek
Commander, Undersea Warfighting Development Centre
US Navy

Rear Admiral Kelly C. Ward
Commander
Task Force 66, US Navy

Rear Admiral Yves-Pierre Pilfert
Head, Seabed Control
French Navy

Rear Admiral Giulio Cappelletti
Director of the Operational Structure of the National Underwater Dimension Hub
Italian Navy

Captain Bruno Ricardo Amaral Henriques
Commanding Officer, Subsurface Squadron
Portuguese Navy

Commander Michael Pirard
Head of Sub-Section rMCM at Naval Systems
Directorate General Material Resources

Commander Víctor Manuel Romero Sevilla
Head of Operations, Spanish Navy Diving Centre
Spanish Navy

Bart Hollants
Chairman - NATO Innovation
NATO Supreme Allied Command Transformation

Jürgen Scraback
Head of Unit Maritime Domain
European Defence Agency

Jeremy Churcher
Head of Defence
United Kingdom Hydrographic Office

Alasdair Wilkie
Chairman
Atlantic Cable Maintenance & Repair Agreement

Kuno Peek
Project Manager EUROGUARD
Estonian Centre for Defence Investments

Professor Raul Pedrozo, J.D. LL.M.
Professor of International Law, Stockton Center for International Law
U.S Naval War College

Gabriel Gómez
Chief Executive Officer
Marine Instruments

George Drysdale
Director of Operations
Alford Technologies

James Farha
CEO & Co - founder
Ray Systems

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