Digital Transformation in Defence:
Webinar Series

Luis Bastos

Principal Scientist - Head of NSII Technology Office

NATO Communications and Information Agency

Cathy O’Carroll

Global Campaign Director - Integrated Test & Evaluation

QinetiQ

Mr Warren Low

Principal C3 Policies, Industry, and Capability SME

NATO Allied Command Transformation

Mr Gerard Elzinga

Head, Spectrum and C3 Infrastructure Branch

NATO HQ

Stephen Wilcock

Director Engineering & Safety

Defence Equipment & Support - UK MOD

Dr. Alexander Kott

Chief Scientist

U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Tarek Abdelzaher

Director, IoBT REIGN

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Michael Powell

Cyber Representative – North America, UK Defence & Security Exports, DIT,

British Embassy Washington

Ian Risk

Chief Technology Officer

The Centre for Modelling & Simulation (CFMS)

Suranga Wickramasekera

Business Development Manager

Pitch Technologies Ltd

Caroline Andrewes

Defence Account Director

Vysiion

Chris Poole

Digital SME, Government, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

Laura Varley

Marketing Manager

Vysiion

Chad Gray

Cybersecurity and Privacy Principal

PwC US

Kay Hallsworth

Operations Manager

Association of Royal Navy Officers

Kurt Fields

Director, Emerging Technology Advisory

PWC

Michelle Medhat

Director of Operations and Strategic Development

IKE Institute & STEM Foundation

Miguel Smart

Partner

Strategy&, part of the PwC network (formerly Booz & Company)

Julian Nolan

Founder and CEO

Iprova

James (Rusty) Rentsch

Vice President, Technical Operations and Standards

Aerospace Industry Association

Mary Lee

Mathematician

RAND Corporation

Jean-Paul Buu-Sao

Lately Senior Architect at Exostar

Consultant

Rachel Markwald

Head, Sleep, Tactical Efficiency, and Endurance Laboratory, Warfighter Performance Department

US Naval Health Research Center

Ric Green MSc MIET MINCOSE

Land Open Systems Architecture, Land Equipment

DE&S – UK Ministry of Defence

Dr Adam Strang

Lead scientist, Signature Tracking for Optimized Nutrition and Training team

US Air Force Research Laboratory

Lt Col (USMC) Brandon Newell

Director, SoCal Tech Bridge, NavalX

U.S. Department of Navy

Joe Patterson

Project lead for the Tactical Stress Marksmanship Assessment (part of the MASTR-E program)

US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center

Tony White

Chief Technology Officer - Land (Precision Control Systems)

Ultra Electronics Group

Tim Marler

Senior Research Engineer

RAND Corporation

Andrew Hartigan

Vice President, Aviation

Innovative Defense Technologies

Randy Brown

VP & Division Manager

Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA)

Doug Brown

Head of Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Guild

Capita

Anika Binnendijk

Political Scientist

RAND Corporation

Craig Gottlieb

Managing Director, Aerospace and Defense

Accenture

Matthew Bennett

Technical Director

Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA)

Jason Rios

Sr Vice President & General Manager, Aerospace

Sentient Science Corporation

Dean Hoover

Systems Engineering Section Manager/Virtual Systems

Raytheon

Steven Roemerman

Chairman and CEO

Lone Star Analysis

Dr. Christian Coman

Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance

NCIA

Dr. Bill Lewis

Former Director of the Aviation Development Directorate of AMRDEC

Tennessee Technical Test Team

Lieutenant Colonel Roberto Baldisserri

Deputy Director and Chief of the Concept Development and Experimentation Department

Italian Joint C-M/M UAS Centre of Excellence

Shannon Parker

Senior Manager of Business Development for Government Services

Boeing

Dr. Claudio Palestini

Officer, Counter Terrorism Section, Emerging Security Divisions, NATO

PM, NATO Counter UAS Working Group

Brandon Johnson

Digital Product Strategy Leader

Bell Flight

Paul Hollingshead

Head of EMEA

Anduril Industries, Inc

Jordan Garrett

Digital Twin and Edge Solutions Lead

Dell Technologies

Dr. Thomas Hamilton

Senior Physical Scientist

RAND Corporation

Peter Shultz

Senior Manager, FVL Digital Systems

Bell Flight

Dr. Jon Touryan

Senior Research Scientist (Neuroscience)

US Army Research Laboratory

Dr. Gaurav Sharma

Senior Technical Lead for Cognitive Neuroscience, 711 HPW

US Air Force Research Laboratory

Lieutenant Colonel Arnel David

Cofounder

UK Fight Club

Ted Maciuba

Deputy Director, Robotics Requirements, Maneuver Capabilities Development Integration Directorate, Futures and Concepts Center

US Army Futures Command