PAST SPEAKERS

Gary

Aitkenhead

then CEO UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL)

Major General Peter B.

Andrysiak Jr.

Chief of Staff of the US European Command

James

Appathurai

Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO

Engineer-General Patrick

AUFORT

Head of the French Agency of Defence Innovation

Joe

Baguley

Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, VMware

Alexis

Balloy

Aerospace & Defence Business Consultant Director, Dassault Systèmes

Brigadier General Philippe

Barthélemy

Officer in charge of the digital transformation of the Armies, Joint Staff

Bernard

Clermont

Director of Innovation, John Cockerill Defense

Lieutenant General Piotr

Blazeusz

Commander of the European Rapid Reaction Corps (EUROCORPS)

Dr. Heiko

Borchert

Co-director of the Defence AI Observatory, Helmut Schmidt University (co-directeur de l’observatoire de l’intelligence artificielle de défense à l’université Helmut Schmidt)

Major General Jürgen

BRÖTZ

Commander of NATO CIS Group and Deputy Chief of Staff, Cyberspace, NATO SHAPE

Major General Norbert

Chassang

Commander of Cyber and Digital Land Support of the French Army

Captain (N) Antoine

Colombier

Deputy Director for Lessons Learned of the French Joint Centre for Concepts, Doctrine and Experimentation (CICDE)

Major General Stefano

Cont

Capability, Armament and Planning Director, European Defence Agency

General (ret.) Grégoire

de Saint-Quentin

Senior Vice-President Advanced projects, Preligens Former Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, French MoD

Axel

Dyèvre

Partner at CEIS – Forward Global

Brigadier Mike

FAYERS

Head of Military Capability Plans of the British Army

Major General Hans

Folmer

Chief of Staff of the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) (Chef d’état-major de l’agence des systèmes d’information et de communication de l’OTAN)

Edouard

Galland

Head of the IS division command and control of operations, intelligence, Defense Digital Agency (DDA)

Lieutenant General Emmanuel

Gaulin

Commander of the Rapid Reaction Corps – France (RRC-Fr)

Edouard

Geoffrois

Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DG DEFIS), European Commission

Brigadier General Filip

Gillet

Chief Information Officer of the Belgian Ministry of Defence

Major General Pierre-Joseph

Givre

Director of the Center for Doctrine and Command Teaching (CDEC)

Major General Stéphane

Groën

Deputy Commander of the French Air Defence and Air Operations Command

Colonel Mietta

Groeneveld

Director NATO Command & Control Centre of Excellence (NATO C2COE)

Rear Admiral Laurent

Hermann

Head of the Digital Division Joint Directorate for Defence Network Infrastructure and Information Systems (DIRISI), French MoD

Major General Gabór

HORVÁTH

Deputy Director General and Chief of Staff of the European Union Military Staff (EUMS)

Hugues

Mandoul

Sales & Business Development Manager, Trulifi Public Sector & Education, Southern Europe at Signify

Colonel Frédéric

Jordan

Chief of Staff of the French Joint Force Command

Brigadier General (ret.) Olivier

Kempf

Director of French strategic institute La Vigie, former Head of Digital Transformation of the French Army Staff

Major General Thierry

Lasserre

Commander, Communication and Information Systems (COMSIC), French Land Forces

Brigadier General Ilmars

Lejins

Deputy Director, Policy and Capabilities Division, NATO International Military Staff (IMS) (Directeur adjoint en charge de la division politiques et capacités de l’état-major international de l’OTAN)

Colonel Andrzej

Lis

Commander of the Doctrine and Training Centre of the Polish Armed Forces

Engineer-General Dominique

LUZEAUX

NATO Allied Command Transformation Digital Transformation Champion and Special Advisor (ACT)

Brigadier General Ivan

Martin

Defence Attaché, French Embassy to Ukraine

General (ret.) Denis

MERCIER

Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation and former Chief of the French Air Force, member of Helsing’s board

General (ret.) Jean-Paul

Paloméros

Senior Advisor, CEIS-Forward Global, Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT)

General (ret.) Jean-Paul

Paloméros

Senior Advisor at Forward Global, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT) and former Chief of Staff of the French Air Force

Lieutenant General Jean-Pierre

PERRIN

Chief of Staff of the Allied Joint Force Command of Brunssum (JFC)

Major General Davide

Re

Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategic Development and Preparation Directorate, NATO SHAPE (Chef d’état-major adjoint en charge de la direction du développement stratégique et de la planification de SHAPE)