WELCOME AND OPENING: Connected for Combat Opening Address

SPEAKER:

Maj Gen Lizzie Faithfull-Davies, Director Land Environment

S1 • OP REALITY: What the battlespace now demands

SPEAKERS: 

Lead: Maj Gen Matt Cansdale Director Capability
Panel: Col Will Hunt; Col Duncan Brown; Jonathan Ashcroft; Brig Kieran Sheldon

S2 • FROM STRATEGY TO DELIVERY: Responding to the Challenge & Delivering the Army of Tomorrow

SPEAKERS:

Chair: Lt Gen Anna-Lee Reilly.
Panel: Maj Gen Lizzie Faithfull-Davies; Richard Murray; Vikash Patel; Andy Kaye

BREAK

S3 • MINISTERIAL KEYNOTE: Telling the story of Defence: How we invest and connect for future UK growth and security

SPEAKERS:

Minister for Defence Readiness & Industry — Luke Pollard

BREAK

S4 • INCREASING LETHALITY:  Generating Lethality at Scale

SPEAKERS:

Chair: Maj Gen Chris King (D Integrate); Panel: Maj Gen Mark Purves (DSI); Anthony McGee (RAPSTONE); Will Green (Dir Uncrewed Systems)

S5 • INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE : 
Infrastructure as a Strategic Defence Capability: Connecting People, Systems and Decisions to Deliver Operational Advantage

SPEAKERS:

Sam Cross, Senior Director – Defence & Security, Arcadis

CLOSING ADDRESS: Connected for Combat

SPEAKERS:

Host to close

WELCOME : (Broadcast from Main Plenary)

SPEAKER: 

Maj Gen Lizzie Faithfull-Davies, Director Land Environment (DLE)

BREAK

Digital Foundry and the Digital Backbone

SPEAKER: 

Mr David Tagg-Oram

BREAK

Digital Targeting Web

SPEAKER: 

Mr Rich Allen

BREAK

Tactical Systems (LDC4)

SPEAKER: 

Brigadier Lizzie Mortimore (Head TacSys)

BREAK

LOSA (Land Open Systems Architecture)

SPEAKER: 

Matt Knowles

BREAK

Finding Talent in unexpected places

SPEAKER

Chair: Angela Owen, OBE, Founder, Women in Defence

Panel: Aiden Wood – Matchtech, Cerise Upham -Recruit for Spouses and Tom Larter – WithYouWithMe

BREAK

Army Collective Training System and the collecting training revolution

SPEAKERS:

Chair: Mr Mike Cooper (SRO)

Panel: Brigadier Simon Ridgway OBE (Comd CTG) (LWC)
Mr Steve Hart (Managing Director, OMNIA Training)

BREAK

Autonomous Edge – AI & Ground Vehicle Autonomy (GVA)

SPEAKERS:

Ross Newman (CEO) and Adam Modd (COO)

BREAK

Ukraine Business Centre

SPEAKER:

Mr Michael Longstaff OBE – Group Managing Director

S0 • NAD KEYNOTE: Strategic Context – Delivering resilience and readiness through a truly connected defence supply chain

SPEAKER:

Rupert Pearce, National Armaments Director

S1 • INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE: Connected Nations, Connected Capability

SPEAKER:

Maj Gen Toby Lambert, NA International, Senior Military Advisor

S2 • GLOBAL DEFENCE OPPORTUNITY : Unlocking Global Defence Opportunities

SPEAKERS:

Chair: Brinley Salzmann (ADS).

Panel: David Woodbridge (MOD); Lt Col Andrew Teeton (MOD); Adrian Bond (ECJU)

S3 • FINANCING DEFENCE GROWTH:  Financing Defence Growth

SPEAKER:

Chair: Sherin Aminossehe, Director Growth and Missions
Panel: Curtis Baron, Managing Director, UK Corporate Bank, Barclays UK
Alicia Kedzierski, Head of Department, Sustainable Finance, Financial Conduct Authority
Katie Ramsey, Head of the Global Venture Capital Unit, Office for Investment
Matt Wesley, Divisional Managing Director, Head of Industrials, Santander
Johanna Archer, Export Finance Manager for Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, UK Export Finance

S4 • DOING BUSINESS WITH DEFENCE:
Reforming Defence–Industry Relationships

SPEAKER:

Jim Carter DG Commercial & Industry

BREAK

S5 • MATURING TECHNOLOGY FOR THE FRONT LINE: Maturing technology to the Front Line at pace

SPEAKERS:

Moderator: Dr Paul Kealey – Head of Delivery Partner Engagement, DSTL
Panel: Fergus Anderson – Head of Business Intelligence & Outreach, MoD
Mark Ward – Strategic Outreach Lead, DSTL,
Richard Hooper – Land Systems Programme Manager, MoD

BREAK

S6 • DRIVING INNOVATION: UKDI demand signals

SPEAKERS:

James Gavin, Dep Director, Head Technology Transition, UK Defence Innovation

S7 • PARTNERING FOR GROWTH: Building a Defence Business out of an Innovation

SPEAKER:

Andrew Vincent, CEO, Quickblock (Case Study)

BREAK

S8 • STRENGTHENING THE SUPPLY CHAIN: How DOSBG Supports SMEs

SPEAKER:

Tim Ketton-Locke, Deputy Director of the Defence Office for Small Business Growth

CLOSING ADDRESS

Host to close

From Problem to Capability: Shaping Defence Options through Early Market Engagement

SPEAKER:

Ben Mann, Mr Nathan Hincliffe

BREAK

One System, One picture: DEEAMS enabling Army Readiness

SPEAKERS:

Brigadier Matthew Wilkinson MBE Hd Equipment Army
James Daniel 1* Hd BFMS
Divya Gupta Industry partner
BMFS Systems Integrator

BREAK

LCAT Hour – Cerfification of UK Military Land Systems

SPEAKERS:

Brigadier Paul Hughes
Brigadier Darren Fisher MBE
Mr Dan Errington
Mr Christopher Watters
Mr Roger Meaklim
Rebecca Kendal

BREAK

The Land Capability Club- Exploring Land Capability through collaboration.

SPEAKER:

Col Chris Ankers MBE – NAD Group International

BREAK

Industry and MOD Enabling Exports Better

SPEAKERS:

Brigadier Graham Sefton – Army Hd of IIP
Mike Beard – NAD Group Hd of Commercial
James Kempston – CEO NP Aerospace
Col Chris Ankers MBE – NAD Group International

BREAK

Selling to NATO. How to turn strong engineering into alliance-relevant capability.

SPEAKER:

Martin Boswell, Defence & Security Campaign Director, Amentum

BREAK

Protecting the Nation, Powering the Economy: How UK Land Programmes Deliver Skills, Jobs, and Economic Growth

SPEAKER:

Alistair Stocker, Pearson Engineering – Business Development Director
Tom Waite, KNDS – Business Development Director

BREAK

Exploiting Innovation

SPEAKER:

Leigh Beeton, Director, Engineering and Technology, Lockheed Martin UK – Ampthill

Power Up, Industry as a Force Multiplier

SPEAKER:

Mr Lee Daley – Director Individual Training Contracts, Babcock International

Closing Remarks

SPEAKER:

Host to close