DVD2026 Speaking Opportunities

Connections is the central narrative for DVD2026. It reflects how modern capability emerges through joined up organisations, integrated force elements, and coherent decision making across defence and industry.

Expressions of Interest

DVD2026 is offering the opportunity for industry experts to submit ‘Expressions of Interest’ for speaker and panel sessions on the key themes and areas outlined below, encouraging debate on the challenges our armed forces face and considering innovative solutions for implementation.

Why Connections? 

Connections will underpin the Army of the future.  

It reflects the increasingly integrated operating model across Army, MoD and the National Armaments Directorate Group, acknowledging that defence delivery functions are evolving towards greater coherence and organisational alignment, working with industry.

Connections Deliver Capability – Aligning People, systems and decisions through lived experience

DVD2026 shows how the Army, MoD, National Armaments Directorate Group and Industry combine strengths to design, deliver and exploit modern, lethal, adaptable and survivable forces for the Army the Nation Needs.

Key areas for conversation:

• Resilience and Collaboration 
• How can the Land Defence enterprise better synchronise people, systems and decisions to ensure connections?
• Delivering Increased Lethality
• Exploiting Innovation
• The path to Autonomous Warfare within the 20/40/40 framework

The MoD invites you to challenge its preconceptions by presenting alternative solutions and evidencing how the solution could be delivered to support training, force preparation and/or deployed in a mobile operational environment.

Organisations looking to deliver a short presentation or join a panel discussion are invited to submit an Expression of Interest form by 1st June 2026.