3. November

PANEL A1: Land Forces

Chair: Nana Brink, Member of Executive Board, Women in International Security Germany (WIIS.de)

Introduction: Dr Thomas Kaufmann, Vice President International, GDELS, Managing Director, GDELS Germany

  • Lieutenant General Dr Christian Freuding, Chief of the German Army
  • Brigadier General Nerijus Stankevičius, Chief Lithuanian Land Forces
  • N.N., PwC
  • Axel Manok, UVEX
  • N.N., Patria

PANEL A2: Future Air Combat Capabilities

Chair: Lieutenant General Jason T. Hinds*, Commander, Allied Air Command, NATO

Introduction: N.N., RTX*

  • Lieutenant General Günter Katz, Chief of the Air Force Forces Command, Germany
  • Marco Gumbrecht, Head of Sales Germany, Director Global Business Eurofighter, Airbus Defence and Space
  • Dr Philipp Kerth, Co-founder und Chief Executive Officer, Hypersonica
  • Jérôme Bellanger*, Chief of Staff, French Air and Space Force
  • N.N., BAE Systems
  • N.N., LTU

PANEL A3: Naval Forces: “The new NATO Maritime Strategy”

Chair: Vice Admiral Robert G. Pedre CB (RN)*, Commander Allied Maritime Command, NATO

Introduction: Johannes Arlt, Senior Vice President, STARK

  • N.N., German Navy
  • Captain Tadas Jablonskis, Commander Lithuanian Navy
  • Oren Guter, Operational Advisor – IAI Naval programs & EEZ protection
  • Sebastian Bauer, Vice President Business Development & Marketing, Elbit Systems
  • Oliver Berdal, Chief, Royal Norwegian Navy
  • Vice-Admiral Dan Charlebois*, Commander, Royal Canadian Navy
  • N.N., Accenture

PANEL A4: Cyber- Information Forces

Chair: Major General Dr Volker Pötzsch, COS, Cyber and Information Force Command

Introduction: Marcel Taubert, Vice President Defence & Space, secunet Security Networks AG

  • Vice Admiral Dr Thomas Daum, Chief, German Cyber- and Information Force
  • Antanas Aleknavičius, Director, National Cyber Security Centre, Lithuania
  • N.N., INFODAS
  • Harald Mannheim, Head of Defence, Schwarz Digits
  • N.N., Google

PANEL A5: Total Defence

Chair: Lieutenant General (ret.) Martin Schelleis, President, Maltese Relief Service

Introduction: George Teas, Vice President, Elasticsearch

  • Tomas Godliauskas, former Viceminister Ministry of Defence (2024-2026), Lithuania
  • Dirk Herber, State Secretary of the Interior, Rhineland-Palatinate
  • N.N., Bundeswehr Joint Force Command
  • N.N., PwC
  • Stefan Thomé, CEO, Airbus Helicopters Germany and EVP Head of Programs Airbus Helicopters
  • lic.iur. Jörg M. Haas, Manager/Coordinator Civil defense, Internal and External Security, PD – Berater der öffentichen Hand

PANEL A6: A resilient healthcare system for CBRN incidents

Chair: Major General (MC) Dr Almut Nolte, Deputy Surgeon General Commander of the Bundeswehr, Joint Medical Service, Director for Operations and Health Care Directorate

Introduction: Dr Simon Goeller, Country President, Sandoz

  • N.N., Bayer
  • Sven Reichenwagen, Product Developer Disinfection and Cleaning, Ziu
  • Brigadier General (MC) Prof. Dr. Kai Kehe, Commissioner for Research and Science, SanAkBw, Germany
  • Colonel Stephan Saalow, Commander, Bundeswehr CBRN Defence Command
  • Ines Perea, Head of Directorate 61, Health Security, Resilience, Federal Ministry of Health, Germany
  • Giulio Gullotta, Head of the Civil Protection Equipment Division, Federal Office for Civil Protection, Germany
  • Prof Dr Leif Erik Sander, Medical Director, Department of Infectious Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

PANEL A7: Procurement

Chair: Dr Hans-Christoph Atzpodien, CEO, German Security and Defence Industry Association

Introduction: N.N., Kongsberg

  • Vice Admiral Carsten Stawitzki, Head of Armaments Department, Ministry of Defence, Germany
  • Dovydas Palaima, National Armament Director, Lithuania
  • Helmut Rauch, CEO, DIEHL Defence
  • Dr Jörg Hennemann, Head of Defence, Science & Technology, Schmidt & Bender
  • Timo Pesonen, Director-General, DG for Defence Industry and Space, European Commission
  • Alexander Ziegler, EVP Defense, Safran Electronics & Defense

PANEL A8: UAS and Counter-UAS

Chair: Dr Matthias Schmuck, Senior Expert Drones, Germany

Introduction: N.N., WB Group

  • Mike Wakefield, Partner, Co-Lead of the Holland & Knight National Security & Defense Industry Group
  • N.N., KPMG*
  • Brigadier General Mirosław Bodnar*, Inspector of Unmanned Weapon Systems, General Command Polish Armed Forces
  • N.N., Ukraine
  • Tim Mak, Arsenal, USA
  • Colonel Marco De Santis*, Commander 41st IMINT Regiment “Cordenons”, Italy
  • Stuart Dee, Research Leader, Defence, Security, and Justice and Co-Director, Defence Economics & Acquisition, Rand Europe
  • Director General Zheu-Wei Chiang, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for NGO, Taiwan

PANEL A9 MBDA: Deep Precision Strike – A European Capability?

Chair: Guido Brendler, MBDA

Introduction: N.N.,

  • General Ingo Gerhartz, Commander Joint Force Command Brunssum

4. November

PANEL B1: Total Defence in Practice: Synchronizing Military Enablement with National Civil Preparedness

Chair: Lieutenant General Gerald Funke, Commanding General, Bundeswehr Joint Force Command

Introduction: N.N., Maltego

  • Arūnas Dzidzevičius, DCOS Support Lithuanian Defence Staff
  • N.N., PwC
  • Major General Michael B. Lalor, Commander 21st Theater Sustainment Command, USA
  • N.N., Bechtle

PANEL B2: Military Research and Development

Chair: Prof Wolfgang Koch, FKIE

Introduction: N.N., PTC

  • Prof Artūras Medeišis, Dean of the Faculty of Electronics, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
  • N.N., University of the German Armed Forces Munich
  • N.N., Consulteer
  • N.N., Elbit Systems
  • N.N., Taiwan
  • Dr Swiatkiewicz, Executive Officer, C5ISTC, NATO Science and Technology Organisation
  • Lieutenant General (ret.) Dr Ansgar Rieks, former Vice Chief, German Air Force

PANEL B3: The Use of AI in the Military

Chair: Prof Dr Stefan Pickl, UniBw-M

Introduction: N.N., Google

  • Alexander Schott*, President of the Federal Aviation Authority
  • Alexander Philipp, Managing Director, Rohde & Schwarz
  • Jaimy Reuter, Director Consulting Services, CGI
  • Jan Hestaven, President of Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

PANEL B4: From Dependence to resilience: Europe and the future of critical raw materials

Chair: Silvia Petig, President, Women in International Security (WIIS)

Introduction: N.N.

  • Marie von Hahn, BDLI
  • Dr Hans-Jürgen Völz, Chief Economist and member of the executive management, Der Mittelstand BVMW
  • N.N., TDW
  • N.N., BAE Systems*
  • Anne Lauenroth*, Senior Expert Raw Materials, BDI
  • Inga Carry, Police & Public Affairs Advisor, Senior Expert Critical Raw Material
  • Paraskevi Papantonion, Head of Unit Defence Single Market & Hybrid Threats, European Commission

PANEL B5 Extended (13.30 – 15.30): Innovation of Armed Forces

Chair: Lieutenant General Michael Vetter, Chief CIS and Innovation, German MoD

Introduction: Christoph Gaube, Head of Defense Germany, Capgemini

  • Andreas Reinecke, Head of Defence Digital and Cyber (act.), Airbus Defence and Space
  • Marc Wietfeld, CEO, ARX Robotics
  • Rear Admiral Christian Bock, Head of the Innovationcentre of the Bundeswehr, Germany
  • Brigadier General Žilvinas Gaubys, Commander, Training and Doctrine Command, Lithuania
  • Frank Gramüller-Heinz, Director Public Sector & Defence Germany, SUSE
  • N.N., Deloitte*

PANEL B6: Progress of the Military Use of Space

Chair: N.N.

Introduction: Prof Ulrich Walter, Senior Executive Advisor, Deloitte

  • Major General Michael Traut, Commander, German Space Command
  • Rear Admiral Louis Tillier, Director, EU Satellite Centre
  • Sven Sünberg, Managing Director, MBS
  • Tom Segert, CEO, Berlin Space Technologies
  • Brigadier General Christopher Fernengel*, Commanding General, U.S. Space Forces in Europe and Africa
  • Prof Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla, Chairwoman Executive Board, German Aerospace Center

PANEL B7: Hybrid Warfare Threats

Chair: Brigadier General Thomas Nickel*, Military Vice President, Federal Office for Military Counterintelligence

Introduction: N.N., Northrop Grumman*

  • N.N., Energy Security Centre of Excellence, Tallin
  • Teija Tiilikainen*, Director, European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
  • Jānis Sārts*, Director, Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, NATO
  • Jason Klitenic, Partner, Chair of the Holland & Knight National Security and Defence Industry Group
  • Ingo Schubert, Field CTO International, RSA Security
  • Julius Katinas, Deputy Director Defence Intelligence and Security Service (AOTD), Ministry of National Defence, Lithuania
  • Colonel Sönke Marahrens, Head of Department CDigBw, Germany

PANEL B8: Military Mobility

Chair: Linas Kojala, CEO, Geopolitics and Security Studies Center (GSSC), Lithuania

Introduction: N.N., PwC

  • N.N., 45 Armoured Brigade in Lithuania
  • Brigadier General Robert Wilhelm*, MoD Germany
  • Michael König, CTO, ISP Salzbergen
  • Eric Voss, CEO DFNZ
  • N.N., Bundeswehr Joint Force Command
  • Dr Ieva Karpavičiūtė, Defence Advisor, EU Permanent Representation, Lithuania
  • Major General Ralph Christian Meyer, Director Logistic & Resources, International Military Staff, NATO

*speakers requested