*speakers requested
Panel A1: NATO Capability Targets – Consequences for European Armies
Chair: Jessica Nies, Section Head Berlin, German Society for Security Policy
Introduction: Dr Thomas Kauffmann, Vice President, GDELS, Managing Director, GDELS Germany
- Major General Peter Boysen, Chief, Danish Army
- Simon Brünjes, Vice President Land Systems, Helsing
- Lieutenant General Dr Christian Freuding, Chief, German Army
- Lorenz Lehmhaus, Associate Partner, IBM Consulting
- Major General Jonny Lindfors, Chief, Swedish Army
- Brigadier General Nerijus Stankevičius, Chief, Lithuanian Army
- Lieutenant General Jan Swillens, Chief, Dutch Army
Panel A2: Air Forces
Chair: Major General Jonas Wikman, Chief, Swedish Air Force
Introduction: Stephanie Lingemann, Senior Director Programmes, Helsing
- Marco Gumbrecht, Senior Vice President, Head of Key Account Germany, Airbus Defence and Space
- Lieutenant General Günter Katz, Commanding General, Air Force Forces Command, Germany
- Johan Segertoft, Head of Business Unit Gripen, SAAB
- Doug Stevenson, Vice President of Europe and NATO, Requirements and Capabilities, Raytheon
- Air Vice Marshal Ian Townsend, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, U.K.
Panel A3: North Atlantic Challenges
Chair: Rear Admiral Johan Norlén, Chief, Swedish Navy
Introduction: Chandra Marshall, Vice President & General Manager, Lockheed Martin
- Fabian Bannasch, CEO, EvoLogics
- Rear Admiral Richard Kesten, Chief of Staff, German Navy
- Vice Admiral Angus Topshee, Commander, Royal Canadian Navy
- Magiel Venema, Managing Director, Damen Schelde Naval
Panel A4: Cyber-Information Forces
Chair: Vice Admiral Dr Thomas Daum, Chief, German Cyber and Information Domain Service
Introduction: Mo Cashman, EMEA Field CTO, Trellix
- Lieutenant General Tom Copinger-Symes, Deputy Commander, Cyber & Specialist Operation Command, UK
- Vice Admiral Dr Thomas Daum, Chief, German Cyber and Information Domain Service
- Colonel Thomas Höglund, Deputy Cyber Commander, Swedish Cyber Command, Swedish Armed Forces
- Fredrik Landberg, Vice President Defence, Akkodis Nordics
- Chris Ruffner, CEO & Country Director, Thales Germany
- Robert Wortmann, Principal Security Strategist, Trend Micro
Panel A5: Enablement and the Civilian Support
Chair: Lieutenant General Gerald Funke, Commanding General, Bundeswehr Joint Forces Services
Introduction: Christian Fischbach, Executive Professional, Schwarz Digits
- Major General (MC) Dr Johannes Backus, Commander, German Armed Forces Healthcare Command
- Brigadier General Stig-Olof Krohné, Deputy Chief, General Staff’s Directorate of Support Service, Sweden
- Dr Wolfgang Zink, Partner, PwC
- Sabine Lackner, President, Technical Relief Agency, Germany
- Dr Michaela Ramirez Schulschenk, Head of Division Health Security, Crisis Management National and European, Federal Ministry for Health in Germany
- Daniel Zeitler, Director Product Management, Vincorion
Panel A6: Availability of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices – A Civil-Military challenge in NATO and Europe
Chair: Major General (MC) Almut Nolte, Deputy Surgeon General Commander of the Bundeswehr Joint Medical Service and Director for Operations and Health Care Directorat
Introduction: Prof. Dr. Djordje Nikolic, Managing Director, Accenture and consus.health
- Markus Bensmann, Division Manager, Maltese Relief Service, Germany
- Brigadier General Clas Ivgren, General Physician, Swedish Armed Forces
- Dr Kai Joachimsen, Chief Executive Officer, German Pharmaceutical Industry Association
- Dr Armin Hoffmann, President Federal Chamber of Pharmacists, Germany
- Dr. Lars Nickel, Head of Department, Medicinal Products, Federal Ministry of Health, Germany
- Ask Eirik Storsve, Senior Director, Head of International Government Affairs, Emergent BioSolutions
Panel A7: Procurement
Chair: Dr Hans-Christoph Atzpodien, CEO, German Security and Defence Industry Association
Introduction: Johannes Arlt, Senior Vice President, STARK
- Karl Heinz Gerlach, CEO, Schmidt & Bender
- Eva Hagwall, Deputy Director, Swedish Defence Material Agency
- Jussi Järvinen, Executive Vice President, Patria
- Grith Poulsen, Deputy Director, Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation, Denmark
- Helmut Rauch, CEO, Diehl Defence
- Vice Admiral Carsten Stawitzki, Head of Armaments Department, Ministry of Defence, Germany
Panel A8: Resilience as a Strategic Capability: Rethinking Germany’s and Europe’s Security Architecture
Chair: Silvia Petig, Chairwoman, Women in International Security Germany (WIIS.de)
- Lieutenant Colonel Katharina Benford, Federal Academy for Security Policy
- Florian Keisinger, Chief Executive Officer, Assocation of German Seaport Operations
- Thorsten Kirschner, Military General Dean of the Protestant Church
- Patricia Schneider, Bundeswehr Command and Staff College
- Charlotte Weil von der Ahe, Senior Group Director Government Affairs, Helsing
- Lars Ruth, Partner, Defense, Security & Justice, Sector Lead, Deloitte
Panel A9: How to accelerate the financial-industrial Process in military Procurement
Chair: Matthias Wittenburg, Honorary Consul in Namibia for Hamburg, Mecklenburg – Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein
Introduction: Enrico Scharlock, Aerospace & Defense Solution Experience Senior Director, Dassault Systèmes
- Robert de Groot, Vice-President, European Investment Bank
- Heinz Hilger, Divisional Director, Large Corporates, LBBW
- Rainer Lindenau, Partner and Managing Director, Valantic
- Kristian Orrbeck, Head of Defence, Industry and Medtech, Swedish Export Credit Agency
Panel B1: Total Defence
Chair: Lieutenant General (ret.) Martin Schelleis, Honorary Federal Commissioner for Crisis Resilience, Security Policy and Civil-Mili tary Cooperation at Malteser
Introduction: Jens Stephan, Director FA&D in CER, PTC
- Clemens Mayr-Harting, Federal Chancellor’s Office, Austria
- Magnus Hjort, Director General, Psychological Defence Agency, Sweden
- Peter Lauwe, Head of Department, Protection of Infrastructure, Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief, Germany
- Björn Borgman, Partner, KPMG Sweden
- Torsten Bernström, Global Industry Lead Defence, CGI
- Dr Wolfgang Zink, Partner, PwC
Panel B2: Military Research and Development
Chair: Prof Wolfgang Koch, Chief Scientist, Head Sensor Data & Information Fusion, Fraunhofer, FKIE
Introduction: Florian Andresen, Manager, PwC
- Dr Thomas Rothacher, Deputy Chief of Armament, Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport, Switzerland
- Peter Nilsson, Head of Business Unit Advanced Programs, SAAB
- Lars Höstbeck, Director of Division, Defence Technology, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)
- Jo-Yen Nieh, Colonel Army, Ministry of National Defense, Taiwan
- Angelo Conigliello, Chief Technology Officer EMEA, Safety & Security, Defence, AI, Computer Vision, Dell Technologies
- Daniela Pistoia, Corporate Chief Scientist, ELT Group
- Eric Voss, Senior Vice President Sales Defense, IAV
Panel B3: The Use of AI in the Military
Chair: Prof. Dr Stefan Pickl, Chair for Operations Research, University of the Bundeswehr Munich
Introduction: Marcel Taubert, Vice President Defence & Space, secunet Networks
- Brigadier General Dr Volker Pötzsch, Deputy Head of Cyber/Information Technology Department, Ministry of Defence, Germany
- Harald Mannheim, Head of Defence Digital and Cyber, Managing Director, Airbus Defence and Space
- Dr Scott Mongeau, Lead Solutions Architect, Google Cloud
- Ada Shani, Deputy Director Intelligence, IAI
Panel B4: Women, Peace and Security in Deterrence and Defence
Chair: Charlotte Isaksson, Senior Gender Advisor, Swedish Armed Forces
- Nina Larsson, Minister for Gender Equality and Working Life, Sweden
- Irene Fellin, Secretary General´s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security, NATO
- Breda Bunic, Senior Analyst, CoE of Countering Hybrid Threats, Helsinki
- H.E. Gesa Bräutigam*, Ambassador, Director for Sub-Saharan Africa and the Sahel
- Lieutenant Colonel Olov Kesselmark, Commander, Nordic Centre for Gender in Military Operations
- Johanna Persson, CEO & President, Adapteo Group
Panel B5: Innovation as a Driving Force on the Battlefield
Chair: Lieutenant General Michael Vetter, Director-General for Innovation and Cyber and CIO, Federal, Ministry of Defence, Germany
Introduction: Marc Akkermann, Head of Market Segment Public Defence, Capgemini
- Sebastian Dännart, Director Cybersecurity Consulting, Infodas
- Major General Mathias Hanson, Chief Information Officer, Swedish Armed Forces
- Dr Philipp Müller, Vice President Public Sales, DriveLock
- Alexander Philipp, Managing Director, Rohde & Schwarz
- Sven Weizenegger, Chief, Cyber Innovation Hub, Bundeswehr
- Marc Wietfeld, CEO, ARX Robotics
Panel B6: Progress of the Military Use of Space
Chair: Rear Admiral Louis Tillier, Director, European Satellite Centre
- Rear Admiral Anders Sundemann, Commander, Swedish Armed Forces Space Component
- Colonel Sylvain Debarre, Space CoE, NATO
- Major General Michael Traut, Commander, Space Command, Germany
- Major General Isaac Manuel Crespo Zaragoza, Commander, Space Command, Spain
- Sven Sünberg, Managing Director, MBS
- Martin Polak, Managing Director, Planet Labs Germany
- Dr Clemens Kaiser, Chief Program Officer, Deputy CEO, Rivada Space Networks
Panel B7: Hybrid Warfare Threats – Destabilisation
Chair: Dr Gehard Conrad, Director (ret.) Federal Intelligence Service
Introduction: Dr Carsten Willems, CEO, VMRay
- Aleksi Aho, Analyst, CoE of Countering Hybrid Threats
- Fredrik Löjdquist, Director Stockholm Centre for Eastern Europea Studies, Sweden
- Sviatoslov Hnizdovskiy, CEO, OpenMinds, Ukraine
- Imogen Verret, EMEA Public Sector Lead, Defence, Google Cloud
- Ingo Schubert, Field CTO, RSA
Panel B8: Protection of Critical Infrastructure
Chair: Dr Christoph Hübner, Deputy Director, Crisis Management and Civil Protection, Ministry of the Interior, Germany
Introduction: Hans-Jörg Kutschera, Partner, Strategy&
- Harald Aarø, EVP Business Development and Strategy, Kongsberg
- Dr. Marcus Faber, Vice President Political Affairs, Member of the Management Board, Elbit Systems
- Brigadier General Aki Heikkinen, Assistant Chief of Staff Operations, Defence Command, Finland
- Giulio Marino Cappelletti, Deputy Director at the Operational Structure of the Italian National Underwater Hub
- Major General Gunnar Arpe Nielsen, Chief of the Home Guard, Denmark
- lic.iur. Jörg M. Haas, Clusterlead Civil Defence, Crisis Management, NATO Civil Expert, PD – Berater der öffentlichen Hand