07:00 Women´s Breakfast

08:00 Opening of the Exhibition / Registration

08:30 Announcements, National Anthems, Stabsmusikkorps Berlin

08:45 Welcome to the Congress

Dr Eva-Charlotte Proll, Editor-in-Chief and and Publisher Behörden Spiegel Group & Wolfgang Hellmich, Member of Parliament and Member in the Defence Committee, German Bundestag

09:00 OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE

Thomas Bagger, State Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Jonatan Vseviov, Secretary General Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Estonia

09:45 Interview / Q+A by the Auditorium, chaired by

Dr Eva-Charlotte Proll, Editor in Chief and Publisher Behörden Spiegel Group

  • Thomas Bagger, State Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Jonatan Vseviov, Secretary General Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Estonia

10:15 The Digital Transformation of Warfare: Resilience and Technological Sovereignty

Dr. Martin Kaloudis, Executive Vice President, Bechtle
10:35 Coffee Break

11:15 HIGH-LEVEL DEBATE

Ukraine: Showcase for Prevailing Sovereignty, Freedom and Democracy in Europe

Chair: Ambassador Dr Géza von Geyr, German Representation to NATO

  • Arseniy Yatsenyuk, former Prime Minister Ukraine (2014-2016)
  • Ambassador Jüri Luik, Permanent Representative of Estonia to NATO
  • Catherine Fearon, OSCE Officer-in- Charge Secretary General
  • Hans Christian Kjølseth, Acting State secretary, Ministry of Defence, Norway
  • Major General Dr Christian Freuding, Head of Planning-and Command Staff, Ministry of Defence Germany

12:15 Keynote Congress Partner

Dr Christoph Erdmann, Managing Director, Secusmart
12:45 Lunchtime
15:45 Coffee Break

16:15 Foundational Capabilities for Deterrence

Dr Germar Schröder, PwC

16:35 Keynote

General Carsten Breuer, Chief of Defence Staff, Germany

16:55 High-Level Military Forum: Deterrence and Defence in and for Europe

Chair: General Christian Badia, Deputy Supreme Allied Transformation

  • General Carsten Breuer, CHOD Germany
  • General Michael Claesson, CHOD Sweden
  • General Janne Jaakkola, CHOD FIN
  • Admiral Tony Radakin, CHOD UK
  • General Raimundas Vaiksnoras, CHOD Lithuania
  • Major General Andrus Merilo, Chief of the Estonian Defence Forces

18:00 Keynote Congress Partner

Stefano Pontecorvo, Chairman of Leonardo

18:20 THE MIDDLE EAST SPECIAL FORUM: What should be done now and what are the effects for Europe?

Chair: Christian Buck, Head of Political Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Special Representative for Libya

  • N.N., High Level Member of the Qatar Government
  • S. Koopmans*, EU Special Representatives for Middle East
  • Dror Shalom, Director of Policy & Political-Military Bureau, Ministry of Defence Israel
  • N.N., High-Level Member of the Government of Egypt
  • Prof Dr Burkhard Meißner, University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Germany

19:30 Dinner, Buffet / Networking
08:00 Opening of the Exhibition / Registration

08:30 OPENING OF THE 2ND CONFERENCE DAY WITH DISCUSSION/Q+A

Siemtje Möller, Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry of Defence Germany & Hanno Pevkur, Minister of Defence, Estonia

09:10 Tech-Driven Deterrence: Protecting NATO’s Eastern Flank

Dr. Gundbert Scherf, Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Helsing

09:30 SPECIAL FORUM

75 years of NATO: N.N.

09:50 HIGH-LEVEL INTERVIEW: NATO’s Military Way Ahead

Chair: Hans-Lothar Domröse, General (ret), Former Commander Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum (2012–2016)

  • Admiral Rob Bauer, Chairperson Military Committee
  • Admiral Sir Keith E Blount KCB OBE, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
  • General Christian Badia, Deputy Supreme Allied Command Transformation

10:50 Shaping Europe’s future in Defence - towards a more strategic autonomy

Dr. Michael Schöllhorn, Chief Executive Officer, Airbus Defence and Space

11:10 Handover Congress President

11:20 Coffee Break

11:40 Keynote

Carl-Oskar Bohlin, Minister of Civil Defence, Sweden

12:00 Keynote

Hanno Pevkur*, Minister of Defence, Estonia & Carl-Oskar Bohlin, Minister of Civil Defence, Sweden in discussion with: N.N.
12:50 Lunch
15:30 Coffee Break

15:50 Play as you fight – Wargaming to enable Command & Control for large military formations

Udo Littke, Head of Eviden Central Europe, Eviden

16:10 Keynote

Andrius Kubilius, Commissioner designate and Member European Parliament

16:40 FORUM EUROPE: THE FUTURE EU SECURITY AND DEFENCE

Chair: Riho Terras, Member European Parliament

  • Charles Fries, Deputy Secretary General for Peace, Security and Defence, European External Action Service, France
  • Major General André Denk, Deputy Chief Executive of European Defence Agency
  • H.E. Ambassador Pälvi Pulli, Deputy Head of the State Secretariat for Security Policy, Switzerland
  • Dr Jasper Wieck, Head of the Policy Department, Ministry od Defence Germany
  • Tuuli Duneton, Undersecretary for Defence Policy, Estonia

17:40 The European defense industry facing new challenges: cooperation, technology, and supply chain

Enzo Benigni, President & CEO, ELT Group

18:00 FUTURE FORCES FORUM: The Way ahead in Defence Planning

Chair: Nana Brink, Member of the executive Board Women in International Security Deutschland (WIIS e.V.)

  • Lieutenant General Andreas Marlow, Vice Chief of the German Army and Commander Basic Military Organisation
  • Lieutenant General Günter Katz, Commanding General of the Air Forces Command, Germany
  • Lieutenant General Gerald Funke, Commander Joint Forces Support Services Headquarters
  • Rear Admiral Tobias Abry, Chief of Staff Naval Command, Germany
  • Vice Admiral Dr Thomas Daum, Chief of DEU Cyber and Information Domain Service
  • Major General (MC) Dr Almut Nolte, Chief of Staff DEU Armed Command Medical Service
  • Commodore Ivo Värk, Commander of Estonian Navy

19:00 Closing the Congress

Wolfgang Hellmich, Member of Parliament and Member of the Defence Committee, German Bundestag & Dr Eva-Charlotte Proll, Editor-in-Chief and CDO Behörden Spiegel

19:15 Handover Partner Nation

Panel A1: Human Resources, Recruitment and Conscription

Chair: Major General Robert Sieger, President of the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Personnel Management

  • Brigadier General Vesa Valtonen, Chief of Personnel Finnish Defence Forces
  • Commander Sune Lund, Chief Recruitment Ceneter, Danish Personnel Agency
  • Christina Malm, General Director Swedish Assessment and Conscription Agency, Sweden
  • Dr Wolfgang Zink, PwC
  • Emanuel Jacob, President Euromil
  • Norbert Neubauer, Head of Personal Development, Ministry of Defence Austria
  • Brigadier General Arnaud Goujon, Deputy Director for Recruitment &Youth, France
  • Colonel André Wüstner, Chairman of the German Armed Forces Association

Panel A2: Land Capabilities in View of contemporary Conflicts

Chair: Dr Hans-Christoph Atzpodien, Managing Director, BDSV

  • Lieutenant General Alfons Mais, Chief DEU Army
  • General Pierre Schill, Chief of the French Army
  • Christoph Ruffner, CEO Thales Germany and Country Director Germany
  • Mr. Halutsi Rudoy, Business development & operational expert, IAI – ELTA land systems division
  • Sascha Brüning, Vice President Business Development & Sales, Vincorion
  • Stefan Bullmer, SVP Strategy & Business Development, Diehl Defence

Panel A3: Capabilities for Cyberspace and Information Technology Forces (blocked only for Cyber CDR)

Chair: Vice Admiral Dr Thomas Daum, Chief of DEU Cyber and Information Domain Service

Introduction: N.N.

  • Major General Karol Molenda, Commander of POL Cyber Command, Poland
  • Colonel Rene Innos, Chief Cyber and Intelligence Command, Estonia
  • Colonel (A) Thor Kårsten, Chief NIS Cyber operations centre, Norway

Panel A4: Strategic Competition in Space

Chair: Rear-Admiral Louis Tillier, Director European Union Satellite Centre, EU

  • Colonel Daniele Donati, Chief of Space, General Office Italian Defence Staff, Italy
  • Dr Stefan Frey, CEO and Managing Director, Vyoma
  • Sven Sünberg, Managing Director, MBS
  • Dr Antje Nötzold, Professorship International Politics, Technical University Chemnitz
  • Colonel (GS) Thomas Spangenberg, COS and Deputy Commander, DEU Space Command
  • Brigadier General Jacob Middleton, Commander of the US Space Force Component for Europe-Africa, Ramstein, Germany
  • Colonel (GS) Michael Fraas, German Cyber and Information Domain Service Headquarters, Strategy Branch

Panel A5: Military Research and Development

Chair: Prof Wolfgang Koch, Chief Scientist and head Sensor Data & information fusion, Fraunhofer FKIE/University Bonn

Introduction: Dominik Kampmann, IPL for Security in Europe & Africa, Moody´s

  • Major General Wolfgang Gäbelein, Director Bundeswehr Office for Defence Planing
  • Colonel Dr Rickard Stridh, Chief Scientist, Sweden
  • Sven Kruck, Managing Director and Chief Revenue Officer, Quantum Systems
  • Todd Tuthill, Vice President Aerospace, Defense & Marine, Siemens Digital Industries Software
  • Dr Simona Pukiené, Science and Innovation Advisor, Ministry of Defence Lithuania
  • Dr Kairi Talves, Scientific Advisor, Ministry of Defence Estonia
  • Maik Kammermann, Departement Planning and Research Innovationshub, Federal Ministry of Defense

Panel A6: The Use of AI in the Military

Chair: Prof Dr Stefan Pickl, University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich

Introduction: Maurice Edward Cashman, Field CTO, EMEA, Trellix

  • Lieutenant General Bruno Hofbauer, Deputy CHOD Austrian Armed Forces and Capability Director, AUT
  • Inga Elsholz-Krüger, Centre for Digitization of the Bundeswehr, Deputy head CoE Analytics, Simulation and AI
  • Dr. Chia-Lung Yeh, Chief, Artificial Intelligence Section/ Information & Communication Research Division/NCSIST
  • Brigadier General Dr Volker Pötzsch, Chief of Divisionn Cyber/IT and AI Management
  • Jaanus Tamm, CEO, DefSecIntl Solutions
  • Lorenz Lehmhaus, Associate Partner IBM Consulting

Panel A7: Women in International Security (tbc)

Chair: Silvia Petig

  • Irene Felini*, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security
  • Charlotte Isaksson, Genad Defence Staff, Sweden
  • Major Soren Glargaard Rich, Gender Adviser of the Defence Command, Denmark
  • N.N., Estonia

Panel A8: Trolls and Bots – Disinformation Campaigns and Methods against them

Chair: Colonel Dr Ferdi Akaltin, Commander, German Armed Forces Centre for Operational Communication

  • Anke Domscheit-Berg, Member of Parliament, German Bundestag
  • Dr Gesine Dornblüth, Author and Journalist, Germany
  • Jakub Kalenský, Hybrid Center of Excellence, Finland
  • Hung Lun Yen, Associate Research Fellow of Prospect Foundation, Taiwan
  • David Cornell, Director, Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC)Critical & Democratic Infrastructure (CDI)Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA), Microsoft
  • N.N., Dell

Panel A9: Horizon 2030 - The role of stand-off precision strike capabilities in future warfare

Chair: Guido Brendler, Director Sales Business Development, MBDA

  • Brigadier General Corinne Lonchampt, Director Western Europe & Northern America at the French Armaments Directorate
  • Air Marshal (ret.) Stuart Atha, Director Defence Capability, BAE Systems
  • General Christian Badia, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation
  • Magnus-Valdemar Saar, Director General Estonian Center for Defence Investment, Estonia

Panel B1: Mission LV/BV - prepare the Air Forces for War

Chair: Lieutenant General Günter Katz, Commanding General of the Air Forces Command, Germany

Introduction: Michael von Puttkamer, Vice President Special Aircraft Services, Lufthansa Technik AG

  • Major General Jonas Wikman, Chief Airforce, Sweden
  • Lieutenant General Alberto Biavati, Commander Operational Forces Command – 1st Air Region, Italy
  • Peter Griffith, Global Leader Defence & National Security, KPMG
  • Wolfgang Gammel, Managing Director, Helsing Germany
  • Kenn Todorov, Sector Vice President and General Manager, Global Battle Management & Readiness, Northrop Grumman
  • Marco Gumbrecht, Head of Combat Air Systems and FCAS Germany, Vice President, Head of Sales Germany, Director Global Business Eurofighter, Airbus
  • Major General Randolph Staudenraus, Deputy Chief of Staff Operations, JFC Brunssum

Panel B2: Capabilities for Naval Forces

Chair: Rear Admiral Tobias Abry, Chief of Staff Naval Command, Germany

  • Rear Admiral Henrik Ryberg, Chief Danish Navy
  • Brigadier General Patrik Gardesten, Deputy Chief Swedish Navy
  • Commodore Ivo Värk, Commander of Estonian Navy
  • Harald Aarø, EVP Business Development and Strategy, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS
  • Magiel Venema, Managing Director, Damen Naval Germany
  • Sebastian Dännart, Director IT Security Consulting, Infodas
  • Vice Admiral Andrew Burns, Fleet Commander, United Kingdom

Panel B3: NBC-Defence - Hope for the best, or prepare for the worst!?

Chair: Colonel Stephan Saalow, Commander Bundeswehr CBRN Defence Command, Germany

  • Colonel Thomas Lamke, COM CBRN-Center, Sweden
  • Lieutenant Colonel Anders Kildal, Commandant Norwegian Armed Forces CBRN & EP school
  • Sebastian Meyer Plath, Blücher, Germany
  • Ask Eirik Storsve, Head of International Government Affairs, Emergent Bio Solutions
  • Marcus Barner, Managing Director, Spokesman of the Management Board, Kärcher Futuretech, Germany
  • Dr Armin Gembus, Vice President & Member of Management Board Leipzig, Head of Business Area Gas Raman Trace Detection, Bruker Optics GmbH & Co. KG

Panel B4: National Civil and Military Home Defence in Article 5 Operations

Chair: Lieutenant General (ret.) Peter Bohrer, former Vice National Territorial Commander

Introduction: N.N., Congress Partner

  • Colonel Peter Fausing, Commander of the Regional Defence Forces West of the Danish Home Guard
  • Lieutenant General (ret.) Martin Schelleis, Federal Commissioner for Crisis Resilience, Security and Civil-Military Cooperation, Malteser, Germany
  • Dr Nils Förster, Partner, Strategy& Germany
  • Prof Dr Sönke Neitzel, University Potsdam, Germany
  • Brigadier General Jami Virta, Commander Brigade Pori, Finland
  • Lisa Gorenflo, Dog handler, trainer, Schwarzwald Dogs
  • N.N., Argus Interception

Panel B5: Capabilities for Medical Services

Chair: Marina Schmidt, Press and Information Center, Bundeswehr Medical Service Headquarters, Germany

  • Major General (MC) Dr Almut Nolte, Chief of Staff DEU Armed Command Medical Service
  • Frank Dürrbeck, PwC
  • Flottila Admiral (MC) Juha-Petri Ruohola, Surgeon General of the Finnish Defence Forces
  • Commander (MC) Dr Christian Haggenmiller, European Union Military Staff, Brussels
  • Prof Florian Holzapfel, Technical University Munich, Germany
  • Giulio Gullotta, Head of Science and Technology, Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance, Germany
  • N.N., Cosinuss

Panel B6: Digitalization (tbc)

Chair: Lieutenant General, Michael Vetter, Head of Department CIT, Ministry of Defence Germany

Introduction: Marcel Taubert, Vice President Defence & Space, secunet

  • Alexander Philipp, Managing Director, Rohde & Schwarz
  • Brigadier General Mathias Hanson, Swedish Armed Forces Chief Information Officer
  • Harald Mannheim, Managing Director, Head of Intelligence, Head of Connected Intelligence Germany, Airbus
  • Marc Akkermann, Vice President & Head of Public Defense, Capgemini
  • Dr Timo Haas, Chief Digital Officer Rheinmetall and CEO Rheinmetall Electronics

Panel B7: How to accelerate procurement and armament

Chair: Dr Hans-Christoph Atzpodien

Introduction: Dr. Thomas Kaufmann, Vice President and Managing Director, GDELS

  • Prof Dr Heiko Höfler, PwC
  • Vice Admiral Carsten Stawitzki, National Armaments Director, Ministry of Defence Germany
  • Tiina Uudeberg, Under Secretary for Defence Planing, Ministry of Defence Estonia
  • Massimo Scialpi, Deputy Director Organisation for Joint Armaments Cooperation, OCCAR
  • Dr Jörg Hennemann, Head of Defence Science & Technology, Schmidt & Bender
  • Jukka Holkeri, Executive Vice President, Global Division, Patria

Panel B8: Resilient and secure cloud solutions for military Forces

Chair: Colonel (GS) Bernd Stingel, Commander, Bundeswehr Centre for Digitalisation and Cyber and Information Domain Capability

Introduction: N.N., Microsoft

  • Commander Markus Mirsberger, Centre of Digitization of the Bundeswehr, Infrastructure and Cloud Base
  • Dr. Philipp Müller, Vice President Public, Drivelock
  • Christian Behma, CEO, Bechtle Bonn Germany
  • Michael Hlevnjak, Key Account Director Bundesbehörden, Google Germany
  • Frank Leidenberger, CEO BWI

Panel B9: Unmanned Systems for Land Forces

Chair: Brigadier General (ret.) Robbie Boyd, Advisory Board Fellower and Member OPEWI.

  • Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Sven Christoph, Army Capabilities and Development Office, Germany
  • Roberta Randerath, Business Development, ARX Robotics
  • Patrick E. Shepherd, Chief Sales Officer, Milrem Robotics
  • Dawid Bielecki, Board Member, Flytronic S.A. WB GROUP

*speakers requested