Speakers

Theo Francken

Minister of Defence, in charge of Foreign Trade

Kingdom of Belgium

Derk Boswijk

Minister for Arms Procurement and Personnel

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Andrius Kubilius

Commissioner for Defence and Space

European Commission

Attila Varga

State Secretary for Defence Affairs

Hungarian Ministry of Defence

Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Chairman, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014-2016)

Kyiv Security Forum

Aingeal O’Donoghue

Permanent Representative of Ireland to the European Union

Government of Ireland

Ronald Wormgoor

PSC Ambassador

Kingdom of the Netherlands

André Denk

Chief Executive

European Defence Agency

Joachim Sucker

Director

Organisation for Joint Armament Co-operation Executive Administration (OCCAR-EA)

Andrey Novakov

Member

European Parliament

Robert de Groot

Vice-President

European Investment Bank

Arnold Kammel (Hon.-Prof. (FH) MMag. Dr.) 

Secretary General

Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence

Frederik Vansina (Gen.)

Chief of Defence

Belgian Defence

Antonio Conserva (Gen. S.A.)

Italian Air Force Chief of Staff

Italian Republic

Ernst Dobbenberg (Lt. Gen.)

Military Representative to the NATO and EU

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Robert Greinacher

Head of the Project Management Office and Quality Department

EUSPA

Piotr “Zeus” Błazeusz (Lt. Gen.)

Polish Military Representative to the NATO and EU Military Committees

Republic of Poland

Jim Carter

Director General Commercial and Industry, National Armaments Director Group

United Kingdom

Dmytro Kyselevskyi (Lt. Col.)

Deputy Commander, 1st Unmanned Systems Center

Armed Forces of Ukraine

David Cvach

Deputy Secretary-General

European External Action Service (EEAS)

Maja Bakran Marcich

Deputy Director-General, DG MOVE

European Commission

Herald Ruijters

Deputy Director-General, DG DEFIS

European Commission

Enrique Maria Silvela Diaz-Criado (Maj. Gen.)

Director of the Security and Strategic Studies Division

Spanish Ministry of Defence

François Arbault

Director for Defence Industrial Programmes, DG DEFIS

European Commission

Tomasz Husak

Director for Defence Policy, DG DEFIS

European Commission

Christoph Kautz

Director for Space Policy, Navigation and Earth Observation, DG DEFIS

European Commission

Jean-David Malo

Acting Director for ERA & Innovation, DG RTD

European Commission

Simonetta Cheli

Director for Earth Observation Programmes and Head of ESRIN

European Space Agency (ESA)

Stefano Cont (Lt. Gen.)

Capability, Armament and Planning Director

European Defence Agency (EDA)

Laurent Jaffart

Director of Resilience, Navigation and Connectivity

European Space Agency (ESA)

Jorge Farré Basurte (Gen.)

Deputy Director

The European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen)

Joaquín Ruiz Escagedo (Rear Adm.)

Deputy Commander of the Maritime High Readiness Headquarters

Kingdom of Spain

Jean-Francois Ripoche

Head of EU Task Force

Direction générale de l’Armement, French Republic

Daniel Hikes-Wurm (Col.)

Senior Advisor for Defence Policy

Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence

Bjoern Juretzki

Head of Unit for Data Policy and Innovation, DG CONNECT

European Commission

Elena Donazzan

Vice-Chair of Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Committee

European Parliament (Video Message)

Camille Grand

Secretary General

Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD)

Pierre Éric Pommellet

CEO

Naval Group

Panu Routila

President and CEO

Patria

Carlo Ferlito (Ing.)

CEO and General Manager

Beretta

Pierroberto Folgiero

CEO and Managing Director

Fincantieri

Gabriele Gambarara

Vice Chairman and Board Member

ELT GROUP

Tetyana Ostra

Co-Founder

Boryviter Centre of Excellence

Fedir Serdiuk

Co-Founder

MOWA Defense Ukraine

Eric Béranger

CEO

MBDA

Hristo Ibouchev

CEO

Arsenal JSCo

Grigorios Koutsogiannis

CEO

EFA GROUP

Chiara Pedersoli

CEO

OHB System AG

Francisco Vilhena da Cunha

CEO

GEOSAT

Andrey Bachvarov

Managing Partner

Artemis Capital Partners

Miguel Ángel de Frutos Carro

Partner of Grupo Oesía and Managing Director of UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía

Grupo Oesía

Simon Marsol

CTO Defence, Security & Space

Sopra Steria

Marcel Grisnigt

Executive Vice President, International Development

KNDS

Jussi Järvinen

Executive Vice President, Protected Mobility

Patria

Eric Kirstetter

Executive Vice President Strategy

Airbus

Vincent Thomassier

Senior Vice President Group Market development and Competitive Intelligence

MBDA

James Cemmell

Vice President for Institutional Relations

Open Cosmos

Alexandra Cristea

Vice-President of Sales, Research and Development

RWS

Jouni Flyktman

Vice President, Defence and Security

IQM Quantum Computers

Sébastien David

Director, EU/NATO Affairs and Defence Projects

Beretta

Jan Hamáček

Director for External Relations

CSG

Thilo Schweizer

Director, Global Governmental Relations

Quantum Systems

Henrik Bliddal

Head of National Security and Defence, Geopolitical and Government Relations

Nokia

Jürgen Eckel

Head of Strategy and Innovation

Airbus Defence and Space

François Raffenne

Head of EU/NATO Public Affairs

ArianeGroup

Jürgen Beyerer (Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil.)

Chairman of Fraunhofer VVS and Director

Fraunhofer

Jacopo Barigazzi

Senior Defence Correspondent

POLITICO

Julien Bocquet

Associate Director, Defence, Space and Aviation

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Mihai Chihaia

Policy Analyst

European Policy Centre

Tomas Dimitrov

Deputy Executive Director

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Daniel Fiott

Head of Defence and Statecraft

Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, Vrije Universiteit Brussels

Dominika Hajdu

Director for Policy and Programming

GLOBSEC

Oana Lungescu

Distinguished Fellow

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Matthew Lynes

Editor

The Resilient

Lea Pavlovic

Senior Manager, Defence, Space and Aviation

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Gaia Ravazzolo

Research Fellow for Space and Defence

Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

Paula Soler Rodriguez

Defence and Security Reporter

The Parliament Magazine

Federico Santopinto

Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Europe, Strategy, and Security Programme

IRIS

Linus Terhorst

Research Fellow

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Alice Tidey

Defence Specialist

Nicholas Wallace

Brussels Correspondent

The Arsenal

Rodolfo Zontini

Manager, Defence, Space and Aviation

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