Programme

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Galerie des Glaces

Room 1

09:00 - 09:20

Welcome Addresses

Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky

Minister of Defence

Hungary

Guillaume Faury

Chief Executive Officer, AIRBUS & President of ASD

Room 1

09:20 - 10:20

2025-2035: Setting the course through global insecurity, political renewal and budgetary constraints

Michael Gahler

Foreign Affairs Coordinator of the EPP Group - Member of the European Parliament

Amb. Dr. Martin Schäfer

Representative to the Political and Security Committee

Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU

Timo Pesonen

Director-General of DG DEFIS

European Commission

Charles Fries

Deputy Secretary General for Peace, Security and Defence

European External Action Service

Domitilla Benigni

Chief Executive Officer

Elettronica

Éric Béranger

Chief Executive Officer

MBDA

Daniel Fiott

Moderator

Head of the “Defence and Statecraft Programme”

Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS), Vrije Universiteit Brussels

Room 1

10:20 - 11:20

EDIS: Building on lessons learned for effective EU programmes

François-Xavier Bellamy

Member of the European Parliament, EDIP Rapporteur

François Arbault

Director for Defence Industry

European Commission - DG DEFIS

Marc Fontaine

Chief Executive Officer

Helsing France

Adrian Zevenbergen

Chief Executive Officer

EUSI

François Lombard

Senior Vice President, Head of Strategy

Airbus Defence and Space

Vice Admiral Matteo Bisceglia

CEO Naval Strategy Senior Advisor

FINCANTIERI

Daniel Fiott

Moderator

Head of the “Defence and Statecraft Programme”

Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS), Vrije Universiteit Brussels

Room 1

11:20 - 12:10

Financing innovation and supporting the value chain

Robert de Groot

Vice-President

European Investment Bank

Christophe Gomart

Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE)

European Parliament

Anne Fort

Head of Unit - Defence Industrial Policy

European Commission - DG DEFIS

Pascal Lagarde

Executive Director

BPI France

Faysal Rahman

Vice-President, Global Coordinator for Defence industry

Deutsche Bank

William Noah Glucroft

Moderator

Deputy Editor

The Parliament Magazine

Room 1

12:10 - 12:20

Keynote Address

Hanno Pevkur

Minister of Defence

Republic of Estonia

Room 1

12:20 - 13:00

Preparing the next Multiannual Financial Framework

Paweł Karbownik

Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Finance

Republic of Poland

Siegfried Mureșan

Member of the European Parliament, Multiannual Financial Framework Rapporteur

Cécilia Matissart

Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer

ArianeGroup

David Luengo

Managing Director Brussels Office

INDRA

Joshua Posaner

Moderator

Senior Defence Reporter

POLITICO

Room 1

13:00 - 13:15

Keynote Address

Josep Borrell Fontelles

High Representative and Vice President

European Commission

Galerie des Glaces
Arenberg Room

all rooms

13:15 - 14:30

Networking lunch break

A 75-minute break to have lunch and network.

Galerie des Glaces

14:30 - 14:40

Keynote Address

On behalf of Jana Černochová, Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic

Radka Konderlová

Director General, Industrial Cooperation Division, Ministry of Defence

Czech Republic

Galerie des Glaces
Arenberg Room

14:40 - 15:20

Charting the future of EU-NATO relations: Transatlantic political and military realities amid leadership renewal

Esa Pulkkinen

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence

Republic of Finland

Benedikta Von Seherr-Thoss

Managing Director for Peace, Security and Defence

European External Action Service

François Marie Gougeon

Deputy Assistant Secretary-General for the Defence Policy and Planning Division

NATO

Camille Grand

Senior Fellow

ECFR

Francisco Vilhena da Cunha

Chief Executive Officer

GEOSAT

Alessandro Marrone

Moderator

Head of Defence Programme

Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

14:40 - 16:15

Shaping the Future of EU Defence: An exchange of views between MEPs and industry

Elena Donazzan

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

European Parliament

Riho Terras

Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE)

European Parliament

Tobias Cremer

Member of the European Parliament

Radan Kanev

Member of the European Parliament

Sven Mikser

Member of the European Parliament

Nicolas Pascual de la Parte

Security and Defence Coordinator for the EPP Group

European Parliament

Tomas Dimitrov

Moderator

Public Affairs Director, Defence, Space and Aviation

Business Bridge Europe - logos

Julien Bocquet

Moderator

Public Affairs Manager, Defence, Space and Aviation

Business Bridge Europe - logos

Galerie des Glaces

Room 1

15:20 - 16:15

Planning and procurement - streamlining bilateral, multilateral and European cooperation

Emmanuel Chiva

Délégué Général de l’Armement, DGA

French Republic

Maj. Gen. André Denk

Deputy Chief Executive

European Defence Agency

Nicolas Chamussy

Chief Executive Officer

KNDS

Thierry Renaudin

Chief Executive Officer

John Cockerill Defense

Jan Joel Andersson

Moderator

Senior Analyst

EU Institute for Security Studies

Galerie des Glaces
Arenberg Room

16:45 - 17:30

Focus: Paving the path to sovereign Quantum Computing, AI and Cloud solutions

Christiane Kirketerp de Viron

Director (Acting), Digital Society, Trust & Cybersecurity, DG CONNECT

European Commission

Gustaf Winroth

Deputy Head of Unit Defence Technologies and Innovation, DG DEFIS

European Commission

Jouni Flyktman

Vice President, Defence and Security

IQM Quantum Computers

Benoît Chaucheprat

Moderator

Co-founder

C&V CONSULTING

16:45 - 17:30

Focus: Geointelligence - The use of space assets and data for security and defence purposes

Rear Admiral Louis Tillier

Director

EU Satellite Centre

Damien Pigasse

Chief Revenue Officer

Unseenlabs

Francisco Vilhena da Cunha

Chief Executive Officer

GEOSAT

Lea Pavlovic

Moderator

Public Affairs Manager, Defence, Space and Aviation

Business Bridge Europe - logos

Galerie des Glaces

Room 1

17:30 - 17:45

Innovation and development of defence technology projects in Ukraine

A conversation with:

Nataliia Kushnerska

Chief Operations Officer

BRAVE1 Ukrainian Defense Tech Cluster

Lea Pavlovic

Moderator

Public Affairs Manager, Defence, Space and Aviation

Business Bridge Europe - logos

Room 1

17:45 - 18:00

Closing Address

Manuel Heitor

Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and Chair of the Expert Group on the interim evaluation of Horizon Europe