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Opening Remarks by Our Moderators
OPENING KEYNOTE
Security 2027: The World We Are Operating In
- How geopolitics, hybrid threats and technology are reshaping the security environment
- Why economic security and infrastructure resilience have become national security issues
- How strategic dependencies are changing the risk landscape
- What leaders need to understand about the convergence of civilian and military security
- The assumptions about stability and continuity that need to be reconsidered for 2028
Decision Advantage: When AI Moves From Analysis to Action
- AI-enabled sensor fusion and situational awareness
- From information superiority to decision advantage
- AI at the edge and operating in degraded environments
- Human-machine teaming and bounded autonomy
- Where speed creates advantage — and where human judgement remains essential
KEYNOTE
From Drones to Autonomous Mass: The Next Transformation of Warfare
- From individual platforms to distributed autonomous systems
- Swarming, attritable systems and mass
- Operating without dependable communications or GNSS
- The economics of high-cost weapons versus low-cost autonomous systems
- How autonomy changes force structure and operational thinking
The Invisible Battlefield: Winning in the Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Electronic warfare as a defining capability
- Jamming, spoofing and contested communications
- Cognitive EW and AI-supported spectrum operations
- Operating when GNSS and communications cannot be trusted
- Integrating cyber, EW and communications resilience
KEYNOTE
Why Does Technology Move Faster Than Defence Procurement?
- Why promising technologies remain stuck between prototype and procurement
- What Ukraine and rapid operational experimentation have changed
- Shortening the path from user need to deployed capability
- How military users, startups and traditional primes can work differently
- What procurement needs to look like when technology evolves in months, not decades
Software-Defined Defence: When the Platform Is No Longer the Product
- Software-defined capabilities and continuous capability upgrades
- Open architectures and interoperability
- Connecting sensors, platforms and decision-making
- Why data and APIs are becoming strategic defence assets
- Moving from platform-centric procurement toward capability ecosystems
KEYNOTE
Can Europe Produce at the Speed of Conflict?
- From peacetime optimisation to strategic production capacity
- Scaling ammunition, drones, electronics and critical components
- Defence supply chains and industrial dependencies
- The role of commercial industry and dual-use manufacturing
- What Europe must be able to produce itself
CLOSING KEYNOTE
2030: The Security Architecture We Need to Build Now
- What Europe must be able to protect, produce and operate independently
- Building readiness across defence, industry and critical infrastructure
- Which strategic dependencies need to be reduced
- How technology, industrial capacity and public-private cooperation come together
- The leadership decisions that cannot wait until the next crisis
Closing Summary by Our Moderators