TriCyCIS 2025 Speaker Programme

From 08:00Registration & Coffee
09:00Welcome and Introduction
09:15Opening Address – Data, the lifeblood of the Integrated Force – Caroline Bellamy, Director Chief Data & Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAIO) Defence Data & Information Office, Defence AI Centre (DAIC), Digital Business Partnering and Digital Transformation – Deputy CIO
09:40Session 1 – Strategic Context – a changed geopolitical / operational landscape (Why)   Keynote – Setting the scene – a changed geopolitical / operational landscape – Matthew Savill MBE, Director Military Sciences, RUSI
10:00Core technology & data challenges for defence – Dr Naomi Roberts, Dir Strategy and Enterprise, Defence intelligence, MOD
10:20New technologies and their effects on future warfare – a perspective informed by NATO experience – RAdml (rtd) Massimo Esposito – Vice President and General Manager AFCEA Europe and formerly NATO HQ
10:30Panel 1 – Discussion / Moderated Questions (joined by Maj Gen (rtd) Bill Robins CB OBE
11:00Break – Networking and Exhibition
11:30Session 2 – Key Initiatives to empower the Integrated Force (What)Digital Battlespace & Future Capability Innovation – James Gavin – DE&S Hd Future Capability Innovation Team
11:45Using lessons from innovation in scaling operational capability – Col Pete Brunton, Programme Manager LE TacCIS
12:00Industry perspective – from the mission partner on the MOSA System – Rob Harper, Founder & CEO, Rowden Technologies
12:15Panel 2 -Discussion / Moderated Questions
12:30Lunch – Networking and Exhibition
13:30Session 3 – Industry role in ‘One Defence’ – what is changing?Defence Industry Perspective –RAdm RN (rtd) Nick Washer – UK CEO & Global Head of Defence, Nortal
13:45Digital Manoeuvre (a Defence Industry SME perspective) – Brig (rtd) Sara Sharkey CBE, Strategy Director, Prolinx
14:00Bringing CEMA into the mainstream – An international perspective – Brig (rtd) David Lynam MBE
14:15Integrating industry for a resilient supply chain – Air Cdre Mike Wilson, Hd Governance, Risk & Compliance, Defence Digital
14:30Break – Networking and Exhibition
15:00Session 4 – How we are delivering the changeBattlespace Integration – using Mission Engineering to drive focused integration at project inception – Nigel Shaw CDIO, DE&S
15:15Equipping, informing and sustaining the Integrated Force. Prototyping acquisition in the new Operating Model – James Gavin Future Capability Innovation, MoD DE&S
15:30Session 3 & 4 – Panel Discussion / Moderated Questions
16:10Closing remarks
16:20Wrap-up and Thanks
16:30Conference Close

Important Caveats:  With the delay in publication the SDR and the significant re-organisation currently underway within UK Defence, we reserve the right to change the TriCyCIS 2025 Conference Programme at any time and without prior notice.  Military and MoD speakers may need to cancel at the last minute due to urgent operational / service requirements.