From 08:00 | Registration & Coffee | |
09:00 | Welcome and Introduction | |
09:15 | Opening 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 | |
09:40 | Session 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 |
10:00 | Core technology & data challenges for defence – Dr Naomi Roberts, Dir Strategy and Enterprise, Defence intelligence, MOD | |
10:20 | New 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 | |
10:30 | Panel 1 – Discussion / Moderated Questions (joined by Maj Gen (rtd) Bill Robins CB OBE | |
11:00 | Break – Networking and Exhibition | |
11:30 | Session 2 – Key Initiatives to empower the Integrated Force (What) | Digital Battlespace & Future Capability Innovation – James Gavin – DE&S Hd Future Capability Innovation Team |
11:45 | Using lessons from innovation in scaling operational capability – Col Pete Brunton, Programme Manager LE TacCIS | |
12:00 | Industry perspective – from the mission partner on the MOSA System – Rob Harper, Founder & CEO, Rowden Technologies | |
12:15 | Panel 2 -Discussion / Moderated Questions | |
12:30 | Lunch – Networking and Exhibition | |
13:30 | Session 3 – Industry role in ‘One Defence’ – what is changing? | Defence Industry Perspective –RAdm RN (rtd) Nick Washer – UK CEO & Global Head of Defence, Nortal |
13:45 | Digital Manoeuvre (a Defence Industry SME perspective) – Brig (rtd) Sara Sharkey CBE, Strategy Director, Prolinx | |
14:00 | Bringing CEMA into the mainstream – An international perspective – Brig (rtd) David Lynam MBE | |
14:15 | Integrating industry for a resilient supply chain – Air Cdre Mike Wilson, Hd Governance, Risk & Compliance, Defence Digital | |
14:30 | Break – Networking and Exhibition | |
15:00 | Session 4 – How we are delivering the change | Battlespace Integration – using Mission Engineering to drive focused integration at project inception – Nigel Shaw CDIO, DE&S |
15:15 | Equipping, informing and sustaining the Integrated Force. Prototyping acquisition in the new Operating Model – James Gavin Future Capability Innovation, MoD DE&S | |
15:30 | Session 3 & 4 – Panel Discussion / Moderated Questions | |
16:10 | Closing remarks | |
16:20 | Wrap-up and Thanks | |
16:30 | Conference 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.