SEPTEMBER 23

Warsaw. 250 participants.
Guests joining from across the NATO Alliance, Ukraine, and the Middle East.

1-day to confront the technologies that will define our posture and the next decade of collective defence.

Full panel compositions will be unveiled soon. Ask for a spot already to be part of the conversation.
Check our list of speakers and partners here.

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  • – Cezary Tomczyk, Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence, Poland
    – Konrad Gołota, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of State Assets, Poland

  • The battlefield is being rewritten in real time, and the technologies deciding tomorrow's engagements are already in the field today. From drone swarms and unmanned ground vehicles to AI-enabled targeting and electronic warfare, the gap between forces that adapt and those that don't is widening fast. This panel asks which capabilities will genuinely deliver operational superiority, and which are simply expensive distractions.

    Confirmed speakers:

    – General Constantin-Adrian Ciolponea, Former SACT Representative for Europe, NATO
    – Major Modris Kairišs, Head, Autonomous Systems Competence Center, Latvia
    – Hubert Królikowski, Advisor to the Management Board, WB Group
    – Hadrien Canter, Founder & CEO, Alta Ares
    – Roberta Randerath, Director for Business Development, ARX Robotics

  • Confirmed speaker:

    – Amb. Vadym Prystaiko, Vice President for Global Outreach, UFORCE

  • Energy grids, undersea cables, satellites, and data networks have become frontline targets, attacked in ways that fall deliberately below the threshold of open war. Defending them demands coordination across land, air, sea, space, and cyber — domains that too often remain institutionally siloed. This panel examines what a genuinely integrated, multi-domain resilience architecture looks like, and what it will take to build one.

    Confirmed speakers:

    – General dr. Mieczysław Bieniek, Head, Intelligence and Reconnaissance Analysis Directorate – P2, Polish Armed Forces
    – Dr. Ivo Peets, Commander of the Estonian Defense Forces' Force Transformation Command, Estonian Armed Forces
    – Dr. Gergely Németh, CEO, Defence Innovation and Research Institute of Hungary
    – Jan Grabowski, Vice President of the Management Board, PGZ
    – Clément Galic, Co-founder & CEO, Unseenlabs
    – High-level Representative from Weibel Scientific

  • – Emmanuel CHAMPAULT, Former French Special Operations Forces Senior Officer

  • Europe and the Middle East no longer face separate security equations: supply chains, technologies, and escalation dynamics now bind the two theatres together. Lessons learned in one arena are being applied in the other within months, and sometimes weeks. This panel brings European and Gulf perspectives to the same table to examine where interests converge, where they diverge, and what practical cooperation could look like.

  • Europe has committed unprecedented sums to defence, yet the capital pipeline for the companies actually building next-generation capabilities remains fragmented and slow. Public instruments, national investment banks, and private venture capital each hold part of the answer, and need to operate in concert. This panel confronts the financing gap head-on: what sustainable models can carry European mil-tech from prototype to scale?

    Confirmed speakers:

    – Tadas Gudaitis, Member of the Management Board, ILTE
    – Aleksander Mokrzycki, Vice President of the Management Board, PFR Ventures
    – Oliver Cusworth, Senior Advisor, European Investment Bank
    – Tomek Lepka, Investment Manager, Keen Venture Partners

  • – Speaker to be announced soon