– 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.

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.

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?