Conference Day 2: Thursday, 7 May 2026
C4ISR GLOBAL
8:50 am - 9:00 am CHAIR'S OPENING REMARKS Matt Roper - Chief, Joint ISR, NCIA, C4ISR Global 2025 Chairman
C4ISR GLOBAL
9:00 am - 9:30 am INFORMATION SECURITY FOR THE GERMAN MILITARY• The risks associated with digitalisation in today’s geopolitical landscape
• The operation and protection of IT infrastructure
• Certification and cross service collaboration
C4ISR GLOBAL
9:30 am - 10:00 am INDUSTRY INSIGHTS: HENSOLDT Jürgen M. Halder - Vice President Airborne SIGINT, Hensoldt
C4ISR GLOBAL
10:00 am - 10:30 am COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION RESILIENCE IN THE EVOLVING THREAT CONTEXT Brigadier General Răzvan-Marian Tudose - Commander of Cyber Defense Command, Romanian Armed Forces• The importance of secure communication networks
• Innovative developments to cyber space technology
• Integration across domains
Brigadier General Răzvan-Marian Tudose
Commander of Cyber Defense CommandRomanian Armed Forces
Space Operations Summit
8:50 am - 9:00 am CHAIR'S OPENING REMARKS Lieutenant General (ret.) DeAnna Burt - Former Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Operations Cyber, and Nuclear, United States Space Force
Lieutenant General (ret.) DeAnna Burt
Former Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Operations Cyber, and NuclearUnited States Space Force
Space Operations Summit
9:00 am - 9:30 am NATO ACT’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPACE DEFENCE POLICY Major General Devin Pepper - Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategic Plans and Policy (DCOS SPP), NATO HQ• Formulation of policies, strategies, engagements
• Analytical practices to provide strategic foresight, planning and strategy
• Strategic engagement with allied partners
Major General Devin Pepper
Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategic Plans and Policy (DCOS SPP)NATO HQ
Space Operations Summit
9:30 am - 10:00 am RESERVED FOR INDUSTRY INSIGHTSSpace Operations Summit
10:00 am - 10:30 am STRATEGIC PRIORITIES OF THE ITALIAN AIR AND SPACE OPERATIONS COMMAND Major General Luca Maineri - Commander, Air and Space Operations Command, Italian Air Force• Modernisation and investment in next-generation air and space capabilities
• Closing operational gaps amid emerging multi-domain threats
• Enhancing interoperability through NATO and EU partnershiP
10:30 am - 11:00 am
MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING
C4ISR Global
11:00 am - 11:30 am RCAF INSIGHTS INTO TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION• Driving innovation in resilient C4ISR technologies
• Supporting future operating forces in alignment with the evolving global threat
landscape
• Investment priorities going forward
C4ISR Global
11:30 am - 12:00 pm KONGSBERG’S CONTRIBUTION TO NATO ISR FORCE, SIGONELLA Einar Berntsen - Senior Business Development Manager C4ISR, Kongsberg• NATO approved coalition shared databases
• Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance solutions
• Industrial partner for achieving NATO’s Multi Domain Operations
C4ISR Global
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm ACCELERATING UK INVESTMENT IN DATA, AI, AND CLOUD SERVICES FOR DEFENCE INNOVATION• Delivering the Strategic Defence Review
• Driving Commercial Engagement for Emerging Technologies
• Speeding Technology Delivery to Frontline Force
Space Operations Summit
11:00 am - 11:30 am ADVANCING MILITARY OPERATIONS THROUGH COMMERCIAL SPACE INNOVATIONS: SPACEWERX PRIORITIES AND DEVELOPMENTS Arthur Grijalva - Director, SpaceWerx• Key initiatives and technologies improving Space Situational Awareness and other
space capabilities
• Validating dual-use commercial capabilities: Exploring commercial technologies with
potential military applications
• Opportunities for industry, academia, and government collaboration
Space Operations Summit
11:30 am - 12:00 pm DUAL-USE SATCOM TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT• Bolstering European networked infrastructure
• Ensuring encryption, EW resistant and high speed data transmission
• Current capability gaps
Space Operations Summit
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm DUAL USE, INNOVATION DRIVEN CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT IN SPACE Colonel Ludovic Monnerat - Commander, Swiss Space Command• Civilian-military, private/public approach for capability building
• Innovation as a key factor for agile and sovereign development
• Partnering globally to accelerate growth and ensure interoperability
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
LUNCH AND NETWORKING
C4ISR Global
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm PERSPECTIVES FROM NATO’S C2COE Colonel Mietta Groeneveld - Director, NATO Command & Control Centre of Excellence• Research into enhancing information and knowledge management
• Experimenting and validating new processes
• Ensuring systems are robust, adaptable, and capable of meeting current and future
challenges
C4ISR Global
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm SOVEREIGN INTEROPERABILITY: COALITION DATA SHARING IN ZERO TRUST ENVIRONMENTS Angel Smith - President, Global Public Sector, VirtruDon Yeske - Senior Solutions Architect, Federal, Virtru
• Data Sovereignty in Coalition Operations – Leveraging commercial hyperscale cloud
for national security without foreign control
• The Zero Trust Interoperability Paradox – Why zero trust security makes connecting
coalition partners and legacy systems challenging
• Open Standards for Secure Data Exchange – Leveraging the Trusted Data Format
(TDF) to enable mission-critical sharing across security boundaries
C4ISR Global
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm C2 RESILIENCE AND COMMAND ADVANTAGE Alec Bain - Senior Principal C2 Analyst, DSTL - UK MoD• Command Advantage as the critical edge gained by ensuring that our command and control (C2) capabilities (Joint Functions) consistently outperform our adversaries
in every scenario.
• Treating C2 as a key capability, on par with Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR), or Fires
• Ensuring that we are agile, coherent, proactive and providing operational advantages
Space Operations Summit
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm URUGUAYAN INVESTMENT INTO SPACE OPERATIONS Colonel Gerardo Tajes - President of the Space Affairs Commission, Uruguayan Air Force• Formation of a dedicated space command
• Sharing of information with allied partners
• Reference Unit in the space sector, in alignment with the national strategy
Space Operations Summit
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm RESERVED FOR INDUSTRY INSIGHTSSpace Operations Summit
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm UPCOMING PERUVIAN INVESTMENTS INTO SPACE TECH• Procurement pipeline
• Collaboration with allied nations
• Our ambitions
C4ISR Global
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONSSpace Operations Summit
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING
C4ISR Global
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm DATA-DRIVEN JOINT DOMAIN APPROACH• Operational needs for CIS, Cyber, Geo and EW Data
• Data and COP for Joint Domain
• Interoperability, Electronic Warfare, ICT-Security and Information Management
C4ISR Global
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm C5ISR & SPACE AS A KEY ENABLER FOR AIR POWER AND ITS INTEGRATION Colonel Gianluca Chiriatti - Head, C5ISR and Space Branch, Joint Air Power Competence Centre• Advancing the seamless integration of information across all domains to gain a
shared understanding of the operational environment
• Work to support decision-making while securing the network from attack or
compromise
• Multi-Domain Operations to deliver Air Power integrated and synchronised
with other militaries
C4ISR Global
5:30 pm - 5:35 pm CHAIR'S CLOSING REMARKS Matt Roper - Chief, Joint ISR, NCIA, C4ISR Global 2025 ChairmanSpace Operations Summit
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm HARNESSING THE SPACE DOMAIN TO INCREASE FUTURE COMBAT AIR’S LETHALITY AND PRECISION• Strategic overview of our priorities
• Collaboration with allied partners to advance capability
• Aligning with the evolving threat context
Space Operations Summit
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm AEROSPACE FORCE PRIORITIES FOR MODERNISATION AND CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT• Expanding ISR platforms and data fusion to improve situational awareness
• Developing national satellite capabilities
• Collaboration with allies
Space Operations Summit
5:30 pm - 5:35 pm CHAIR'S CLOSING REMARKS Lieutenant General (ret.) DeAnna Burt - Former Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Operations Cyber, and Nuclear, United States Space Force
Lieutenant General (ret.) DeAnna Burt
Former Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Operations Cyber, and NuclearUnited States Space Force
