20 - 22 January, 2026
| Farnborough International Exhibition Centre, UK
The World’s Premier Conference
for the Armoured Vehicles Community
The International Armoured Vehicles Conference annually attracts 1,400 delegates from over 50 nations, with conference attendance spanning the full armoured vehicles ecosystem. Representatives from military and government leadership join senior industry solution providers from both the major vehicles OEMS and the supply chain involved in producing the state-of-the-art technologies for the vehicles of the future, in order to address the key question: “how will we fight in the future?”
The 2025 attendee snapshot can be viewed here.
What Our Attendees Thought of IAVs 2025!
2025 Speakers Included:
General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, KCB, OBE, DL
DSACEUR (Mar 2014 - Mar 2017)
Conference Chair
General (Retd.) David G. Perkins
15th Commander of US Army TRADOC (2014-2018)
Chairman, Situational Awareness & RAS Sessions
Brigadier (Retd.) Nick Cowey MBE
Head of Military Capability Delivery, British Army (2020-2023)
Chairman, Sustainment Sessions
Maria Eagle
Minister for Defence Procurement and Industry
UK Parliament
General Sir Roly Walker KCB DSO ADC Gen
Chief of the General Staff
British Army
General Hertz Pires Do Nascimento
Commander of the Southern Military Command
Brazilian Army
Lieutenant General Salvatore Camporeale
Deputy Chief of Staff
Italian Army
Lieutenant General David Eastman MBE
Deputy Chief of the General Staff
British Army
Lieutenant General Mike Elviss CB MBE
Commander Field Army
British Army
Lieutenant General Shakir Ullah Khattak
Chairman Heavy Industry Taxila
Pakistan Army
Lieutenant General Alfons Mais
Chief of the General Staff
Bundeswehr
Lieutenant General Andreas Marlow
Vice Chief of the German Army and Commander Basic Military Organisation
Bundeswehr
Lieutenant General Satoru Ohashi
Director General of Ground Systems
ATLA - Japan MoD
Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Wooddisse KCB CBE MC
Commander
NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
Major General Olly Brown
General Officer Commanding 3rd (UK) Division
British Army
Major General Alfonso Castilla Barea
Deputy Director for Weapon Systems
Spanish Army
Major General Glenn Dean
PEO, Ground Combat Systems (GCS)
US Army
Major General Gerry Ewart-Brookes
Director of Plans
NATO Joint Support and Enabling Command
Major General Alain Lardet
Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans & Programs
French Ministry of Defence
Major General Jonny Lindfors
Commander
Swedish Army
Major General Indrek Sirel
Commander, Estonian Division
Estonian Defence Force
Major General Jon Swift
Director Programmes
British Army
Major General Colin Tuley
Commanding General, Maneuver Center of Excellence
US Army
Major General Alex Turner
Director Futures
British Army
Major General Matthew van Wagenen
Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations
NATO SHAPE
Brigadier Tim Allison
Head Land Common Services
DE&S
Brigadier General Yves Gächter
Commander of the Tank and Artillery Training Unit
Swiss Armed Forces
Brigadier General Trond Haande
Commander, Land Warfare Centre
Norwegian Armed Forces
Brigadier General Zsolt Molnár
Commander, 30th Mechanized Infantry Brigade
Hungarian Defence Forces
Brigadier Tobias Lambert
Head, Land Industrial Strategy
British Army
Brigadier General Michael Janisch
Director, Armaments and Defence Technology Agency
Austrian Armed Forces
Brigadier Tim Symonds
Head Efficiency, Head Climate Change and Sustainability
British Army
Brigadier Matt Wilkinson MBE
Assistant Chief of Staff Equipment
Field Army HQ
Stephen Covington
Strategic and International Affairs
NATO SHAPE
Dr Raymond O'Toole
Acting Director, Operational Test and Evaluation
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Dr Robert Sadowski
Army Chief Roboticist
DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center, U.S. Army
Colonel Peter Cowell
Senior Military Advisor (Land)
Defence and Security Exports
Colonel Armin Dirks
Head of Operations, Combined Project Team of Main Ground Combat System
Federal Office of Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support - Bundeswehr
Colonel Andy Elliott
DACOS Equipment Through Life Support, Field Army
British Army
Colonel Henk Ouwehand
Project manager Mid Life Update CV90
Dutch Materiel and IT Command (COMMIT)
Colonel Professor Vadym Slyusar
Chief of R&D Group
Central Research Institute of Armaments and Military Equipment, Armed Forces of Ukraine
Colonel Toby Till
Commander, Experimentation and Trials Group
British Army
Colonel Miroslav Vybihal
Director, Department of Ground Forces Development
Czech Armed Forces
Lieutenant Colonel Paul Cooper
Officer Commanding
Army Trials Unit, British Army
Lieutenant Colonel Adrian Lovelock
SO1 Equipment Support, Futures Directorate
British Army
Major Jon Coutts
SO2 Integrated Close Combat
Army Trials Unit, British Army
Major Joe Williamson
SO2 Mounted Close Combat
Army Trials Unit, British Army
Geoffrey Magda
Head of Engineering and Methods Section, SIMMT
DGA
Alexandra Alonzi
BOXER Programme Manager
OCCAR-EA
Adrian Bailey
Capability Developer (Additive)
US Army DEVCOM
Chris Bowbrick
SRO, Armoured Cavalry Programme
British Army
Sarah Chapman Trim
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Army Leadership
John Crozier
Principle Vetronics Systems Engineer, Platform Systems Division
DSTL
Luigi Fasano (subject to final confirmation)
Project Officer Emerging Land Technologies (HybriDT II)
European Defence Agency
Rob Handley
Chief PNT Scientist & PNT Fellow
DSTL
Michael Hansen
Additive Manufacturing Lead
US Army TACOM
Thomas Honke
Project Manager, Camouflage and Signature Management
Bundeswehr
Dwayne D. Hynes
Chief, Foreign Intelligence Technology, G-2
U.S. Army
Professor Bryn James BSc PhD CPhys FInstP
Senior Fellow, Physical Sciences Group, Platform Systems Division
DSTL
Donald Johnstone
Programme Director, Land Deep Fires
British Army
Alan Lines
SRO LIOS
British Army
Professor Marco Martorella
Chairman, Sensors and Electronics Technology (SET) Panel
NATO Science and Technology Organization
Tom Newbery CPhys
Platform Survivability Group
DSTL
Arkady Ostrovsky
Russia and Eastern Europe Editor
The Economist
William Owen
Author
Euclid’s Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today
Barnaby Pearson
Principal Engineer - Land Signatures, Platform Survivability Group
DSTL
Simon Pearson
Head Combat Vehicles
DE&S
Michael Santaspirt PhD
Deputy Chief of Staff, G2, and Chief Futures Officer
US Army DEVCOM Armaments Center
Jim Storr
Author
War and Warfare in the Twentieth Century
Professor Peter Roberts
Author
The Western Way of War
David Russell
MIV Team Leader
DE&S
Nicholas Valentine
Lead Engineer - Human Machine Teaming, Future Capability Innovation
DE&S
Martyn Williams ChPP CEng
Senior Responsible Owner UK MIV Programme
British Army
Lieutenant General (Ret) Corneliu Postu
Former Director of Defence Staff
Romanian Armed Forces
Brigadier (retd.) Ian Cameron-Mowat
Former Head of Force Protection
DE&S
Emre Akin
Strategic Planning and Market Development Director
Nurol Makina
Rory Breen
Strategy and Future Business Director
RBSL
Richard Cunha
Product Director
Teledyne
Tim Driscoll
CTO
Echodyne
Kadir Elitok
Product Validation Director
Otokar
Görkem Ertürk
Account Manager
ASELSAN
Jouko Jantunen
Program Director Army
Partia
Dan Kalfus
Managing Director
EuroTrophy
Olivier Laporte
Head of Strategy and Business Development
CTA International
Stefan Lischka
Managing Director
ARTEC GmbH
Stefan Lischka
Managing Director
ARTEC GmbH
Timo Mennala
Program Director
Partia
Scott Milne
Vice President and General Manager for UK Operations
General Dynamics Land Systems
Nancy Pallares
Business Development Director
Teledyne
Ignacio Ruiz Fernández
Commercial Area Director
Indra
Patrick Shepherd
Chief Sales Officer
Milrem Robotics
Justin Stone
Director, International Business Development
Leonardo DRS
Tarkan Turkcan
Director, CV90
BAE Hägglunds
Rich Warwick
Head of Business Development
Distance Technologies
Graeme Wilcock
Director, Business Development
RENK VMS Division
Bertie Williams
Business Development Director
Horstman
Event Statistics
80
Speakers
50+
Nations
200+
Industry Organisations
1900+
Attendees
Why People Attend IAVs:
To develop and share their organisation's capability, knowledge and project management expertise at the world’s
largest annual international gathering of
armoured mobility experts
To engage with their customers, targeted prospective partners, and supply chains
to solve common challenges and
accelerate modernisation and
development agendas
to solve common challenges and
accelerate modernisation and
development agendas
To explore the future threat environment and participate in unbiased debate
and discussion with the armour
community's thought leaders,
policy makers and innovators
and discussion with the armour
community's thought leaders,
policy makers and innovators
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