MAIN CONFERENCE DAY ONE | 29 MAY
8:00 am - 9:00 am REGISTRATION & COFFEE
9:00 am - 9:15 am CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
Lieutenant General Raymond Palumbo
Former Director for Defense Intelligence - Warfighter SupportU.S. Department of Defense
9:15 am - 9:55 am HOST-NATION OPENING ADDRESS: ENHANCING C2ISR FOR FUTURE MULTI-DOMAIN OPERATIONS
· Outlining next generation capability strategy
· Delivering Future Beyond Line of Sight (FBLOS) communications for the Armed Forces
· Assessing the Dismounted Situational Awareness Programme and initiatives supporting crypto, cyber, and interoperability capabilities
· Overview of the ‘Autonomous Warrior’ exercise and the role of RAS in ISR
9:45 am - 10:15 am MODERNISING THE ARMY FOR THE FUTURE
· Focusing on flexibility, collaboration, and speed to deliver capability to the warfighter
· Enabling rapid prototyping to field innovative technologies
· Harnessing advances in AI and big data analysis to accelerate processing of information and identification of modernisation trends
· Integrating the future operational environment, threat, and technologies to develop and deliver future force requirements
· Assessing implications of modernizing an increasingly electronic multi domain battle space, with a focus on the land domain
10:15 am - 11:45 am PANEL DISCUSSION: SECURING ASYMMETRIC ADVANTAGE AGAINST PEER AND NEAR-PEER ADVERSARIES
· Examining the role of future, manned, unmanned, and optionally-manned variants of vertical lift reconnaissance platforms in enhancing situational awareness
· Assessing challenges associated with AI for optional manning
· Evaluating survivability, agility, and lethality of future attack reconnaissance aircraft
· Developing rotorcraft designs for a revolutionary increase in capability
· Enhancing interoperability and evaluating modular open systems approach for quick upgrades
· Seizing, retaining, and exploiting the information advantage derived from airborne assets to give ground force commander an asymmetric advantage against peer and near-peer adversaries
Instituting mobile and expeditionary network infrastructure to enable operations where the electromagnetic spectrum is denied or degraded
11:15 am - 11:45 am MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING
11:45 am - 12:15 pm ACCELERATED WARFARE: AN AUSTRALIAN ARMY PERSPECTIVE
· Enabling human-machine teaming to lighten the cognitive burden for the Warfighter
· Assessing the role of RAS at the tactical level – pairing individual Soldiers with multiple UAS
· Human in the loop: ethical considerations associated with RAS employment
· Addressing human-AI teaming and its impact on the OODA loop
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm ACCELERATING RAPID REACTION THROUGH NETWORK ENABLED TECHNOLOGIES
· Technological Innovation and Canada’s new Defence Policy
· Enhancing situational awareness, C2, and provision of real-time actionable intelligence
· Outlining future plans and integration of S&T
12:45 pm - 1:35 pm INDUSTRY INSIGHTS VITEC
1:15 pm - 2:30 pm NETWORKING LUNCH
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm INDUSTRY LEADERS PANEL DISCUSSION
· As the commercial sector is developing at a rapid pace, how can industry ensure that armed forces retain advantage against asymmetric adversaries in the future operating environment?
· How can industry support the defence sector in the objective to increase the agility of acquisition?
· How can we advance innovation from non-traditional defence companies and SMEs?
· What technological enablers will transform C2ISR and allow armed forces to retain the competitive edge against near-peer opponents and asymmetric threats?
· How will air, cyber, and space assets feed into unified land operations?
3:15 pm - 3:55 pm THE FUTURE ROLE OF TACTICAL UAVs IN SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
· Examining capabilities of the Watchkeeper Force
· Outlining the evolving role of TUAVs in ISR
· Providing actionable intelligence and accelerating decision-making in the context of multi-domain operations
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm IMPLEMENTING ROBUST SOLUTIONS FOR JISR
· Digitising the intelligence cycle in tactical land operations
· Implementing NATO's Joint ISR concept within the German Army
· Evaluating centralised analytical capabilities, early warning, and big data analysis
· Enhancing communications and IT within the broader battle management system
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm NATO’S COUNTER-DISINFORMATION STRATEGY
· Assessing Russia’s information warfare strategy and
· countermeasures
· Outlining NATO’s information capabilities and analysis of
· hostile disinformation activities
· Recognising and impeding hostile propaganda
Colonel Saulius Guzeviciusm
nalysis, Assessment & Military Liaison Officer Strategic Communications UnitNATO
5:30 pm - 5:40 pm CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS AND END OF CONFERENCE DAY ONE
Lieutenant General Raymond Palumbo
Former Director for Defense Intelligence - Warfighter SupportU.S. Department of Defense