Speakers

Jan Pie

Secretary General, ASD Europe

Kajsa Ollongren

Minister of Defence, the Netherlands

Alessandro Profumo

CEO, Leonardo
President, ASD Europe

François Arbault

Director for Defence Industry, DG DEFIS

 

Kris Peeters

Vice President, European Investment Bank

James Appathurai

Deputy Assistant Secretary General of Emerging Security Threats, NATO

Admiral Eugenio Díaz del Río

Commander of the European Maritime Force

Carine Claeys

Special Envoy for Space, EEAS

Paraskevi Papantoniou

Acting Director of Space, DG DEFIS

General André Denk

Deputy Chief Executive, European Defence Agency

Zdzisław Krasnodębski

Vice-Chair of Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, MEP

General Tom Middendorp

Chair, International Military Committee on Climate and Security

Roberto Viola

Director General, DG CONNECT

Kusti Salm

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Estonia

 

Amb. Sorin Ducaru

Director, EU Satellite Centre

Donato Martínez Pérez de Rojas

Vice-President, Defence of Navantia

Pascal Legai

Security Coordinator, European Space Agency

Teri Schultz

EU/NATO Freelance Reporter and Journalist

Jennifer Baker

EU Policy and Tech Reporter

Arnaud Thysen

Director General, European Business Summits

“We need to have the capacity to act autonomously, at least in our neighbourhood.”

Jiří Šedivý

Chief Executive, European Defence Agency

“It is also clear that for the first time since we discussed defence cooperation, the Commission is ready to play its role to the full and to even consider putting EU funds, especially for research in defence. This is potentially a game changer as some people say.”

Elzbieta Bienkowska

Former EU Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

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