About Your Speakers

Dominique Luzeaux

Director of Land Systems Acquisition

DGA, French MoD

Major Andrea Candian

National Armament Directorate, NEC Force Program Directorate

Italian Army

Mark Richter

Program Manager

Marine Expeditionary Rifle Squad

Major Tiberius Tomoiaga

R&D Programme Manager

Romanian Individual Fighting System

Lt Colonel Karsten Kosak

Project Officer

IdZ, BWB

Lt Colonel Colin Mattey

Project Director

Land 125, Australian Army

Brigadier General Carew Wilks

Head of Individual Capability Group

DE&S, UK MoD

 Helmut Huegle

Head of Soldier Systems

EADS Defence and Security

Laurent Barraco

Programme Manager

FELIN, DGA

Colonel Charlie Stickland OBE

DA COS Operations, Policy

Royal Marines

Colonel (ret’d) Cohen Rachamim

Senior Director, Head of Infantry & Urban Fighting Systems Business Unit

Elbit Systems Ltd

Colonel Carmelo De Giorgi

National Armament Directorate, NEC Force Program Directorate

Italian Army

Helena Lundberg

Product Leader Protection, MARKUS Program

FMV

Major Linda Bossi

Human Factors Advisor

Integrated Soldier System Project, Canadian DnD

Marieke Van der Hoeven

Department Manager Weapon Systems

TNO, Netherlands

Karsten Stern

Project Manager, Product Division Infantry

Rheinmetall Munitions

Dave Tack

Human Factors Advisor

Marine Expeditionary Rifle Squad

Lt Colonel T P Seokamo

Project Manager

AFRICAN WARRIOR

Jeremy Smith

Head of Future Combat Systems

Defence & Security, University of Cranfield

Ivan Koblen

Director of Armaments

MoD Slovak Republic

Nick Sifer

Advanced Technology Integrator

Marine Corps Systems Command, Combat Equipment and Support Systems

Sunil Sadanandan

R&D Programme Manager, ACMS

DSTA

General Sir Richard Dannatt

Former Chief of General Staff

British Army

Lt Colonel Mike Bodner

Chairman

NATO Land Capability Group 1, Dismounted Soldier

Guy Bewsher

Head of Business Development

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems Ltd

Lt Colonel Amir Geva

Project Director, IAS

Israeli MoD

Colonel Brett Baraclough

Program Manager, Joint Project Executive Office, Chemical Biological Defence

US Army

Paul Sibson

Soldier System Architect ISSE

SEA Group Ltd

Lt Colonel Jacques Levesque

Programme Manager, Integrated Soldier System Project,

Canadian DnD

Pat Comtois

Chief System Engineer, Integrated Soldier System Project,

Canadian DnD

Per Arvidsson

Chairman

NATO LCG1 Working Group Weapons and Sensors

Bob Madahar (Prof.),

IMD Chief Technologist,

DSTL

William Scanlon

Senior Researcher,

Queens University of Belfast

Simon Cotton

Senior Researcher,

Queens University of Belfast

Lennart Ljungfelt

President

Aimpoint

Arend Woering

Programme Manager, Soldier Operations Programme

TNO, Netherlands

Colonel Liviu Cosereanu

General Manager

METRA

Colonel Marco Antonio Freire Gomes

Programme Manager COmbatente BRAsileiro

Brasilian Army

Colonel Bill Pointing

Team Leader, Dismounted Soldier Systems, FIST,

DE&S, UK MoD

Rune Lausund

Chief Scientist and Programme Manager, NORMANS

Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt (FFI)

Lt Colonel Angelo Assorati

National Armament Directorate, NEC Force Program Directorate

Italian Army

Colonel Eigil Schoenning

Commander

Danish Army Combat School

Ales Lebar

Programme Manager, Slovenian Soldier of The 21st Century

Slovenian MoD

Major Matti Honkela

Programme Manager, Warrior 2020

Armaments Division, Army Command, Finnish Defence Forces

Dr Ed Andrukaitis

Manager, Advanced Electrical Power Sources

Defence R&D Canada, Department of National Defence, Canada

Dr Adam Best

Chief Scientist , Division of Energy Technology

CSIRO

Einar Østevold

Chief Scientist

Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt (FFI)

Sissel Forseth

Senior Scientist,

Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt (FFI)

Dave Hadfield

Portable Power Lead,

DE&S, UK MoD

Rose-Marie Capella

New Components Manager, Land Systems Division

DGA, French MoD

Senior Representative

BAE Systems

Name TBC

Staff Officer, IAS

Israel MoD