MAY 20 - 21, 2026
Under the high patronage and in the presence of:
General Pierre SCHILL
French Army Chief of Staff
Hosted by
Lieutenant General Benoit DESMEULLES
Commander of the 1 (FR) Corps
SPEAKERS
François
ARBAULT
Director for Defence Industrial Programmes at the European Commission
Major General Jérôme
BORDELLES
Deputy Chief of Army Staff, Planning Division (French MoD)
Major General Constantin-Adrian
CIOLPONEA
NATO SACT Representative in Europe
Brigadier General Cristinel‑Dumitru
COLIBABA
Commander of the NATO Joint Analysis Lessons Learnt Centre (JALLC)
Major General Jean-René
COUANAU
Commander of the French Communications and Information Systems Command
Lieutenant General Salvatore
CUOCI
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Italian Army
Stéphane
CUTAJAR
Tadaweb
Major General Guillaume
DANES
Deputy Chief of the Forces and Land Operations Command (French MoD)
Rear Admiral Jean-Marc
DURANDAU
Director of the Joint Centre for Concepts, Doctrine and Experimentation (French MoD)
Brigadier General John Olav
FUGLEM
Commander of the Finnmark Brigade
Pierre
GEFFROY
Defense Strategy Director at Dassault Systèmes
Brigadier General Christopher
GENT
Deputy Chief of Staff Transformation and Integration at NATO Allied Land Command
Anne-Pascale
GUEDON
Country Head at Destinus
Ingénieur Général de l'Armement Nathalie
GUICHARD
Directrice pour la Recherche, Technologie et Innovation à l’Agence Européenne de Défense
Brigadier General Cyrille
HOEZ
Deputy Head of Digital Factory Department, Digital Defense Commissariat
Brigadier General Maurice
HOUBEN
Director of Plans of the Royal Netherlands Army
Lieutenant General Giovanni Maria
IANNUCCI
Commander, Italian Joint Forces Operational Command
Lieutenant General Patrick
JUSTEL
Major General of the Army (French MoD)
Major General Viktor
KALNITSKI
Deputy Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces
Lieutenant General Krzysztof
KRÓL
Advisor to Chief of Defence of the Polish Armed Forces
Lieutenant General Aroldo
LÁZARO SÁENZ
Commander of the Eurocorps
Major General Philippe
LECARFF
Deputy Chief of Staff, Army Plans & Programmes (French MoD)
Major General Jonny
LINDFORS
Chief of the Swedish Army
Major General Frédéric
LINOTTE
Chief Strategic Office of the Belgian Defence
Major General Stéphane
MARCHENOIR
French Military Representative to SACEUR (SHAPE)
Major General Stéphane
MASSON
Chief of Staff – Strategy, Canadian Army
General Eduardo
MENDES FERRÃO
Chief of Staff of the Portuguese Army
Brigadier General John B.
MOUNTFORD
Deputy Commander of the V Corps
Major General Constantin
NICOLAESCU
Chief of Staff – Strategy at the Multinational Corps South-East
Major General Éric
OZANNE
Commander of the 3rd (FRA) Division
Major General Paul
PEYTON
Military Deputy Director at NATO DIANA
Lieutenant General Sir Ralph William
WOODDISSE, KCB, CBE, MC
Former Commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC)
MODERATORS
Dr. Henrik
BREITENBAUCH
Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council
Axel
Dyèvre
Senior Partner at Forward Global
Dr. Patrick
Keller
Deputy Research Director and Head of the Center for Security and Defense, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Nele
Loorents
Research Fellow, International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)
Pauline
MASSART
Partner at Forward Global
Tomasz
SMURA
Director of the International Security and Defence Programme, Pulaski Foundation
Bob
Tollast
Research Fellow, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)