NATO - The Road Ahead

As the role of NATO continues to evolve, this conference will give you the opportunity to assess the alliance's current capabilities, programmes and direction. Gain a comprehensive overview of capabilities and future operations and analyse how your organisation can meet the future requirements of NATO.

Also take the opportunity to learn about how alliances and interoperability are being achieved within NATO. Analyse civil - military cooperation and the role of standardisation in achieving interoperability. How is NATO and the European Defence Agency working together to ensure 'Transatlantic interoperability' and what is the changing nature of the operational relationship between the EU and NATO?

Attend this conference and ensure that your business has the best strategy in place to work with NATO in the future.

Questions this conference will answer: What are the national roles and contributions to the overall capabilities of NATO? What future role do nations see themselves playing? How are nations developing their capabilities to meet that role? What assistance do they need from industry and from the wider NATO community?

Confirmed speakers include:

• Lieutenant General Gian Piero Ristori, Italian Military Representative to the NATO and EU Military Comittees, Italy
• Brigadier General Paulo Terzano, Deputy Director, Plans and Policy Division, NATO HQ
• Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Masek, Deputy Chief, Chemical Corps, Ministry of Defence, Czech Republic
• Colonel Alex Portelli, Chief, Europe Division, J5, HQ USEUCOM
• Ambassador Lubomir Ivanov, Permanent Representative of Bulgaria, NATO
• Pjer Simunovic, Director, Defence Policy, Ministry of Defence, Republic of Croatia
• Nino Mezvrishvili, Head, International Relations and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department, Ministry of Defence, Georgia
• Lieutenant Colonel Ian Woodbridge, Secretary of the Deployable Forces Coordination Group, NATO SHAPE
• Ludwig Decamps, Head, Armaments Programme Support Section Defence Investment Division, NATO HQ
• Jorn Brauer, Senior Development Officer, NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA)
• Major Tom Single, USAF, JAPCC Space Operations, NATO Joint Air Power Competence Centre
• Dominique Guillerm, Senior Systems Engineer, NATO Air Command and Control System Management Agency (NACMA)
• Cesare Balducci, Deputy Director, NATO Standardisation Agency
• Laure Frier, Principal Officer, Planning and Policy Unit, European Defence Agency
• Tomas Valasek, Director, Foreign Policy and Defence, Centre for European Reform

Confirmed Chairman:

• Paul Kennedy, Former Director, CIS, Information System Division, NATO C3 Agency, and Independent Consultant, Information Systems and Management Services

PLUS AN INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP ON 'DOING BUSINESS WITH NATO'

For speaking opportunities please contact James Haggan on +44 (0) 20 7827 6012 or jhaggan@smi-online.co.uk