20 - 22 May, 2025 | Novotel London West, UK

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Meet the Speakers:

2025 CONFERENCE CHAIR'S

Lieutenant General Sir Andrew Gregory KBE CB DL
Master Gunner St. James' Park
British Army

Osman Tasman [TUR]
Former Land Armaments Coordinator
Defence Investment Division, NATO HQ

Colonel (Ret'd) Paul Daniels
Indirect Fires Subject Matter Expert
US Army

Greg Ivey [CAN]
Head of ISR Air, Land & Maritime
Defence Investment Division, NATO HQ

Christelle Collet [FRA]
Land Munitions Officer
Defence Investment Division, NATO HQ

2025 SPEAKERS

Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Wooddisse KCB CBE MC
Commander
NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps

Lieutenant General John Mead OBE [GBR]
Deputy Commander
NATO Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum

Lieutenant General (Ret'd) Ben Hodges
Commanding General
U.S. Army Europe (2014-2017)

Major General John Rafferty
Commander
56th Artillery Command, US Army

Major General Erb Lyra Leal
Army Artillery Commander
Brazilian Army

Brigadier General Gianluca Figus
Artillery Commander
Italian Army

Brigadier General Antonio Mongío Bergua
Chief of Artillery
Spanish Armed Forces

Brigadier General Simon Doran
Commanding General and Vice Chief of Naval Research
Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory & US Futures Directorate

Brigadier Rob Alston [GBR]
Chief of Joint Fires and Influence
NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC)

Brigadier Paul Hughes
Head of Engineering Assurance and Certification – Land Domain
UK Ministry of Defence, Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S)

Air Commodore Jamie Thompson CBE RAF
Deputy Commander
United Kingdom Space Command

Brigadier General Andrew Bates [USA]
DCOS - Operations
NATO MNC-Northeast

Brigadier General János József Somogyi
Deputy Commander Operations
Hungarian Defence Force

Brigadier General Sergii Baranov
Chief of Missiles Programmes Office
Armed Forces of Ukraine

Greg Ivey [CAN]
Head of ISR Air, Land & Maritime
Defence Investment Division, NATO HQ

Colonel Alicia Johnson
Project Manager Combat Ammunition Systems (PM CAS)
US Army

Colonel Jost Hügel
Chief of Artillery and Commander of the German Artillery School
German Armed Forces (Reserves)

Colonel Andranyk Hasparian
Chief of Missile Forces and Artillery Development Department
Armed Forces of Ukraine

Colonel Gregory Tomlin
Director, Army Capability Manager for Division Artillery Formations
Fort Sill, U.S. Army

Colonel Stephan Sjöberg
Chief of Artillery
Swedish Armed Forces

Colonel David Butt
Commander
Royal School of Artillery, British Army

Colonel Christopher Sines
Director Land Requirements & Director Royal Canadian Artillery
Canadian Armed Forces

Colonel Rodion Kulahin
Fires Support Officer
Armed Forces of Ukraine

Lieutenant Colonel Rauno Viitmann
Fires Lecturer, Former Future Plans Officer
Estonian Military Academy

Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Nygren
Artillery School Commander
Swedish Army

Lieutenant Colonel Adrian Golonka PhD
Head of the Department of Missile and Artillery Forces, Assistant Professor
General Tadeusz Kościuszko Military University of Land Forces

Lieutenant Colonel Erik Verstraelen [BEL]
Programme Officer of Motorized Capability
French Armed Forces

Lieutenant Colonel Marco Tiberti
C2 and Interoperability Branch Chief
Italian Armed Forces

Lieutenant Colonel Ian Welch
Product Manager, Precision Fires and Mortars
US Army

Lieutenant Colonel Frédéric Mathieu
Artillery Office - Liaison Officer
French Army

Lieutenant Colonel Dennis Nuppenau
Deputy Commander Danish Artillery Regiment Chief Joint Fire Support Branch
Danish Armed Forces

Lieutenant Colonel Todd Mueller
Product Manager Extended Range Cannon Artillery, PEO Ground Combat Systems
US Army

Lieutenant Colonel Jérémy Le Corre
Artillery Capability Development Officer, Plans and Programmes Section
French Armed Forces

Lieutenant Colonel John Zwicewicz
Director Land Requirements – Artillery Systems
Canadian Armed Forces

Lieutenant Colonel John Poore [USA]
SO1 Targeting
NRDC - Italy

Lieutenant Colonel Nick Andrew [GBR]
Assistant Chief of Staff G35
NRDC-Türkiye

Major Aires Carqueijo
Capabilities Area Coordinator
Portuguese Army Staff

Major Yoann Poffet
Deputy Commander Trials and Training Support Command
Swiss Armed Forces

Major Andrzej Niedźwiecki
Leader of the Artillery Fire Team, Senior Lecturer
General Tadeusz Kościuszko Military University of Land Forces

Major John Dobson
Joint Effects, Programmes Directorate
British Army

Major Marek Dudas
Senior Officer - Specialist Artillery Development Department of Land Forces
Czech Armed Forces

Captain Janusz Materac
Lecturer
General Tadeusz Kościuszko Military University of Land Forces

Master Sergeant (Ret'd) Jimmy Arter
Deputy Director, Fires Cell and Targeting, Fort Sill
US Army

Dr Illimar Ploom
Lecturer in Emerging Technologies and Innovation
Baltic Defence College

Dr Charlotte Peet
Head of Joint Effects
Royal Navy

Tim De Zitter
Lifecycle Manager Land Combat Missiles
Belgian Armed Forces

Jonas Granberg
Project Officer Ammunition, Moderator CapTech Missiles & Munitions
European Defence Agency

Frederic Peugeot
Branch Chief Ammunition Support Partnership
NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA)

Ricky Hart
Principal Adviser Weapons and Fires, Land Guided Weapons Team
UK Ministry of Defence, Dstl

Gary Jones
Principal Gun Systems Engineer
Dstl

James Black
Deputy Director, European Lead
RAND Corporation

Michał Kuc
Section Head of Unmanned Systems Section, Unmanned Systems and Ballistics Centre
Polish Military Institute of Armament Technology

Howard “David” Cavel
Senior Field Artillery Specialist, Fires Cell - Targeting, Fort Sill
US Army

Tim Ingersoll
Chief of Section
NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA)

2025 INDUSTRY THOUGHT LEADERS

Paul Livingstone
Chief Executive
UK & NATO, Lockheed Martin

Lieutenant General (Ret'd) Howard Bromberg
Vice President, Strategy and Business Development Land Forces
Lockheed Martin

Lieutenant Colonel (Ret'd) James 'JJ' Alder
Business Development Manager (Weapons)
Lockheed Martin

Dale Butler
International Business Development, Tactical Missiles and Maneuver Combat System
Lockheed Martin

Colonel (Ret'd) Olivier Fort
Artillery Marketing Director
KNDS France

Bård Frostad
Senior Marketing Director, Surface Radars
SAAB

Anton Achmueller
Marketing Manager Combat Systems
KNDS Germany

Major General (Ret'd) Mark Mcdonald
Consultant
AM General

Lieutenant Colonel (Res.) Einer Berntsen
Manager Business Development
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace

Colonel (Ret'd) Anthony 'AJ' Johnson
Associate Energetics Manufacturing Process Engineer
Northrop Grumman

Eric Axelson
NG Fellow - Missile Products
Northrop Grumman

Eric Meunier
Product Line Manager
Thales

Jechu Sánchez Loureiro
Business Development & Sales Director
Arquimea

Lieutenant Colonel (Ret'd) Simon Briggs
Head of Defence Capability
Tekever

Danielle Grant
Associate Director – Long Range Precision Fires International
Raytheon, an RTX Business

Alexander Kamlage
Business Development Manager
ESG Elektroniksystem- & Logistik-GmbH

Senior Representative
Tiberius
Aerospace

Christophe Sonier
Sales Development Executive
Safran Electronics & Defense

Major General (Ret'd) Simon Humphrey CBE
Vice President
Hanwha Aerospace

Benjamin Campion
CTO
Junghans Defence

Senior Representative
General Dynamics
European Land Systems

Eugene Yumshtyk
Chief Operating Officer
Paradigm Shift Technologies Inc

NATO Corps Fires Leadership Meeting Participants

Major General John Rafferty
Commander, 56th Artillery Command
US Army

Brigadier Rob Alston [GBR]
Chief of Joint Fires and Influence
NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC)

Colonel Frank Maxwell
Commander, 41st Field Artillery Brigade
V Corps, US Army

Colonel Charalampos Lolos [GRC]
Assistant Chief of Staff – Fires and Targeting
NRDC-Spain

Lieutenant Colonel John Poore
SO1 Targeting
NRDC - Italy

Lieutenant General John Mead OBE [GBR]
Deputy Commander
NATO Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum

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