COMBINED NAVAL EVENT 2025 PRESENTATIONS SLIDES - Day 1 - 20th May 2025
Surface Keynotes
0915 - The future of naval procurement; towards the Royal Navy’s 2040 vision
Vice Admiral Paul Marshall CB CBE, Director General Options and Commissioning, UK MoD DE&S
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0940 - Delivering the future navy: a national endeavour
Geoff Searle, Programme Director – Future Business and Technology, BAE Systems
1005 - Strengthening naval power in a contested maritime environment
Captain Dongchun Go, Director of the Naval Ship
Programme Department, South Korea DAPA
1130 - Strengthening the fleet: Poland's naval modernisation
Rear Admiral Piotr Sikora, Commander of 8th Coastal Defence Flotilla, Polish Navy
1155 - International collaboration to enable capability and capacity
Phil Craig, Managing Director Programmes (Marine), Babcock International Group
1220 - Strengthening naval power in a contested maritime environment
Vice Admiral John Gumbleton, Deputy Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, US Navy
SUBSurface Keynotes
0915 - Building capacity and capability for undersea warfare
Vice Admiral Rob Gaucher, Commander Submarine Forces, US Navy
0940 - Building an integrated, military-assured system of systems for the underwater battlespace
Laurie Ellis, Products Director, Maritime and Land Defence Solutions, BAE Systems
1005 - SeaSEC: Safeguarding subsea infrastructure
Rear Admiral Paul Flos, Programme Director, International Naval Materiel Cooperation, Dutch Ministry of Defence
1130 - DNE future plans - The current challenges to submarine production and future opportunities for collaboration
Sir Chris Gardner KBE, CEO, Submarine Delivery Agency
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1155 - Maritime autonomous and uncrewed systems: realising rewards and overcoming risks to achieve military advantage
Sarah Brown, MCM Product Lead- Surface Ships System, ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK
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1220 - Achieving maritime superiority through information warfare and intelligence integration
Vice Admiral Karl Thomas, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, N2N6, Director Naval Intelligence, US Navy
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1415 - Maritime Capability Coalition — Strengthening UK Security
Commodore Thomas Andersen,
Co-lead MCC, Norwegian Navy
1440 - The collaborative transition from manned to unmanned systems - naval autonomous surface system networks
Jens Rummler, Head of Sales Germany, NVL
Dr. Eng. Paul Dahlke, Head of Technology Management, NVL
1505 - NNCC: Enhancing Maritime Security through Cooperation
Rear Admiral Paul Flos, Program
Director International Naval Materiel Cooperation, Dutch Ministry of
Defence
1615 - Romanian naval forces; enhancing power projection capabilities in the Black Sea region
1640 - Littoral warfare — Patria on and above surface
Captain (ret’d) Janne Murrinen, Vice President – Sea Domain, Patria
Petri Salmela, Product Manager
Underwater Systems, Patria
1705 - EU maritime capability development priorities and the European Combat Vessel 2040+
Jürgen Scraback, Head of Unit
Maritime Domain, European Defence
Agency
Future Surface Fleet - Stream A
Future Surface Fleet - Stream B
1415 - Focused energy as a critical enabler of maritime military capability
Commodore Jason Sears, Director General Major Surface Ships,
Australian Department of Defence
1440 - The Devil’s in the standards: enabling faster in-service capabilities with modern power systems
David Barton, Sales Manager —
Coast guard and Navy, ABB Marine
1505 - The multidimensional transformation of the Portuguese Navy
Rear Admiral António Mateus,
Director Ships, Portuguese Navy
1615 - FDI frigate program update
Commander Salhi Amin, Programme
Officer — FDI frigate, French Navy
1640 - Halo — Future-proofing naval power networks
Chris Izuka, Naval Key Account
Manager, GE Vernova
1705 - Type 26 Global Combat Ship — more than just a submarine-hunter
Commander Steve Taylor, Type 26
Platform Chief Engineer, UK MOD
DE&S
Surface Fleet Technology
1415 - Preparing the force: SPARTAN
Captain Dan Vincent, Navy Acq – SRO SPARTAN, Royal Navy
1440 - Wargames for education and analysis
Vice Admiral (Ret’d) Georgios
Floros, Senior Defence Adviser,
Matrix Pro Sims
1505 - Advanced MDO simulation using NATO’s JTLS-GO
Commander Dino Tropea ITA,
Education & Training Section Chief,
NATO Modelling & Simulation COE
1615 - Background to DIANA and upcoming challenge launch
Heather Desserud, Communications Director, NATO DIANA
1640 - AI — the future shipmate
Simon Shaw, Business Manager,
Frazer-Nash Consultancy
Matthew Savage, Business Manager,
Frazer-Nash Consultancy
1705 - Enhancing naval readiness with simulator training and virtual reality
Captain Kurt Haukeberg, Senior Adviser Pilotage, Innovation and Digitalization, Norwegian Coastal Administration Professor Salman Nazir, Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway
SUbmarine Technology
1415 - UK Royal Navy submarine innovation: harnessing additive manufacturing for in-service and next-generation submarines
Caryl Russell, Platform Equipment
Delivery Team Head, Submarine
Delivery Agency
1440 - Supporting submarine availability
Mike Robinson, Director for Submarine Support Engineering Services, Babcock International
Group
1505 - Submarines in Canada
Captain Martin Byrne, Director Naval Major Crown Projects — Submarines, Canadian Navy
1615- KSS Submarine programme update: Block III
Sang Woo Lee, Director General KSS-III Program Group, RoK Defence Acquisition Programme Administration
1640 - The S-80 submarine and a new horizon of opportunities for British industry
José Luis Saez, Submarine Commercial Programme Manager, Navantia
1705 - AUKUS Integration and Acquisition
Anthony Constable, US Design
Representative to SSN-AUKUS, US Navy
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Underwater Defence & Security - Stream A
1415 - JCGMUS OPEX & S&T - Facilitating Unmanned systems operational integration and interoperability
Robert Ianuzzi, Director of Operational
Experimentation and Science &
Technology, NATO
1440 - Edge processing for distributed ASW
Mark Thibodeau, Director of Naval Programs and Gavin Green, Business Development Manager, General Dynamics Mission Systems
1505 - The role of maritime unmanned systems in resiliency, interoperability and counter warfare
Matteo Perrone, Area Manager R&D Maritime Systems, Swedish FMV
1615 - Operational experimentation with EMTs supporting subsea and seabed warfare
Dr Marcus Tepaske, Technical
Director, Office of Naval Research Global
1640 - SEMA light and portable underwater targets for ASW training
Pierre-Alexandre CAUX , RTsys
Business Director, RTsys
1705 - Smart Sound Connect Subsurface: a subsea testing environment for underwater acoustics
Professor Alex Nimmo-Smith,
Professor of Marine Science and
Technology and Project Director,
University of Plymouth
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Underwater Defence & Security - Stream B
1415 - OCCAR delivers: MMCM
Oliver Morris, MMCM Coordination Officer, OCCAR
1440 - HUGIN endurance – from days to weeks of AUV operations
David Mackay, Senior Sales Manager, Kongsberg Discovery
1505 - UK Mine Hunting Capability - From initial operational capability to deployment at scale: delivering block 2
Andy Lapsley, Mine Hunting Capability Team Leader, DE&S. Bill Biggs, MHC Systems of Systems Architect, DE&S
1615 - Belgium’s role in strengthening maritime security
Rear Admiral Carl Gillis, Strategic Advisor to the Chief of Navy, Belgian Navy
1640 - UMIS — how a sea-proven solution can address all MCM missions
Antony Penn, Chief Commercial
Officer, Exail
1705 - MCM in enforcing regional maritime security in the Black Sea
Captain Pavlin Petkov, DCOM of BGR Naval Flotilla, Bulgarian Navy