Commander Cristiano Raffele Martino

Chief of the 1st Section – Propulsion Systems, Italian Naval Armaments Directorate

Rear Admiral Cornel-Eugen Cojocaru

Fleet Commander, Romanian Navy

Captain (ret.) Christopher Sharman

Director of China Maritime Studies Institute, US Naval War College

Captain Chongsu Lim

Head of Force Planning Division N5 – ROKN HQ, ROK Navy

Chihiro Hirai

Research Staff – Unmanned Maritime Vehicle Research Section, Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency (ATLA)

Catarina Buchatskiy

Director of Analytics, Snake Island Institute

Commodore Brendon Clark

Co-Director Maritime Fleet Renewal, Royal New Zealand Navy

Captain Ricardo Braz Freitas

Maritime Program Manager, European Defence Agency

Captain Bill Miante

Deputy Commodore TF63, Military Sealift Command Europe and Africa, US Navy

Captain Auðunn Kristinsson

Director of Operations and Strategic Planning, Icelandic Coast Guard