Speakers

Ryan Benitez

Ryan leads business operations and strategy for Decisive Point's early-stage portfolio of startups.

Dr. Daniel Biene

Daniel is a member of the German Army Reserve and serves on the Leadership & Strategy Team of the German Armed Forces Innovation Hub.

Katherine Brownson

Katherine is the CEO of a Venture Capital Fund focused on dual-use technology to drive defense innovation.

Eveline Buchatskiy

Eveline Buchatskiy has 10+ years of experience working with fast-growing startups.

Mike Butcher MBE

Mike Butcher has been named one of the most influential journalists in European technology by several newspapers and magazines, including Wired.

Ben Colman

Ben Colman is CEO and Co-Founder of Reality Defender (realitydefender.com), the leading deepfake detection platform helping enterprises flag fraudulent users and content.

Blythe Crawford CBE

Air Commodore Crawford is the Commandant of the Air and Space Warfare Centre.

Jeff Crusey

Jeff is a former founder and deep tech VC in the US and UK/EU.

Darrell Etherington

Darrell Etherington is a distinguished technology journalist with an extensive background in reporting on innovative tech trends and emerging sectors.

Karl Eze

Karl Eze is CEO of Point-Zenith, delivering on contracts to the UK MOD and Defence Industry clients on drones.

Jeannette zu Fürstenberg

Dr. Jeannette zu Fürstenberg is Managing Director of the global VC firm General Catalyst (GC) and Founding Partner of La Famiglia VC.

Kweilen Hatleskog

Kweilen Hatleskog is a Partner at PA Consulting and a Board Director at Logpoint.

Dr. Alison Hawks

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Thomas Hendrix

Thomas Hendrix is the Managing Partner of Decisive Point Group.

Uwe Horstmann

Uwe Horstmann co-founded Project A Ventures in 2012 as General Partner.

Srdjan Kovacevic

Srdjan is a Co-Founder and CEO at Orqa, World's #1 First Person View (FPV) video headset company.

Jonathan Luff

Jonathan is the Chief of Staff and Chief of Global Affairs at Recorded Future.

Dr. Chris Magazzeni

Chris is an investor at IQ Capital with a focus on Aerospace & Defence, and Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the UK Defence Investor Network.

Dame Fiona Murray

Professor Dame Fiona Murray CBE DCMG is the Associate Dean of Innovation at the MIT School of Management and William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship.

Nicholas Nelson

Experienced aerospace, defence, and national security operator with 17 years sector experience across intelligence, defence, and venture capital.

Matt O'Connell

Matt focuses on helping companies in the defense, intelligence and space industries grow through strategic advice and introductions.

Jason Pontin

Jason is a member of DCVC’s investment team and leads the firm’s commu­ni­ca­tors as they tell the stories of portfolio companies.

John Ridge CBE

Brigadier John Ridge CBE is the Director of Defence Innovation at the Ministry of Defence.

Andrew J Scott

Serial entrepreneur turned Founding Partner 7percent Ventures, investing in pre/seed hardware deeptech and transformative software startups for >10 years.

Kadi Silde

Kadi Silde is the Chief Development Officer at Starburst Aerospace and former COO of NATO DIANA

Josh Thomas

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Senior Representative

NCSC supports the most critical organisations in the UK, the wider public sector, industry, SMEs and the general public.

Brandon Tseng

Brandon Tseng is Shield AI’s Co-Founder, President, and Chief Growth Officer.