Day 1 Programme Agenda - Tuesday 17 June 2025
11:00 - 12:00 REGISTRATION
12:00 - 12:30 Session 1: Welcome and CGS Keynote
Chair: Rachel Ellehuus, Director General, RUSI
Speaker: General Sir Roly Walker KCB DSO ADC Gen, Chief of the General Staff, British Army
12:30 - 13:30 Session 2: Multiplying Fighting Power
Chair: Professor Anthony King, Director Strategy and Security Institute, University of Exeter
Speaker: Major General Alex Turner DSO, Director Futures, British Army
Speaker: Professor Alexey Boyarski, Leiden University
Speaker: Ned Baker, Managing Director, Helsing
13:30 - 14:00 BREAK
14:00 - 15:00 Session 3: Growth Through Transformation
Chair: Tom Keatinge, Director Centre for Finance and Security, RUSI
Speaker: Anthony McGee CBE, Director RAPSTONE, British Army
Speaker: Dr Casey Perley, Director Army Applications Laboratory, US Army
Speaker: Bobby Vedral, CEO Scyld Capital
15:00 - 16:00 Session 4: The Evolution of NATO
Chair: Dr Jonathan Eyal, Associate Director, RUSI
Speaker: Rachel Ellehuus, Director General, RUSI
Speaker: Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor, The Economist
Speaker: Guy Anderson, Head of Country Intelligence Data - Defence Markets, Janes
16:00 - 16:30 BREAK
16:30 - 17:15 Session 5: Towards the Integrated Force
Chair: Paul O'Neill CBE, Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI
Speaker: General Sir James Hockenhull, KCB ADC, Commander, UK Strategic Command
Speaker: Admiral Sir Ben Key KCB CBE ADC, First Sea Lord, Royal Navy
Speaker: Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton KCB ADC FREng, Chief of the Air Staff, Royal Air Force
Speaker: General Sir Roly Walker KCB DSO ADC Gen, Chief of the General Staff, British Army
17:15 - 17:45 Session 6: Secretary of State's Keynote
Chair: Sir David Lidington KCB CBE, Chairman, RUSI
Speaker: The Rt Hon Mr John Healey MP, Secretary of State for Defence