Day 2 Programme Agenda - Wednesday 18 June 2025
08:30 - 09:00 REGISTRATION
09:00 - 09:30 Session 7: Opening Keynote
Chair: Matthew Savill MBE, Director Military Sciences, RUSI
Speaker: General Christopher Donahue, Commanding General, US Army Europe and Africa
09:30 - 10:30 Session 8: Fighting at the Operational Level
Chair: Tom Newman, Chief Executive Land, Babcock
Speaker: Lieutenant General Simon Stuart AO DSC, Chief of Staff, Australian Army
Speaker: Lieutenant General Michael Wright CMM MMV MSM CD, Commander, Canadian Army
Speaker: Dr Christopher Kolenda, Adjunct Senior Fellow, CNAS
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 - 12:00 Session 9: Emerging Tactical Challenges
Chair: Colonel Simon Horne OBE, British Army
Speaker: Dr David Kilcullen, University of New South Wales
Speaker: Colonel Toby Till, Commander Experimentation and Trials Group, British Army
Speaker: Juliana Suess, Research Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Speaker: Louis Mosley, Executive Vice President, Palantir UK
12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH
13:00 - 14:00 Session 10: Lessons from Ukraine
Chair: Professor Tracey German, Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI
Speaker: Oleksandra Azarkhina, Co-Founder, We Build Ukraine
Speaker: Brigadier Ed Cartwright, British Army
Speaker: Franz-Stefan Gady, Associate Fellow, IISS
14:00 - 15:00 Session 11: Lessons from the Middle East
Chair: Michael Stephens, Associate Fellow, RUSI
Speaker: Professor Eitan Shamir, Managing Director, Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies
Speaker: Stuart Lyle, Urban Operations Lead, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
Speaker: Emma Beals, Senior Advisor, European Institute of Peace
15:00 - 15:30 BREAK
15:30 - 16:30 Session 12: The European Estimate
Chair: Ed Arnold, Senior Research Fellow for European Security, RUSI
Speaker: Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Wooddisse KCB CBE MC, Commander, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
Speaker: Lieutenant General Alfons Mais, Chief of the German Army
Speaker: Major General Jonny Lindfors, Commander, Swedish Army
16:30 - 17:00 Session 13: CDS Keynote
Chair: Professor Malcolm Chalmers, Deputy Director General, RUSI
Speaker: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin KCB ADC, Chief of the Defence Staff