Day 2 Programme Agenda - Wednesday 18 June 2025

08:30 - 09:00 REGISTRATION

Registration for Day 2 will take place between 08:30 and 09:00.

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

Tea, coffee and refreshments will be available for conference delegates.

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

Lunch will be provided for conference delegates.

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

Tea, coffee and refreshments will be available for conference delegates.

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