📍 Main Plenary
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08:00
📍 Main Entrance
| Check-in Opens |
09:00 - 09:10
| Start of NATO Edge: Technology in Focus
- Speaker: Virginie Viscardy, Head Strategy & Strategic Communications, Executive Management, NCI Agency
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09:10 - 09:20
| Welcome to NATO Edge
- Speaker: Ludwig Decamps, General Manager, NCI Agency
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09:20 - 09:40
| Keynote Address by Alexander De Croo, Prime Minister, Belgium
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09:40 - 10:00
| Keynote Address by Mircea Geoană, Deputy Secretary General, NATO
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10:00 - 10:20
| Keynote Address: Digital Transformation, the Key to sharpening NATO's Warfighting Edge
- Speaker: General Philippe Lavigne, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Supreme Allied Command, NATO;
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10:20 - 11:05
| Networking Break |
11:05 - 11:45
| Keynote by the NCI Agency
Speakers:
- Ludwig Decamps, General Manager, NCI Agency
- Major General Hans Folmer, Chief of Staff, NCI Agency
- Antonio Calderon, Chief Technology Officer, NCI Agency
- Jennifer Upton, Chief of Acquisition, NCI Agency
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11:45 - 12:45
| Panel Discussion#1: NATO Digital Transformation - Challenges and Opportunities
- Chair: Frederic Cloutier, Chief Information Officer, NCI Agency
- Speakers:
- Air Commodore Henk Doorten, Strategic Adviser on Digitisation of the Chief of Defence, Deputy CIO, Ministry of Defence, The Netherlands
- Rear Admiral Nicholas J. Wheeler, Director NATO Headquarters Consultation, Command & Control Staff, NATO
Silvia Fuchs, Acting Head of Bundeswehr IT Procurement Directorate, Germany Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer, Chief Information Officer, NATO
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| 12:45 - 13:45 | Lunch Break |
| 13:45 - 14:05 | Digital Transformation in Complex Organizations
- Speaker: Casey Coleman, Senior Vice President of Global Digital Transformation, Salesforce
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| 14:05 - 14:25 | A Data and Analytics Manifesto (by an ex-intelligence analyst turned data scientist)
- Speaker: Dr. Helen Greenhough, Senior Consultant, Frazer Nash Consultancy
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| 14:25 - 15:25 | Panel Discussion #2: Stronger Public-Private Partnerships to Enhance Innovation Across the Alliance
- Chair: Moritz Zimmermann, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Transition Team, NATO Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic
- Speakers:
- Ambassador Baiba Braže, Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO
- Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, Director-General, DIGITALEUROPE
- Jeff LaFrenz, President, VizworX Inc.
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| 15:25 - 15:45 | Break |
| 15:45 - 16:05 | Accelerating Data Discovery: Making the Most of Underutilized Data
- Speakers:
- Adam Milward, CEO, Metadata Works
- David Milward, CTO, Metadata Works
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16:05 - 16:25
| Fireside chat with John Sherman, Department of Defense Chief Information Officer, United States
- Speaker: Matt Roper, Chief, Joint Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Centre, NCI Agency
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| 16:25 - 17:00 | NATO Innovation Challenge - Announcement of Winners and Innovation Pitches
- Speakers:
- General Philippe Lavigne, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Allied Command Transformation, NATO
- Ludwig Decamps, General Manager, NCI Agency
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| 17:00 - 17: 40 | Break |
| 17:40 - 18:30 | Join the NCI Agency's 10th anniversary celebrations!
- Hosts:
- Dr Luis Astorga, Chair, Agency Supervisory Board, NCI Organisation
- Ludwig Decamps, General Manager, NCI Agency
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| 18:30 - 19:30 | Sponsored Networking Reception |
| 19:30 | END OF DAY 1 |