Future Soldier Technology 2025 Conference

March 10-12, 2025 - London, United Kingdom

The World's Leading Conference Dedicated to Soldier Modernisation

Building on the enormous success of its previous ten annual meetings, Future Soldier Technology 2025 will be an excellent international gathering of senior officers and programme managers who are seeking to enhance their programmes. Additionally, this forum offers an excellent platform for programme managers within the military to interface with senior experts from within the defence industry.

Future Soldier Technology 2025 will return to London larger than ever to discuss Soldier Modernisation Programmes, and how these projects are driving infantry capabilities into the future and making the dismounted soldier more lethal, protected and ready to fight in the challenging conditions of the modern-day battlefield.

Why should you attend?

Future Soldier Technology is the leading event dedicated to dismounted soldier modernisation programmes and priorities

Listen to keynote briefings from senior UK and NATO and allied dismounted soldier programme managers
Discover the latest topics for the advancement of soldier technology, including lethality and weaponry, dismounted tactical power, protection and survivability, mobility, integrating robotics and AI, and much more
Meet and network with the key decision-makers from both military and industry to discuss modernisation and optimisation of the future dismounted soldier and their equipment

Dismounted Situational Awareness Focus Day: 10 March 2025
The conference will feature a dedicated Dismounted Situational Awareness Focus Day with updates from British and NATO allied armed forces discussing the modernisation of dismounted soldier communications and spatial awareness capabilities using existing and emerging next-generation equipment and technologies.

Main Conference: 11-12 March 2025
The two-day main conference will cover all other aspects vital to the modernisation of the future soldier. The morning of both days will feature plenary sessions, focusing on international soldier modernisation programme updates and with industry sponsor partners showcasing their solutions to the audience.

The afternoons on both days will split into parallel streams, to focus on more specifically aspects of the dismounted soldier and their equipment.

Featured Speakers

Anders Palm, Project Manager, Swedish Defence Materiel Administration
Barry Hollow, Lead Project Raven (Soldier Electronic Architecture), SoldierWorks, British Army
Brigadier General Constantin Nicolaescu, Chief of Staff HQ Multinational Brigade South-East, Romanian Army
Colonel (Ret.) Paulo Roberto da Silva Gomes Filho, Analyst and Researcher, Strategic Studies Center, Brazilian Army
Colonel (Ret.) Richard Hansen, Former Program Manager, Soldier Warrior, PEO Soldier, US Army
Colonel Jacques Bouffard, Director, Studies & Foresight, Draguignan Infantry School, French Army
Colonel Nicolas Mueller, Head, Defence Procurement Cooperation, Armasuisse
Colonel Norbert Tóth, Deputy Director, Capability Development Office, Hungarian Defence Forces
Colonel Norbert Vetter, Bundeswehr
Colonel Paul Cummings, DE&S Dismounted Close Combat DCC Portfolio Leader, DE&S, UK Ministry of Defence
Colonel Pete Brunton, Assistant Head, Land Environment Tactical CIS, Directorate Programmes, British Army
Colonel Peter Hofer, Head of Institute - Advanced Officer Training, Theresian Military Academy Austria
Command Sergeant Niels Moelleskov, Chairman of CCIEP under LCGDSS, Danish Artillery Regiment
Dave Pheasant, DE&S Future Capability Group, Strategic Command & Air Portfolio Team Leader, DE&S UK MoD
Dr D. T. Selvam, Scientist G, DRDO – Defence Research Development Organization, Ministry of Defence, Government of India
Dr Darren Browning, Power Sources Lead, Dstl, UK Ministry of Defence
Dr Fabio Ibrahim, Research Associate Officer, Helmut Schmidt University - German Bundeswehr University in Hamburg
Dr Julie Greeves, Research Director, Army Health and Performance Research AHPR, UK Ministry of Defence
Dr Michael Halwachs, Military Expert for Disaster Management Urban Operations Support Cell, Provincial Military Command Burgenland, Austrian Armed Forces
Dr Robb Wilcox, Chief Research Officer, US Army DEVCOM Soldier Center
Elias Lallo, Scientist, Department for Defence and Security, Systems and Technology, Swedish Defence Research Agency
James Gavin, Head of the Future Capability Group, DE&S, UK Ministry of Defence
Jon Russell, Principle Scientist Platform Systems, DSTL, UK MoD
Jose Collazo-Castillo, Assistant Program Manager, Soldier Tactical Power, US Army
Klaus Schmitt, Head Batteries Department, Bundeswehr
Lieutenant Colonel Brett Grant, Director Dismounted Combat Program, Platforms Branch, Land Capability Division, Australian Army Headquarters
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Watzenig, Professor, Virtual Vehicle Research, Graz University of Technology
Lieutenant Colonel Johnny Hanlon, SO1 Soldier Systems, British Army
Lieutenant Colonel Paul Cooper, Commanding Officer, Army Trials Unit (ATU), British Army
Lieutenant Colonel Pedro António Marques da Costa, Project Manager, Soldier Systems, Special Operations Troops Centre, Portuguese Army
Lucy Waldrom, SoldierWorks Human Factors Lead, SoldierWorks, British Army
Major General Adrian Ciolponea, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Representative in Europe, NATO HQ
Major General Chris Barry CBE, Director Land Warfare, British Army
Major Hugh Hemsley, Army DCC Lethality Requirements Manager, SoldierWorks
Major Magnus Hallberg, LCG DSS Chairman, NATO/Swedish Armed Forces
Major Matti Finnila, Research Officer, Finnish Defence Forces, Research Center
Major Michael O'Connor, Capability Director Soldier Modernisation Office, New Zealand Defence Force
Major Nicholas Reynolds, Dismounted Close Combat Surveillance and Target Acquisition Requirements Manager, SoldierWorks, British Army
Nils Teschner, Technical Project Officer, OCCAR-EA
Paul Lincoln CB OBE VR, Second Permanent Secretary, UK Ministry of Defence
Roland Gebhardt, NVC Project Manager, OCCAR-EA
Sebastian Gies, Project Lead Soldier System D-LBO, Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw)
Senior Captain Roald De Decker, Assistant Chief Weapons, System Manager Weapons and Sensors, Belgian Armed Forces
Steffen Gondolff, Fuel Cells Officer, Bundeswehr
Wilhelm Sahlen, Scientist, Swedish Defence Research Agency