The World's Premier Conference for the Armoured Vehicles Community
The International Armoured Vehicles Conference annually attracts 1,400 delegates from over 50 nations, with conference attendance spanning the full armoured vehicles ecosystem. Representatives from military and government leadership join senior industry solution providers from both the major vehicles OEMS and the supply chain involved in producing the state-of-the-art technologies for the vehicles of the future, in order to address the key question: "how will we fight in the future?"
Highlights
100 Speakers
60 NATO and Partner Nations
300 Unique Industry Organisations
1500 Qualified, Armour-relevant Stakeholders
Reasons to Attend IAVs 2026
To develop and share their organisation's capability, knowledge and project management expertise at the world's largest annual international gathering of armoured mobility experts
To engage with their customers, targeted prospective partners, and supply chains to solve common challenges and accelerate modernisation and development agendas
To explore the future threat environment and participate in unbiased debate and discussion with the armour community's thought leaders, policy makers and innovators
It is the world's largest armoured vehicles gathering, annually attracting over 1,500 attendees, 70+ expert speakers, 60+ industry partners, and representatives from 60 nations
This conference with over 1000 visitors 47 nation attending is the world's leading conference on armoured vehicles, I cannot think of a more relevant location or more important event to come to
The International Armoured Vehicles Conference was a superb opportunity to engage with our international and industry partners and have open and honest discussions about the future.
IAVC 24 represented the perfect opportunity to share thoughts, exchange ideas, develop relationships and explore new collaborations. It was a great opportunity to meet industry leaders to explore new valuable solutions as technology is becoming increasingly important
This year's International Armoured Vehicle Conference has been of increased importance. Our support to Ukraine and our friends in NATO can only be realised through the sharing of ideas and collaboration with industry and allies, and made possible through the meaningful and far-reaching forum of the IAV Conference.
Conference Chairmen
General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (2014-2017), IAV CHAIRMAN
General David Perkins, 15th Commander (2014-2018), TRADOC, IAV Stream Chairman
Military & Government Speakers
Lieutenant General Bruno Hofbauer, Deputy Chief of Defence, Austrian Armed Forces
Lieutenant General Carmine Masiello, Chief of Staff, Italian Army
Lieutenant General Ricardo José Nigri, Commander, 5th Army Division, Brazilian Army
Lieutenant General Satoru Ohashi, Director General of Ground Systems, ATLA - Japan MOD
Lieutenant General Pasi Valimaki, Commander, Finnish Army
Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Wooddisse KCB CBE MC, Commander, NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps Michelle Link, Deputy Program Executive Officer, PEO Ground Combat Systems, US Amy Jesse Tolleson, Principal Deputy to the Assistant Secretary Army for Acq, Log & Technology, US Army
Major General Andis Dilans, National Armaments Director, Latvian Ministry of Defence
Major General Guillermo Pablo García del Barrio de Díez, Commander, Aragón I Brigade, Spanish Army Major General Charles Grist, Deputy Commanding General - Maneuver, V Corps
Major General Lars Lervik, Chief of the Norwegian Army, Norwegian Armed Forces
Major General Jonny Lindfors, Commander, Swedish Army
Major General Benedikt Roos, Commander Land Forces, Swiss Land Forces
Major General Curtis Taylor, Commanding General, 1st Armored Division & Fort Bliss
Brigadier General Miguel Freire, Commander of Intervention Brigade, Portuguese Army
Brigadier John Holloway, Director General Land Manoeuvre Systems, Capability Acquisition & Sustainment Gr, Australian DoD
Brigadier General Philippe Le Carff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Programmes, French Army
Brigadier General Jiri Libal, Commander of the 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade, Czech Armed Forces
Brigadier General Stephane Masson, Chief of Staff, Army Strategy, Canadian Forces
Brigadier General Zsolt Molnár, Commander, 30th Kinizsi Pál Armoured Infantry Brigade, Hungarian Defence Forces
Brigadier General Anze Rode, Chief of Staff, Slovenian Armed Forces
Brigadier Tim Symonds, Head Efficiency, Head Climate Change and Sustainability, British Army
Brigadier Matthew Wilkinson, Assistant Chief of Staff Equipment, Field Army HQ
Colonel Peter Cowell, Senior Army Advisor, UK Defence & Security Exports
Colonel Arnel David, Director, Task Force Maven, NATO SHAPE
Colonel Darren Fisher, Commander, 29 EOD & Search Regiment, British Army
Colonel Simon Graham, Commander, 25 (Close Support) Engineer Group, British Army
Colonel Aron Kalmus, DCOS Operations, Estonian Division, Estonian Armed Forces
Colonel Jan Mazal, Chief of the Military Robotics Department, Czech Defense University
Lieutenant Colonel Paul Cooper, Commanding Officer, British Army Trials Unit
Wing Commander James Hemingfield, SO1 CUAS Futures, British Army
Major Mark Fetters, SO2 Ctr-EO, Army Futures
Alexandra Alonzi, BOXER Project Manager, OCCAR-EA
Martyn Williams, SRO Mech Inf [Boxer] Pg, British Army HQ
Ir. Dr. Shamsul Akmar bin Ab Aziz (subject to final confirmation), Head of Mobility Systems and Vehicle Performance Unit, STRIDE, Malaysian Ministry of Defence
Charlie Atkinson, Standards Lead, Land Certification Authority Team
WO2 Paul Barnes, SO2 Warfare, Land Warfare Centre
Brigadier (retd.) Ben Barry OBE, Senior Fellow of Land Warfare, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Sarah Bennett, Certification Process Lead, Land Certification Authority Team
Brigadier (retd.) Ian Cameron-Mowat, Former Head of Force Protection, DE&S
Sarah Chapman Trim, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Army Leadership
John Crozier, Principle Vetronics Systems Engineer, Platform Systems Division, DSTL - UK MoD
Daniel Errington, Certification Lead - Operations, Land Certification Authority Team
Dr Amos Fox, Author, Conflict Realism: Understanding the Causal Logic of Modern War and Warfare
James Gavin, Deputy Director UKDI, MOD NAD UK Defence Innovation
Rob Handley, Chief PNT Scientist & PNT Fellow, DSTL - UK MoD
Dr Markus Höpflinger, Head of the Swiss Drone and Robotics Centre (SDRC), Armasuisse
Professor Bryn James, Senior Fellow, DSTL - UK MoD
Dr. Darrell Jaya-Ratnam, Author, Show Me Don't Tell Me
Thomas Mead, Program Manager, Army Applications Laboratory
Marc Nuijten, System Manager BOXER, NSPA
David Russell, Boxer Team Leader, DE&S - UK MOD
Professor Matthias Strohn, Head of Historical Analysis, CHACR
Nicholas Valentine, Lead Engineer – Human Machine Teaming, DE&S - UK MoD
Dr. Paddy Walker, Author, War Without Oversight: Why We Need Humans on the Battlefield
Chris Watters, Certification Lead – Programmes, Land Certification Authority Team
Chris Copson, Historian & Presenter, Tank Museum
James Donaldson, Historian, Tank Museum
Will Tower, Regional Director, South East, Army Benevolent Fund
Stuart Wheeler, Senior Historian, Tank Museum
INDUSTRY THOUGHT LEADERS
Nick Ames, CEO, Supacat
Colonel (retd.) Paul Clayton, Director of Industrial Partnerships, Milrem Robotics
Harry Corstens, Vice President Europe, Channel Manager Damen & Patria, Patria
Filip De Varé, Chief Strategy Officer, John Cockerill Defense Weapon Systems, John Cockerill Defense
Tom Driscoll PhD, CTO & Founder, Echodyne
Eugene Gerstein, Managing Partner, INKAS Aerospace and Defense
Tim Hough, Head of R&D, Pearson Engineering
Dan Kalfus, Managing Director, EuroTrophy
Scott Milne, Vice President and General Manager for UK Operations, General Dynamics Land Systems
Lieutenant Colonel (retd.) James de St John-Pryce, Business Development Director, NMS UK
Tarkan Turkcan, Director, CV90, BAE Hägglunds
Thomas Waite, Head of UK Land Defence Manufacturing, Pearson Engineering
Rich Warwick, Defence Lead, Distance Technologies
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Venue
Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre ShowCentre, Etps Rd, GU14 6TQ Farnborough, UK
