Building on the enormous success of its previous ten annual meetings,
Future Soldier Technology 2026 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.
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, night-vision, 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
2026 Speakers
- Anders Palm, Project Manager, Optronics System Section, Swedish Defence Materiel Administration
- Brigadier General Terry Tillis, Commanding General, 7th Army Training Command, U.S. Army Europe and Africa
- Brigadier Lizzie Mortimore, Head of Information Services and Programme Director, Land Environment TacCIS, Directorate Programmes, British Army
- Colonel (Res.) Norbert Vetter, Department Head for Digitalization Support for Cyber Reserve, Center for Digitalization of the Bundeswehr and Capability Development for Cyber and Information Space
- Colonel Alessandro Vivarelli, Head of the Capability Development Branch, Italian Army
- Colonel Art van Beekhuizen, Project Manager Soldier Modernisation Program, Defence Materiel Organisation, Netherlands Ministry of Defence
- Colonel Louis Desrousseaux, Director for Studies & Foresight, Draguignan Infantry School, French Army
- Colonel Nicolas Mueller, Head, Defence Procurement Cooperation, Armasuisse
- Colonel Si Horne, Senior Lecturer in Military Emergency Medicine, British Army
- Colonel Vince Morris, PM Close Combat Systems, JPEO Armaments and Ammunition
- Colonel William Waugh, Dismounted Close Combat Portfolio Leade, DE&S, UK Ministry of Defence
- Dilan Ezgi Koc, Chief Technology Officer, Task Force Maven, NATO SHAPE
- Dr Darren Browning, Power Sources Lead, DSTL
- Dr Gaurav Sharma, Chief Scientist, 711th Human Performance Wing, US Air Force Research Laboratory
- Dr Markus Bergen, Coordinator Defence & Security Research, Joanneum Research
- Dr Sebastian Gies, Project Lead Soldier System D-LBO, Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw)
- Emrys Kirkman, Chief Scientist - Combat Casualty Care, DSTL
- Ilse Kroesen, System Integration Manager Individual Soldier, Dutch Armed Forces
- James Gavin, UKDI Deputy Director, Head Technology Transition, UK MoD
- Julie Greeves, Research Director, Army Health and Performance Research AHPR, UK Ministry of Defence
- Kevin Chu, Assistant Program Manger - Soldier Tactical Power, PM Soldier Maneuver Sensors, PEO Soldier, US Army
- Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) James de St John-Pryce, Former CO ATDU and Director, DeFennec Solutions
- Lieutenant Colonel Austin Banford, Product Manager Soldier Clothing and Individual Equipment, PM Soldier Survivability, PEO Soldier, US Army
- Lieutenant Colonel Chris Woods, SO1 Soldier, Training and Special Projects HQ Field Army, HQ Field Army, British Army
- Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Watzenig, Professor, Virtual Vehicle Research, Graz University of Technology
- Lieutenant Colonel Johnny Hanlon, SO1 Soldier Systems, British Army
- Lieutenant Colonel Martin Spensberger, G3 Staff Officer Infantry Branch, Army Concepts & Capabilities Development Centre, Bundeswehr
- Major General Matthew Cansdale, Director of Army Futures, British Army
- Major Laurence Thomson, CGS Army Visiting Fellow, Military Sciences Team, RUSI
- Martin Krieg, Head of Department IT-Fundamentals Section, Austrian Armed Forces
- Nick Entwistle, Head, British Army Urban Centre
- Senior Representative, Land Warfare Centre, British Army
- Warrant Officer Josh Grayek, Director Marksmanship, USMC
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Venue
Disclosed after registration
To ensure the security of the event, the exact location will not be disclosed publicly. Once your booking has been confirmed and approved, you will receive the full event location and address, along with the hotel booking form.
