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DRAFT PROGRAMME | LAND WARFARE EUROPE CONFERENCE

IN OFFICIAL PARTNERSHIP WITH

17 – 18 NOVEMBER 2026 | VILNIUS, LITHUANIA

DRAFT AGENDA

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Welcome Dear Colleague,

In modern combat, achieving lethality has become markedly cheaper than ensuring survivability. Precision strike has increasingly overtaken direct attack as the primary means of defeating enemy forces, enabled by the widespread use of sUAS alongside integrated radars, ISR, communications, and weapons systems. Armoured warfare is changing weekly. The RUS/UKR conflict has reaffirmed the value of armour for shock, protection, and armoured manoeuvre. National armies are now prioritising the maintenance and longevity of their armoured formations.

More recently, Ukraine’s scaling of remotely controlled interceptor drones, unified UAV control, and cost-effective approaches to air defence have redefined the economics of warfare. In the current combat environment, integrating traditional armoured manoeuvre with indirect fires and integrated air and missile defence is no longer an option, but a necessity for achieving operational advantage.

The Baltics and wider Eastern European nations continue to progress the Baltic Defence Line and East Shield initiatives, underscoring a collective effort to strengthen integrated land warfare capabilities along NATO’s Eastern Flank. This significant funding commitment of the Baltics underpins their commitment to fortify national borders and significantly enhance ground-based air defence - capabilities now widely recognised across Eastern Europe as central to contemporary defence and deterrence strategies.

It’s in this capacity that the Land Warfare Europe Conference is returning this November, in official collaboration with the Lithuanian Land Forces at the Epicentre of NATO’s Eastern Flank, to drive integrated land capability, ground-based air defence, and regional deterrence. Through dedicated streams focused on Sense, Command and Targeting; Integrated Fires and Land Force Protection; and Manoeuvre, Survivability and Sustainment, the conference will examine how Eastern Europe to follow new standards for cost-effective air defence, armoured capability, mobility, precision-targeting, and resilient communications.

We will be uniting national armies, NATO commands and agencies, and industry across Eastern Europe over two days of presentations, interactive discussions, and networking.

I look forward to connecting in Vilnius.

Regards,

Helena Peradigou Senior Conference Producer, Defence iQ

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AGENDA AT A GLANCE

CONFERENCE DAY ONE THE EASTERN FLANK LAND BATTLE: INTEGRATED CAPABILITIES FOR FUTURE-READY LAND FORCES Powering Land Force Preparedness and Systems Interoperability MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK

STREAM A: SENSE, COMMAND AND TARGETING Detecting, Deciding, Targeting, and Commanding Faster than the Enemy Under EW, GPS Denial, and Persistent Drone Observation

STREAM B: INTEGRATED FIRES AND LAND FORCE PROTECTION Protecting Manoeuvre Forces, Artillery, Logistics Nodes and Command Posts Against Aerial Threat for Battlefield Advantage

STREAM C: MANOEUVRE, SURVIVABILITY AND SUSTAINMENT Driving Armoured and Mechanised Forces to Move, Survive, Regenerate and Sustain Combat Power in Baltic and Eastern Flank Terrain

ENHANCING LETHALITY THROUGH SYNCHRONISED PRECISION FIRES Coordinated Fires Capabilities for Rapid Precision Targeting

DEFENDING LAND FORCES AGAINST LOW-COST AERIAL THREATS Winning the Battle With C-UAS Against High-Volume, Low-Cost Attack

MODERNISING PLATFORMS TO DETER EASTERN FLANK THREATS Scaling Modern Manoeuvre and UGVs in the Current Combat Environment

NETWORKING LUNCH

ARTILLERY PROGRAMMES SUPPORTING GROUND FORCES Achieving Deep Strike Effects Through Modernised Artillery and Precision-Guided Munitions

LAYERED PROTECTION AGAINST LOITERING MUNITIONS, MISSILES AND ONE-WAY ATTACK SYSTEMS Lessons from the Middle East and Reshaping the Economics of Warfare

OVERCOMING REGIONAL BALTIC CHALLENGES FOR DYNAMIC MANOEUVRE Optimising Armoured Vehicle Performance in the Baltics for Enhanced Survivability

AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING

DOMINATING WITH INDIRECT FIRES IN EW- CONTESTED ENVIRONMENTS Survivability in Highly Contested Airspace

DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION: ENABLERS FOR AIR AND MISSILE DEFENCE TOOLS Integrated Surveillance of the Airspace Driving Rapid, Rea-Time Response

UPGRADING ARMOURED VEHICLES IN CONTEMPORARY CONFLICT Cheaper, Modernised Heavy Combat Capabilities for High-Intensity Combat Readiness

NETWORKING DRINKS RECEPTION

CONFERENCE DAY TWO BUYING AND BUILDING COMBAT POWER AT WARTIME SPEED Fuelling Future Land Warfare Capabilities Through Strategic Funding MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK

SYNCHRONISING FIRES, AIR DEFENCE AND TARGETING FOR EASTERN FLANK DETERRENCE

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Achieving Ground Dominance and Enhancing Lethality Through Integrated Manoeuvre, Defence, and Fires NETWORKING LUNCH

INFORMATION ADVANTAGE IN THE COMBAT ENVIRONMENT Smarter Decision-Making and Rapid Response Driven by Real-Time Battlefield Information

AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING

LOGISTICS RESILIENCE: MUNITIONS, INTERCEPTORS, REPAIR AND FORCE REGENERATION TO SUSTAIN THE FIGHT Solidifying Logistics Foundations to Sustain Land Combat Power

CHAIRMAN • Major General (Ret’d) Mike Keating, Former Chief of Staff, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC)

CONFIRMED AND RESERVED SPEAKERS • General Raimundas Vaiksnoras, Chief of Defence of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuanian Armed Forces *subject to final confirmation • Lieutenant General Adam Joks, Commander, 2 Polish Corps - Land Component Command, Polish Army

• Major General Olly Brown, General Officer Commanding 3 UK Division, British Army

• Brigadier General Nerijus Stankevičius, Commander, Lithuanian Land Force *subject to final confirmation • Brigadier General Aurelijus Alasauskas, Commander, Lithuanian Army First Division *subject to final confirmation • Brigadier General István Tóth, Commander of the 1st Klapka György Armoured Brigade, Hungarian Defence Forces

• Colonel Roman Bobal, Commander, Fires Centre of Excellence, Armed Forces of Slovak Republic

• Colonel Craig Cotner, Incoming Fires Transformation and Integration Director, US Army

• Colonel David Brassard, Incoming Commander, Multinational Brigade Latvia

INVITED SPEAKERS • Lieutenant General Pasi Välimäki, Commander, Finnish Army

• Major General Andrii Malinovskiy, Chief of Artillery, Armed Forces of Ukraine

• Major General Kaspars Pudāns, Chief of defence of the republic of Latvia, Latvian National Armed Forces

• Major General Michał Rohde, Commander, 12th Mechanised Division, Polish Land Forces

• Brigadier General Gábor Lőrincz, Commander, Hungarian Ground Forces

• Brigadier General Adrian Popescu, Commander of the 9th Mechanised Brigade, Romanian Land Forces

• Brigadier General Steven Carpenter, Commander, 56th Artillery Command, US Army

• Brigadier Craig Hanson, Commander of 101st Operational Sustainment Brigade, British Army

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• Mr. Edvinas Grikšas, Minister of Economy and Innovation, Ministry of Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania

• Mr. Joseph Lyden, Chief Procurement Officer, NSPA

DAY ONE, TUESDAY 17 NOVEMBER

0730 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

0830

DEFENCE iQ OPENING WELCOME Helena Peradigou, Senior Conference Producer, Defence iQ

0835

CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS Reserved for:Lithuanian Land Force

0840

WELCOME ADDRESS: LITHUANIAN LAND FORCES Reserved for: General Raimundas Vaiksnoras,Chief of Defence of the Republic of Lithuania,Lithuanian Armed Forces

THE EASTERN FLANK LAND BATTLE: INTEGRATED CAPABILITIES FOR FUTURE-READY LAND FORCES

0845 HOST NATION KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ALIGNING LTU LAND FORCE DEVELOPMENT WITH EASTERN FLANK DEFENCE INITIATIVES Reserved for:Lithuanian Land Force

0915 Reserved for industry

0945

RESTORING COMBINED ARMS MANOEUVRE AND SYNCHRONISED LAND CAPABILITIES Lieutenant General Adam Joks, Commander, 2 Polish Corps - Land Component Command, Polish Army

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INDUSTRY LEADERS PANEL: OPEN ARCHITECTURE FOR THE EASTERN FLANK KILL CHAIN: CONNECTING SENSORS, SHOOTERS, EFFECTORS AND COMMAND NETWORKS Panellists: Reserved for:Echodyne Reserved for: Lockheed Martin Invited: Aaronia, Palantir, Adarga, Helsing

1100 MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK

STREAM A: SENSE, COMMAND AND TARGETING

STREAM B: INTEGRATED FIRES AND LAND FORCE PROTECTION Chairman: Major General (Ret’d) Mike Keating, Former Chief of Staff, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC)

STREAM C: MANOEUVRE, SURVIVABILITY AND SUSTAINMENT Chairman: Reserved for Lithuanian Land Force

ENHANCING LETHALITY THROUGH SYNCHRONISED PRECISION FIRES

DEFENDING LAND FORCES AGAINST LOW-COST AERIAL THREATS

MODERNISING PLATFORMS TO DETER EASTERN FLANK THREATS

1130 MOBILE ARTILLERY IN THE TRANSPARENT BATTLEFIELD: SPEED, DISPLACEMENT AND SURVIVABILITY UNDER COUNTER-BATTERY THREAT Reserved for:Lithuanian Land Force

HOST NATION KEYNOTE ADDRESS: REQUIREMENTS TO FURTHER INTEGRATE AIR AND MISSILE DEFENCE FOR BALTIC SECURITY Reserved for:Lithuanian Land Force

MODERNISING MBTS AND IFVS FOR THE DRONE- SATURATED BATTLEFIELD Reserved for:Lithuanian Land Force

1200 LONG-RANGE PRECISION FIRES FOR EASTERN FLANK DETERRENCE Reserved for: Lockheed Martin

Reserved for industryReserved for industry

1230 CLOSING THE SENSOR-TO-SHOOTER GAP: OVERCOMING DISCONNECTED C2 TO COORDINATE FIRES AT SPEED Invited:Brigadier General Steven Carpenter, Commander, 56th Artillery Command, US Army

UKRAINE’S COST CURVE LESSON: COUNTERING CHEAP DRONES WHILST SUSTAINING EXPENSIVE INTERCEPTORS Invited:Armed Forces of Ukraine

FROM TRIALS TO TACTICAL UTILITY: SCALING UGVS FOR RECONNAISSANCE, LOGISTICS AND FORCE PROTECTION Invited: Estonian Land Forces

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1300 NETWORKING LUNCH

ARTILLERY PROGRAMMES SUPPORTING GROUND FORCES

LAYERED PROTECTION AGAINST LOITERING MUNITIONS, MISSILES AND ONE-WAY ATTACK SYSTEMS

OVERCOMING REGIONAL BALTIC CHALLENGES FOR DYNAMIC MANOEUVRE

1400 MODERNISING HOWITZER FORCES FOR SPEED, AUTOMATION AND SURVIVABILITY Invited: Slovak Armed Forces

RECENT LESSONS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT DRIVING US ARMY MODERNISATION Colonel Craig Cotner, Incoming Fires Transformation and Integration Director, US Army

KEEPING ARMOUR MOVING UNDER FIRE: MOBILITY, RECOVERY, REPAIR AND PROTECTED MANOEUVRE Invited: British Army

1430 Reserved for industry

1500 SUSTAINING ARTILLERY ADVANTAGE THROUGH RCH 155: PROCUREMENT, SURVIVABILITY AND LONG- TERM FIRES MODERNISATION Invited: British Army

PANEL - IN - THE - ROUND SESSION: CAN ARMED FORCES SUSTAINABLY MANAGE THE COST CURVE PROBLEM? Addressing cheap drones, expensive interceptors, and the economics of sustained land warfare. Moderator: Major General (Ret’d) Mike Keating, Former Chief of Staff, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) Panellist: Colonel Craig Cotner, Incoming Fires Transformation and Integration Director, US Army

MANOEUVRE IN BALTIC TERRAIN: MOBILITY CORRIDORS, OBSTACLES, BRIDGING AND REINFORCEMENT ROUTES Invited: Estonian Land Forces

1530 AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING

DOMINATING WITH INDIRECT FIRES IN EW- CONTESTED ENVIRONMENTS

DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION: ENABLERS FOR AIR AND MISSILE DEFENCE

UPGRADING ARMOURED VEHICLES IN CONTEMPORARY CONFLICT

1600 IMPROVING PERFORMANCE OF DIGITISED FIRES IN GPS-DENIED ENVIRONMENTS

TARGET ACQUISITION AND SENSOR FUSION: BUILDING THE SHARED PICTURE FOR AIR DEFENCE, FIRES AND MANOEUVRE

LESSONS FROM ZRINYI 2026: MODERNISING HEAVY FORCES FOR SURVIVABILITY, MOBILITY AND COMBAT MASS Brigadier General István Tóth, Commander of the 1st Klapka György Armoured Brigade, Hungarian Defence Forces

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Reserved for: Colonel Roman Bobal, Commander, Fires Centre of Excellence, Armed Forces of Slovak Republic

Invited: TheRomanian Land Forces

1630 LOITERING MUNITIONS: SURVIVABILITY IN CONTESTED, GPS-DENIED AIRSPACE Invited: Bulgarian Land Forces

CRITICAL PERFORMANCE OF RADAR SYSTEMS FOR C- UAS Reserved for:Echodyne

MODULAR ARMOUR AND SURVIVABILITY UPGRADES: EXTENDING PLATFORM LIFE WITHOUT FULL FLEET REPLACEMENT Invited: Major General Olly Brown, General Officer Commanding 3 UK Division, British Army

1700 MEETING RAPID MOBILITY DEMANDS FOR MLRS THROUGH C2 AND LOGISTICS Invited: The Finnish Army

ENHANCING SITUATIONAL AWARENESS OF THE SHARED AIRSPACE FOR INTEROPERABILITY Invited: Latvian Land Forces

PANEL DISCUSSION: UTILITY OF THE TANK

1730 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS

CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS Major General (Ret’d) Mike Keating, Former Chief of Staff, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC)

CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS Reserved for Lithuanian Land Force

1740 DRINKS RECEPTION AND NETWORKING

DAY TWO, TUESDAY 18 NOVEMBER

0800 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

0855

CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS Reserved for:Lithuanian Land Force

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BUYING AND BUILDING COMBAT POWER AT WARTIME SPEED

0900 FUNDING EASTERN FLANK REARMAMENT: NEW GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL TOOLS AND 2027 INNOVATION PRIORITIES Invited: Lithuanian Ministry of Economy and Innovation

0930 Reserved for industry

1000 INCREASING INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY FOR AIR AND MISSILE DEFENCE: NSPA PROJECT UPDATES Invited: Mr. Joseph Lyden, Chief Procurement Officer, NSPA

1030 Reserved for industry

1100 MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK

SYNCHRONISING FIRES, AIR DEFENCE AND TARGETING FOR EASTERN FLANK DETERRENCE

1130

SYNCHRONISING AIR DEFENCE AND FIELD ARTILLERY: PROTECTING THE FORCE WHILE EXTENDING THE KILL CHAIN Invited: Colonel Frank Maxwell, Incoming Chief of Staff, Multidomain Command-Europe, US Army

1200 Reserved for industry

1230

BALLISTIC DATA, WEATHER EFFECTS AND TARGETING ACCURACY: IMPROVING FIRES DECISIONS IN CONTESTED CONDITIONS Invited: Latvian Land Forces

1300 NETWORKING LUNCH

INFORMATION ADVANTAGE IN THE COMBAT ENVIRONMENT

1400

INTEGRATED LAND AND AIR ISR: FINDING AND PRIORITISING TARGETS IN THE TRANSPARENT BATTLEFIELD Invited: TheRomanian Armed Forces

1430

DISRUPTING THE ENEMY KILL CHAIN: EW, DECEPTION AND SURVIVABILITY FOR LAND FORCES Invited: The Finnish Defence Forces

1500 AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING

LOGISTICS RESILIENCE: MUNITIONS, INTERCEPTORS, REPAIR AND FORCE REGENERATION TO SUSTAIN THE FIGHT

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1530

DEFENDING THE DEFENDER: THE COST OF INTERCEPTOR SUSTAINMENT Invited: Polish Land Forces

1600

ARTILLERY EXPENDITURE AND THE WAR OF ATTRITION: MUNITIONS DEPTH, PRODUCTION CAPACITY AND SUSTAINED FIRES Invited: Brigadier Craig Hanson, Commander of 101st Operational Sustainment Brigade, British Army

1630

CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS Reserved for:Lithuanian Land Force

1640 END OF CONFERENCE

VENUE

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Vilnius Grand Resort | Ežeraičių km, Ežeraičių g. 2, 14200 Vilnius, Lithuania

Defence iQ (IQPC International), 2nd Floor, 129 Wilton Road, London, SW1V 1JZ, United Kingdom

29 May 2026 Colonel Antti Viljaste Commander, 2nd Infantry Brigade Estonian Land forces INVITATION TO BRIEF: LAND WARFARE EUROPE; VILNIUS GRAND RESORT, LITHUANIA | 17- 18 November 2026 It is my esteemed pleasure to be directing Defence iQ’s Land Warfare Europe conference taking place on 17-18 November in Vilnius, in official partnership with the Lithuanian Land Force. I would like to extend a formal invitation to provide a brief at the conference. In modern combat, achieving lethality has become markedly cheaper than ensuring survivability. Precision strike has increasingly overtaken direct attack as the primary means of defeating enemy forces, enabled by the widespread use of sUAS alongside integrated radars, ISR, communications, and weapons systems. Armoured warfare is changing weekly. The RUS/UKR conflict has reaffirmed the value of armour for shock, protection, and armoured manoeuvre. National armies are now prioritising the maintenance and longevity of their armoured formations. More recently, Ukraine’s scaling of remotely controlled interceptor drones, unified UAV control, and cost-effective approaches to air defence have redefined the economics of warfare. In the current combat environment, integrating traditional armoured manoeuvre with indirect fires and integrated air and missile defence is no longer an option, but a necessity for achieving operational advantage. The Baltics and wider Eastern European nations continue to progress the Baltic Defence Line and East Shield initiatives, underscoring a collective effort to strengthen integrated land warfare capabilities along NATO’s Eastern Flank. This significant funding commitment of the Baltics underpins their commitment to fortify national borders and significantly enhance ground-based air defence - capabilities now widely recognised across Eastern Europe as central to contemporary defence and deterrence strategies. It’s in this capacity that the Land Warfare Europe Conference is returning this November, in official collaboration with the Lithuanian Land Forces at the Epicentre of NATO’s Eastern Flank, to drive integrated land capability, ground-based air defence, and regional deterrence. Through each dedicated stream across Indirect Fires, Air and Missile Defence, and Armoured Manouvre, you will draw on regional priorities across Eastern Europe to follow new standards for cost-effective air defence, armoured capability, mobility, precision-targeting, and resilient communications. We will be uniting national armies, NATO commands and agencies, and industry across Eastern Europe over two days of presentations, interactive discussions, and networking. Key areas of discussion:

• Combined Manouvre and Synchronised Land Capabilities • Baltic Defence Line Initiative to Strengthen Eastern Borders • Ground-Based Air Defence and Interoperability Challenges • Cost-Effective Warfare and C-UAS • Loitering Munitions: Survivability in Contested, GPS-Denied Airspace • Following Ukrainian Standards for Drone Warfare

Your participation is crucial in driving forward these efforts and making a tangible impact on our collective defence strategies. We are delighted to invite you to deliver a 20-minute brief sharing your preferred insights in relation to Trials To Tactical Utility: Scaling THeMIS UGVs For Reconnaissance, Logistics And Force Protection (tentative suggestion: subject to personal preference). This will be followed by 10 minutes of questions from the floor.

Defence iQ (IQPC International), 2nd Floor, 129 Wilton Road, London, SW1V 1JZ, United Kingdom

Land Warfare Europe conference is designed to:

• Gather experts and leaders to tackle challenges, share insights, and develop innovative solutions • Unite senior representatives from nations and organisations involved in NATO security • Encourage engagement with interactive sessions and briefs examining current threats and strategic challenges

in the region Please contact the Programme Director directly via email at [email protected] or via telephone at + 44 (0) 207 368 9771. For planning purposes, please indicate a written decision for participation to the email address above. Yours sincerely, Helena Peradigou (on behalf of Lithuanian Land Force) Senior Conference Director Defence iQ

DRAFT PROGRAMME | LAND WARFARE EUROPE CONFERENCE

IN OFFICIAL PARTNERSHIP WITH

17 – 18 NOVEMBER 2026 | VILNIUS, LITHUANIA

DRAFT AGENDA

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Welcome Dear Colleague,

In modern combat, achieving lethality has become markedly cheaper than ensuring survivability. Precision strike has increasingly overtaken direct attack as the primary means of defeating enemy forces, enabled by the widespread use of sUAS alongside integrated radars, ISR, communications, and weapons systems. Armoured warfare is changing weekly. The RUS/UKR conflict has reaffirmed the value of armour for shock, protection, and armoured manoeuvre. National armies are now prioritising the maintenance and longevity of their armoured formations.

More recently, Ukraine’s scaling of remotely controlled interceptor drones, unified UAV control, and cost-effective approaches to air defence have redefined the economics of warfare. In the current combat environment, integrating traditional armoured manoeuvre with indirect fires and integrated air and missile defence is no longer an option, but a necessity for achieving operational advantage.

The Baltics and wider Eastern European nations continue to progress the Baltic Defence Line and East Shield initiatives, underscoring a collective effort to strengthen integrated land warfare capabilities along NATO’s Eastern Flank. This significant funding commitment of the Baltics underpins their commitment to fortify national borders and significantly enhance ground-based air defence - capabilities now widely recognised across Eastern Europe as central to contemporary defence and deterrence strategies.

It’s in this capacity that the Land Warfare Europe Conference is returning this November, in official collaboration with the Lithuanian Land Forces at the Epicentre of NATO’s Eastern Flank, to drive integrated land capability, ground-based air defence, and regional deterrence. Through dedicated streams focused on Sense, Command and Targeting; Integrated Fires and Land Force Protection; and Manoeuvre, Survivability and Sustainment, the conference will examine how Eastern Europe to follow new standards for cost-effective air defence, armoured capability, mobility, precision-targeting, and resilient communications.

We will be uniting national armies, NATO commands and agencies, and industry across Eastern Europe over two days of presentations, interactive discussions, and networking.

I look forward to connecting in Vilnius.

Regards,

Helena Peradigou Senior Conference Producer, Defence iQ

DRAFT PROGRAMME | LAND WARFARE EUROPE CONFERENCE

AGENDA AT A GLANCE

CONFERENCE DAY ONE THE EASTERN FLANK LAND BATTLE: INTEGRATED CAPABILITIES FOR FUTURE-READY LAND FORCES Powering Land Force Preparedness and Systems Interoperability MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK

STREAM A: SENSE, COMMAND AND TARGETING Detecting, Deciding, Targeting, and Commanding Faster than the Enemy Under EW, GPS Denial, and Persistent Drone Observation

STREAM B: INTEGRATED FIRES AND LAND FORCE PROTECTION Protecting Manoeuvre Forces, Artillery, Logistics Nodes and Command Posts Against Aerial Threat for Battlefield Advantage

STREAM C: MANOEUVRE, SURVIVABILITY AND SUSTAINMENT Driving Armoured and Mechanised Forces to Move, Survive, Regenerate and Sustain Combat Power in Baltic and Eastern Flank Terrain

ENHANCING LETHALITY THROUGH SYNCHRONISED PRECISION FIRES Coordinated Fires Capabilities for Rapid Precision Targeting

DEFENDING LAND FORCES AGAINST LOW-COST AERIAL THREATS Winning the Battle With C-UAS Against High-Volume, Low-Cost Attack

MODERNISING PLATFORMS TO DETER EASTERN FLANK THREATS Scaling Modern Manoeuvre and UGVs in the Current Combat Environment

NETWORKING LUNCH

ARTILLERY PROGRAMMES SUPPORTING GROUND FORCES Achieving Deep Strike Effects Through Modernised Artillery and Precision-Guided Munitions

LAYERED PROTECTION AGAINST LOITERING MUNITIONS, MISSILES AND ONE-WAY ATTACK SYSTEMS Lessons from the Middle East and Reshaping the Economics of Warfare

OVERCOMING REGIONAL BALTIC CHALLENGES FOR DYNAMIC MANOEUVRE Optimising Armoured Vehicle Performance in the Baltics for Enhanced Survivability

AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING

DOMINATING WITH INDIRECT FIRES IN EW- CONTESTED ENVIRONMENTS Survivability in Highly Contested Airspace

DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION: ENABLERS FOR AIR AND MISSILE DEFENCE TOOLS Integrated Surveillance of the Airspace Driving Rapid, Rea-Time Response

UPGRADING ARMOURED VEHICLES IN CONTEMPORARY CONFLICT Cheaper, Modernised Heavy Combat Capabilities for High-Intensity Combat Readiness

NETWORKING DRINKS RECEPTION

CONFERENCE DAY TWO BUYING AND BUILDING COMBAT POWER AT WARTIME SPEED Fuelling Future Land Warfare Capabilities Through Strategic Funding MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK

SYNCHRONISING FIRES, AIR DEFENCE AND TARGETING FOR EASTERN FLANK DETERRENCE

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Achieving Ground Dominance and Enhancing Lethality Through Integrated Manoeuvre, Defence, and Fires NETWORKING LUNCH

INFORMATION ADVANTAGE IN THE COMBAT ENVIRONMENT Smarter Decision-Making and Rapid Response Driven by Real-Time Battlefield Information

AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING

LOGISTICS RESILIENCE: MUNITIONS, INTERCEPTORS, REPAIR AND FORCE REGENERATION TO SUSTAIN THE FIGHT Solidifying Logistics Foundations to Sustain Land Combat Power

CHAIRMAN • Major General (Ret’d) Mike Keating, Former Chief of Staff, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC)

CONFIRMED AND RESERVED SPEAKERS • General Raimundas Vaiksnoras, Chief of Defence of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuanian Armed Forces *subject to final confirmation • Lieutenant General Adam Joks, Commander, 2 Polish Corps - Land Component Command, Polish Army

• Major General Olly Brown, General Officer Commanding 3 UK Division, British Army

• Brigadier General Nerijus Stankevičius, Commander, Lithuanian Land Force *subject to final confirmation • Brigadier General Aurelijus Alasauskas, Commander, Lithuanian Army First Division *subject to final confirmation • Brigadier General István Tóth, Commander of the 1st Klapka György Armoured Brigade, Hungarian Defence Forces

• Colonel Roman Bobal, Commander, Fires Centre of Excellence, Armed Forces of Slovak Republic

• Colonel Craig Cotner, Incoming Fires Transformation and Integration Director, US Army

• Colonel David Brassard, Incoming Commander, Multinational Brigade Latvia

INVITED SPEAKERS • Lieutenant General Pasi Välimäki, Commander, Finnish Army

• Major General Andrii Malinovskiy, Chief of Artillery, Armed Forces of Ukraine

• Major General Kaspars Pudāns, Chief of defence of the republic of Latvia, Latvian National Armed Forces

• Major General Michał Rohde, Commander, 12th Mechanised Division, Polish Land Forces

• Brigadier General Gábor Lőrincz, Commander, Hungarian Ground Forces

• Brigadier General Adrian Popescu, Commander of the 9th Mechanised Brigade, Romanian Land Forces

• Brigadier General Steven Carpenter, Commander, 56th Artillery Command, US Army

• Brigadier Craig Hanson, Commander of 101st Operational Sustainment Brigade, British Army

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• Mr. Edvinas Grikšas, Minister of Economy and Innovation, Ministry of Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania

• Mr. Joseph Lyden, Chief Procurement Officer, NSPA

DAY ONE, TUESDAY 17 NOVEMBER

0730 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

0830

DEFENCE iQ OPENING WELCOME Helena Peradigou, Senior Conference Producer, Defence iQ

0835

CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS Reserved for:Lithuanian Land Force

0840

WELCOME ADDRESS: LITHUANIAN LAND FORCES Reserved for: General Raimundas Vaiksnoras,Chief of Defence of the Republic of Lithuania,Lithuanian Armed Forces

THE EASTERN FLANK LAND BATTLE: INTEGRATED CAPABILITIES FOR FUTURE-READY LAND FORCES

0845 HOST NATION KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ALIGNING LTU LAND FORCE DEVELOPMENT WITH EASTERN FLANK DEFENCE INITIATIVES Reserved for:Lithuanian Land Force

0915 Reserved for industry

0945

RESTORING COMBINED ARMS MANOEUVRE AND SYNCHRONISED LAND CAPABILITIES Lieutenant General Adam Joks, Commander, 2 Polish Corps - Land Component Command, Polish Army

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INDUSTRY LEADERS PANEL: OPEN ARCHITECTURE FOR THE EASTERN FLANK KILL CHAIN: CONNECTING SENSORS, SHOOTERS, EFFECTORS AND COMMAND NETWORKS Panellists: Reserved for:Echodyne Reserved for: Lockheed Martin Invited: Aaronia, Palantir, Adarga, Helsing

1100 MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK

STREAM A: SENSE, COMMAND AND TARGETING

STREAM B: INTEGRATED FIRES AND LAND FORCE PROTECTION Chairman: Major General (Ret’d) Mike Keating, Former Chief of Staff, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC)

STREAM C: MANOEUVRE, SURVIVABILITY AND SUSTAINMENT Chairman: Reserved for Lithuanian Land Force

ENHANCING LETHALITY THROUGH SYNCHRONISED PRECISION FIRES

DEFENDING LAND FORCES AGAINST LOW-COST AERIAL THREATS

MODERNISING PLATFORMS TO DETER EASTERN FLANK THREATS

1130 MOBILE ARTILLERY IN THE TRANSPARENT BATTLEFIELD: SPEED, DISPLACEMENT AND SURVIVABILITY UNDER COUNTER-BATTERY THREAT Reserved for:Lithuanian Land Force

HOST NATION KEYNOTE ADDRESS: REQUIREMENTS TO FURTHER INTEGRATE AIR AND MISSILE DEFENCE FOR BALTIC SECURITY Reserved for:Lithuanian Land Force

MODERNISING MBTS AND IFVS FOR THE DRONE- SATURATED BATTLEFIELD Reserved for:Lithuanian Land Force

1200 LONG-RANGE PRECISION FIRES FOR EASTERN FLANK DETERRENCE Reserved for: Lockheed Martin

Reserved for industryReserved for industry

1230 CLOSING THE SENSOR-TO-SHOOTER GAP: OVERCOMING DISCONNECTED C2 TO COORDINATE FIRES AT SPEED Invited:Brigadier General Steven Carpenter, Commander, 56th Artillery Command, US Army

UKRAINE’S COST CURVE LESSON: COUNTERING CHEAP DRONES WHILST SUSTAINING EXPENSIVE INTERCEPTORS Invited:Armed Forces of Ukraine

FROM TRIALS TO TACTICAL UTILITY: SCALING UGVS FOR RECONNAISSANCE, LOGISTICS AND FORCE PROTECTION Invited: Estonian Land Forces

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1300 NETWORKING LUNCH

ARTILLERY PROGRAMMES SUPPORTING GROUND FORCES

LAYERED PROTECTION AGAINST LOITERING MUNITIONS, MISSILES AND ONE-WAY ATTACK SYSTEMS

OVERCOMING REGIONAL BALTIC CHALLENGES FOR DYNAMIC MANOEUVRE

1400 MODERNISING HOWITZER FORCES FOR SPEED, AUTOMATION AND SURVIVABILITY Invited: Slovak Armed Forces

RECENT LESSONS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT DRIVING US ARMY MODERNISATION Colonel Craig Cotner, Incoming Fires Transformation and Integration Director, US Army

KEEPING ARMOUR MOVING UNDER FIRE: MOBILITY, RECOVERY, REPAIR AND PROTECTED MANOEUVRE Invited: British Army

1430 Reserved for industry

1500 SUSTAINING ARTILLERY ADVANTAGE THROUGH RCH 155: PROCUREMENT, SURVIVABILITY AND LONG- TERM FIRES MODERNISATION Invited: British Army

PANEL - IN - THE - ROUND SESSION: CAN ARMED FORCES SUSTAINABLY MANAGE THE COST CURVE PROBLEM? Addressing cheap drones, expensive interceptors, and the economics of sustained land warfare. Moderator: Major General (Ret’d) Mike Keating, Former Chief of Staff, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) Panellist: Colonel Craig Cotner, Incoming Fires Transformation and Integration Director, US Army

MANOEUVRE IN BALTIC TERRAIN: MOBILITY CORRIDORS, OBSTACLES, BRIDGING AND REINFORCEMENT ROUTES Invited: Estonian Land Forces

1530 AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING

DOMINATING WITH INDIRECT FIRES IN EW- CONTESTED ENVIRONMENTS

DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION: ENABLERS FOR AIR AND MISSILE DEFENCE

UPGRADING ARMOURED VEHICLES IN CONTEMPORARY CONFLICT

1600 IMPROVING PERFORMANCE OF DIGITISED FIRES IN GPS-DENIED ENVIRONMENTS

TARGET ACQUISITION AND SENSOR FUSION: BUILDING THE SHARED PICTURE FOR AIR DEFENCE, FIRES AND MANOEUVRE

LESSONS FROM ZRINYI 2026: MODERNISING HEAVY FORCES FOR SURVIVABILITY, MOBILITY AND COMBAT MASS Brigadier General István Tóth, Commander of the 1st Klapka György Armoured Brigade, Hungarian Defence Forces

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Reserved for: Colonel Roman Bobal, Commander, Fires Centre of Excellence, Armed Forces of Slovak Republic

Invited: TheRomanian Land Forces

1630 LOITERING MUNITIONS: SURVIVABILITY IN CONTESTED, GPS-DENIED AIRSPACE Invited: Bulgarian Land Forces

CRITICAL PERFORMANCE OF RADAR SYSTEMS FOR C- UAS Reserved for:Echodyne

MODULAR ARMOUR AND SURVIVABILITY UPGRADES: EXTENDING PLATFORM LIFE WITHOUT FULL FLEET REPLACEMENT Invited: Major General Olly Brown, General Officer Commanding 3 UK Division, British Army

1700 MEETING RAPID MOBILITY DEMANDS FOR MLRS THROUGH C2 AND LOGISTICS Invited: The Finnish Army

ENHANCING SITUATIONAL AWARENESS OF THE SHARED AIRSPACE FOR INTEROPERABILITY Invited: Latvian Land Forces

PANEL DISCUSSION: UTILITY OF THE TANK

1730 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS

CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS Major General (Ret’d) Mike Keating, Former Chief of Staff, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC)

CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS Reserved for Lithuanian Land Force

1740 DRINKS RECEPTION AND NETWORKING

DAY TWO, TUESDAY 18 NOVEMBER

0800 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

0855

CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS Reserved for:Lithuanian Land Force

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BUYING AND BUILDING COMBAT POWER AT WARTIME SPEED

0900 FUNDING EASTERN FLANK REARMAMENT: NEW GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL TOOLS AND 2027 INNOVATION PRIORITIES Invited: Lithuanian Ministry of Economy and Innovation

0930 Reserved for industry

1000 INCREASING INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY FOR AIR AND MISSILE DEFENCE: NSPA PROJECT UPDATES Invited: Mr. Joseph Lyden, Chief Procurement Officer, NSPA

1030 Reserved for industry

1100 MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK

SYNCHRONISING FIRES, AIR DEFENCE AND TARGETING FOR EASTERN FLANK DETERRENCE

1130

SYNCHRONISING AIR DEFENCE AND FIELD ARTILLERY: PROTECTING THE FORCE WHILE EXTENDING THE KILL CHAIN Invited: Colonel Frank Maxwell, Incoming Chief of Staff, Multidomain Command-Europe, US Army

1200 Reserved for industry

1230

BALLISTIC DATA, WEATHER EFFECTS AND TARGETING ACCURACY: IMPROVING FIRES DECISIONS IN CONTESTED CONDITIONS Invited: Latvian Land Forces

1300 NETWORKING LUNCH

INFORMATION ADVANTAGE IN THE COMBAT ENVIRONMENT

1400

INTEGRATED LAND AND AIR ISR: FINDING AND PRIORITISING TARGETS IN THE TRANSPARENT BATTLEFIELD Invited: TheRomanian Armed Forces

1430

DISRUPTING THE ENEMY KILL CHAIN: EW, DECEPTION AND SURVIVABILITY FOR LAND FORCES Invited: The Finnish Defence Forces

1500 AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING

LOGISTICS RESILIENCE: MUNITIONS, INTERCEPTORS, REPAIR AND FORCE REGENERATION TO SUSTAIN THE FIGHT

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1530

DEFENDING THE DEFENDER: THE COST OF INTERCEPTOR SUSTAINMENT Invited: Polish Land Forces

1600

ARTILLERY EXPENDITURE AND THE WAR OF ATTRITION: MUNITIONS DEPTH, PRODUCTION CAPACITY AND SUSTAINED FIRES Invited: Brigadier Craig Hanson, Commander of 101st Operational Sustainment Brigade, British Army

1630

CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS Reserved for:Lithuanian Land Force

1640 END OF CONFERENCE

VENUE

DRAFT PROGRAMME | LAND WARFARE EUROPE CONFERENCE

Vilnius Grand Resort | Ežeraičių km, Ežeraičių g. 2, 14200 Vilnius, Lithuania

Defence iQ (IQPC International), 2nd Floor, 129 Wilton Road, London, SW1V 1JZ, United Kingdom

29 May 2026 Colonel Antti Viljaste Commander, 2nd Infantry Brigade Estonian Land forces INVITATION TO BRIEF: LAND WARFARE EUROPE; VILNIUS GRAND RESORT, LITHUANIA | 17- 18 November 2026 It is my esteemed pleasure to be directing Defence iQ’s Land Warfare Europe conference taking place on 17-18 November in Vilnius, in official partnership with the Lithuanian Land Force. I would like to extend a formal invitation to provide a brief at the conference. In modern combat, achieving lethality has become markedly cheaper than ensuring survivability. Precision strike has increasingly overtaken direct attack as the primary means of defeating enemy forces, enabled by the widespread use of sUAS alongside integrated radars, ISR, communications, and weapons systems. Armoured warfare is changing weekly. The RUS/UKR conflict has reaffirmed the value of armour for shock, protection, and armoured manoeuvre. National armies are now prioritising the maintenance and longevity of their armoured formations. More recently, Ukraine’s scaling of remotely controlled interceptor drones, unified UAV control, and cost-effective approaches to air defence have redefined the economics of warfare. In the current combat environment, integrating traditional armoured manoeuvre with indirect fires and integrated air and missile defence is no longer an option, but a necessity for achieving operational advantage. The Baltics and wider Eastern European nations continue to progress the Baltic Defence Line and East Shield initiatives, underscoring a collective effort to strengthen integrated land warfare capabilities along NATO’s Eastern Flank. This significant funding commitment of the Baltics underpins their commitment to fortify national borders and significantly enhance ground-based air defence - capabilities now widely recognised across Eastern Europe as central to contemporary defence and deterrence strategies. It’s in this capacity that the Land Warfare Europe Conference is returning this November, in official collaboration with the Lithuanian Land Forces at the Epicentre of NATO’s Eastern Flank, to drive integrated land capability, ground-based air defence, and regional deterrence. Through each dedicated stream across Indirect Fires, Air and Missile Defence, and Armoured Manouvre, you will draw on regional priorities across Eastern Europe to follow new standards for cost-effective air defence, armoured capability, mobility, precision-targeting, and resilient communications. We will be uniting national armies, NATO commands and agencies, and industry across Eastern Europe over two days of presentations, interactive discussions, and networking. Key areas of discussion:

• Combined Manouvre and Synchronised Land Capabilities • Baltic Defence Line Initiative to Strengthen Eastern Borders • Ground-Based Air Defence and Interoperability Challenges • Cost-Effective Warfare and C-UAS • Loitering Munitions: Survivability in Contested, GPS-Denied Airspace • Following Ukrainian Standards for Drone Warfare

Your participation is crucial in driving forward these efforts and making a tangible impact on our collective defence strategies. We are delighted to invite you to deliver a 20-minute brief sharing your preferred insights in relation to Trials To Tactical Utility: Scaling THeMIS UGVs For Reconnaissance, Logistics And Force Protection (tentative suggestion: subject to personal preference). This will be followed by 10 minutes of questions from the floor.

Defence iQ (IQPC International), 2nd Floor, 129 Wilton Road, London, SW1V 1JZ, United Kingdom

Land Warfare Europe conference is designed to:

• Gather experts and leaders to tackle challenges, share insights, and develop innovative solutions • Unite senior representatives from nations and organisations involved in NATO security • Encourage engagement with interactive sessions and briefs examining current threats and strategic challenges

in the region Please contact the Programme Director directly via email at [email protected] or via telephone at + 44 (0) 207 368 9771. For planning purposes, please indicate a written decision for participation to the email address above. Yours sincerely, Helena Peradigou (on behalf of Lithuanian Land Force) Senior Conference Director Defence iQ