Navigating through a Sea of Data – Challenges for Secure and Efficient Reinforcement and Military Mobility in Europe/NATO 29-30 September 2020, Germany In 2018 NATO decided to establish two new Joint Commands in the wake of the NATO Command Structure adaptation. The first is the Joint Support Enabling Command (JSEC), located in the middle of Europe, with the far reaching task of ensuring the unhindered and swift movement of troops and t...

This workshop is about restructuring decision-making processes in hierarchical organisations, like the military, in the light of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning that will soon reach new dimensions (“real AI”). Traditional Command and Control philosophy will increasingly come under pressure by imminent changes to the existing balance between centralised computing power (cloud) vs. computing at the edge (smart phones). H...

Building on NATO’s largest exercise, Trident Juncture, this conference will give industry leaders the chance to learn how they can support Alliance operations in the High North with their latest technology. The extreme climate and lack of satellite communications in the Arctic are leading our allies in the region to embrace innovative partnerships with the private sector. This work will help the Alliance continue to safeguard peace and s...

NATO’s Digital Endeavour: Expanding the Ecosystem Organized in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany, NITEC18 conference will bring together over 600 senior government, military and industry leaders, as well as defence and security experts. These senior officials will be joined by NATO Directors, Service Line Chiefs and industry leaders to discuss NATO’s digital transformation (the largest in decades), business...

The underlying theme for this one-day workshop is how to secure key functionalities of government in a less disruptive, more resilient way against various threats and to sustain trust. On the one hand there are well-known but intensifying threats to the public sector, such as malware, spyware and in particular APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats). In addition, there are new categories of threats imminent through a myriad of new attack vectors st...

A flagship event of AFCEA Europe and the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Defence, Estonia, NITEC'16 will bring together more than 500 senior government, military and industry leaders as well as defense and security experts.

The whole world is part of an all-embracing transformation process. So are the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency and AFCEA, two "number one" in communications and information technology. Increasing tasks in the defence and security sector are challenged by decreasing budgets in the western world. However, intensive information exchange on an ethical platform between users and producers of state-of-the-art C4ISR hard and software...

"SUPPORTING NATO IN THE NEXT DECADE" Under the auspices of State Secretary Rüdiger Wolf, Federal Ministry of Defence, Berlin AFCEA is well-placed, through its wide-ranging membership and corporate supporters, to make a valued contribution to the work of NATO, especially the NATO C3 Agency. AFCEA has already run events at the request of NATO Commands and NATO Agencies and this is a relationship that can be usefully developed over the comin...

"Cloud Computing and its use in the Defence Environment" A symposium to examine the approaches that nations are taking to integrate the use of cloud computing into the defence environment and the challenges that arise, with special reference to security. There is an acceleration of cloud computing and cloud services among enterprises and an explosion of supply-side activity as technology providers manoeuvre to exploit the growing commercial op...

Led by the NATO C3 Capability Management Syndicate and supported by NC3A, NACMA NATO HQ C3 Staff and AFCEA, the NATO Configuration Management Symposium aspires to raise awareness of Configuration Management (CM) within NATO. The Symposium will give you an inside view to application of CM in NATO, Industry and in the Nations. It will inform you with innovative views brought up by the Academia world. Please see the Symposium Programme for a more...