Adjusting Mission-Critical Strategies and Tactics with Real-Time Data Planning a military operation is a detail-oriented process that is critical to mission success and ensuring the safety of everyone involved. It requires analyzing historical data, assessing multiple risk factors, simulating numerous scenarios, and more. But no matter how much you prepare and plan, something unforeseeable will happen during execution. Historical data and simu...

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...

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...

"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...