After many years of NATO allied nations engaging in combat against largely dismounted insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, the recent doctrinal pivot towards fighting mechanized, nation-state competitors requires both technical and strategic cooperation. By design, light infantry forces sacrifice certain capabilities in order to maximize flexibility and mobility. It is therefore vital that programme managers, technical directors and industry...

Due to high demand, SMi Group is proud to announce the inaugural Military Space Disruptive Technology Conference and Exhibition, taking place on 25th – 26th April 2022 in London, UK. After launching as a pre-conference Focus Day at the industry-leading Global MilSatCom conference and exhibition, Military Space Disruptive Technology will now run as a standalone event alongside Military Space Situational Awareness in SMi Group’s Spac...

The SMi Group is delighted to announce the 3rd annual Defence Aviation Safety Conference taking place on the 20th- 21st April 2022. As the only online event specifically focused on defence safety for the military aviation community, Defence Aviation Safety offers a unique opportunity for leaders and experts to meet and share best practice that will save lives and protect capability. Keeping aircraft airworthy and creating a safety culture acro...

SMi Group are delighted to announce that the 2022 edition of the Defence Aviation Safety conference will take place live and in person in London, UK on 20th & 21st April 2022. As the only online event specifically focused on defence safety for the military aviation community, Defence Aviation Safety offers a unique opportunity for leaders and experts to meet and share best practice that will save lives and protect capability. This two-day...

Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience North America will bring together leading stakeholders from industry, operators, agencies and governments to collaborate on securing North America. The conference will look at developing on the theme of previous events in helping to create better understanding of the issues and the threats, to help facilitate the work to develop frameworks, good risk management, strategic planning and implementation.

Providing the Armoured Vehicle Crew with the Information to Operate in the Complex Modern Battlespace The SMi Group are pleased to present the next annual conference in the sell-out portfolio of Armoured Vehicle events: Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness (FAVSA) 2022, taking place on the 4th - 5th April 2022 in London. Militaries around the world are continuing to evolve and develop their armoured vehicle capabilities to provide in...

SMi Group is proud to host the 8th annual Future Soldier Technology conference, returning to London on the 8th - 9th of March 2022, and with our enormously popular Dismounted Situational Awareness Focus Day taking place on the 7th March 2022. Building on the enormous success of SMi’s previous seven annual meetings, Future Soldier Technology 2022 will be an excellent international gathering of senior officers and programme managers who ar...

SMi Group are proud to present the 7th Annual Defence Logistics Eastern Europe CONFERENCE in 2022. Please note all agenda times are in Central European Time. The Defence Logistics Eastern Europe conference is revered as the highest-level meeting for defence logistic leaders and supply chain managers from the region’s most forward-thinking military nations. As the only logistics conference specifically dedicated to Eastern Europe we are f...

In light of growing operational demands, coupled with recent examples of military support to civilian authorities in the recent COVID-19 outbreak, means that there has never been a more important time to view how armed forces, industry and governments are developing this force multiplier. Now in its 22nd year, SMi Group’s Military Airlift and Air-to-Air Refuelling conference remains a key calendar date for those in the airlift and AAR co...

SMi Group’s Future Armoured Vehicles Survivability conference will return to London for its 6th year on 16th - 17th November 2021, with a pre-conference Focus Day on 15th November. Bringing together senior military and industry experts, this event will discuss key survivability concepts across the spectrum, with briefings on situational awareness, concealment and signature management, IED protection systems and mine resistance, armour ma...