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07 June 21. Exploiting the Defence Digital Backbone.
16-17 June 2021.
DI21 will be a virtual online event with an excellent range of speakers from across MOD and Industry, giving their views on the theme Exploiting the Defence Digital Backbone. Focusing on the MOD Digital Strategy for Defence it’s the one not to be missed!
Day One: Information, Cyber and Information Enablers
Includes keynotes from Charlie Forte, Maj Gen Tom Copinger-Symes, MOD and an industry response from John Lawson, BAE Systems. Panel sessions will follow covering Innovation, Digital Twin, AI, Asset Management, MOD Cloud closing with a Cyber session.
Day Two: Support, Services and Support Information
Includes keynotes from AVM Richard Hill, Brig Richard Carter and Nigel Shaw, MOD. Panel sessions will follow covering Multi Domain Integration and TD-Vanguard, closing with a transatlantic session and a keynote from Nicolas M. Chaillan.
Over 500 delegates registered, don’t miss out, click on the ‘BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE’ button below to secure your place and scroll down for full programme with details of speakers, panels and sessions.
Register your place on DI21, this year’s major event jointly organised by MOD Defence Digital and Team Defence Information. Book your place.
DI21 provides the forum for the ‘Team Defence’ community to discuss the latest MOD strategic initiatives, exchange information, strengthen relationships, and engage in collaborative Working Groups.
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DI21 Programme
DAY 1 – 16 JUNE 2021
Exploiting the Defence Digital Backbone
09.15-09.25
Welcome and Introduction – Phil Williams, MD, TD-Info
Information, Cyber & Information Enablers
Panel Chair: Charlie Maconochie, Account Director (Defence & National Security), Fujitsu UK
09.25-09.55 – Leading the Defence Digital & IT Transformation – Charlie Forte, MOD Chief Information Officer (CIO)
09.55-10.20 – Digitising the Battlefield – Maj Gen Tom Copinger-Symes, MOD Director Strategy and Military Digitisation
10.20-10.40 – Defence Industry Response – John Lawson, BAE Systems, CIO
10.40-11.00 – Panel Discussion – Chair: Charlie Maconochie
11.00-11.30 – Break – Please Visit Virtual Trade Stands
Panel Discussion – Chair: Dr Roger Hood – Chairman, NED, Adviser to commercial organisations
11.30-12.50
- A digital blueprint to enable better, faster, and greener programmes and complex asset management – Philip White, Chief Information & Digital Officer, Costain
- Innovation and the Digital Twin – Joe Robinson, CEO of Defence and National Security, Improbable
- Weapons Availability Modelling: Exploiting the Digital Backbone – Cdre Phil Game, Deputy Director Weapons, DE&S and Sam Packham, Principal Consultant, Newton
- Accelerating the MOD’s adoption and integration of Artificial Intelligence – Rob Bassett Cross, CEO, Adarga
12.50-13.10 – Panel Discussion – Chair: Dr Roger Hood
13.10-14.10 – Lunch – Please Visit Virtual Trade Stands
Panel Discussion – TBC
14.10-15.10 TBC
15.10-15.35 – Break – Please Visit Virtual Trade Stands
15.35-16.15 – Cyber Resilience Programme – Christine Maxwell, MOD Director of Cyber Defence and Risk and Steve Morgan, Managing Consultant, Atkins
16.15-16.40 – Data as a Strategic Asset for Advantage – Caroline Bellamy, MOD Chief Data Officer
16.40-17.00 – Bridging the Days – Keith Dear, Director AI Innovation, Fujitsu Defence & National Security
17.00-17.10 – Wrap Up Day One – Please Visit Virtual Trade Stand
DAY 2 – 17 JUNE 2021
Exploiting the Defence Digital Backbone
09.00-09.05
Welcome to Day Two – Phil Williams, MD, TD-Info
Support, Services & Support Information
Panel Chair: Gareth Hetheridge, Head of IT, Defence, Rolls-Royce plc
09.05-09.30 – Progress against the portfolio of work laid out in the Defence Support Strategy, formalising the rules of how Support functions and the introductions of an operating model – AVM Richard Hill, Director Defence Support Transformation, MOD
09.30-09.50 – Progress with the Digital Strategy Implementation from a Service Operations Perspective – Brig Richard Carter, ACOS Plans & Customer Services, MOD
09.50-10.10 – The DE&S response to the Integrated Review from the CIO’s perspective, a brief on “automation pilots” and the Issues around Recruitment and Retention of Qualified Staff – Nigel Shaw, CIO DE&S
10.10-10.30 – Panel Debate (including Business Modernisation for Support) – Chair: Gareth Hetheridge
10.30-11.00 – Break – Please Visit Virtual Trade Stands
Multi Domain Integration
Panel Chair: Kevin O’Reilly, Sopra Steria
11.00-11.20 – Multi Domain Integration – Steve Hyde
11.20-11.40 – Describing Multi-Domain Dependencies – an architecture perspective – Eugene McSheffrey, Principal Business Consultant, MEGA
11.40-12.00 – DSF Digital Workstream – Richard Franklin, UK MD Airbus Defence and Space & Head of Secure Communications
12.00-12.20 – Digital Integration Support – Babcock Aviation and Marine
12.20-12.40 – Q & A Session – Chair: Kevin O’Reilly
12.40-13.30 – Lunch – Please Visit Virtual Trade Stands
Team Defence Vanguard – The Imperative of Collaboration to Achieve a Resilient Future Fighting Force
Panel Chair: David Hawken – Deputy Head Strategy, MOD Defence Digital
13.20-14.40 – Panel Discussion
- Rebecca Stewart, Royal Navy
- Alex Hyde, Babcock
- Khadijah Khatun, CDS DS
14.40-15.10- Break – Please Visit Virtual Trade Stands
Transatlantic Sessions – UK/US collaboration and learning
Panel Chair: Gareth Hetheridge, Head of IT, Defence, Rolls-Royce plc
15.10-15.30 – Keynote Presentation – Implementing DevSecOps in the DoD – Nicolas M. Chaillan, HQE, United States Air Force Chief Software Officer
15.30-16.50
- International/Industry Digital Partnerships – Dr Kate Gill, Dstl Washington – F35 Programme
- London Tech Bridge – Dr Deji Coker, Office of Naval Research (ONR), Portfolio Manager for Autonomy and Brett Vaughan, U.S. Navy Chief AI Officer.
- Rolls-Royce US Defence Perspectives – John Matlik, Ben Rater and Al Donaldson, Rolls-Royce Defence
- The UK Exploiting its Niche – Guy Williams, UK Defence Lead Organisation: Palantir Technologies UK Ltd
16.50-17.00 – Panel Discussion
17.00-17.10
Closing Remarks – Phil Williams, MD, TD-Info
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