7:45 am - 8:50 am Registration & Gov-to-Gov and Industry Engagement
8:50 am - 8:55 am Organiser’s Welcome
8:55 am - 9:00 am Morning to Lunch Chair’s Opening Remarks
Evolution of Defence Intelligence
9:00 am - 9:10 am UK Ministerial Keynote – Sovereign Defence Intelligence: How will the UK Lead on AI, Alliances, Partnerships and Space to Strengthen National Security
Lead with AI Mastery: How to integrate AI into defence to maintain strategic edge.
Forge Global Partnerships: How to deepen allied trust to counter shifting geopolitical threats with unified strength.
Secure Space Sovereignty: How to advance UK space assets to dominate ISR and protect critical infrastructure.
Champion Strategic Autonomy: How to reduce foreign tech dependency to safeguard mission assurance and national interests.
9:10 am - 9:30 am CDI UK Keynote – Moving Beyond Convention: Rethinking How to Deliver Defence Intelligence in a Volatile World
Rethink Intelligence Models: How to challenge legacy frameworks to deliver faster, mission-ready defence insights.
Adapt to Volatility: How to align intelligence methods with unpredictable global threats and shifting operational priorities.
Accelerate Decision Advantage: How to transform data into actionable intelligence for timely, high-consequence decisions.
Modernise with Urgency: How to integrate digital tools to outpace adversaries in dynamic conflict environments.
Future of Geo Data & Imagery Collection
9:30 am - 9:50 am Joint Keynote – Strategic Alignment: How are UK Defence Intelligence and UK Space Command Aligning to Deliver Sovereign Space Capability?
9:50 am - 10:10 am Industry Keynote – Real-time Ground Truth and the Future of Space-based Intelligence
Deliver Ground Truth: How to provide verified, real-time imagery to enable faster and more accurate decisions.
Transform ISR Timelines: How to reduce latency from space to screen for decisive operational advantage.
Maximise Commercial Innovation: How to harness private-sector constellations to scale persistent surveillance and tasking flexibility.
Fuse Space Intelligence: How to combine orbital data with multi-source feeds for enriched situational awareness and targeting.
10:10 am - 10:50 am Leadership Panel Discussion –Multi-Source Imagery: How Can You Modernise Multi-Domain Imagery Collection to Achieve the Right Balance of Affordable, Timely, High-Quality and Trustworthy Geospatial Intelligence for Analysts, Operators and Commanders?
10:50 am - 11:30 am Morning Break - Gov-to-Gov and Industry Engagement
10:50 am - 11:30 am Workshop – Automated Data Fusion: How to Integrate Multi-Source ISR to Scale Geospatial Intelligence and Boost Agility
Unify ISR Inputs: How to merge EO, SAR, RF, and HUMINT data into one actionable intelligence stream.
Boost Decision Agility: How to reduce analysis time through automation and deliver faster mission-ready geospatial insights.
Streamline Intelligence Pipelines: How to automate data ingestion, tagging, and fusion to improve ISR responsiveness at scale.
Reduce Analyst Burden: How to offload manual processing by using AI to handle complex multi-source correlation tasks.
Next-Gen Space-based ISR
11:30 am - 11:50 am NATO Keynote – Vision for the Evolution of Integrated ISR Capability from Space and the Air
Build Integrated ISR: How to fuse air and space sensors for real-time operational and strategic awareness.
Advance Allied Interoperability: How to harmonise ISR platforms to support coalition missions with shared situational insight.
Exploit Persistent Coverage: How to leverage layered surveillance for uninterrupted tracking of threats across contested domains.
Drive Data Fusion: How to combine multi-source intelligence to improve targeting precision and reduce decision timelines.
11:50 am - 12:10 pm EU Keynote – Strengthening European Defence: How Space Policy is Driving Operational Readiness, Strategic Autonomy and Allied Cohesion Across the EU
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Industry Keynote – New Geospatial Techniques from Space Transforming Situational Awareness on Land and Sea
Elevate Mission Awareness: How to deliver precise, persistent insights for faster land and maritime decision-making.
Exploit Orbital Innovation: How to apply next-gen sensors to uncover hidden activity across complex terrains and waters.
Streamline Intelligence Delivery: How to reduce latency from collection to action for operational units in fast-moving environments.
Fuse Multi-Domain Views: How to integrate space data with terrestrial feeds to support real-time operational coordination.
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm Leadership Fireside Chat – How are National Governments Preparing Themselves for the Age of pLEO (proliferated LEO) and TacSRT (Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting)?
2:20 pm - 2:40 pm Industry Presentation - Disrupting the Status Quo: Integrating Situational Foresight
Redefine Mission Models: How to go beyond traditional IRM and CM to unlock smarter, scalable operations.
Reveal Hidden Activity: How to observe the previously unobserved using persistent, multi-source surveillance and advanced analytics.
Establish Behavioural Baselines: How to define what’s normal to enable anomaly detection and predictive mission insights.
Scale Insight Production: How to industrialise data processing and analytics to deliver intelligence at operational hyperspeed and volume.
Track A – Faster Data & Imagery from Space
2:40 pm - 3:00 pm Industry Presentation - How High Revisit Rates and Rapid Delivery Are Enabling Responsive, Tactical Intelligence at Mission Speed
Enable Rapid Revisit: How to maintain constant surveillance with persistent SAR for dynamic, time-sensitive mission tracking.
Accelerate Tactical Decisions: How to shorten the tasking-to-exploitation loop with near-instant SAR data delivery.
Expand All-Weather Coverage: How to use SAR to ensure uninterrupted imaging through cloud, smoke, and darkness.
Support Ground Operations: How to integrate persistent SAR feeds into frontline workflows for real-time battlefield awareness.
Track A – Faster Data & Imagery from Space
3:00 pm - 3:20 pm Enhancing Space Situational Awareness: How Traffic Coordination Advances Are Safeguarding Orbits and Enabling Secure Military Space OperationsJanice Starzyk -
Director,
Office of Space Commerce
Track Orbital Hazards: How to improve detection and prediction of threats to military satellites and assets.
Coordinate Global Efforts: How to build collaborative frameworks for real-time space traffic deconfliction and alerting.
Protect Mission Continuity: How to ensure uninterrupted operations through responsive tracking and automated collision avoidance.
Strengthen Domain Awareness: How to expand visibility across crowded orbits for better-informed space control decisions.
2:20 pm - 2:40 pm Industry Presentation - Dark Fleet Detection and Monitoring enabled through Space-Based technology
Ensuring safety and security of the ocean and ocean-going vessels is critical
The so called “dark fleet” or “shadow fleet” are responsible for evading compliance, safety regulations, and contravening sovereignty.
This presentation will discuss how the application of space-SAR and other sensor data combined with near-realtime CONOPS and cross-cueing can provide significant intelligence input to authorities to manage their maritime domain.
2:20 pm - 2:40 pm Industry Presentation - How to Apply AI and Advanced Analytics to Extract Actionable Insight from Complex Geospatial Datasets in Real Time
Unlock Insight Velocity: How to use AI to rapidly analyse geospatial data across all operational domains.
Detect Hidden Patterns: How to uncover mission-critical signals from noisy, unstructured imagery using machine learning techniques.
Automate Intelligence Fusion: How to integrate multi-domain geospatial feeds into a single, AI-curated decision support layer.
Enhance Analyst Impact: How to empower teams with tools that deliver fast, trusted, and scalable intelligence outputs.
Track C – Integrating Multi-Domain ISR Data
2:40 pm - 3:00 pm Industry Presentation – How to Build Multi-Domain Collection Strategies that Reveal Adversary Intent and Enable Pre-Emptive Operational Planning
Anticipate Adversary Moves: How to detect intent early through synchronised, multi-domain sensor tasking and monitoring.
Enable Strategic Foresight: How to fuse diverse intelligence inputs to support predictive threat modelling and planning.
Drive Proactive Operations: How to use real-time collection to shape decisions before adversaries take decisive action.
Synchronise ISR Assets: How to coordinate platforms across domains to close information gaps and improve decision advantage.
Track C – Integrating Multi-Domain ISR Data
3:00 pm - 3:20 pm Government Use Case – What Can You Automate During Multi-Domain Collection and Integration Without Reducing the Quality of Geospatial Intelligence?
Streamline Collection Workflows: How to automate data capture across domains while preserving fidelity and accuracy.
Reduce Analyst Burden: How to delegate repetitive processing tasks to AI without losing mission-critical detail.
Maintain Quality Control: How to embed validation checks into automated pipelines for trusted geospatial intelligence outputs.
Optimise Integration Speed: How to accelerate multi-source fusion while upholding spatial and temporal coherence standards.
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm Dragon’s Den – Revealing 3 Innovative Start-Ups Disrupting Collection of Data and Imagery from Space to Help You Transform Your Geospatial Intelligence