Focus Day - 7 February 2022

8:00 am - 8:45 am Registration and Coffee

8:45 am - 8:50 am Organiser’s Welcome - Tom Webber, Director, DGI

8:50 am - 9:00 am Chair’s Welcome Address

Vanessa Lawrence - Global Geospatial Advisor and Honorary Colonel, 135 Geographic Squadron Royal Engineers and Honorary Group Captain, 601 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force

9:00 am - 9:20 am Opening Keynote – Defence ISR Strategy - Designing an Integrated ISR System for 2030

Major General Ben Kite - Director Defence Intelligence Interoperability, UK Strategic Command, UK MoD

9:20 am - 9:40 am Keynote – How to Collaborate with Industry in Space to Deliver Successful Future Missions

Dave Gauthier - Director of NGA Source Commercial & Business Operations, Chair of the Intelligence Community Commercial Space Council

9:40 am - 10:20 am Panel with Q&A and Live Polling - How Can You Leverage Geospatial Intelligence on the Ground to Protect All Your Assets in Space?

Wing Commander Chris Page - SO1 ISR Space Capability, UK Space Command Lt Colonel Catherine Marchetti - Commanding Officer, Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Center Timothy D. Randall - GEOINT Mission Manager, Space and Counterspace, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Vanessa Lawrence - Global Geospatial Advisor and Honorary Colonel, 135 Geographic Squadron Royal Engineers and Honorary Group Captain, 601 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force

10:20 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break | Network with your industry peers and friends at our Fair-Trade Peruvian filter coffee & Brew Tea Station

10:20 am - 11:00 am DGI App Competition – win a signed rugby ball!

11:00 am - 11:00 am Chair's Welcome Address

Lt Colonel Michael Thomas - Professor of Cyberwarfare Studies, US Air War College

11:00 am - 11:20 am Keynote – Cyber Threats to GEOINT from Space: Pros and Cons of Leveraging GEOINT from Low Earth Orbit

Lt Colonel Michael Thomas - Professor of Cyberwarfare Studies, US Air War College

11:20 am - 11:40 am Innovation Keynote – How to Automate and Accelerate Data Analysis Workflows to Support Your Future Space Missions

Rick Mort - UK Account Manager, BAE Systems GXP

11:40 am - 12:00 pm Cloud Keynote – The Future of GEOINT and the Cloud: Connectivity, Interoperability and Security

Clint Crosier - Director, Aerospace and Satellite Solutions, Amazon Web Services

12:00 pm - 12:40 pm Panel with Q&A and Live Polling - How Can You Leverage AI and ML to Analyse Imagery from Space that Enables Greater Insight for Faster Operational Decision Making?

Major Brandon Poje - Liaison Officer Of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Giorgio Apponi - Head of Defence & Intelligence, e-GEOS John Kedar - Geospatial Strategy Advisor, John Kedar Colonel Shaun Lamb - Joint User Intelligence and Cyber, Defence Intelligence, Strategic Command, UK MoD

12:40 pm - 1:00 pm US Space Force Keynote – US Space Force: Future and Partnering

Joseph Rouge - Deputy Director of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, US Space Force

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Break

3:20 pm - 3:50 pm Coffee Break | Network with your industry peers and friends at our Fair-Trade Peruvian filter coffee & Brew Tea Station

3:50 pm - 4:10 pm Keynote – How to Collaborate with International Partners on New Space Initiatives to Ensure Your Nation’s Security and Stability Compete in an Increasingly Contested and Congested Domain?

Laryssa Patten - Space and AGS Portfolio Manager, NATO

4:10 pm - 4:30 pm Innovation Keynote – Using Geospatial Data to Support Informed Decision Making for National Security

Jeff Kerridge - Senior Vice President, Sales, MAXAR

4:30 pm - 5:10 pm Panel with Q&A and Live Polling – How Can You Increase Interoperability Across Allied Nations, Agencies and Technology Partners to Successfully Execute Future Coalition Operations in Space?

Wing Commander Chris Page - SO1 ISR Space Capability, UK Space Command Wing Commander Jason Vaughan - Officer Commanding, GEOINT Tech Ops Unit, National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence (NCGI) Dr Junayd Miah - Principal Space Scientist, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) John Robson - Deputy Chief, NGA Support Team United States Space Command (SPACECOM), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

5:10 pm - 6:00 pm Dragons’ Den – Revealing 4 of the Most Exciting Start-Ups in Space: Who Should You Collaborate with Next?

John Kedar - Geospatial Strategy Advisor, John Kedar Lt Colonel Michael Thomas - Professor of Cyberwarfare Studies, US Air War College Dr. Jonathon Brame - Basic & Applied Research Team Lead, DEVCOM Atlantic, US Army Futures Command Eric Landau - Co-Founder, Encord Michael Root - Senior GEOINT Officer, Technology Integration Lead, Analysis Technology Office, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Aakash Parekh - VP Commercialization, Pixxel Hanna Steplewska - Vice President Business Development and Operations, Cognitive Space Hirokazu Mori - Chief Strategic Officer, Warpspace

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Grand Exhibition Opening and Champagne Reception