DGI 2025

10 - 12 February, 2025

Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London

Main Day 2 | 11th February

Fuse, Analyse and Exploit: Fusing Data, Augmenting the Analyst and Accelerating Exploitation & Interoperability for Multi Domain Missions

8:00 am - 8:45 am Augmenting the Analyst Breakfast – How Can You Educate and Upskill Your Analysts and Operators to Succeed in the Age of AI?
Professor Todd Bacastow - Professor of Practice for Geospatial Intelligence, Penn State University Leanne Sulewski - Analytic Methodologist, US DoD
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Professor Todd Bacastow

Professor of Practice for Geospatial Intelligence
Penn State University

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Leanne Sulewski

Analytic Methodologist
US DoD

8:00 am - 8:45 am Future of Public-Private Partnerships Breakfast – The Role Of Governments In Maintaining A Viable Industry... Debunking The Myth The Market Alone Can Sustain It
Gary Dunow - Vice President for Strategic Development, United States Geospatial-Intelligence Foundation (USGIF)
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Gary Dunow

Vice President for Strategic Development
United States Geospatial-Intelligence Foundation (USGIF)

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

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Major General Matt Jones

Director, ISR, Defence Intelligence
UK MoD

8:55 am - 9:00 am Commander Strategic Command Opening Remarks

Human-Machine Teaming in the Age of AI & Quantum

9:00 am - 9:20 am NGA Keynote with Q&A and Live Polling – How Can You Improve Man Machine Teaming to Harness the Potential of AI-augmented GEOINT and Quantum-enabled Processing whilst Addressing the Growing Cyber Threat?

Towards Interoperable Geospatial Intelligence

9:20 am - 9:40 am ODNI Keynote with Q&A and Live Polling – How Can You Design and Implement a Data Strategy Which Delivers Greater Interoperability For Your Intelligence Community?

Lori Wade - Chief Data Officer, US Intelligence Community, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

Lori Wade

Chief Data Officer, US Intelligence Community
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

9:40 am - 10:20 am UK DI Keynote with Q&A and Live Polling – How Can You Strike the Right Balance to Fuse, Analyse and Exploit More Interoperable Geospatial Intelligence for Multi-Domain Missions?

Air Commodore Mark Ridgway - Commander, National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence (NCGI)
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Air Commodore Mark Ridgway

Commander
National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence (NCGI)

10:20 am - 11:00 am Leadership Panel with Q&A and Live Polling – Leadership Panel with Q&A and Live Polling – How Can We Reshape Commercial Partnership Models in Defence Intelligence, Accelerate the Delivery of Mission Data & Analytics and Drive Interoperability?

Shawn B. Stith - Chair, Advisory Committee on GEOINT and IMINT (NACGI), NATO HQ Alexandra Luck - Head of Programme, National Digital Twin Programme (NDTP), UK Department for Business and Trade
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Shawn B. Stith

Chair, Advisory Committee on GEOINT and IMINT (NACGI)
NATO HQ

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Alexandra Luck

Head of Programme, National Digital Twin Programme (NDTP)
UK Department for Business and Trade

11:00 am - 11:40 am Morning Coffee and Networking Break

11:00 am - 11:40 am Generative AI Workshops – How Can You Ready Your Analysts and Operators to Make Smarter Use of Data and AI as Part of Their Ongoing Training without Losing Sight of Proven Skills and Tradecraft?

Fusing & Exploiting Geospatial Data & Analytics

11:40 am - 12:00 pm Esri Keynote with Q&A and Live Polling – Title TBC

12:00 pm - 12:20 pm Blacksky Keynote with Q&A and Live Polling – Title TBC

Brian O’Toole - Chief Executive Officer, BlackSky
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Brian O’Toole

Chief Executive Officer
BlackSky

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Brigadier General Eric Vandenberg

Director General Intelligence Enterprise
Canadian Armed Forces

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Kathryn McMullan

Director
Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation

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Commander Martin Walker

Director Geospatial Intelligence New Zealand
New Zealand Defence Forces

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Air Commodore Mark Ridgway

Commander
National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence (NCGI)

1:00 pm - 1:55 pm Lunch Break

1:00 pm - 1:55 pm Women in Intelligence VIP Lunch

Track A – Leveraging Commercial Imagery

1:55 pm - 2:00 pm Chair’s Opening Remarks

Track A – Leveraging Commercial Imagery

2:00 pm - 2:20 pm Presentation with Q&A and Live Polling – How the UK is Modernising Imagery Collection and Analysis to Deliver Optimal Geospatial Intelligence to Tactical Operators
Colonel Matthew Smith - Imagery & Geospatial System (IMaGE) Programme Manager, Intelligence Systems, Def, UK MoD
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Colonel Matthew Smith

Imagery & Geospatial System (IMaGE) Programme Manager, Intelligence Systems, Def
UK MoD

Track A – Leveraging Commercial Imagery

2:20 pm - 2:40 pm Presentation with Q&A and Live Polling – Title TBC
John Cartwright - Head of Data Product, ICEYE
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John Cartwright

Head of Data Product
ICEYE

Track A – Leveraging Commercial Imagery

2:40 pm - 3:00 pm Presentation with Q&A and Live Polling – Title TBC
Milo Vejraska - Director of Solutions Engineering, Capella Space
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Milo Vejraska

Director of Solutions Engineering
Capella Space

Track A – Leveraging Commercial Imagery

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Fireside Chat with Q&A and Live Polling – How Can You Plug Gaps to Deliver Fresher, Higher Resolution Imagery in Real Time and Generate Actionable Intelligence for Dynamic Multi-Domain Missions?
Master Sergeant Joshua Chaney - Geospatial Intelligence Chief, Information Intelligence Division (IID), US Marine Corps Major Hasnul Hady bin Karim - Head of Imagery Intelligence, Malaysian Defence Intelligence Organisation (MDIO) Jim Hill - Technical Research Engineer, Office of Research and Technology Transfer, Enginee, US Army

Master Sergeant Joshua Chaney

Geospatial Intelligence Chief, Information Intelligence Division (IID)
US Marine Corps

Major Hasnul Hady bin Karim

Head of Imagery Intelligence
Malaysian Defence Intelligence Organisation (MDIO)

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Jim Hill

Technical Research Engineer, Office of Research and Technology Transfer, Enginee
US Army

Track B – Fusing Multi-Source Geospatial Data

1:55 pm - 2:00 pm Chair’s Opening Remarks

Track B – Fusing Multi-Source Geospatial Data

2:00 pm - 2:20 pm Joint Keynote with Q&A and Live Polling – How Can You Effectively Fuse Unclassified and Classified Geospatial Data into a Richer, Actionable Intelligence Product for Use in Near Real Time?
Ian Spencer - Head of Foundation and Director, Defence Geographic Centre, National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence
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Ian Spencer

Head of Foundation and Director, Defence Geographic Centre
National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence

Track B – Fusing Multi-Source Geospatial Data

2:20 pm - 2:40 pm Presentation with Q&A and Live Polling – Title TBC

Track B – Fusing Multi-Source Geospatial Data

2:40 pm - 3:00 pm Presentation with Q&A and Live Polling – How to Develop and Share Open Source Geospatial Intelligence where it is Needed First?

Track B – Fusing Multi-Source Geospatial Data

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Fireside Chat with Q&A and Live Polling - How Can You Source, Fuse and Exploit Trustworthy Unclassified Geospatial Data as Part of a Coherent, All-Source Intelligence Strategy that is Relevant for Modern Missions?
Manuel Fiol - Senior Geospatial Analyst, United Nations Satellite Centre, United Nations Institute for Training and Research Professor Zena Wood - Director, Defence Data Research Centre, University of Exeter
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Manuel Fiol

Senior Geospatial Analyst, United Nations Satellite Centre
United Nations Institute for Training and Research

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Professor Zena Wood

Director, Defence Data Research Centre
University of Exeter

Track C – Exploiting AI-enabled Analysis at Scale

1:55 pm - 2:00 pm Chair’s Opening Remarks

Track C – Exploiting AI-enabled Analysis at Scale

2:00 pm - 2:20 pm Presentation with Q&A and Live Polling – How the UK is Planning to Leverage AI in the Analysis Process at Scale and Enable Faster Decision Making in Operations
Mihaela Sorostrianan - GIS Project Manager, Geospatial Section, SITCEN, IS-Operations, NATO HQ
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Mihaela Sorostrianan

GIS Project Manager, Geospatial Section, SITCEN, IS-Operations
NATO HQ

Track C – Exploiting AI-enabled Analysis at Scale

2:20 pm - 2:40 pm Presentation with Q&A and Live Polling – Lessons Learnt from Civil-Military Collaboration and Exchange of Geospatial Intelligence to Dispose of WW2 Bombs
Robert Goldsmith - Geospatial Manager, Devon and Cornwall Police
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Robert Goldsmith

Geospatial Manager
Devon and Cornwall Police

Track C – Exploiting AI-enabled Analysis at Scale

2:40 pm - 3:00 pm Presentation with Q&A and Live Polling – Title TBC
Jean-Yves Courtois - CEO, Preligens
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Jean-Yves Courtois

CEO
Preligens

Track C – Exploiting AI-enabled Analysis at Scale

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Fireside Chat with Q&A and Live Polling - How Can You Integrate AI into Analyst Workflows, Design and Implement Relevant Training on the Application of AI and Accelerate Authoritative Analysis?
Colonel Dan Pomirleanu - Chief Geospatial Intelligence Officer, Romania MoD
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Colonel Dan Pomirleanu

Chief Geospatial Intelligence Officer
Romania MoD

Track D – Tech Workshops

1:55 pm - 2:40 pm How to Leverage Quantum Computing to Accelerate Trustworthy Analysis of Massive Geo Data Sets
Muhammad Usman - Head of Quantum Systems, CSIRO
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Muhammad Usman

Head of Quantum Systems
CSIRO

Track D – Tech Workshops

2:40 pm - 3:00 pm How to Integrate Generative AI into Your Existing Geospatial Intelligence Analysis Strategy without Disrupting Ongoing Processes

Track D – Tech Workshops

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm How to Exploit the Advantages of Magnetic Mapping as You Modernise Your Existing GEOINT Collection Strategy

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Afternoon Coffee and Networking Break

Modernising Your Geospatial Data & Analytics Strategy

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm USMC Keynote with Q&A and Live Polling – Designing and Implementing the Strategy that Meets the Needs of the Analyst in High Tempo Missions

4:20 pm - 4:40 pm BAE Systems Keynote with Q&A and Live Polling – Title TBC

4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Fireside Chat with Q&A and Live Polling – How Can You Adapt Your Data & Analytics Strategy to Democratise Access to Interoperable Geospatial Intelligence for Modern Multi-Domain Missions?

George Ohanian - Director, Warfighter Support Directorate, US Army Geospatial Center Iain Burnell - Senior Scientist, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)
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George Ohanian

Director, Warfighter Support Directorate
US Army Geospatial Center

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Iain Burnell

Senior Scientist
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)

Quantum-enabled GEOINT

5:00 pm - 5:20 pm Guest S&T Address – Real-World Applications of Quantum Processing in Geospatial Intelligence to Accelerate Decision Support in Future Missions

Muhammad Usman - Head of Quantum Systems, CSIRO
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Muhammad Usman

Head of Quantum Systems
CSIRO

Innovation in Analysis

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Clayton Williams

Managing Director
In-Q-Tel

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Roly Cockwell

Deputy Head and Head of Technology, National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence
UK Strategic Command

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Matt Roper

Group Head, NATO Owned Systems Joint Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance
NATO Communications and Information Agency

6:00 pm - 6:05 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks

6:05 pm - 7:30 pm Main Drinks Reception – Open for Sponsor

6:05 pm - 7:30 pm Hosted Dinner (Invite Only)