DGI 2025

10 - 12 February, 2025

Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London

Richard Laing

Principal Project Manager, Joint Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance NATO Communications and Information Agency

Rich Laing leverages over 25 years of intelligence and Joint ISR experience to support the delivery of NATO JISR projects and programmes, notably the Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space Initiative, and working closely with the NATO AGS Force on many technical and process challenges. Previously serving within the UK Royal Air Force Intelligence Branch, Rich is committed to ensuring that the NATO operational community is fully supported through the harnessing and exploitation of data, information and analytics.

Main Day 1 | 10th February

5:20 PM Dragons’ Den with Live Voting – Revealing 3 Space Tech Start-ups to Help You Source, Analyse and Process Trustworthy Space Data

Moderator – Alexander Holdt, Managing Director, Seraphim Space Enterprise, Seraphim NEW 

Dragons:

  • Dr. Jonathon Brame, Basic & Applied Research Team Lead, DEVCOM Atlantic, US Army Futures Command 
  • Richard Laing, Principal Project Manager, Joint Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance, NATO Communications and Information Agency  
  • Dr Gemma Bagheri, Space R&D Programme Manager, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) 

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Richard.

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