International Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) Symposium Agenda
8 September 2025
Room EUROPA EUROCONTROL, Brussels
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 0830 | Sign In | |
| 0900 | Welcome | General Co-Chairs |
| 0915 | Plenary Keynote Speech and Opening Remarks: Challenges of AI in an ATM Environment | Major General Karsten Stoye, EUROCONTROL |
| 0935 | Scene-Setting: Challenges of Human-Autonomy Teaming | Dr Ming Hou, DND, Canada |
| 1000 | Challenges of Human-Autonomous System Collaboration in the UAS Implementation on the Battlefield: Ukrainian Experience | Col Petro Steshenko, Ukraine Army |
| 1030 | Coffee Break | |
| 1050 | NATO Autonomy Task Force Update | CDR Joseph Geeseman, US NAVAIR |
| 1100 | NATO 2025 Human-Autonomy Teaming Survey Report | CDR Joseph Geeseman, US NAVAIR |
| 1115 | NATO STANREC Autonomy Guidelines | Dr. Giovanni Franzini & Dr. Francis Salama, Collins Aerospace |
| 1140 | Towards a Harmonized Taxonomy, Ontology & LexiconFor Autonomous Systems at EDA and NATO | Dr. Joao Caetano, European Defence Agency |
| 1205 | AI Metacognitive Skills for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems in Collaborative Situation Assessment | Dr. Daniel Lafond, Thales, Canada |
| 1230 | Lunch Break (Lobby outside EUROPA) | |
| 1330 | EU Regulatory Environment for AI | Francois Triboulet, EUROCONTROL |
| 1355 | Human-AI Teaming | Renée Pelchen-Medwed, EUROCONTROL |
| 1420 | How Trust and the System Law are Complementary in Deploying AI in Military Operations | Ms. Liisa Jassens, TU Delft, The Netherlands |
| 1445 | Coffee Break | |
| 1505 | Resilience in Complex Infrastructures – The Different Roles of OR and AI in Military Executive Decision Making | Prof. Dr. Stefan Wolfgang Pickl, Universität der Bundeswehr München |
| 1530 | Autonomous Vehicles and Mobile Command and Control Centres | Distinguished Prof Saeid Nahavandi, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia |
| 1555 | Closing Remarks | Dr. Ming Hou, DND Canada |
| 1610 | Adjourn | |