IDEaS 2025 Speakers

Defence Excellence

Major General Karsten Stoye

Major General Karsten Stoye

Head of Civil-Military Cooperation
Military Advisor to the Director General

EUROCONTROL Civil-Military Cooperation Division
Brussels, Belgium

Opening Keynote: Challenges of AI in an ATM environment

Bio:
Major General Karsten Stoye assumed his position as Head of Civil-Military Cooperation
and Military Advisor to the Director General at Eurocontrol after his previous
assignment as Chief of Staff at NATO’s Headquarters Allied Air Command at Ramstein
Air Base, on 1 October 2021.

After studying economics and administrative science at the University of the
German Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, General Stoye has served in various operational
and staff positions.
As a senior operations officer and command pilot in the Tactical Reconnaissance Wing 51
‘Immelmann’, he contributed from 1995 to 1996 to the United Nations and NATO missions
during the conflict in the Former Yugoslavia. In 1998 he graduated from the
Command and General Staff Officer Course at the Federal Armed Forces Command and Staff
College in Hamburg.

Until 2000, General Stoye served as a Branch Chief at the NATO Combined Air Operations
Centre 4 (CAOC 4) in Messstetten, Germany, where he was responsible for training and
exercises. In 1999 he contributed to the NATO Operation in Kosovo as Chief Air Task Order
Planner at the Balkan CAOC in Vicenza.

Dr. Ming Hou

Expert Advisor to NATO Chief Scientist Office,

Co-Chair NATO Human-Autonomy Teaming Specialist Team (HATST),

Principal Scientist, Defence Research and Development Canada, Department of National Defence, Canada

Challenges of Human-Autonomy Teaming

Joseph Geeseman

Chair NATO Autonomy Task Force,

Co-Chair NATO HATST, S&T Portfolio Manager, NAVAIR, US Navy

NATO Autonomy Task Force Update

Dr. Giovanni Franzini

Team Lead, Mission Autonomy, Collins Aerospace Applied Research & Technology

NATO STANREC Autonomy Guidelines

Francis Salama

UAS Principal Systems Engineer/Architect,
Collins Aerospace (RTX)

NATO STANREC Autonomy Guidelines

Anneloes Maij

NRL, The Netherlands, and NATO HATST

NATO 2025 Human-Autonomy Teaming Survey Report

Dr. Joao Caetano

Project Officer UAS Programs, European Defence Agency

State-of-the-art Report on Guidelines for Autonomous Systems

Liisa Jassens

NATO HATST,

TU Delft The Netherlands

How Trust and the System Law are Complementary in Deploying AI in Military Operations

Prof. Dr. Stefan Wolfgang Pickl

Chair for Operations Research, Department of Computer Science,

Universität der Bundeswehr München