Confirmed Speakers
General Nick Houghton, Vice Chief of Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence

Major General Jonathan Shaw, Director Global Issues, Ministry of Defence

Air Vice-Marshal Steve Hillier, Director Information Superiority, Ministry of Defence


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Programme

7 June 2011: 1845 Speakers’/VIP Dinner

RUSI Library of Military History, 61 Whitehall

Day One: 8 June 2011- Requirements Today

0830 Registration

0900 Session One: Keynote Session: Strategic Overview

Chair:       Professor Malcolm Chalmers, Director of Research/Director (UK Defence Policy), RUSI

Keynote
Speakers: Brian McBride, Managing Director, Amazon UK
               ‘Information Exploitation in the Commercial Sector’

                Air Vice Marshal Steve Hillier, Director, Information Superiority, Ministry of Defence UK            
               'Defence Information Superiority Post-SDSR

Discussion Session
  

1030 Morning Tea and Coffee
  

1100 Session Two: Information Superiority, Intelligence and Influence

Chair:       David Meyer, Chief Information Officer, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Speakers: Air Marshal Chris Nickols, Chief of Defence Intelligence, Ministry of Defence, UK
               ‘Developing a Single Intelligence Environment’

                Lieutenant General (ret’d) Graeme Lamb
                ‘Exploiting C4ISTAR to Maximise Influence’

Discussion Session
  

1300 Networking Lunch
  

1400 Session Three: Strategic Trends in the Commercial Sector 

Chair:           Gordon Morrison, Head Defence & Security, Intellect UK

This session will explore the implications of SDSR and the Green Paper for the defence sector and ask if COTS is an appropriate model for future procurement of information systems. It will also explore developing trends in the commercial ICT market and how various actors are exploiting these technologies.

Panel Participants:  Sandy Wilson, Managing Director, General Dynamics

                            Trevor Filtness, RJD Technology 

                            Ed Parsons, Geospatial Technologist, Google

                            Rick Bounsall, Sector Director – Air and C4ISTAR, Niteworks

1530 Afternoon Tea and Coffee
  

1600 Session Four: Maturing Information Management and Exploitation

Chair:            Major General (Ret’d) Bill Robins, Associate Fellow, RUSI

Major General (Ret’d) Bill Robins, from the Key Systems Advisor Team, will lead a panel of senior stakeholders from the MOD Information Superiority community.  The CIO, as the MOD’s owner of information management and exploitation (IM/IX), will introduce his new MOD Information Strategy (MODIS) with each of the other stakeholders presenting a short ‘think-piece’ on the maturity of IM/IX from their perspectives; these will be followed by discussion and questions.  Likely topics will be centred around C4ISR coherence, a system-of-systems centric approach to acquisition organisation; the impact of the emerging MOD-wide Network Authority governance construct; effective acquisition of CIS capabilities; the roles of industry and how changes to the NEC landscape in the last 24 months have influenced progress.

Panel Participants: John Taylor, Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Defence
   
                            Air Vice-Marshal Steve Hillier, Director, Information Superiority, Ministry of 
                            Defence
   
                            Major General Tim Inshaw, Director Information Systems and Services,    
                            Ministry of Defence
 
                            Key Systems Advisor Team member, Ministry of Defence

Discussion Session 

1730 Session Five: Keynote

Chair:        Lord Hutton of Furness, Chairman, RUSI

Speaker:    General Nick Houghton, Vice Chief of Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence, UK
                 ‘Information Superiority in an Age of Uncertainty’

Discussion Session
  

1800 End of Day One: Drinks Reception
  
  

Day Two: 9 June 2011

0830 Registration

0900 Session Six: Introduction to Emerging Government ICT Strategy

Chair:        Michael Codner, Senior Fellow, Military Sciences, RUSI

Speaker:    John Taylor, Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Defence

Discussion Session
  

0930 Session Seven: Understanding Information Superiority in Theatre

Chair:        Elizabeth Quintana, Senior Fellow, Air Power and Technology, RUSI

Speakers:  Air Commodore Andrew Powell, ACOS J6, PJHQ, Ministry of Defence

                 Commander Mark Laity, Head of Communications, NATO Shape
                 'Lessons from Operation Unified Protector'

                 Colonel Tim Carmichael, Former JFCIS, OP Herrick
                 ‘Information Management and Exploitation in a Coalition Environment’

                 Discussion Session
 

1100 Morning Tea and Coffee
  

1130 Session Eight: Industry Contribution to Operations

Chair:       Kevin Jones, Head of Air and Information, A|D|S

Speakers: Matt Rapier, Chief Technical Architect, Vega
                ‘Enabling Information Superiority: Managing Information Services in a Coalition Operation’

                Neil Ellet, Defence and Security, Fujitsu
                'Making Partnerships Really Work - Sharing Real Risk'

Discussion Session
 

1300 Networking Lunch
  

1400 Session Nine: Cyber Operations and Security

Chair:        Paul Killworth, Head of Cyber Strategy, GCHQ

Speakers:  Gp Capt Phil Cox, Office of Cyber Security & Information Assurance
                ‘The National Approach to Cyber Security’

                 Major General Jonathan Shaw, Director Global Risks, Ministry of Defence
                ‘Addressing Growing Threats in Cyber Security’

                 Hugh Eaton, Director, Defence and Security, Cisco UK
                 'Cyber Security: The Role of Government and Industry in Achieving Success'

Discussion Session
 

1530 Afternoon Coffee
  

1600 Session Ten: Panel Session: Delivering Information Superiority

Chair:      Bill Robins, Associate Fellow, RUSI

Panel:       Air Commodore Ian Kirkwood, ACOS A6, Royal Air Force

                Commodore Christopher Forsey, ACOS C4ISTAR, Royal Navy

                Brigadier James Hockenhull, Head Information Superiority, British Army

                Air Commodore Tim Bishop, Head, Service Operations, DES ISS, Ministry of Defence

Discussion Session
  

1700 Final Keynote

Chairman: Professor Malcolm Chalmers, Director of Research/Director (UK Defence Policy), RUSI

Speaker:    Air Vice Marshal Steve Hillier, Director, Information Superiority, Ministry of Defence UK            

1730 Conference Summary and Conclusion

End of Conference



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