FLF 2026 Speakers
Future Land Forces consistently features a distinguished lineup of speakers from the cutting edge of land warfare, operational planning, and capability development. The 2025 edition brought together senior army leaders, programme managers, technical experts, and defence industry innovators from over 50 nations — all contributing to the global conversation on the future of ground combat power.
Covering key themes such as force mobility, digital transformation, unmanned systems, survivability, and multi-domain integration, our speakers deliver both strategic foresight and technical depth.
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2026 Speaker line-up

Ahmet Faruk Ertürk
Engineering Vehicles PM, SSB

Alexandra Alonzi
Programme Manager, OCCAR

Brigadier General Cristinel-Dumitru Colibaba
Commander, Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (JALLC)

Brigadier General Dimitrios Nikolakakos
Chief of Staff, EU Military Assistance Mission in Support of Ukraine

Brigadier General Dimitrios Xogiannis
HAWC Commander, Hellenic Army

Brigadier General Grzegorz Potrzuski
Head of the Board of Missile and Artillery Forces, Polish Armed Forces General Command

Brigadier General Mariusz Chmielewski
Commander, Cyber Command, Polish Armed Forces

Brigadier General Mark Parsons
Director General Capability Development, Canadian Army

Brigadier General Martin Jawurek
Chief of Strategy, Austrian Ministry of Defence

Brigadier General Steven Carpenter
Commanding General Multi-Domain Command, US Army Europe and Africa

Brigadier General Terry Tillis
Commanding General 7th Army Training Command, US Army Europe and Africa

Brigadier General Wolfgang Jordan
Chief of Staff ACCDC, German Army

Brigadier General Zsolt Molnár
Commander 30th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, Hungarian Defence Forces

Brigadier Henry Searby
ACOS G5, British Army

Brigadier Jamie Murray
Commander OP CABRIT, DCOM 1st EST DIV, British Army

Brigadier Trond Haande
Commander of the La Warfare Centre, Norwegian Army

Brigadier Will Strickland
Commander in the Middle East, Permanent Joint Headquarters UK MOD

Christian Pingel
Operations and Support Programme Manager, NATO Support and Procurement Agency

Colonel Andrea Stover
Training and Exercise Division Head, NATO Joint Force Training Centre

Colonel Arnel David
Director Task Forces Maven, NATO

Colonel Bas Schillemans
CT-F Tanks, Netherlands Army

Colonel Benjamin Remond
Head of Connected Combat Capability Branch, DGA

Colonel Caligari Pierpaolo
Chief of Innovation and Space office, Italian Army

Colonel David Haslam
Assistant Head ASGARD DECIDE, British Army

Colonel Guillaume Percie du Sert
Combat Futures – Operational Coherence, French Army HQ

Colonel James Fern
AH Ground Manoeuvre – Futures Directorate, British Army

Colonel Janos Pölöskei
Director HDF Transformation, Command, Doctrine and Regulation Development Directorate, Hungarian Armed Forces

Colonel Norbert Świętochowski
Vice-Rector, Polish Land Forces University

Colonel Piotr Adamski
Head Specialist Command and Control Directorate, Polish Armed Forces General Staff

Colonel Robert Berej
Chief of Intel and EW, Polish Armed Forces General Command

Colonel Roman Bobal
Commander Fires Centre of Excellence, Slovakian Armed Forces

Colonel Ryan Bell
Commander 3rd Mobile Brigade – 101st Airborne Division, US Army

Colonel Szymon Czerwiński
Chief of Deliberate Targeting and Joint Fires Branch, Polish Armed Forces Operational Command

Colonel Thomas Blank
Branch Head Future Training, Army Concepts & Capabilities Development Center, German Army

Dennis Granåsen
Senior Scientist Division for Cyber Defence and C2 Technology, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)

Dinesh Rempling
Director a.i Capability Transformation Division, Frontex

Dr János Kemény
Research Fellow, Institute for Strategy and Politics at the Ludovika University of Public Service

Dr Lisanne Kleygrewe
Deputy Chief Department of Knowledge, Innovation and Coordination – Simulation Centre Land Operations, Netherlands Army

Dr Pawel Makowiec
Professor of Tactics, Polish Land Forces University

Dr. Paweł Makowiec PhD
Research Professor, Polish Military University of Land Forces

Fabian Arthur Boumeester
Senior Architect Multinational Interoperability Products, Netherlands COMMIT

Guy Grant MC
UK Business Developer for Tactical Interconnect Systems, Glenair

Jon Nypan
Chief Operations Officer, Radionor Communications AS

Justin Jordan
VP, National Security Defense & Critical Infrastructure, Skydio

Kevin Marcus
Director of Strategy, Plans and Programs, US Army Europe and Africa

Lieutenant Colonel Andreas Ziegenfeldt
Deputy Commander 71st Brigade, Swedish Army

Lieutenant Colonel Bruno Camus
Plans Officer – Armoured Branch, French Army HQ

Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Javier Perez Martin
Analyst of Research and Analysis Section, Spanish Army Training and Doctrine Command

Lieutenant Colonel Jahara Matisek
Research Fellow, U.S. Naval War College

Lieutenant Colonel John Black
Commander 2 Yorks Battalion, British Army

Lieutenant Colonel Lauri Teppo
CO 2nd Infantry Kuperjanov Battalion, Estonian Defence Forces

Lieutenant Colonel Michal Nietopiel
Challenge Manager Contested Electromagnetic Environment, NATO DIANA

Lieutenant Colonel Nick Wood
S01 LDC4 Cap Dev & Coherence, British Army

Lieutenant Colonel Stefan Eriksson
SO Future Studies Land and Doctrine development, Swedish Armed Forces

Lieutenant Colonel Tobias Christensson
CO 71st Brigade, Swedish Army

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Andreas Marlow
Former Vice Chief of the German Army and Commander Basic Military Organisation, German Army

Lieutenant General (Ret’d) John Kolasheski
Deputy Commanding General for Europe and V Corps Commander, US Army

Lieutenant General Adam Joks
2nd Corps Commander, Polish Armed Forces

Lieutenant General Dariusz Parylak
Commander, NATO Multinational Corps Northeast

Lieutenant General Krzysztof Król
Senior Advisor to the Commander of the Polish Armed Forces, Polish Armed Forces General Staff

Luc Ruyssinck
Small Programmes Division Director, OCCAR

Lukas Tilly
CEO, Satcube

Łukasz Czerniak
Senior Engineer – Head of Warheads and Armament Systems Team, Military Institute of Armament Technology

Magnus Hallberg
PM Soldier Equipment, Swedish Army

Major Bohdan Pryima
Joint Plans Officer, LITPOLUKRBDE

Major General Eric Riley
Deputy Commanding General – Operations First Army, US Army

Major General Gert Van Goethem
Commander, Belgian Land Forces

Major General Jörg See
Commander of 10th Panzerdivision, German Army

Major General Olly Brown
Commander 3rd Division, British Army

Major General Wilfred Rietdijk
Deputy Commander, 1 German-Netherlands Corps

Major Ivo Peets
Commander, Estonian Force Transformation Command

Major Łukasz Wójciak
Senior Lecturer & Head of the Territorial Defence Department, Polish Military Academy of Land Forces

Major Sebastian Langvad
Course Director Complex Operations, Norwegian Defence University College

Major Vladyslav Kolesnykov
Rules of engagement staff officer S-3, LITPOLUKRBRIG

Marcin Król
Senior Engineer, Military Institute of Armament Technology

Mario Blokken
Director, European Army Interoperability Centre

Martijn Maathuis
Department Head for Land Projects, Netherlands Materiel & IT Command (COMMIT)

Nicholas Entwistle
Head of Urban Centre – Land Warfare Centre, British Army
Nils Hinrichsen
Director, eSim Games

Piotr Wojtas
Head of Engagement, NATO Joint Analysis and Training Centre

Rami Sokolower
Senior Director Marketing & Business Development, IAI

Tom Driscoll PhD.
CTO, Echodyne

WO2 Paul Barnes
SO2 Warfare, British Army – LWC