Global Defence HELICOPTER 2024 Speakers

Anna Kviblad
Head of Helicopter Systems Division, Swedish FMV

Brigadier Andy Gilks MBE
Chief of Staff, Joint Aviation Command, British Armed Forces

Brigadier Fern Thompson
Commander 16th Aviation Brigade, Australian Army

Brigadier General (Ret’d) Tomasz Drewniak
Former Inspector, Polish Air Force

Brigadier General Luca Piperni
Deputy Director 4th Department, Italian Armaments Directorate

Brigadier General Wolfgang Luttenberger
Commander Aviation Brigade, Austrian Air Force

Brigadier Nick English
Commander 1st Aviation Brigade, British Army

Captain Martin Marek
Squadron Navigator, 243rd Helicopter Squadron, Czech Republic Airforce

Captain Ville-Joonas Kukkonen
Army Chief of Flight Safety, Army Command Finland

Chief Warrant Officer Sean Martin
Brigade Aviation Mission Survivability Officer, US Army (101st Combat Aviation Brigade)

Colonel Christian Guntsch
Advisor of the Air Chief for CH-47F, German Air Force

Colonel Daniele GABOLI
Division Head Air Development Division, NATO SOFCOM

Colonel Guillaume Humbert
Commanding Officer – 2nd Combat Helicopter Regiment (AAvn Training Center), French Army Aviation

Colonel Krzysztof Kwiatkowski
Chief of Combat Aviation Helicopter Branch, Polish Air Force

Colonel Liviu Zlătan
Logistics Division Head, Romanian Air Force

Colonel Radenko Prerad
Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense Brigade, Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Colonel Ryan C. Kendall
Commander 12th CAB, US Army

Colonel Valentin Ivanoski
Head of Military Aviation Authority, Republic of North Macedonia MoD

Colonel Wojciech Wróblewski
Deputy Commander for Military Affairs, Polish Air Force University

Commander (N) Pol-Aurelien Sandrin
Commander of the Helicopter Centre of Expertise, French Navy

Commander Antonio Strina
Rotary Wing Procurement Programmes Section Leader, Italian National Armaments Directorate

Commander Mauro Ghezzi
Ships Interface Section Leader, Naval Aviation Department, Italian Navy

Craig Whitson-Fay
Rotary Wing Avionics Business Development Lead, Thales

Cyril Heckel
NGRC Programme Manager, NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA)

Emiliano PELLEGRINI
Attack Helicopter & Air-to-Land Integration, Joint Air Power Competence Centre

Fernand Van Wilder
Business Development Officer, OCCAR

General Hubert Doutaud
French Army Aviation Deputy Commander, French Army Aviation

George DeCock
Director of SCARpods & ISR Sensors, Airborne Technologies

Jeremiah Arnold
VP Strategic Alliances, S3 AeroDefense

Jonghoon Lee
Senior Principal Researcher, Republic of Korea Agency for Defense Development

Kirsten McCormick
Senior Systems Engineer and Artificial Intelligence Lead, General Dynamics

Liam Ball
Principal Rotorcraft Systems Engineer, UK MoD, Dstl

Lieutenant Colonel Alphons Jacobs
Commander 300 Special Operations Squadron, Royal Netherlands Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Coughlin
Commander, 23rd Flying Training Squadron, US Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel Dušan Häutler
223 Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Commander, Czech Republic Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Hoogsteder
Program Manager SOF Air, Royal Netherlands Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel Jaakko Kauppinen
Chief of Army Aviation, Finnish Army

Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Lombard
Capability Development Senior Officer, French Army

Lieutenant Colonel Max Garrety
SO1 JAC Adaptive Training, Joint Aviation Command, British Armed Forces

Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Al-Nadi
Squadron Commander, Jordanian Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Petr Safarik
Commanding Officer 243rd Helicopter Squadron, Czech Republic Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel Pierre-Alain Goujard
H160M Program Manager, French Army Aviation

Lieutenant Colonel Sándor Makai
86th Helicopter Wing, Attack Helicopter Battalion, Commander, Hungarian Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel Simon Muteau
Assistant Section Chief and Team Leader, Army Concepts and Capabilities Development Centre, Army Aviation Branch

Lieutenant Colonel Will Penkman
Future Combat Aviation, Futures Directorate, British Army

Lieutenant Colonel Zoltán Szili
Deputy Commander, Multinational Helicopter Training Centre

Lieutenant Commander Jelle van Doom
NH90 Product Manager, Royal Netherlands Air Force

Lieutenant Dafna Dempsey
Commander Helicopteer Warfare Centre, Netherlands Defence Helicopter Centre

Major Erik Hals
Branch Chief SAR Helicopters, Royal Norwegian Air Force Warfare Centre

Major General Ireneusz Nowak
Inspector, Polish Air Force

Major General Michael Križanec
Commander, Croatian Air Force

Major Hirsto Valev
Commander of Helicopter Squadron in 24th Helicopter Air Base – Krumovo, Bulgarian Air Force

Major Roël Boezen “BOOZEâ€
Chinook pilot & Head of Helicopter Mission Support, RNLAF Defense Helicopter Command – Helicopter Warfare Centre

Mark Langrill
DE&S Director Helicopters, DE&S

Matthew McCall
Director of Business Development – DoD, Moog Military Aircraft Mission Systems Group

Mehmet Erdem Özet
Solution Manager – Business Development, Aselsan

Mike Navarro
Director of Business Development for the Adaptive Communications and Sensing, BAE Systems

Morgan Dyfrig
VP Engineering, Chelton Communications

Scott Kuhns
Programme Development, NAVAIR SYSCOM Security Cooperation Office

Victor Gerin-Roze
Tiger MkIII Program Manager, Airbus Helicopters