gda 2025 Speakers
Global Defence Aviation consistently showcases a high-calibre roster of speakers from the forefront of military aviation, operations, and capability development. The 2025 edition brought together senior air force leaders, programme directors, technical specialists, and industry innovators from over 85 nations — all contributing to the global dialogue on the future of air power.
Covering topics ranging from next-generation rotary and fixed-wing platforms to uncrewed systems, digital integration, and air domain resilience, our speakers deliver both strategic insight and technical depth.
The GDA 2026 agenda is currently in production and will be available in spring 2026. You can view the 2025 edition agenda by clicking the button below.
2025 Speaker line-up
Lieutenant Colonel Alper Anteplioglu
UAV Branch Head, Turkish Air Force
Agnieszka Gugala-Szczerbicka
Provision and flights for UAS, Polish Institute of Aviation
Aivar Hanniotti
Unmanned Systems Coordinator, Estonian Defence Forces
Brigadier (Ret’d) Nick Venn
Former Head of Special Projects, UK MoD
Brigadier Fern Thompson
Commander 16th Aviation Brigade, Australian Army
Brigadier General Hubert Doutaud
Deputy Commander Light Army Aviation, French Army Aviation
Captain (N) Joe Dransfield
Dep Hd Operations, UK Military Aviation Authority
Captain (Ret’d) Dennis Monagle
Former Director Unmanned and Robotic Systems, US Navy
Captain Stu Crombie RN
Naval Aviation – Head Operational Warfare, Royal Navy
Colonel Eirik Stueland
Division head Project New Helicopters, Norwegian Air Force
Colonel Alem Kaplan
Operations Section Chief, Armed Forces of BiH
Colonel Alessandro Guastella
Air Doctrine & Standards SO, NATO SOFCOM
Colonel Andrii Fandieiev
Kharkiv National Air Force University Deputy Head of Training, Ukraine Air Force
Colonel Guillaume Briançon Rouge
Head of the Studies and Foresight Division, French Army
Colonel Jorge Inacio
Head of MHTC, Portuguese Air Force
Colonel Krzysztof Dragan
Professor, ITWL
Colonel Krzysztof Kwiatkowski
Chief of Combat Aviation Helicopter Branch, Polish Air Force
Colonel Niklas Blomberg
Helicopter Wing Commander, Swedish Armed Forces
Colonel Radenko Prerad
Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense Brigade, Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Commander (N) Héloïse Humbert
Deputy Head of the Naval Aeronautic programs and capabilities office, French Navy
Dinesh Rempling
Director a.i Capability Transformation Division, Frontex
Dipl. Ing.FH Sandro Martino
Program Manager Procurement, Procurement office of Swiss Federal Department of Defence (armasuisse)
Dr Richard Hann
Director of the UAV Icing Lab, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Emiliano PELLEGRINI
Attack Helicopter & Air-to-Land Integration, Joint Air Power Competence Centre
Gavin Green
Business Development Manager, General Dynamics
George DeCock
Director of SCARpods & ISR Sensors, Airborne Technologies
Jeff Sherwood
Director, Skytrac
Jeremiah Arnold
VP Strategic Alliances, S3 AeroDefense
Jonas Goercke
Head of Business Line Flight Training, Reiser
Kasia Balakier
Optical & Quantum Communication Technology Manager, European Space Agency
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret’d) Pierre-Alain Goujard
Former Helicopter Programme Manager, French MoD
Lieutenant Colonel Anrius Stuknys
Chief of Engineering, Lithuanian Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Tobias Schwarz
Section Chief Army Aviation, Army Concepts and Capabilities Development Centre
Lieutenant Colonel Tomas Navratil
Deputy Wing Commander, 22 Helicoter Base, Czech Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel, PhD in Technical Sciences Petro Borysov
Senior Research Fellow at the Research Department of Signals Intelligence and Electronic Warfare of the Scientific Centre, Korolov Zhytomyr Military Institute
Major (Eng.) Noora Repo
Technical director, Aviation C2, Finnish Army
Major General Chris McKenna
Commander 1 Canadian Air Division, Royal Canadian Air Force
Major General Ferdinant Dimo
Commander, Albanian Armed Forces
Major General Ireneusz Nowak
Inspector, Polish Air Force
Major Milosz Tomaszkiewicz
Head of Training, 7th Aviation Training Squadron, Polish Air Force
Major Željko Kocijan
Maintenance Officer, Croatian Air Force
Mark Langrill
Director Rotary Wing & Uncrewed Air Systems, UK MoD DE&S
Matthew McCall
Director of Business Development – DoD, Moog Military Aircraft Mission Systems Group
Osama Al-Khatib
Base Commander, Jordanian Armed Forces
Peter Myers
Co-Founder, Smith Myers
Rich Enderle
CEO, Ace Aero
Ryan Scoble
Director, Business Development, Army Rotary Wing Programs and MOSA Modernization, Collins Aerospace
Senior Associate of Defence Industry Onur Simsek
Project Manager, Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye – Defence Industry Agency (SSB)
Stephen O’Sullivan
Project Officer UAS Airspace Integration Research, European Defence Agency
Stephen T. Sargeant
CEO, Marvin Test Solutions
Thomas Delfs
Head of Sales and Business Development, ND Satcom
William Chung
Assistant Research Fellow – Division of Defense Strategy and Resources, Taiwan Institute for National Defense and Security Research
William Sampson
VP Market Operations, Airbus
Willie Coleman
Associate Director Requirements & Capabilities – EO/IR Solutions, RTX