Featured Recent Speakers
Avril D. Haines
Former United States Director of National Intelligence (2021-25); Fellow, All Souls College
His Excellency The Honourable Stephen Smith
Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Dir Gen Damian Parmenter CBE
AUKUS Director General, Ministry of Defence
Jen Easterly
RSAC CEO; U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director (2021-25)
Nicholas J. Rasmussen
Senior Advisor, McCain Institute; National Counterterrorism Center Director (2014-17)
Brigadier Grant Mason, DSC, DSM, ADC
Head of the Australian Defence Staff in London and Defence Attaché to Ireland
Ciaran Martin
Professor of Practice, Oxford University; National Cyber-Security Centre CEO (fmr)
Sir David Omand
Professor, King's College London; Director of GCHQ (1996-7)
Prof Dame Fiona Murray DCMG CBE
Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the NATO Innovation Fund
Major Gen. Tim Hodgetts CB CBE KHS OStJ DL
UK Armed Forces Surgeon General
Dr Christian Hirst
Minister-Counsellor Political, Economic and AUKUS, Australian High Commission
Matthew McKnight
General Manager, Biosecurity, Ginkgo Bioworks
Dr Charles Edel
Senior Adviser and Australia Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Adam Leslie
Director, Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), USA
Arun Gupta
CEO & Board Member, NobleReach Foundation
Chris Nott
Global CTO Defence & Security, IBM Quantum Ambassador
Isaac “Ike” Harris
Vice President, Government Strategy, Exiger
Sir Nick Hine KCB
Managing Director, Babcock International
James Galkowski
Partner, Silicon Valley Defense Group; White House (2018-20)
Wg Cdr Toby Steward
Commanding Officer RAF Fylingdales
Dr. Jason Rathje
Director, DoD Office of Strategic Capital
Professor Mike Kendall
Chair of Geophysics, Head of Oxford Earth Sciences Department
Jennifer Jackett
Senior Adviser, Australian Government
Rob Rider CBE
Strategic Advisor, Rheinmetall; UK Defence Attaché to Germany (2015-20)
Alexander B. Gray
White House National Security Council (NSC) Chief of Staff & Director (2018-2021); CEO, American Global Strategies
Jacqueline Tame
Executive Director, Silicon Valley Defense Group
Dr. Hugo Rosemont
Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London; Public Affairs Director at KBR
J.D. Englehart
Investment Director, In-Q-Tel
Dr. Kevin Stringer
Associate Professor (Military Academy of Lithuania)
Niall Tomlinson
Principal Exploration Geologist, SRK Consulting
Lt Commander Andrew Ward
Royal Navy, & CCW Fellow (2023-24)
Andrew Badger
Financial Firm Defense Industry Advisor
Dr. Hans Breede
Associate Professor (Royal Military College, Canada)
The Hon. R Clarke Cooper
Atlantic Council, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
Kate O’Brien
Chief of Staff to the Supervisory Board, NATO Innovation Fund
Noah Law, MP
Member of Parliament, Chairman of APPG Critical Minerals
Professor Jonathan Blundy
Royal Society Research Professor, University of Oxford
Nick Witney
European Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow, fmr CEO European Defence Agency
Dr Gavin Mudd
Director of the Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre, British Geological Survey
Sydney Reis
NATO Innovation Unit Staff (fmr) & Oxford DPhil Computer Science
Mark Stevens
Managing Partner, Periscope
Dr. Matthew Brazil
Jamestown Foundation Senior Fellow; Senior Analyst at BluePath Labs
Nicolas Jouan
RAND Corporation Senior Defence and Security Analyst
Caroline Baylon
Director, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations
Andrea McFeely
Senior Principal Initiative Lead, MITRE Corp.
Grant Hume
Operating Partner, BOKA Group
Capt. Sean Andrews
Royal Australian Navy, & CCW Fellow (2023)
Robert Harper MBE
CEO, Rowden Technologies
Abigail Desjardins
Venture Portfolio Director, Defense Innovation Unit
Zach Beecher
Chief of Staff, America’s Frontier Fund