European VIPs Line Up for UDT 2022 Conference

01.06.2022
Defence leaders from European government and military forces will lead discussions at UDT 2022, when the undersea defence community reunites in Rotterdam on 7-9 June.


Rear Admiral Huub Hulsker, Deputy Commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy (Courtesy of Clarion)



Within the overarching theme of The Grey Zone, speakers from across Europe’s naval forces and government ministries will be joined by industry partners and think tank representatives to discuss the six conference pillars of Platform Design, Sensors & Processing, Weapons & Countermeasures, Uncrewed, Remotely Piloted & Autonomous Systems, Operational Drivers & Imperatives and Artificial Intelligence & Big Data.

The Day one keynote panel will be delivered by Rear Admiral Huub Hulsker, Deputy Commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy, who will be joined by Mr Vasco Pizzinato, Senior Combat Officer – NFS Programme Division, OCCAR; and Rear Admiral (Ret.) Jon Pentreath, Senior Land and Naval Adviser for Clarion Defence and Security.

Day two’s keynote panel discussion will bring together Captain Eric Toebast, NL MCM Service of the Royal Netherlands Navy, with Dr Leendert Dorst, Deputy Hydrographer of the Royal Netherlands Navy; Commander Sander Cool, Commanding Officer of the Defence Diving Group; Lt. Commander Martin Streefland, DHC/7SQN, Royal Netherlands Navy; and Commander Pieterbas Peters, Commander of ME Submarines, also of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

On the morning of Thursday 9 June, the final keynote speech will be delivered by Matt Smith, Director of Analysis at Shephard Media. Following his address, he will moderate a panel which will include Vice Admiral (Retd.) Kari Takanen, Former Commander and Chief of Defence Command, Finnish Navy; and Captain David Wilkinson, Naval Adviser for Clarion Defence and Security.

Other highlights from the conference include ‘Future MCM in combination with old fashion MCM: Augmenting Autonomous Systems’ from Dr Alain Maguer, Engineering and IT Department Head, NATO’s Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), and Commander Jonas Forsmark, Policy and Plans Department, Swedish Armed Forces HQ; and ‘ROVs for submarines: Systems of systems integration for ROV and AUV operations’ from Nils Størkersen, Director of Research, Division for Maritime Systems, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) and Commander Tobias Söderblom, Head of Underwater Materiel Section, Swedish Naval Staff.

Elsewhere, key speakers from across the three day programme include Wenche Oxholm, Senior Scientist, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, who will present on ‘Anti-Submarine Warfare - Measures of Performance’; Tim Vickery, Senior Principal Advisor at the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), who will speak on ‘Directed Energy Weapons for Submarine Defence’; Chris Parnell, Technical Partner, Platform Systems Division, Dstl, on ‘Design Of Submarine Command And Control’; and Ove Kent Hagen and Kristoffer Engedal Andreassen from the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), who will present on ‘Terrain Navigation Techniques for AUV MCM Operations’ and ‘Simulations Of ASW Operations In The Littoral Zone’, respectively.

To see the full conference agenda and register to attend UDT 2022 visit: https://www.udt-global.com/register

For more information, please visit: www.udt-global.com/rovplanet

Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands









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