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Episode One: Episode Two: The first episode begins from Major General TR We continue the We’ll close the event with with a candid fireside Copinger-Symes CBE, programme with a deep a Capabilities Showcase chat on Defence and Director Strategy and dive into AI adoption from the Microsoft team, National Security with Military Digitisation, UK and the building blocks investigating 5G, artificial Air Marshal (Rtd) Phil Strategic Command required to move intelligence, wargaming Osborn CBE FRAeS, and Christian Brose, from pilot to large- and space capabilities. and Clare Barclay, the the author of The Kill scale implementation, Featuring Rashmi Misra, CEO of Microsoft UK. Chain, and Chief Strategy featuring Lt. Gen. Amanda Mercier, Following sessions will Officer, Anduril. Featuring (Rtd) John NT. “Jack” Jeremy Poulter, Kate offer top-level views of Richard Warner, Simon Shanahan, the inaugural Robertson, Andy Hickl, synthetic environments Luck, Matt Telling, Adam Director of the US Paul Tilghman, Mujtaba and cloud innovation, Durant, Daniel Baker, Department of Defense Hamid, Steve Kitay, and end with a Startup Nick Bray, Philip Lear (DoD) Joint Artificial Chirag Parikh, Dylan Showcase featuring and Anisha Singh. Intelligence Center Browne and Matt Telling. DEFEND3D, SATAVIA and (JAIC)and Steven Meers, Preligens, plus keynotes Head of AI Lab, DSTL.
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Agenda wired.uk/events [email protected] Agenda Air Marshal (Rtd) Phil Osborn CBE FRAeS and Clare Barclay, CEO, Microsoft UK explore wired.uk/events opportunities and challenges, discussing exciting frontiers of military operations. Christian Brose, Author of The Kill Chain and Chief Officer, Strategy Anduril the current role of technology and innovation in the UK, examining the specific Supporting FVEYs Innovation in the Cloud The Future of Simulation Modelling Richard Warner, Director of Partnerships, Improbable Partnerships, of Warner, Director Richard Simon Luck, UK Mission Engineering Lead, Microsoft The Future of High-tech Warfare Innovation in Defence in the UK Fireside Technology Chat: and and Synthetic Environments Morning Welcome Remarks Air Marshal (Rtd) Phil Osborn CBE FRAeS Greg Williams, Editor-in-Chief, WIRED Clare Barclay, CEO, Microsoft UK Innovation Showcase Innovation Microsoft Keynote: December 9,> December 2020 Episode one Episode 10.00 GMT 10.50 GMT 10.02 GMT 10.20 GMT 10.35 GMT <
Director Strategy and Military Digitisation, UK Strategic Command Unleashing the Power in Defence’s Data Matt Telling, Sr Director, UK Defence and National Security Delivering the Digital Backbone and AI for Geospatial Intelligence Major General TR Copinger-Symes CBE, Philip Lear, of Head Sales, UK, Preligens Greg Williams, Editor-in-Chief, WIRED Making Aviation Smarter 3D Printing for Defence Anisha Singh, CPO, DEFEND3D Nick Bray Startup Showcase Startup Adam Durant, CEO, Closing Remarks Dan Baker, CTO, A Look Ahead 12.00 GMT 11.35 GMT 11.55 GMT 11.10 GMT CBE, CSO, SATAVIA CSO, CBE, SATAVIA SATAVIA [email protected]
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Episode two
14.30 GMT Afternoon Welcome Remarks 5G Edge Enabled Victoria Turk, Features Editor, WIRED Paul Tilghman, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
14.35 GMT Rapidly Deployable AI for Mission Panel: Adopting Artificial Intelligence - From Pilot to Large-Scale Applications Andy Hickl, Data and AI Lead at Azure Global Mission Systems
Lt. Gen. (Rtd) John NT. “Jack” Shanahan, Former Director, Joint Artificial Cloud, AI and Gaming-Powered Intelligence Center, Office of the Department of Defense Chief Information Advanced Wargaming Officer, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia Mujtaba Hamid, Head of Silicon & Electronics Industry, Steven Meers, Head of AI Lab, DSTL and Studio Alpha, Microsoft Azure Rashmi Misra, GM AI Platforms, Microsoft Amanda Mercier, Lead Data Scientist, Azure Global 16.10 GMT Moderated session by Victoria Turk, Features Editor, WIRED The Future of Space Dylan Browne, Head of Government Sales, OneWeb 15.10 GMT Microsoft Capabilities Showcase 16.25 GMT Hosted by Jeremy Poulter, Sr Industry Executive, Next Steps: Vision into Action UK Public Safety & National Security, Microsoft Matt Telling, Sr Director, UK Defence and National Security Kate Robertson, Digital Advisor, Microsoft 16.30 GMT Azure Space Closing Remarks Steve Kitay, Senior Director, Azure Space, Microsoft Greg Williams, Editor-in-Chief, WIRED Chirag Parikh, Senior Director, Azure Space, Microsoft
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WIRED is honoured to present a specially curated speaker faculty comprising innovative leaders, founders and disruptors who are paving the way for change in military and defence missions.
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wired.uk/events [email protected] Speaker Faculty wired.uk/events Defence and Security Solutions. roles, he is aDirector at Universal Today, within anumber of Board-level Command) capability portfolio. extensive Joint Forces (now Strategic operational Groups, RAF and led the commanded one of the two Tornadooperational navigator, Previously, he served as an and digital and capabilities. cyber strategic intelligence provision, making, decision security national of 2018, he was at the of heart Defence Intelligence until the end National Security. As the Chief of perspective on Defence and Phil Osborn has aunique UK Defence, Air Marshal (Rtd) After nearly four decades in Phil Osborn CBE FRAeS Air Marshal (Rtd) andIndustry Leaders Experts
to intelligence collection and analysis. charged with bringing AI capabilities pathfinder AI fielding programme he established and led the DoD’s Functional Team (Project Maven), of the Algorithmic Warfare Cross- Force levels. As the first Director wing, Agency, and Numbered Air commanded at the squadron, group, and command and control, and including flying, intelligence,policy, (JAIC). Jack served in various fields Joint Artificial Intelligence Center US Department of Defense (DoD) was as the inaugural Director of the military career. His final assignment Force, retired after a36-year General (Rtd), United States Air John (Jack) Shanahan, Lieutenant “Jack” Shanahan Lt. Gen. (Rtd) John NT
formation of 6th (UK) Division. the in culminating competition, in anew era of great power Army’s response to digital disruption “Information Manoeuvre” –the the MOD &PJHQ. Tom pioneered in operations and strategy posts in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, and in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, withcareer Rifles The operations on technology. He spent his early exploitation of data and digital its increase and Transformation to accelerate Defence’s Digital current post, newly created In 2019, Tom took up his UK Strategic Command Digitisation,Military Director Strategy and Copinger-Symes CBE Major General TR
Partner Group at Microsoft UK. of the Small, Medium Enterprise & previously Manager General Microsoft,roles across Clarewas IT industry, most of them in diverse With nearly three decades in the UK’sMicrosoft business groups. and services resources in each of success of the sales, marketing orchestrated the direction and Officer for fouryears, where she Microsoft UK’s Chief Operating and partners. Previously, Clare was UK for its commercial customers product and service offerings in the is responsible for all of Microsoft’s Officer of Microsoft UK, where she Clare was appointed Chief Executive Microsoft UK CEO, Clare Barclay
Christian Brose Richard Warner Steven Meers Dylan Browne Author of The Kill Chain and Chief Director of Partnerships, Head of AI Labs, Head of Government Sales, Strategy Officer, Anduril Improbable DSTL OneWeb Christian Brose is the Chief Richard Warner is responsible for Professor Meers is a Fellow at the OneWeb is building a global Strategy Officer of Anduril developing Improbable’s industry Defence Science and Technology communications network with a Industries, a venture-backed and research partnerships, as Laboratory (DSTL) specialising in constellation of Low Earth Orbit defence technology company. well as driving the expansion of application of artificial intelligence, satellites that will provide robust He is responsible for business Improbable’s partner content machine learning and data secure connectivity solutions strategy, development and ecosystem. From 2017-2019, he was science to defence and security for US Government customers. growth, and for positioning the General Manager of Improbable’s challenges. He is the Head of Prior to OneWeb, Dylan was COO company to build technologies US Government Business, which DSTL’s AI Lab and provides advice at COMSAT Inc, and previously at that solve the most important he established. Before joining at the highest levels within the Airbus Defense and Space CIS. defence problems. He is also a Improbable, Richard served in the Ministry of Defence regarding the Dylan oversees a global team Senior Fellow at the Carnegie UK’s diplomatic service for 10 years opportunities and threats presented responsible for developing service Endowment for International Peace, in a range of political and policy by artificial intelligence and propositions for global connectivity a member of the Aspen Strategy roles with a national security focus. machine learning, and how the in the Government sector and Group, and the author of The Kill In his last assignment, he served UK can responsibly and safely leveraging OneWeb’s unique Chain: Defending America in as Principal Private Secretary to the adopt these technologies to satellite production and operations the Future of High-Tech Warfare. UK’s National Security Adviser. strengthen defence and security. capabilities for third-party missions.
Speaker Faculty Speaker wired.uk/events [email protected] Amanda Mercier Rashmi Misra Matt Telling Lead Data Scientist, Azure Global GM AI Platforms, Microsoft Sr Director, UK Defence and Amanda leads a team of data Rashmi has been at the forefront National Security, Microsoft scientists solving the most of intelligent systems for over Matt leads Microsoft’s Public challenging, mission-sensitive 20 years, managing network Safety and National Security problems at Microsoft using applications, cloud, media, IoT and business, which is focused artificial intelligence. She spent M2M businesses for HPE where, on supporting customers in over 13 years as a data scientist for most recently, she was the Head of safeguarding the UK and its citizens. the US government working on a AI Solutions for High Performance In this role, Matt leads a team wide variety of missions, including Compute solutions. Rashmi that works with customers across weapons systems effectiveness, previously led Motorola’s worldwide Defence, National Security, the ballistics, counterterrorism and System Integration portfolio and Home & Foreign Offices, Justice counterproliferation. She left was instrumental in deploying some and Policing to find new and unique the government as the chief data of the first expert and AI systems ways to use technology to empower scientist for a global mission-space. on mobile networks. She owns six those organisations and their users. Whilst working at Microsoft, she international patents for intelligent Matt has held several roles in his spearheaded efforts including optimisation, automated network 20-year Microsoft career within synthetic data generation supporting health and monetisation of traffic many parts of the organisation computer vision, information on telecom networks. including Consumer, Partner, exploitation, and predictive analytics Enterprise Services, Xbox and for government customers. Telecoms business units.
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Jeremy Poulter Kate Robertson Simon Luck Andy Hickl Sr Industry Executive, Digital Advisor, UK Mission Engineering Lead, Data and AI Lead at Azure Global UK Public Safety & National Microsoft Microsoft Mission Systems Security, Microsoft Kate is a Digital Advisor across Simon is Microsoft’s Mission Andy Hickl is an innovator in artificial As Industry lead for UK Defence Microsoft’s Defence and Intelligence Engineering Lead in the UK. Prior intelligence, machine learning and and National Security, Jeremy business, encouraging customers to to joining Microsoft, Simon spent natural language processing. He Poulter works with government move beyond the technology and 16 years with an engineering currently serves as Principal Program departments to better understand focus on creating real value from consultancy which included Manager in the Azure Special future digital capability needs their Digital Transformation Journey. a DSTL programme that used Capabilities team, where he leads and with a range of partners She has worked within the industry Machine Learning to teach a drone investments into novel AI capabilities from startups to defence industry for over 20 years, starting as an Air to carry out a perched landing across the verticals most important primes to craft solutions. Engineering Officer in the Fleet Air – the first of its kind in the UK. to Azure customers. He has held Jeremy spent 17 years as a front- Arm, where she worked across the Simon is a Fellow of the Institute leadership roles in AI at Microsoft, line RAF aviator, which included domains while supporting TLBs, then for Technology and Engineering and Intel, Rewired Ventures, Vulcan Inc., two secondments to the moving to PA Consulting where is an enthusiastic and passionate and Language Computer Corporation. US military in support of major she led the Defence Innovation team advocate of exploiting technology A serial entrepreneur, Andy has acquisition programmes. before moving to Microsoft. to enable our front-line personnel co-founded three startups: and support the mission. A.R.O. Inc., Swingly, and Extractiv.
Speaker Faculty Speaker wired.uk/events [email protected] Paul Tilghman Mujtaba Hamid Stephen Kitay Chirag Parikh Principal Program Manager, Head of Silicon & Electronics Senior Director, Azure Space, Senior Director, Azure Space, Microsoft Industry, and Studio Alpha, Microsoft Microsoft Paul Tilghman leads the Spectrum Microsoft Azure Stephen Kitay co-leads Microsoft’s Chirag Parikh co-leads Microsoft & Connectivity team in the Azure Mujtaba leads Studio Alpha for efforts to connect Azure with the Azure Space, which is responsible Global CTO organisation at Microsoft Azure, with a vision of space sector. Prior to Microsoft, for developing capabilities and Microsoft, where he focuses on empowering organisations to solve Stephen served in the US services to extend connectivity the intersection of wireless, complex planet-scale massive data Government, most recently as across the world, simulate digital communications and AI problems using simulations and the Deputy Assistant Secretary space environments, discover technologies with the cloud. artificial intelligence run in the of Defense for Space Policy, new insights, and drive innovation Prior to joining Microsoft in 2019, Cloud and visualised using Gaming where he had a key leadership role both on the ground and in orbit. Paul was a Program Manager Technology. Previously, Mujtaba had in the establishment of the US The rapid international advances at the Defense Advanced Research held technology policy, corporate Space Force. He was also an active in commercial and government Projects Agency (DARPA) where strategy, product management duty Air Force military officer, and space capabilities provide a he defined and led cornerstone and engineering roles in Microsoft’s held civilian positions in the unique opportunity to both programs of the US wireless and Windows, Office, Strategy and Intelligence Community and on enable the space industry through AI research portfolio. Research organisations. Capitol Hill. Kitay has an Electrical the power of the Azure cloud, Engineering degree and a Masters and to leverage these space in Business Administration. services for Azure customers.
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Adam Durant Daniel Baker Nick Bray CBE Anisha Singh Philip Lear CEO, SATAVIA CTO, SATAVIA CSO, SATAVIA CPO, DEFEND3D Head of Sales, UK, Dr. Adam Durant is Daniel Baker is the Chief Nick is responsible for Anisha Singh has Preligens Founder and CEO Technology Officer for the general strategy and spent several years Philip joined Preligens of SATAVIA – making SATAVIA, with responsibility business development working with X-rays, (formerly Earthcube) to aviation smarter and for managing innovation, in the Defence and imaging and robotics. lead sales growth into the greener. Prior to development and delivery. Security sector at She has spearheaded UK market. Philip brings founding SATAVIA, His portfolio ranges SATAVIA. He previously working on bespoke significant experience in Dr. Durant worked as a across a wide spectrum of served for 33 years in mechatronic systems for supporting international professional scientist cutting-edge technology, the Royal Air Force, industrial, medical and defence programmes at the University of from four-dimensional occupying a wide laboratory use, providing (such as Acquisition, Cambridge and the atmospheric datasets to range of roles including services for design, IT Infrastructure and Norwegian Institute cloud engineering with Chief of International rapid prototyping and Geospatial Intelligence for Air Research (NILU). Kubernetes, and from Policy and Plans for the manufacturing. Her Solutions) and Dr. Durant has authored Python parallelisation Ministry of Defence, and experience has led to throughout his career more than 35 scientific with Dask to managing Commandant-General the role of CPO at Wippit has sought to put papers in the field of SATAVIA’s customised of the RAF Regiment. Ltd, where she aims to pioneering technologies atmospheric science, numerical weather He retains a commission bring disruption to digital in the hands of the user, including a landmark prediction model (WPM) in the Royal Auxiliary manufacturing with and to ensure that data paper on carbon on high-performance- Air Force, in the rank of the DEFEND3D secure can be fully exploited to emissions in 2009. compute in the cloud. Air Commodore. transmission solution. the best effect.
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