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Saatja: "Helena Peradigou" <[email protected]> Saaja: "KV Jagatud 2JVBr Staap" <[email protected]>, "Jaanika Ojakõiv" <[email protected]> Teema: Confirm Receipt: Invitation from Lithuanian Land Force Kuupäev: 2026-05-29 10:40 Dear Sir/Madame, I hope this email finds you well. To introduce myself, the Senior Conference Producer at Defence iQ, directing the Land Warfare Europe Conference (November, Lithuania), in official partnership with the Lithuanian Land Force and attended by the CHOD. The Land Warfare Europe Conference is the leading conference driving integrated land capability, ground-based air defence , and reginal deterrence at the epicentre of NATO’s Eastern Flank. Conversations will revolve specifically around regional Eastern European threat. We will have a dedicated presence of each Eastern European army/ land force in the room, who are all aligned on the current threat context. The conference is framed around the operational challenges faced by Eastern Flank land forces, addressing how to detect, sustain, and move under the threat of EW, drones, missiles, and firepower. This is addressed through our streams: Stream A: Sense, Command and Targeting Stream B: Integrated Fires and Land Force Protection Stream C: Manoeuvre, Survivability and Sustainment Additionally, topics addressed will follow the gold standards set by Ukraine around UGVs, dorone warfare and armoured capability, and lessons from the Middle East around cost-effective air defence and defeating the C-UAS cost curve problem. Please see formal invitation attached on behalf of the Lithuanian Land Force for Colonel Antti Viljaste to provide a brief at the conference. We kindly request a decision by Friday 5th June, and look forward to hearing back. 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P Please consider the environment before printing this email DRAFT PROGRAMME | LAND WARFARE EUROPE CONFERENCE IN OFFICIAL PARTNERSHIP WITH 17 – 18 NOVEMBER 2026 | VILNIUS, LITHUANIA DRAFT AGENDA  DRAFT PROGRAMME | LAND WARFARE EUROPE CONFERENCE Welcome Dear Colleague, In modern combat, achieving lethality has become markedly cheaper than ensuring survivability. Precision strike has increasingly overtaken direct attack as the primary means of defeating enemy forces, enabled by the widespread use of sUAS alongside integrated radars, ISR, communications, and weapons systems. Armoured warfare is changing weekly. The RUS/UKR conflict has reaffirmed the value of armour for shock, protection, and armoured manoeuvre. National armies are now prioritising the maintenance and longevity of their armoured formations. More recently, Ukraine’s scaling of remotely controlled interceptor drones, unified UAV control, and cost-effective approaches to air defence have redefined the economics of warfare. In the current combat environment, integrating traditional armoured manoeuvre with indirect fires and integrated air and missile defence is no longer an option, but a necessity for achieving operational advantage. The Baltics and wider Eastern European nations continue to progress the Baltic Defence Line and East Shield initiatives, underscoring a collective effort to strengthen integrated land warfare capabilities along NATO’s Eastern Flank. This significant funding commitment of the Baltics underpins their commitment to fortify national borders and significantly enhance ground-based air defence - capabilities now widely recognised across Eastern Europe as central to contemporary defence and deterrence strategies. It’s in this capacity that the Land Warfare Europe Conference is returning this November, in official collaboration with the Lithuanian Land Forces at the Epicentre of NATO’s Eastern Flank, to drive integrated land capability, ground-based air defence, and regional deterrence. Through dedicated streams focused on Sense, Command and Targeting; Integrated Fires and Land Force Protection; and Manoeuvre, Survivability and Sustainment, the conference will examine how Eastern Europe to follow new standards for cost-effective air defence, armoured capability, mobility, precision-targeting, and resilient communications. We will be uniting national armies, NATO commands and agencies, and industry across Eastern Europe over two days of presentations, interactive discussions, and networking. I look forward to connecting in Vilnius. Regards, Helena Peradigou Senior Conference Producer, Defence iQ  DRAFT PROGRAMME | LAND WARFARE EUROPE CONFERENCE AGENDA AT A GLANCE CONFERENCE DAY ONE THE EASTERN FLANK LAND BATTLE: INTEGRATED CAPABILITIES FOR FUTURE-READY LAND FORCES Powering Land Force Preparedness and Systems Interoperability MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK STREAM A: SENSE, COMMAND AND STREAM B: INTEGRATED FIRES AND LAND STREAM C: MANOEUVRE, SURVIVABILITY TARGETING FORCE PROTECTION AND SUSTAINMENT Detecting, Deciding, Targeting, and Commanding Protecting Manoeuvre Forces, Artillery, Logistics Nodes Driving Armoured and Mechanised Forces to Move, Faster than the Enemy Under EW, GPS Denial, and and Command Posts Against Aerial Threat for Survive, Regenerate and Sustain Combat Power in Persistent Drone Observation Battlefield Advantage Baltic and Eastern Flank Terrain ENHANCING LETHALITY THROUGH SYNCHRONISED DEFENDING LAND FORCES AGAINST LOW-COST MODERNISING PLATFORMS TO DETER EASTERN PRECISION FIRES AERIAL THREATS FLANK THREATS Coordinated Fires Capabilities for Rapid Precision Winning the Battle With C-UAS Against High-Volume, Scaling Modern Manoeuvre and UGVs in the Current Targeting Low-Cost Attack Combat Environment NETWORKING LUNCH ARTILLERY PROGRAMMES SUPPORTING GROUND LAYERED PROTECTION AGAINST LOITERING OVERCOMING REGIONAL BALTIC CHALLENGES FOR FORCES MUNITIONS, MISSILES AND ONE-WAY ATTACK DYNAMIC MANOEUVRE Achieving Deep Strike Effects Through Modernised SYSTEMS Optimising Armoured Vehicle Performance in the Artillery and Precision-Guided Munitions Lessons from the Middle East and Reshaping the Baltics for Enhanced Survivability Economics of Warfare AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING DOMINATING WITH INDIRECT FIRES IN EW- DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION: ENABLERS FOR AIR UPGRADING ARMOURED VEHICLES IN CONTESTED ENVIRONMENTS AND MISSILE DEFENCE TOOLS CONTEMPORARY CONFLICT Survivability in Highly Contested Airspace Integrated Surveillance of the Airspace Driving Rapid, Cheaper, Modernised Heavy Combat Capabilities for Rea-Time Response High-Intensity Combat Readiness NETWORKING DRINKS RECEPTION CONFERENCE DAY TWO BUYING AND BUILDING COMBAT POWER AT WARTIME SPEED Fuelling Future Land Warfare Capabilities Through Strategic Funding MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK SYNCHRONISING FIRES, AIR DEFENCE AND TARGETING FOR EASTERN FLANK DETERRENCE  DRAFT PROGRAMME | LAND WARFARE EUROPE CONFERENCE Achieving Ground Dominance and Enhancing Lethality Through Integrated Manoeuvre, Defence, and Fires NETWORKING LUNCH INFORMATION ADVANTAGE IN THE COMBAT ENVIRONMENT Smarter Decision-Making and Rapid Response Driven by Real-Time Battlefield Information AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING LOGISTICS RESILIENCE: MUNITIONS, INTERCEPTORS, REPAIR AND FORCE REGENERATION TO SUSTAIN THE FIGHT Solidifying Logistics Foundations to Sustain Land Combat Power CHAIRMAN • Major General (Ret’d) Mike Keating, Former Chief of Staff, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) CONFIRMED AND RESERVED SPEAKERS • General Raimundas Vaiksnoras, Chief of Defence of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuanian Armed Forces *subject to final confirmation • Lieutenant General Adam Joks, Commander, 2 Polish Corps - Land Component Command, Polish Army • Major General Olly Brown, General Officer Commanding 3 UK Division, British Army • Brigadier General Nerijus Stankevičius, Commander, Lithuanian Land Force *subject to final confirmation • Brigadier General Aurelijus Alasauskas, Commander, Lithuanian Army First Division *subject to final confirmation • Brigadier General István Tóth, Commander of the 1st Klapka György Armoured Brigade, Hungarian Defence Forces • Colonel Roman Bobal, Commander, Fires Centre of Excellence, Armed Forces of Slovak Republic • Colonel Craig Cotner, Incoming Fires Transformation and Integration Director, US Army • Colonel David Brassard, Incoming Commander, Multinational Brigade Latvia INVITED SPEAKERS • Lieutenant General Pasi Välimäki, Commander, Finnish Army • Major General Andrii Malinovskiy, Chief of Artillery, Armed Forces of Ukraine • Major General Kaspars Pudāns, Chief of defence of the republic of Latvia, Latvian National Armed Forces • Major General Michał Rohde, Commander, 12th Mechanised Division, Polish Land Forces • Brigadier General Gábor Lőrincz, Commander, Hungarian Ground Forces • Brigadier General Adrian Popescu, Commander of the 9th Mechanised Brigade, Romanian Land Forces • Brigadier General Steven Carpenter, Commander, 56th Artillery Command, US Army • Brigadier Craig Hanson, Commander of 101st Operational Sustainment Brigade, British Army  DRAFT PROGRAMME | LAND WARFARE EUROPE CONFERENCE • Mr. Edvinas Grikšas, Minister of Economy and Innovation, Ministry of Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania • Mr. Joseph Lyden, Chief Procurement Officer, NSPA DAY ONE, TUESDAY 17 NOVEMBER 0730 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS 0830 DEFENCE iQ OPENING WELCOME Helena Peradigou, Senior Conference Producer, Defence iQ 0835 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS Reserved for: Lithuanian Land Force 0840 WELCOME ADDRESS: LITHUANIAN LAND FORCES Reserved for: General Raimundas Vaiksnoras, Chief of Defence of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuanian Armed Forces THE EASTERN FLANK LAND BATTLE: INTEGRATED CAPABILITIES FOR FUTURE-READY LAND FORCES 0845 HOST NATION KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ALIGNING LTU LAND FORCE DEVELOPMENT WITH EASTERN FLANK DEFENCE INITIATIVES Reserved for: Lithuanian Land Force 0915 Reserved for industry 0945 RESTORING COMBINED ARMS MANOEUVRE AND SYNCHRONISED LAND CAPABILITIES Lieutenant General Adam Joks, Commander, 2 Polish Corps - Land Component Command, Polish Army  DRAFT PROGRAMME | LAND WARFARE EUROPE CONFERENCE 1015 INDUSTRY LEADERS PANEL: OPEN ARCHITECTURE FOR THE EASTERN FLANK KILL CHAIN: CONNECTING SENSORS, SHOOTERS, EFFECTORS AND COMMAND NETWORKS Panellists: Reserved for: Echodyne Reserved for: Lockheed Martin Invited: Aaronia, Palantir, Adarga, Helsing 1100 MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK STREAM A: SENSE, COMMAND AND STREAM B: INTEGRATED FIRES AND LAND STREAM C: MANOEUVRE, SURVIVABILITY TARGETING FORCE PROTECTION AND SUSTAINMENT Chairman: Major General (Ret’d) Mike Keating, Former Chairman: Reserved for Lithuanian Land Force Chief of Staff, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) ENHANCING LETHALITY THROUGH SYNCHRONISED DEFENDING LAND FORCES AGAINST LOW-COST MODERNISING PLATFORMS TO DETER EASTERN PRECISION FIRES AERIAL THREATS FLANK THREATS 1130 MOBILE ARTILLERY IN THE TRANSPARENT HOST NATION KEYNOTE ADDRESS: REQUIREMENTS MODERNISING MBTS AND IFVS FOR THE DRONE- BATTLEFIELD: SPEED, DISPLACEMENT AND TO FURTHER INTEGRATE AIR AND MISSILE DEFENCE SATURATED BATTLEFIELD SURVIVABILITY UNDER COUNTER-BATTERY THREAT FOR BALTIC SECURITY Reserved for: Lithuanian Land Force Reserved for: Lithuanian Land Force Reserved for: Lithuanian Land Force 1200 LONG-RANGE PRECISION FIRES FOR EASTERN FLANK Reserved for industry Reserved for industry DETERRENCE Reserved for: Lockheed Martin 1230 CLOSING THE SENSOR-TO-SHOOTER GAP: UKRAINE’S COST CURVE LESSON: COUNTERING FROM TRIALS TO TACTICAL UTILITY: SCALING UGVS OVERCOMING DISCONNECTED C2 TO COORDINATE CHEAP DRONES WHILST SUSTAINING EXPENSIVE FOR RECONNAISSANCE, LOGISTICS AND FORCE FIRES AT SPEED INTERCEPTORS PROTECTION Invited: Brigadier General Steven Carpenter, Invited: Armed Forces of Ukraine Invited: Estonian Land Forces Commander, 56th Artillery Command, US Army  DRAFT PROGRAMME | LAND WARFARE EUROPE CONFERENCE 1300 NETWORKING LUNCH ARTILLERY PROGRAMMES SUPPORTING GROUND LAYERED PROTECTION AGAINST LOITERING OVERCOMING REGIONAL BALTIC CHALLENGES FOR FORCES MUNITIONS, MISSILES AND ONE-WAY ATTACK DYNAMIC MANOEUVRE SYSTEMS 1400 MODERNISING HOWITZER FORCES FOR SPEED, RECENT LESSONS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT KEEPING ARMOUR MOVING UNDER FIRE: MOBILITY, AUTOMATION AND SURVIVABILITY DRIVING US ARMY MODERNISATION RECOVERY, REPAIR AND PROTECTED MANOEUVRE Invited: Slovak Armed Forces Colonel Craig Cotner, Incoming Fires Transformation Invited: British Army and Integration Director, US Army 1430 Reserved for industry 1500 SUSTAINING ARTILLERY ADVANTAGE THROUGH RCH PANEL - IN - THE - ROUND SESSION: CAN ARMED MANOEUVRE IN BALTIC TERRAIN: MOBILITY 155: PROCUREMENT, SURVIVABILITY AND LONG- FORCES SUSTAINABLY MANAGE THE COST CURVE CORRIDORS, OBSTACLES, BRIDGING AND TERM FIRES MODERNISATION PROBLEM? REINFORCEMENT ROUTES Invited: British Army Addressing cheap drones, expensive interceptors, and the economics of sustained land warfare. Invited: Estonian Land Forces Moderator: Major General (Ret’d) Mike Keating, Former Chief of Staff, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) Panellist: Colonel Craig Cotner, Incoming Fires Transformation and Integration Director, US Army 1530 AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING DOMINATING WITH INDIRECT FIRES IN EW- DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION: ENABLERS FOR AIR UPGRADING ARMOURED VEHICLES IN CONTESTED ENVIRONMENTS AND MISSILE DEFENCE CONTEMPORARY CONFLICT 1600 IMPROVING PERFORMANCE OF DIGITISED FIRES IN TARGET ACQUISITION AND SENSOR FUSION: LESSONS FROM ZRINYI 2026: MODERNISING HEAVY GPS-DENIED ENVIRONMENTS BUILDING THE SHARED PICTURE FOR AIR DEFENCE, FORCES FOR SURVIVABILITY, MOBILITY AND COMBAT FIRES AND MANOEUVRE MASS Brigadier General István Tóth, Commander of the 1st Klapka György Armoured Brigade, Hungarian Defence Forces  DRAFT PROGRAMME | LAND WARFARE EUROPE CONFERENCE Reserved for: Colonel Roman Bobal, Commander, Invited: The Romanian Land Forces Fires Centre of Excellence, Armed Forces of Slovak Republic 1630 LOITERING MUNITIONS: SURVIVABILITY IN CRITICAL PERFORMANCE OF RADAR SYSTEMS FOR C- MODULAR ARMOUR AND SURVIVABILITY UPGRADES: CONTESTED, GPS-DENIED AIRSPACE UAS EXTENDING PLATFORM LIFE WITHOUT FULL FLEET REPLACEMENT Invited: Bulgarian Land Forces Reserved for: Echodyne Invited: Major General Olly Brown, General Officer Commanding 3 UK Division, British Army 1700 MEETING RAPID MOBILITY DEMANDS FOR MLRS ENHANCING SITUATIONAL AWARENESS OF THE PANEL DISCUSSION: UTILITY OF THE TANK THROUGH C2 AND LOGISTICS SHARED AIRSPACE FOR INTEROPERABILITY Invited: The Finnish Army Invited: Latvian Land Forces 1730 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS Major General (Ret’d) Mike Keating, Former Chief of Reserved for Lithuanian Land Force Staff, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) 1740 DRINKS RECEPTION AND NETWORKING DAY TWO, TUESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 0800 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS 0855 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS Reserved for: Lithuanian Land Force  DRAFT PROGRAMME | LAND WARFARE EUROPE CONFERENCE BUYING AND BUILDING COMBAT POWER AT WARTIME SPEED 0900 FUNDING EASTERN FLANK REARMAMENT: NEW GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL TOOLS AND 2027 INNOVATION PRIORITIES Invited: Lithuanian Ministry of Economy and Innovation 0930 Reserved for industry 1000 INCREASING INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY FOR AIR AND MISSILE DEFENCE: NSPA PROJECT UPDATES Invited: Mr. Joseph Lyden, Chief Procurement Officer, NSPA 1030 Reserved for industry 1100 MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK SYNCHRONISING FIRES, AIR DEFENCE AND TARGETING FOR EASTERN FLANK DETERRENCE 1130 SYNCHRONISING AIR DEFENCE AND FIELD ARTILLERY: PROTECTING THE FORCE WHILE EXTENDING THE KILL CHAIN Invited: Colonel Frank Maxwell, Incoming Chief of Staff, Multidomain Command-Europe, US Army 1200 Reserved for industry 1230 BALLISTIC DATA, WEATHER EFFECTS AND TARGETING ACCURACY: IMPROVING FIRES DECISIONS IN CONTESTED CONDITIONS Invited: Latvian Land Forces 1300 NETWORKING LUNCH INFORMATION ADVANTAGE IN THE COMBAT ENVIRONMENT 1400 INTEGRATED LAND AND AIR ISR: FINDING AND PRIORITISING TARGETS IN THE TRANSPARENT BATTLEFIELD Invited: The Romanian Armed Forces 1430 DISRUPTING THE ENEMY KILL CHAIN: EW, DECEPTION AND SURVIVABILITY FOR LAND FORCES Invited: The Finnish Defence Forces 1500 AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING LOGISTICS RESILIENCE: MUNITIONS, INTERCEPTORS, REPAIR AND FORCE REGENERATION TO SUSTAIN THE FIGHT  DRAFT PROGRAMME | LAND WARFARE EUROPE CONFERENCE 1530 DEFENDING THE DEFENDER: THE COST OF INTERCEPTOR SUSTAINMENT Invited: Polish Land Forces 1600 ARTILLERY EXPENDITURE AND THE WAR OF ATTRITION: MUNITIONS DEPTH, PRODUCTION CAPACITY AND SUSTAINED FIRES Invited: Brigadier Craig Hanson, Commander of 101st Operational Sustainment Brigade, British Army 1630 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS Reserved for: Lithuanian Land Force 1640 END OF CONFERENCE VENUE DRAFT PROGRAMME | LAND WARFARE EUROPE CONFERENCE Vilnius Grand Resort | Ežeraičių km, Ežeraičių g. 2, 14200 Vilnius, Lithuania 29 May 2026 Colonel Antti Viljaste Commander, 2nd Infantry Brigade Estonian Land forces INVITATION TO BRIEF: LAND WARFARE EUROPE; VILNIUS GRAND RESORT, LITHUANIA | 17- 18 November 2026 It is my esteemed pleasure to be directing Defence iQ’s Land Warfare Europe conference taking place on 17-18 November in Vilnius, in official partnership with the Lithuanian Land Force. I would like to extend a formal invitation to provide a brief at the conference. In modern combat, achieving lethality has become markedly cheaper than ensuring survivability. Precision strike has increasingly overtaken direct attack as the primary means of defeating enemy forces, enabled by the widespread use of sUAS alongside integrated radars, ISR, communications, and weapons systems. Armoured warfare is changing weekly. The RUS/UKR conflict has reaffirmed the value of armour for shock, protection, and armoured manoeuvre. National armies are now prioritising the maintenance and longevity of their armoured formations. More recently, Ukraine’s scaling of remotely controlled interceptor drones, unified UAV control, and cost-effective approaches to air defence have redefined the economics of warfare. In the current combat environment, integrating traditional armoured manoeuvre with indirect fires and integrated air and missile defence is no longer an option, but a necessity for achieving operational advantage. The Baltics and wider Eastern European nations continue to progress the Baltic Defence Line and East Shield initiatives, underscoring a collective effort to strengthen integrated land warfare capabilities along NATO’s Eastern Flank. This significant funding commitment of the Baltics underpins their commitment to fortify national borders and significantly enhance ground-based air defence - capabilities now widely recognised across Eastern Europe as central to contemporary defence and deterrence strategies. It’s in this capacity that the Land Warfare Europe Conference is returning this November, in official collaboration with the Lithuanian Land Forces at the Epicentre of NATO’s Eastern Flank, to drive integrated land capability, ground-based air defence, and regional deterrence. Through each dedicated stream across Indirect Fires, Air and Missile Defence, and Armoured Manouvre, you will draw on regional priorities across Eastern Europe to follow new standards for cost-effective air defence, armoured capability, mobility, precision-targeting, and resilient communications. We will be uniting national armies, NATO commands and agencies, and industry across Eastern Europe over two days of presentations, interactive discussions, and networking. Key areas of discussion: • Combined Manouvre and Synchronised Land Capabilities • Baltic Defence Line Initiative to Strengthen Eastern Borders • Ground-Based Air Defence and Interoperability Challenges • Cost-Effective Warfare and C-UAS • Loitering Munitions: Survivability in Contested, GPS-Denied Airspace • Following Ukrainian Standards for Drone Warfare Your participation is crucial in driving forward these efforts and making a tangible impact on our collective defence strategies. We are delighted to invite you to deliver a 20-minute brief sharing your preferred insights in relation to Trials To Tactical Utility: Scaling THeMIS UGVs For Reconnaissance, Logistics And Force Protection (tentative suggestion: subject to personal preference). This will be followed by 10 minutes of questions from the floor. Defence iQ (IQPC International), 2nd Floor, 129 Wilton Road, London, SW1V 1JZ, United Kingdom Land Warfare Europe conference is designed to: • Gather experts and leaders to tackle challenges, share insights, and develop innovative solutions • Unite senior representatives from nations and organisations involved in NATO security • Encourage engagement with interactive sessions and briefs examining current threats and strategic challenges in the region Please contact the Programme Director directly via email at [email protected] or via telephone at + 44 (0) 207 368 9771. For planning purposes, please indicate a written decision for participation to the email address above. Yours sincerely, Helena Peradigou (on behalf of Lithuanian Land Force) Senior Conference Director Defence iQ Defence iQ (IQPC International), 2nd Floor, 129 Wilton Road, London, SW1V 1JZ, United Kingdom