1. CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN:
EXPERT MILITARY AND TECHNICAL SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Admiral Sir George Zambellas, Former Chief of Naval Staff,
Royal Navy
Vice Admiral Michael Gilday, Commander, US Fleet Cyber Command,
US Navy
Brigadier (Retd.) David Evans, Former Chief Information Officer,
Royal Navy
Captain Dermot Mullholland, Branch Head, Strategic Plans & Policy,
Combined Joint Operations from the Sea Centre of Excellence, NATO
Captain Manuel Antonio Martinez-Ruiz, 100-F110 Programme Manager,
Spanish Navy
Commander Neil Hall, SO1 Information Security and Cyber Security,
Royal Navy
Commander Andre Silva, Intelligence Analysis Centre Director and
Navy Fleet Intelligence Division Head, Portuguese Navy
Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Hofte, Cyber Security Advisor,
Netherlands MoD
Dr. Ray Letteer, Chief Cyber Security Division, US Marine Corps
Mr. Stephen Rowe, Principal Engineer Platform Systems Division, DSTL
Rear Admiral (Retd.) Nick Lambert, Former National Hydrographer,
Royal Navy
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING:
• The only event exclusively focused on
maritime information exploitation and
enhancing the future of naval systems
• Hear technical briefings on Artificial
Intelligence (AI), Maritime Cyber Security,
Big Data, Open Source data optimisation,
C4i and ISR
• Meet and Network with the leading
system developers and integrators in our
exclusive exhibition zone
• Learn from leading maritime agencies
and navies such as the Royal Navy, DSTL,
TNO, US Navy, USMC and NATO
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Optimising Naval Information Exploitation Through New
Technologies, Systems and Enhanced Data Management
Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, United Kingdom

2. MARITIME INFORMATION WARFARE 2017
Day One | 6th December 2017 www.maritimeinfowarfare.com
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8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Rear Admiral (Retd.) Nick Lambert, Former National Hydrographer,
Royal Navy
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
9.10 The Importance of Developing and Delivering Operative Cyber
Protection in Defending US Naval Assets
• Key trends in cyber warfare: maturity of cyber-warfare and its
impact on the navy’s ability to achieve operational aims
• The growing importance of Cyber Security with the rise of more
complex and advanced naval systems
• Eliminating obstacles to coordinated cyber defence by
normalising standards across coalition partners, agencies within
nations & industry partners
• Ensuring system robustness by maintaining cyber-defence
superiority through Navy Cyber Power 2020
Vice Admiral Michael Gilday, Commander, US Fleet Cyber
Command, US Navy
9.50 “There Seems to be Something Wrong with our Bloody Data Today”
The Data Conundrum: Getting Politicians to Invest in the Boring Stuff
• Why military data exploitation is so hard to progress in minds of
politicians, the military and the public.
• Why data will revolutionise all domains, including the maritime -
away from platform-based values to information-based values in
warfare
• The inevitable rise of AI and autonomous systems in conflict and
peace
Admiral Sir George Zambellas, Former Chief of Naval Staff,
Royal Navy
10.30 Morning Coffee
CYBER SECURITY
11.00 Developing Effective Cyber Security Standards to Maximise use of
Naval Assets
• How generating enhanced cyber defence capabilities enables
effective strategic deployment of resources
• Integrating cyber resiliency into standard operating procedures to
enable effective operational deployment of maritime forces
• Recent successes within the Royal Navy at building cyber security
and establishing defensible cyber terrain
- Going forward: ambitions to assimilate cyber security into
the Royal Navy’s operational framework as part of Operation
Information Warrior
Commander Neil Hall, SO1 Information Security, Royal Navy
11.40 Session Reserved for Sponsor
12.20 Improving Joint Naval Operations Through Enhanced Cyber Security
• Achieving cyber security as a core competency within
operational assets
• Successes of MCEN (Marine Corps Enterprise Network) in utilising
big data and data analytics to achieve operational advantage
• Marine Corps C4i relationship with US Cyber Command: successes
in expanding joint capabilities
- Protecting C4i systems by integrating cyber hygiene and training
into standard operating procedure
• Delivering strategic foresight through implementation of cyber-
security standards across departments, coalition partners and
industry
Dr. Ray Letteer, Chief Cyber Security Division, US Marine Corps
Headquarters
1.00 Networking Lunch
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)
2.00 An Overview of the Open Architecture Combat System (OACS)
and its Role in Enabling AI Applications, Such as STARTLE, Within
Operation Information Warrior
• The importance of acquiring a range of naval applications and
how to overcome disjointed application systems
• Optimising Combat Systems through advanced systems architecture
• Benefits of developing enabling architectural technology to
deploy an increasingly varied range of naval applications from a
myriad of providers
• Ensuring that future platforms adopt an open source architecture
to safeguard future interoperability of naval programmes
Mr. Stephen Rowe, Principal Engineer Platform Systems Division, DSTL
2.40 Session Reserved for Sponsor
PANEL DISCUSSION
3.20 Improving Maritime Asset Versatility Through Effective
Deployment of Autonomous and Artificially Intelligent Systems
• How effective data management is employed to enable
successful deployment of autonomous systems
• Maximising resource deployment through utilisation of Artificially
Intelligent systems
• Extracting lessons learnt from Operation Information Warrior in the
use of Artificially Intelligent and autonomous systems
• Transforming the navies of the future: integration of AI networks
into existing maritime assets
Moderated by: Rear Admiral Nick Lambert, Former UK National
Hydrographer, Royal Navy
Admiral Sir George Zambellas, Former Chief of Naval Staff,
Royal Navy
Dr. Ray Letteer, Chief Cyber Security Division,
US Marine Corps
Mr. Stephen Rowe, Principal Engineer Platform Systems Division,
DSTL
4.00 Afternoon Tea
BIG DATA
4.30 Optimising Data Capture Technologies to Enable Information
Exploitation and Build Naval Operational Capability
• The importance of IT-enabled data analysis in maintaining
strategic capability within the digital ocean
• Development of SCOMBA (System Combat Buques Armed) to
integrate and display data from a range of sensors
• Expanding cooperation between NATO partners to maximise the
strategic advantage of big data
• An overview of current NATO big data initiatives
- Looking ahead: utilisation of open source architecture within
SCOMBA to ensure multi-mission interoperability
Captain Manuel Antonio Martinez-Ruiz, F100-F110 Programme
Manager, Spanish Navy
5.10 Organisational Change from Local Driven Security to Centralised
Intel Driven Security
• Applicability of Big Data in our security services
• Our iterative approach
• Technical challenges that occur during the learning curve
• Organisational, human factors as the challenge
Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Hofte, Cyber Security Advisor,
Netherlands MoD
5.50 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
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8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Rear Admiral (Retd.) Nick Lambert, Former National Hydrographer,
Royal Navy
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
9.10 Utilising ISR Platforms to Build Maritime Domain Awareness Across
the Naval Environment
• The expanding role of ISR platforms in developing blue-water
naval capabilities
• An overview of operation Information Warrior in building a
multifaceted approach to maritime capability
- Successes in building joint operational intelligence across
coalition partners
- Review of Maritime and littoral ISR programmes
- Protecting naval assets through integration of cyber security into
platforms
- Expanding capabilities of autonomous ISR platforms to build a
robust intelligence gathering capability
• Maximising ISR flexibility through standardisation of
communication systems across NATO allies and partners
Brigadier (Retd) David Evans, Former Chief Information Officer,
Royal Navy
9.50 From Unconnected Regional Maritime Surveillance to Effective
Global Maritime Situational Awareness
• How proliferation of ISR platforms enables effective naval domain
awareness
• Improving ISR effectiveness by refining NATO ISR system
interoperability
• The importance of versatile information exploitation capabilities in
interdiction deployments
• Successes of naval intelligence gathering in Operation Ocean
Shield
• Determining future ISR capability requirements through analysis of
NATO Operation Unified Protector
• Enhancing maritime domain awareness by utilising training and
simulation
• Protecting naval resources through successful integration of cyber
security operating procedures
Captain Dermot Mulholland, Branch Head, Strategic Plans & Policy,
Combined Joint Operations from the Sea Centre of Excellence,
NATO
10.30 Morning Coffee
PANEL DISCUSSION
11.00 Improving Maritime Domain Awareness Through Big Data
• How data management will transform how navies
operate across joint environments
• Using big data analysis to improve at-sea situational awareness
• Moving away from platform-centric operations to system based
information exploitation
Moderated by: Rear Admiral Nick Lambert, Former UK National
Hydrographer, Royal Navy
Admiral Sir George Zambellas, Former Chief of Naval Staff,
Royal Navy
Brigadier (Retd) David Evans, Former Chief Information Officer,
Royal Navy
Commander Andre Silva, Intelligence Analysis Center Director and
Navy Fleet Intelligence Division Head, Portuguese Navy
11.40 Session Reserved for Sponsor
12.20 Networking Lunch
OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE (OSINT)
1.20 Exploiting OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) to Facilitate Strategic
Situational Awareness
• Maximising use of open source intelligence to establish a nuanced
situational understanding
• Refining social media based intelligence to build operational
advantage within Portuguese at-sea deployments
• Challenges of OSINT: preventing malicious traffic infecting naval
analyst platforms
• Improving cyber resiliency to protect maritime assets
Commander Andre Silva, Intelligence Analysis Center Director and
Navy Fleet Intelligence Division Head, Portuguese Navy
2.00 Session Reserved for Sponsor
2.40 Information Warfare for the Royal Navy - A Disruptive Approach
• Moving away from platform-centric combat within the naval
domain
• How technology (either in the Land, Air, Space, Cyber and
Maritime Environments) is increasingly playing a forcing function to
core combat processes and shaping overall combat outcomes in
order to achieve desired results
• How the Maritime environment must adjust and make changes to
meet the challenges
Commander (Retd.) Howard Tweedie, Former Programme Manager
Information Communication Services, Royal Navy
3.20 Afternoon Tea
COMMAND, CONTROL, COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS
AND INTELLIGENCE (C4I)
3.50 Maritime Asset Deployment Using Risk Based Planning
• Combining persistent surveillance, multi-source data analysis, and
C2 support for Maritime Security Operations (MSO)
• Threat maps and risk maps
• Optimal sector assignment for naval task units
• Tactical planning of the deployment of the individual assets,
including autonomous platforms
Mr. Edwin van Veldhoven, Senior Scientist Military Operations, TNO
4.30 A Training and Simulation Perspective on Maritime Information and
Automation
• Training in a more data driven and autonomous future
• What about data collected in training? Can it be better captured
and exploited to enhance military capability?
• Developments in simulation systems and their role in training
people and autonomous systems
Mr. Andy Fawkes, Director, Thinke Company Ltd
5.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
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5. Audience Profile:
The participants of Maritime Information
Warfare 2017 will provide a wide
range of perspectives on the recent
advancements in naval information
exploitation - from open source
intelligence to autonomous systems. The
speakers and invited participants will be
carefully selected to bring together those
at the centre of unmanned systems,
big data analysis and cyber security;
showcasing operational experience,
active requirements and future concepts
for AI (artificially intelligent) systems,
and how they will impact on decision
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Programme Managers
• Artificial Intelligence Project
Managers
• Commanders of Information Warfare
(IW)
• Chiefs of C4i Systems
• Big Data Thought Leaders
• Maritime Cyber Security Experts
• Leaders of Open Source Intelligence
Programmes
• Pioneers of Autonomous Systems and
Machine Learning
• Heads of ISR development
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