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Cyber & Specialist Operations Command DSEI Speakers
Throughout DSEI 2025 leaders from Cyber & Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) will be sharing their insight and expertise at various speaking engagements. These include keynote speeches, chairing or joining panel discussions, and our Breakfast Briefings.
Tuesday 09 September 2025
| Time | Location | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:30-12:55 | Cyber & Specialist Operations Command Forum | The Cyber & Electromagnetic Domain: Priorities and Partnerships | Air Vice Marshal Tom Ashbridge, Commander Defence Cyber and Electromagnetic Director (Chair)
Eleanor Fairford, Director Cyber Defence & Resilience, Defence Digital |
| 13:30-14:20 | Cyber & Specialist Operations Command Forum | Delivering defence at scale and pace, harnessing open source and commerical capabilities to advance modern warfighting | General Sir Jim Hockenhull, Commander Cyber & Specialist Operations Command (Panellist) | 14:30-14:55 | Cyber & Specialist Operations Command Forum | Keynote Address: Cyber & Specialist Operations Command - Always on | General Sir Jim Hockenhull, Commander Cyber & Specialist Operations Command |
Wednesday 10 September 2025
| Time | Location | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:45-10:00 | Cyber & Specialist Operations Command Forum | Breakfast Briefing: Global strategic trends and the future operating environment | Air Vice Marshal Mark Ridgway, Head of Defence Futures (Presenter) |
| 09:45-10:00 | Naval Forum | Breakfast Briefing: Integrated Global Defence Network (IGDN) | Dr Samantha Griffiths, Director Overseas Bases (Presenter)
Air Vice Marshal Mike Blackburn, Director Global Defence Network (Presenter) |
| 10:00-10:15 | Cyber & Specialist Operations Command Forum | Breakfast Briefing: Defence Cyber and Electromagnetic Force | Air Vice Marshal Tom Ashbridge, Commander Defence Cyber and Electromagnetic Director (Presenter) |
| 10:00-10:15 | Naval Forum | Breakfast Briefing: Training and education - opportunities for the future integrated force | Major General Peter Rowell MBE, Commandant and Chief Executive, UK Defence Academy (Presenter) |
| 11:30-12:25 | Cyber & Specialist Operations Command Forum | The digital targeting web: Shaping future opportunities | Air Vice Marshal Simon Strasdin CBE, Director Integrated Warfare Centre (Chair)
Rear Admiral Paul Stroude, Director Capability Major General Matthew Jones OBE, Director Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigadier Richard Alston OBE, Deputy Director Cyber and Electromagnetic Effects and Special Operations Richard Allen, Head of C4ISTAR Technology, Chief Technology Officer, Defence Digital |
| 11:00-12:25 | Aerospace Forum | Digital transformation as a force multiplier: Applying data, machine augmentation and quantum computing into the battlespace | Air Vice Marshal Ola Fashade, Director Strategy and Military Digitalisation, Cyber & Specialist Operations Command (Panellist) |
Thursday 11 September 2025
| Time | Location | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:45-10:00 | Cyber & Specialist Operations Command Forum | Breakfast Briefing: Digital Skills for Defence and Digital Bursaries | Jon Forman, Head of the Digital Function, Capability & Comms at National Armaments Director Group (NADG) (Presenter) | 09:45-10:00 | Naval Forum | Breakfast Briefing: Artificial Intelligence - opportunities for the future Integrated Force | Commodore Rachel Singleton, Head of Defence Artificial Intelligence Centre (Presenter) |
| 10:00-10:15 | Cyber & Specialist Operations Command Forum | Breakfast Briefing: Integrated casualty care – modernising the end-to-end care pathway | Major General Phil Carter, Surgeon General, Defence Medical Services (Presenter) |
| 10:00-10:15 | Naval Forum | Breakfast Briefing: Operational Lessons and implications for the future Integrated Force | Air Vice Marshal Simon Strasdin, Director Integrated Warfare Centre (Presenter). |
| 11:00-12:25 | Cyber & Specialist Operations Command Forum | Attracting, recruiting and retaining the cyber workforce of the future | Lt Gen Tom Copinger-Symes, Deputy Commander, Cyber & Specialist Operations Command (Panellist)
Brigadier Tim Jenkins, Reserves Branch (Panellist) |