Luke Pollard MP

Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry

Ministry of Defence

Rupert Pearce

UK National Armaments Director

(NAD)

Jim Carter

Director General Commercial and Industry

Ministry of Defence

Julie Brettell

Director Supply Chain and Industry

Ministry of Defence

Andrew Kinniburgh

Director-General

Make UK Defence

Michael Spiteri

Consulting Regional Lead for UK & Ireland

Gartner UK Limited

Victoria Cope

Commercial Director

Defence Digital

Professor Annette Weekes MBE

Vice President & GM

Senior Aerospace Weston

Professor Andrew Schofield

Chair

North West Regional Defence and Security Cluster (NWRDSC)

Helen Bates

Commercial Director

DE&S

James Gavin

Deputy Director UK Defence Innovation Head of Technology Transition

UK MoD National Armaments Directorate

Colonel Adam Heather

Assistant Head (Operations)

Defence Supply Chain Operations & Movements (DSCOM), Defence Support

Jason Ralph

Professor of Avionics and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics

University of Liverpool

Amanda Wood

Group Social Sustainability Director

BAE Systems

Calum Taylor

Deputy Head of Growth and Place

MOD

Farooq Mitha

Former DoD Director

Office of Small Business Programs

Jeremy Wimble

Programme Manager, Defence

techUK

Samira Braund

Defence Director

ADS

Chris Mayne

Managing Director

Teleplan Forsberg

Jayne Planitzer

Procurement Director

Thales

Phil Waterhouse

Group Corporate Affairs Director

APCL Group

Andy Crouch

Consultant + Co-Founder

Jet Connectivity

Jayne Moorby

Head of Marketing

Oxley Group

Ryan Findlay

Co-Founder

Pure Alchemi

Graedon Crouch

Futures Lab Command Lead

QinetiQ

Brian Holliday

Managing Director

Siemens Digital Industries

Andrew Butler

Defence and Security Managing Consultant

MOD