Programme

08:30 -10:00 Registration, welcome coffee

10:00 - 10:30 Opening remarks (closed session)

• Master of Ceremonies: Mr. Koen Davidse, Director-General Policy, MoD NL
• Ms. Ingrid Thijssen, President VNO-NCW
• H.E. Mr. Gijs Tuinman, State Secretary for Defence of the Netherlands
• Ms. Tarja Jaakkola, Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment, NATO

10:30 - 12:00 Six parallel topical sessions (closed session)

1. Measures to meet NATO’s capability needs
   Addressing rapid changes in capability requirements and industry approach to meet the challenge
2. Ensuring sustainable transatlantic production capacity and supply chains
   Ensuring a sustainable and flexible transatlantic defence industry and secure that defence supply chains can deliver in a volatile environment
3. Access to finance
   Measures taken or that need to be taken to ensure industry’s access to finance in order to support the development of industrial bases and increase industrial output
4. Rapid adoption of innovative solutions
   Case study: Accelerating the adoption of unmanned and counter-unmanned technologies
5. The role of new technologies in countering hybrid threats, including in protection of critical undersea infrastructure
6. NATO and the growing role of the commercial space sector
   Identifying threats to, and building resilience in the space domain

12:00 Arrival of Ministers of Defence and other officials

13:00-13:20 Signing ceremonies for Letters of Intent/Memoranda of Understanding for Multinational Cooperation Programmes and High Visibility Projects

13:28 -14:20 Plenary Session Part 1 (open to press and media)

• Keynote address by H.E. Mr. Ruben Brekelmans, Minister of Defence of The Netherlands
• Keynote remarks and NATO - EU conversation by H.E. Mr. Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General and H.E. Ms. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
• Keynote adress by H.E. Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine

14:20 - 15:15 Networking

15:15 - 17:40 Plenary Session Part 2 (closed session)

• Moderated panel 1 – Strengthening NATO-Industry and the Transatlantic cooperation. Current needs and actions by NATO, Allies and Industry. 
• Moderated panel 2 – Equipping for the present, preparing for the future.
• Closing remarks