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Day 2: June 2nd
Sapphire Room
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08:30 - 09:00 | Welcome coffee Arrival and check-in for delegates before the second day of the NATO-Ukraine Defence Innovators Forum starts.
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09:00 - 09:10 | Opening of day 2 Vitalija Zumerienė, Deputy Minister of Defence, Lithuania
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09:10 – 09:25 | Keynote: Distributed Air Defence in Ukraine
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09:25 – 09:45 | Keynote: Ukraine-NATO Innovation, Technology and Engineering: UNITE – Brave NATO The UNITE – Brave NATO programme, NATO’s flagship innovation cooperation programme for innovation projects with Ukraine, launched this year. UNITE – Brave NATO aims to enhance Ukraine’s defence by accelerating the scale-up and adoption of new technological solutions that address critical capability gaps and interoperability requirements. Innovation competitions under UNITE – Brave NATO will focus on rapidly scaling prototyped and tested systems, and will embrace iterative, problem-based contracting that follows NATO’s rapid adoption principles. In this session, the audience will learn more details of the UNITE – Brave NATO programme, including for the first competition on counter-UAS and air defence and plans for the future of UNITE- Brave NATO. Who:
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09:45 – 10:45 | Panel 3: Funding the Future: Programme Pathways for Defence In NATO nations and Ukraine, new partnerships are creating unprecedented opportunities for defence innovators to collaborate, receive funding, and integrate solutions together in interoperable ways. In this session, we will explore innovation programmes available to industry and the problem sets they are trying to address. With industry in the room, our speakers will present their funding programmes and initiatives to practically and holistically show how to get involved. Who:
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10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break
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11:15 – 12:15 | Panel 4: AI-Driven decision-making, integration and lessons learned The long-held promise of artificial intelligence’s (AI) role in defence is bearing fruit in Ukraine: already today, AI is playing an increasing role in planning, decision-making and integration. Groundbreaking use-cases are already shaking up capability development. This panel will examine how AI tools are shaping operational decision-making. Experts will discuss real-world deployments of AI, highlighting successes, constraints, and future opportunities to scale the technology in force development. The session will cover practical lessons and recommendations for policymakers, military planners, and technologists aimed at understanding the role of AI, the current state of play in its adoption, and future role in high-intensity conflict. Who:
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12:15 – 13:45 | Lunch
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13:45 – 14:45 | Panel 5: Co-Production & Innovative Business: Building Partnerships for Resilience As Ukraine continues to navigate complex wartime challenges with domestic production, collaboration between local businesses and international partners is more crucial than ever. In recent months, co-production agreements and joint ventures between Ukrainian and Allied companies have moved from hope to reality. Through the “Build in Ukraine, Build with Ukraine” initiative and President Zelenskyy’s Initiative for Security Cooperation with Partners, industry is delivering on new and innovative ways to manufacture and deliver systems to Ukraine at pace and at scale. In this session, a panel of experts actively engaged in co-production and joint ventures will discuss international partnerships, how they started, and how to scale operations with their new partners. Panellists will outline how their efforts pave the way for greater international collaboration, urgent delivery to Ukraine, and integration of Ukrainian lesson learned into NATO. Who:
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Keynote: Brave1 - Accelerating Defense Innovation Through Unconventional Procurement Ukraine’s battlefield has become the world’s most advanced defence tech laboratory. This keynote explores how the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and Brave1 — Ukraine’s national defense tech cluster — are rethinking the entire innovation-to-frontline pipeline. Who:
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Coffee break
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15:45 – 16:45 | Panel 6: Collaboration & Capital: Investment in NATO-Ukraine Ventures Equity investments into defence companies – across NATO and in Ukraine alike – are trending high at the moment. Defence investors active in Ukraine are not only crucial to financing market entrants fuelling Ukraine’s innovative defence, but are also looking at international collaboration opportunities as essential to their portfolio companies’ growth. Despite positive trends, the defence sector nevertheless remains undercapitalised, be it because of restrictions on capital flows in the first place, or because of lack of access to working capital for companies in their growth phase. This session will spotlight the experiences of investors, including the opportunities and challenges they face, and what they look for when making investment decisions. Attendees will gain insights into the current landscape, challenges faced, and strategies for fostering innovation through investment in a dynamic environment. Who:
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Final Plenary: Where do we go from here? After two days of rigorous discussions and connection building on all things defence innovation, this final panel will focus on converting ideas into sustained action. Panellists will reflect on the innovation, partnerships, and tools highlighted during the conference, identifying the highest-impact opportunities for continued collaboration. The conversation will centre on how to continue to develop the NATO-Ukraine innovation ecosystem, aligning resources across companies, investors and government, as informed by the real-world experience of operational end-users. Who:
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Coral Room
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9:30 - 15:30 | Pitch sessions: Empowering Startups: The NATO-Ukraine Innovation Agenda Lessons learned from Ukraine have proven that now more than ever that innovation ecosystems are a vital pillar of the defence sector. Startups are fielding solutions in Ukraine with huge impact. In collaboration with the NATO Innovation Fund, startups from NATO and Ukraine which will be given the opportunity to present their solutions to investors and event participants. |
Event location: Vilnius Park Plaza Hotel
Address: M. K. Čiurlionio g. 84, Vilnius, 03100 Vilniaus m. sav., Lithuania
This webpage will be updated with additional information as it becomes available.
For any questions regarding the NATO-Ukraine Defence Innovators Forum, please contact unite@hq.nato.int.
