Program

Plenary 5 - Electromagnetic Warfare (Un)Preparedness

Keynote Address:
RADM Andrew Quinn DSC, RAN, Head of Space and Cyber Capabilities

Panel Discussion: The Emerging Strategic Environment: Learning the Right Lessons
Led by Jeff Malone, AOC ANZ Board Member

In conversation with:
- RADM Andrew Quinn DSC, RAN, Head of Space and Cyber Capabilities
- MAJGEN Mick Ryan (Ret'd), Senior Fellow for Military Studies, Lowy Institute
- Defence, DSTG, and Industry Leaders

Industry Resilience and Adaptation

EW resilience – an industry perspective
Mr David Enchelmaier, Advanced Concepts Engineer, L3Harris Technologies

An Antidote to Systems Destruction: Post-Convergence Thinking and Lessons from Ukrainev
Mr Rhys Kissell, Founder and CEO, PANOP

Agile Laboratory for Small-and Medium Enterprise EW Companies
Dr. Len Sciacca, ASR Defence

Emerging Capabilities

One Sensor, Many Missions: RF Convergence for Countering Threats in the Indo-Pacific
Mr Darren Nicholls, Sales Director - UK, Ukraine, Middle East and Australia, CRFS Ltd

Developing and Co-ordinating Information Warfare Competencies into an Integrated Professional Development Program
Dr Gavin Mount, Senior Lecturer, UNSW
Presenting with:
SQLDR Elizabeth Reardon, Information Warfare Talent, NZDF

The invisible battlespace: What does it look like?
Dr Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox, Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Queensland

Cognitive EW

EW and Decision Warfare at the Speed of Light
Dr Craig Benson, Director and Chief Innovation Officer, Skykraft

ChatEW: Assured EW Mission Planning Through Human-Machine Teaming
Mr James Dean, Director, Information Warfare, Swordfish Computing Pty Ltd
Presenting with:
Dr Roland Croft, Applied Scientist, Swordfish Computing Pty Ltd

Cognitive EW & Artificial Intelligence

Project ARKENSTONE – Accelarating Agentic AI for Cognitive EW – Meet the first ever Team of Agentic AI EW Virtual Crows
Dr George Elias, Senior Scientist, Chief Systems Engineer, L3Harris Technologies
Presenting with:
Dr Marc Olivieri, Senior Fellow, L3Harris Technologies

The Promise and Challenges of AI-Inspired EW in an Uncertain and Evolving World
Dr Tomasz Jasinski, Counter ISR, DSTG

Advanced Sensing & Radar

Novel Approaches to Radar Pulse Deinterleaving of Agile Emitters
Dr Luke Rosenberg, Rf Analysis And Exploitation Team Lead, Lockheed Martin Australia, Advanced Systems & Technologies

PRODUCT BRIEF: Vanguard - Attritible EW and Radar for Autonomous systems in the Grey Zone
Dr Len Sciacca, CEO, ASR Defence

UAS

Development and Validation of Countermeasures for Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS): How Many Tests Do We Need?
Dr Andrew Piotrowski, Principal Consultant, DEWC Services

The New WMD (Weapons of Mass Disruption)
Mr Angus Bean, Chief Product Officer, DroneShield

Battle of the Beams: Evaluating LiDAR Architectures for Counter-UAV Detection
Dr Andrew Piotrowski, Principal Consultant, DEWC Services

Closing Plenary Session

Keynote Address: Integrating Defence Operations with Signals Intelligence and Cyber Capabilities
AVM Jason Begley, First Assistant Director-General Expeditionary & Transnational Intelligence, Australian Signals Directorate

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