Balancing Defence Priorities: Meeting Current Commitments and Future Strategic Challenges
Monday 7 September, London
UPDATE - 2 July 2009
OFFICIAL CONFERENCE BROCHURE NOW AVAILABLE - DOWNLOAD PDF
UPDATE - 1 July 2009
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME UPDATED
Dr Liam Fox MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence to give keynote address
Vice Admiral Paul Lambert CB , Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Capability), UK MoD to give closing keynote address
- view conference programme.
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As the range of security threats and defence challenges grows ever larger, new economic austerity will put ever greater pressure on equipment acquisition strategy around the world: how should industry respond and where will business opportunity be found?
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
This year’s UK Defence Conference organised by Jane’s will focus on the challenges presently facing strategists, programmers and equipment providers during a time of severe pressure on national and international defence budgets. It will consider the current defence and security landscape while also surveying a range of potential strategic trends and the competing directions in which these may be leading.
The implications for all those involved in developing long-term equipment and capability programmes in the face of such uncertainty are self-evident and the Conference will therefore try to provide some answers as to how acquisition strategy could and should be balanced to meet the competing demands of supporting current operations while also maintaining proper levels of preparedness to face threats still far over the horizon.
The Conference will be addressed by a range of senior and influential specialists in their fields who will try to answer both the key questions of the moment while also suggesting ways in which the demands of the present need to be tempered with proper concern for the future.
This year’s Defence Conference is intended for all those who are involved in defence decision-making at the most senior levels. It will provide both an opportunity to gain a broader strategic understanding of strategic challenges in a time of unusual economic uncertainty and near-certain austerity, and the opportunity to question some of those currently making these decisions. Whether you are faced by the challenge of which commercial paths to follow, programming equipment decisions or simply looking to gain a definitive understanding of the present strategic issues now facing the world, this year’s Conference is an essential destination.
Download a brief VIDEO of last year's conference (8meg).
KEY THEMES
- In the new era of economic austerity, how are defence budgets likely to be affected and what are the implications for national and international acquisition programmes on both sides of the Atlantic
- An examination of the enduring security challenges facing the UK, Europe and the US today including - Afghanistan, Islamist terrorism and instability in Pakistan and central Asia
- Emerging threats which may either gradually or catastrophically face the UK, Europe and the US in the foreseeable future including - the growing power and influence of Iran, increasing nuclear proliferation and a nuclear terrorist strike
- Over the horizon threats that are starting to shape the geopolitical landscape in the decades ahead including -
- The impact of climate change
- Major population movements
- Growing water scarcity
- Competition for energy sources
- The security of sea lanes of communication
- The continued rise of Islamism
- The break-down of old orders and alliances
- How can the UK, the US and other NATO partners balance the demands of present campaigns with the need to respond to the range of possible challenges in the future
- What will be the impact for long-term, multi-national strategic acquisition programmes
- How can industry be shaped to prosper in this changing world
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Understand the present, fast-changing international security environment through the eyes and first-hand experience of senior figures and experts in their respective fields
- Identify and give structure to the seemingly bewildering range of defence and security challenges that the West is now facing and may confront in the future
- Examine how governments and defence ministries are shaping future acquisition strategies in the face of a growing range of security challenges and mounting pressure on budgets in a new era of economic austerity
- Discuss where the balance of investment should lie between meeting enduring commitments and potential new strategic trends
- Understand better how industry will have to respond to meet new equipment challenges and tauter budgets
- Network with and discuss areas of mutual interest and concern with an internationally diverse range of eminent business leaders, senior military decision makers and opinion leaders
| Ahead of the DSEi 2009 defence and security exhibition, the conference will afford delegates a welcome chance to stand back and reflect on the wider strategic defence and security environment which will shape decision-making on all sides, both now and into the future. |
TARGET AUDIENCE
The 2009 IHS Jane’s UK Defence Conference is aimed at senior delegates working in the following sectors:
- Top management
- Business Development and Marketing
- Product Development
- Strategic Planners
- Defence Programmers
- Defence Procurement and Acquisition
- Defence Diplomacy
- Defence Exports and Foreign Military Sales
- Defence Research and Analysis
- Defence Industry Analysts and Defence Economists
- Academia
- Defence Media Specialists
REGISTER for this year's Conference before Aug 7 and take advantage of the "early-bird" discounts
For further information, view the conference programme.