International Armoured Vehicles Conference

The World's Premier Platform for the Armoured Vehicles Community - Now Online

The largest dedicated conference of its type, it annually brings together defence and industry leaders, with a military cohort comprising force and operational commanders, acquisition officials, requirement-setters, capability development experts and S&T architects. For the first time in 2021, the conference will be hosted online, with new dedicated sessions on amphibious vehicle capability and C4i that speak to critical priorities for the UK, US and its partners across NATO.

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IAVs has endured as the essential annual event for the armour community by consistently delivering world-class speakers from both the end-user community and industry partner communities, and by staying ahead of the curve with the technologies and concepts discussed over the duration of the event.

Why you should attend IAVs online

International Armoured Vehicles conference has a track record for bringing together an exceptional faculty of military and industry speakers, and for 2021 we have every confidence that the online version of the event will continue to deliver an outstanding level of content.

• It is the largest, online and international gathering of armoured mobility experts to develop and share your organisation's capability, knowledge and project management expertise within the largest group of targeted prospective partners, anywhere in the world
• Engage with your customers and supply chains online , in order to solve common challenges and to bring forward modernisation and development agendas
• Explore the future threat environment with the community's thought leaders, policy makers and innovators and support the community's ability to defeat the enemy by demonstrating your armoured capability

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Conference Moderators

• General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, KCB, OBE, DSACEUR (Mar 2014 - Mar 2017), Conference Chairman
• Lieutenant General (Retd.) Ben Hodges, Commanding General, US Army Europe (2014-2017) & Pershing Chair CEPA, Moderator - Mobility Day

2021 Speakers and Panelists

• General Tim Radford CB DSO OBE, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO SHAPE
• Lieutenant General Chris L Tickell CBE, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, British Army
• Lieutenant General Martin H. Wijnen, Commander, Royal Netherlands Army
• Lieutenant General Sir Edward Smyth-Osbourne KCVO CBE, Commander, Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
• Lieutenant General Eric M. Smith, Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command; Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration, United States Marine Corps
• Lieutenant General John Kolasheski, Commanding General, V Corps, US Army Forces Command
• Lieutenant General Ivan Jones CB, Commander Field Army, British Army
• Major General Karl Engelbrektson, Commander, Swedish Army
• Major General Patrick J. Donahoe, Commanding General, U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence
• Major General Pierre Gérard, Commander, Belgian Land Component
• Major General Attila Takacs, Commander, Hungarian Ground Forces
• Major General Erik Peterson, Director, Force Development, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-8, US Army
• Major General Jez Bennett, Director Capability, British Army
• Major General Peter A Gallagher, Director, Network Cross-Functional Team, US Army Futures Command
• Brigadier General Richard Coffman, Director, Next Generation Combat Vehicle, U.S. Army Futures Command
• Brigadier Jon Swift, Head Ground Manoeuvre Capability, Army Headquarters
• Brigadier Anna-Lee Reilly, Head Vehicle Support Team, Defence Equipment & Support, UK MoD
• Brigadier General Dorin Toma, Acting Commander of the Operational Component and Deputy Chief of Staff, Romanian Land Forces
• Colonel Rainer Peltoniemi, Inspector of Infantry, Finnish Army
• Colonel Valentin Skroza, G-3 Armored Mechanized Brigade, Republic of Croatia Ministry of Defence
• Colonel Syd Hills, Director, Stryker Warfighter's Forum, I Corps, U.S. Army
• Colonel Masuko, Programme Officer, ATLA, Japanese Ministry of Defence
• Colonel Klaus Nebe, Deputy Chief of Staff Support, NATO Joint Support and Enabling Command
• Colonel Antonio Llorens Perez, Logistics Command (MALE)/Acquisitions Directorate (DIAD), Spanish Armed Forces
• Colonel Simon Ridgeway, Assistant Head Plans, Ground Manoeuvre Capability, Army HQ
• Mr Michael Sprang, Project Manager, Joint Program Office Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, PEO Combat Support and Combat Service Support, US Army
• Ted Maciuba, Deputy Director of Robotics Requirements, Maneuver Capability Development Integration Directorate, U.S. Army Futures Command
• Lieutenant Colonel Chris Orlowski, Product Manager, Robotic Combat Vehicles, PEO Ground Combat Systems, US Army
• Lieutenant Colonel Francois Laroche, Director Land Requirements, Armoured Vehicle Programmes, Canadian Army
• Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Armin Dirks, Planning Division II, Land Systems Roadmap Group, German Ministry of Defence
• Major Cory Wallace, Robotic Combat Vehicle Lead, NGCV CFT, U.S. Army Futures Command
• Major Tom Scott, SO2 RM (Land), Future Capability Group, DE&S, UK MoD
• Dr William Suttie, Land Platforms Group, DSTL
• Tom Newbery, Platform Survivability Group, DSTL
• Dr. Yazid Ahmad, Director Mechanical & Aerospace Technology Division (STRIDE), Malaysian MoD
• Andrew Davis, Global Technology Advisor, US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command
• Nanda Van Der Stap, Scientist Innovator, Intelligent Imaging, TNO

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