Oracle Defence Tech Summit Agenda

Allied nations must have full sovereign control over their critical technology infrastructure. However, governments and mission owners often face a critical tradeoff: cloud capability vs. operational independence. This panel will explore how Western technology providers can align their technology frameworks to preserve national control over data, workloads, and security policies, while still offering the benefits of shared innovation and collective defence capabilities. Learn how Oracle’s fully featured, alliance-grade cloud services deliver full data sovereignty and resilience.

Modern military operations are being reshaped by a fundamental shift—from platform-centric to data-centric warfare. In this new paradigm, the ability to collect, process, fuse, and act on data in real time is becoming a decisive advantage across all domains: land, air, sea, cyber, and space. This panel will explore how emerging technologies are disrupting traditional operational models and enabling faster, more-informed decision-making at every echelon.

Singapore's defence model used to combine public cloud for some workloads with on-premises environments for assurance, sovereignty, and security. However, relying on public cloud for sensitive workloads incurred performance and security penalties—an unacceptable tradeoff. Join this session to explore how sovereign cloud services—from public commercial cloud to on-premises air-gapped cloud—can maximize both innovation and outcomes for defence missions.

NATO’s mission has expanded as Russian threats have proliferated into the grey zone and on the frontlines. In this session we will discuss the direct threat of having a common border with Russia, increased hybrid challenges, the political environment surrounding the West’s support of Ukraine, and the response of individual nations within the alliance. We’ll explore how technology can best assist in meeting the threat and enhancing deterrence.

Modern defence operations are increasingly defined by the speed at which information, decisions, and coordinated actions move across the battlespace. This keynote explores how AI, operational workflows, and cloud infrastructure are converging to support faster, more adaptive decision-making across connected, unconnected, and coalition environments. Drawing on real-world operational experience and ecosystem collaboration within Project Conexus, this session examines how defence organisations can move beyond fragmented systems toward integrated operational environments.

AI is transforming data-driven decision-making, enabling commanders to act faster and with greater precision across domains. However, challenges around data governance, system interoperability, and trust remain critical barriers. This panel will explore how defence organisations can operationalise AI while maintaining sovereign control, resilience, and security.

Two realities are reshaping Europe’s defence posture: the need to take greater responsibility for its own security, and the strategic and tactical lessons emerging from the Ukraine-Russia conflict. While much attention has focused on scaling conventional military capabilities, there’s also a rare opportunity for Europe to modernise its broader defence ecosystem while strengthening its growing defence technology sector.

This keynote will outline how Europe can harness its startup ecosystem to help develop next-generation capabilities across AI, space, deep tech, defence, and related sectors.

In a defence technology landscape defined by dual-use technologies, competitive advantage depends on who can adopt, integrate, and scale capabilities quickly. Conventional narratives—US innovation, Chinese imitation, European regulation—mask the real drivers of outcomes: time-to-field, industrial capacity, standards, and system interoperability. This discussion will examine where the old assumptions break down, what actually determines success in practice, and what leaders should prioritize when making technology investment, procurement, and partnership decisions.

Force readiness depends on the ability to connect people, materiel, funding, supply chains, and operations with the speed and assurance modern missions demand. Fragmented technology enhancements can improve individual functions, but they rarely deliver the visibility, resilience, or agility defence organisations need at enterprise scale.

This session will examine how defence leaders can take an integrated, full-stack approach to technology modernisation in a sovereign environment—strengthening workforce readiness, supply chain resilience, sustainment, procurement, financial stewardship, and operational decision-making.

This panel will explore how financial capital is shaping the future of deterrence and operational readiness across the transatlantic defence ecosystem. The conversation will highlight how venture capital, private equity, and government funding mechanisms are influencing what gets built, scaled, and fielded—and on what timelines. It will tackle the practical challenges of aligning capital with mission needs: navigating procurement barriers, supporting small and non-traditional market entrants, bridging the “valley of death,” and ensuring interoperability across Allied forces. Panelists will share perspectives on how to better connect innovators, primes, and end users to move promising technologies from concept to capability.

Defence organisations must scale AI across every pillar of operations, without compromising sovereignty, security, or control. Join this spotlight conversation to explore how agentic AI on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) can help leaders combine secure enterprise AI with sovereign cloud and business solutions. Hear how Cohere and Oracle are integrating the North platform across OCI and Oracle Fusion Cloud and NetSuite applications to empower our defense customers with AI.

In this panel, we will explore how a unified, secure, and globally deployable technology foundation is reshaping modern defence operations. As adversaries accelerate adoption of AI, cyber, and autonomous capabilities, defence leaders must leverage platforms that deliver innovation at scale while meeting the strictest security and sovereignty requirements. Oracle’s Everything Everywhere approach enables seamless access to mission-critical capabilities across domains and environments, so organisations can run workloads with the same performance, security, and functionality wherever the mission requires. Join this discussion to understand how platform-driven data integration is becoming a decisive advantage in national security.

Defence technology choices are inseparable from national values and operational independence—from headquarters to the tactical edge. As nations adopt cloud and AI, maintaining sovereign control over data, workloads, and security policy is becoming a strategic imperative.

This session will explore how secure cloud and AI capabilities can support defence modernisation while preserving sovereignty, resilience, and operational control. Join us to discuss how technology platforms can help defence organisations accelerate innovation without compromising mission security or national autonomy.

Discover the next wave of innovation shaping defence and national security missions. In this dynamic showcase session, companies from Cohort 3 of the Oracle Defence Ecosystem will present their technologies, highlighting the operational challenges they address, the capabilities they bring to the mission, and the impact they are delivering today. Attendees will gain insight into emerging defence solutions, real-world use cases, and opportunities for collaboration. The session offers a unique opportunity to connect with innovative partners driving mission outcomes and advancing defence modernisation.