International Seminar: Smart Defence

Madrid, April 26, 2012

PROGRAM

9:00 – 9:45 Accreditation and registration

9:45 – 10:00 Conference inauguration
– José Lladó, President of INCIPE
– José María López-Navarro, Information Officer, NC Engagement Directorate, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO HQ, Brussels

10:00 – 10-30 Key remarks on “NATO’s Defence Package for Chicago: setting the course for 2020 and beyond”
– Ernest J. Herold, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Defense Investment, NATO HQ, Brussels

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee-Break

11:00 – 12:30 First Panel: “Smart Defence: political and strategic implications”
Chairman: Darío Valcárcel, Vicepresident of INCIPE. CEO, Estudios de Política Exterior S.A., Madrid
Discussants:
– Admiral José María Treviño, Defence Adviser, Técnicas Reunidas, Madrid
– Kelly Degnan, Political Adviser to the US Mission to NATO, NATO HQ, Brussels
– Félix Arteaga, Senior Analyst, Security and Defence, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid

12:30 – 12:45 Break

12:45 – 14:15 Second Panel: “How to take it forward? Three main areas: Joint–Intelligence and Reconnaissance, Missile Defence and Air Policing”
– Col. Arturo Alfonso Meriño, Deputy General Director for Armament and Material, Spanish MoD
Chairman: Francisco González Mené, Spanish Association for Defence, Aeronautics and Space Technologies, TEDAE
Discussants:
– General José Pinto Ramalho, Former Chief of Army Staff, Portugal
– Pablo Quesada Ramos, Head of Market Development MRTT & Airbus Derivatives, Airbus Spain
– Julian Lindley-French, Eisenhower Professor of Defence Strategy, Netherlands Defence Academy. Strategic Advisory Panel, UK Chief OF Defence Staff, London

14:15 – 14:30 Closing remarks by Vicente Garrido, Director of INCIPE

Program
Photo Gallery
Presentation Ernest J. Herold
Presentation Kelly Degnan
Presentation Fernando García Martínez-Peñalver
Presentation Félix Arteaga
Presentation Arturo Alfonso Meriño
Presentation General José Pinto Ramalho
Presentation Pablo Quesada Ramos
Presentation Julian Lindley-French