Building better defence industry partnerships: a conference on the UK/Romania opportunity
UK/Romania Business comes to Bucharest for a conference developing the themes of its recent publication Building better defence industry partnerships: opportunities in the new geopolitics.
*We are now operating a waiting list but do please add your name as additional places may be released.
Please note all registrations are provisional and places will only be confirmed for those most relevant to the discussion*
Conference overview
Exploring the geopolitical relevance of Romania – and commercial opportunities that flow from this – the event examines what increased defence spending means, how a greater European interest in sovereign defence capability shapes this, and where the UK and Romania can build together for the changing nature of warfare and weapons systems.
Panels and keynote remarks
(1) Understanding Romanian defence production and procurement
(2) The defence innovation opportunity in Romania
(3) UK/Romania defence co-operation and strategic partnership
The conference features contributions from Dr Rebecca Shah, Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Bucharest; Dr Andrei Baciu, Vice President, Committee for Defence, Public Order and National Security, Chamber of Deputies – Parliament of Romania; Gen (ret.) Daniel Petrescu, Chief of the Romanian Defence Staff, 2019-2023; Cristina Dragomirescu, Vice President, ARCTIS; Jerry Weston, Space Export Sales Director, Airbus Defence and Space UK; Tudor Grecu, Partner and Head of Defence CEE, KPMG Romania; Horia-Răzvan Botiș, Board Member, NATO DIANA; Bogdan Iordache, General Partner, Underline Ventures; Radu Blideran, Defence Programme Manager, INCAS; Andreea Zvac, Partner, Wolf Theiss; Air Flotilla General (ret.) Adrian Duță, Senior Advisor – Defence and Security, KPMG Romania; Alina Inayeh, Lead Advisor, Aspen Institute Romania; Kalin Stoyanov, Head of Business Development, Destinus; Marinel Moscaliuc, Executive Director, StarC4Sys, and Dr David Webster, Founder, UK/Romania Business.
"Building better defence industry partnerships: opportunities in the new geopolitics", is the third in a series of studies by UK/Romania Business advocating for British companies and investors to reevaluate the importance of this emerging market.