

Building better defence industry partnerships: opportunities in the new geopolitics
UK/Romania Business comes to Bucharest for the Romanian launch of Building better defence industry partnerships: opportunities in the new geopolitics.
Exploring the geopolitical relevance of Romania – and commercial opportunities that flow from this – the report 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
(1) Understanding Romanian defence production and procurement
(2) The defence innovation opportunity in Romania
(3) UK/Romania strategic partnership and defence co-operation
Speakers include Rebecca Shah, Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Bucharest; Gen (ret.) Daniel Petrescu, Chief of the Romanian Defence Staff, 2019-2023; Horia-Răzvan Botiș, Board Member, NATO DIANA; Radu Blideran, Defence Programme Manager, INCAS; Andreea Zvac, Partner, Wolf Theiss; Air Flotilla General (ret.) Adrian Duță, Senior Advisor – Defence and Security, KPMG Romania and David Webster, Founder, UK/Romania Business with more to be revealed shortly.
Building better defence industry partnerships: opportunities in the new geopolitics, continues a series of studies by UK/Romania Business advocating for British companies and investors to reevaluate the importance of this emerging market.