PFF'25 Day One

General Sir Gwyn Jenkins KCB OBE ADC RM, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff

Her Excellency Julia Longbottom CMG, His Majesty’s Ambassador to Japan

The Rt Hon John Healey MP, UK Secretary of State for Defence

Lord Sedwill GCMG FRGS, Chair, Pacific Future Forum

Panel Discussion: The Big Blue

Moderator: Professor Alessio Patalano, Professor of War and Strategy in East Asia, Centre for Statecraft and National Security, King’s College London and Visiting Fellow at the National Institute for Defence Studies, Japan
Panellists:
General Sir Gwyn Jenkins KCB OBE ADC RM, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff
Admiral Sir Philip Jones GCB DL, Royal Navy (Ret.), Senior Naval Advisor, BAE Systems
Vice Admiral Vincenzo Montanaro, Commander, Italian Navy Southern Maritime Interregional Command
Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, US Navy (Ret.), Senior Director, CCTI and Senior Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Admiral Akira Saitō, Chief of Staff, JMSDF

Panel Discussion: From Land to Sea – Battlefield Innovations in an Indo-Pacific Context

Moderator: Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor, The Economist
Panellists:
General Sir James Hockenhull KBE ADC, Commander, UK Strategic Command
Professor Keizo Kitagawa, Keio University
Shon J. Manasco, Senior Counselor, Palantir 
Dr Lorenz Meier, Chief Executive Officer, Auterion

Panel Discussion: Escalating Air and Missile Threats

Moderator: Justin Bronk, Senior Research Fellow for Airpower and Technology, Royal United Services Institute 
Panellists:
Air Vice-Marshal Tom Burke CBE, Director of Operations, Royal Air Force
Lieutenant General Jiro Hiroe, JGSDF (Ret.), Former Commanding General of Training Evaluation, Education, Research and Development Command (TERCOM)
Lieutenant General David Nahom, USAF (Ret.), Former Commander of Alaskan Command, Alaskan NORAD Region and 11th Air Force, Executive Director, Elara Nova 
Frank St John, Chief Operating Officer, Lockheed Martin

Panel Discussion: Capability Partnerships, Industrial Mobilisation and the Defence Dividend

Moderator: Dr John Hemmings, Deputy Director for Geopolitics, Council on Geostrategy
Panellists:
Will Blyth, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Arondite
Nick Chaffey, Chief Executive Officer, Northrop Grumman UK
Sir Nicholas Lyons, Chair, Phoenix Group
Vice Admiral Paul Marshall CB CBE, Director General Options and Commissioning, National Armaments Director Group (Remote)
Hirohito Ogi, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Geoeconomics 
Video Contribution: Andy Start, Chief Executive of Defence Equipment & Support and UK National Armaments Director

Keynote Address: Minister Gen Nakatani, Japanese Defense Minister

Panel Discussion: Space: an Increasingly Crowded and Contested Frontier
 

Moderator: Julie Holt-Jones, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Space4Sight
Panellists:
Setsuko Aoki, Professor, Chiba Institute of Technology and Member of Japanese Committee on National Space Policy 
Hon Kari Bingen, Director of Aerospace Security Project, CSIS
Kata Escott CB, UK Managing Director and Head of Country, Airbus Defence and Space
Nobu Okada, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Astroscale

Closing Remarks: Lord Sedwill GCMG FRGS, Chair, Pacific Future Forum