AFCEA EURO­PE : Tran­sfor­ming Defen­ce in a Digi­tal World, Roma 1 – 2 otto­bre 2025

COSMO all’Afcea Tech­net Euro­pe 2025

AFCEA Tech­Net Euro­pe 2025 riu­ni­sce lea­der mili­ta­ri, esper­ti di dife­sa, respon­sa­bi­li poli­ti­ci gover­na­ti­vi e inno­va­to­ri tec­no­lo­gi­ci. I par­te­ci­pan­ti acqui­si­ran­no cono­scen­ze fon­da­men­ta­li su come le tec­no­lo­gie emer­gen­ti e le tra­sfor­ma­zio­ni digi­ta­li stia­no rimo­del­lan­do le ope­ra­zio­ni di dife­sa, miglio­ran­do il pro­ces­so deci­sio­na­le stra­te­gi­co e raf­for­zan­do le capa­ci­tà del­le for­ze arma­te con­giun­te in mol­te­pli­ci ambi­ti operativi.

La digi­ta­liz­za­zio­ne è al cen­tro del­la tra­sfor­ma­zio­ne in cor­so nel­le For­ze Arma­te del­la NATO e del­l’UE, svol­gen­do un ruo­lo cru­cia­le nel­la deter­ren­za e nel con­trol­lo deci­sio­na­le nel­l’e­ra del­la guer­ra cogni­ti­va. Con i pro­gres­si diver­si com­piu­ti da diver­se nazio­ni nel­la digi­ta­liz­za­zio­ne del­le pro­prie For­ze Arma­te, le sfi­de lega­te alle vul­ne­ra­bi­li­tà infor­ma­ti­che, alla for­ma­zio­ne del­la for­za lavo­ro, alle dipen­den­ze glo­ba­li e alla sca­la­bi­li­tà del­l’in­du­stria del­la dife­sa diven­ta­no evi­den­ti. L’e­ven­to di due gior­ni ha pre­vi­sto dibat­ti­ti con­dot­ti da esper­ti di alto livel­lo del­la NATO, del­l’UE e del­la nazio­ne ospi­tan­te, con par­ti­co­la­re atten­zio­ne al tea­tro ope­ra­ti­vo euro­peo. I rap­pre­sen­tan­ti del set­to­re C4ISR/​Cyber​han­no pre­sen­ta­to solu­zio­ni per miglio­ra­re la resi­lien­za del­le tec­no­lo­gie digi­ta­li. La con­fe­ren­za si è pro­po­sta di affron­ta­re le sfi­de emer­gen­ti e di for­ni­re spun­ti per affron­ta­re le com­ples­si­tà del­la digi­ta­liz­za­zio­ne nel­la guer­ra moder­na. L’AFCEA Tech­net Euro­pe si è tenu­ta l’1 e 2 otto­bre 2025 allo She­ra­ton Rome Par­co de’ Medi­ci di Roma orga­niz­za­ta dall’ AFCEA Rome Chap­ter ed ha visto la par­te­ci­pa­zio­ne dell’ AFCEA Naples Chap­ter rap­pre­sen­ta­ta dal Pre­si­den­te Gen. Gio­van­ni Savol­del­li Pedroc­chi, dal Segre­ta­rio ing. Mas­si­mi­lia­no Cane­stro e dal Cosi­glie­re Dott. Miche­le Cor­te­se. La Tech­net 2025 è sta­ta patro­ci­na­ta dal Mini­ste­ro del­la Dife­sa Italiana.

La tra­sfor­ma­zio­ne digi­ta­le sta rimo­del­lan­do radi­cal­men­te il pano­ra­ma del­la dife­sa, richie­den­do alle orga­niz­za­zio­ni mili­ta­ri, ai gover­ni e al set­to­re pri­va­to di adat­tar­si rapi­da­men­te a un con­te­sto di sicu­rez­za sem­pre più com­ples­so, inter­con­nes­so e con­te­so. I model­li tra­di­zio­na­li di sicu­rez­za nazio­na­le ven­go­no ride­fi­ni­ti da tec­no­lo­gie rivo­lu­zio­na­rie, tra cui l’In­tel­li­gen­za Arti­fi­cia­le (IA), l’a­na­li­si dei big data, il cal­co­lo quan­ti­sti­co e i siste­mi auto­no­mi, insie­me alla cre­scen­te impor­tan­za stra­te­gi­ca di set­to­ri ope­ra­ti­vi emer­gen­ti, come lo spa­zio e il cyber­spa­zio. Con l’e­vo­lu­zio­ne del­la guer­ra, l’in­te­gra­zio­ne effi­ca­ce di tec­no­lo­gie all’a­van­guar­dia nel­le ope­ra­zio­ni di dife­sa sta diven­tan­do fon­da­men­ta­le per il suc­ces­so del­le missioni.

La tra­sfor­ma­zio­ne digi­ta­le richie­de anche un pro­fon­do cam­bia­men­to nel pen­sie­ro stra­te­gi­co, nel­la cul­tu­ra orga­niz­za­ti­va, nei qua­dri ope­ra­ti­vi e nel­la col­la­bo­ra­zio­ne inter­set­to­ria­le. Per­tan­to, la digi­ta­liz­za­zio­ne del­la dife­sa non è solo un’op­zio­ne, ma un impe­ra­ti­vo nel moder­no pano­ra­ma del­la sicu­rez­za. Gover­ni e orga­niz­za­zio­ni mili­ta­ri devo­no abbrac­cia­re que­sto pro­ces­so e sfrut­ta­re le tec­no­lo­gie digi­ta­li, miti­gan­do al con­tem­po i rischi asso­cia­ti. Inte­gran­do la tra­sfor­ma­zio­ne digi­ta­le nel­le stra­te­gie e nei pia­ni di dife­sa, nazio­ni e allean­ze pos­so­no miglio­ra­re la sicu­rez­za e la resi­lien­za in un’e­po­ca in cui supe­rio­ri­tà tec­no­lo­gi­ca, lun­gi­mi­ran­za stra­te­gi­ca e adat­ta­bi­li­tà for­ni­ran­no un van­tag­gio stra­te­gi­co signi­fi­ca­ti­vo in un pano­ra­ma del­la sicu­rez­za glo­ba­le sem­pre più inter­con­nes­so e conteso.

Il 1 otto­bre la Tech­net ha visto i salu­ti di :

Rear Admi­ral Mas­si­mo Espo­si­to, Ita­lian Navy (Ret.), Gene­ral Mana­ger, AFCEA Euro­pe Lt. Gen. Susan S. Law­ren­ce, USA (Ret.), Pre­si­dent and Chief Exe­cu­ti­ve Offi­cer, AFCEA Inter­na­tio­nal BGEN Paul Fre­den­bur­gh III, Exe­cu­ti­ve Vice Pre­si­dent for Natio­nal Secu­ri­ty and Defen­ce, AFCEA International
La gior­na­ta ha visto alter­nar­si i seguen­ti contributi :
Arch­bi­shop Gian Fran­co Saba, Mili­ta­ry Ordi­na­ry for Italy
Ukraine’s Defe­nсe Digi­ta­li­za­tion : Prac­ti­cal Les­sons and Insights — Vir­tual Keynote

Mrs. Oksa­na Fer­chuk (in foto sot­to), Depu­ty Mini­ster of Defen­ce for Digi­tal Deve­lo­p­ment, Digi­tal Tran­sfor­ma­tion, and Digi­ta­li­sa­tion, Ukrai­ne , Speaker
A Digi­tal World – Oppor­tu­ni­ties and Chal­len­ges for Euro­pean Defence

MGEN Andre Denk, Chief Exe­cu­ti­ve, Euro­pean Defen­ce Agen­cy , Speaker
AI in Defen­ce : Power, Risks, and the New Stra­te­gic Balance
Prof. Giu­sep­pe F. Ita­lia­no, Depu­ty Rec­tor for Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gen­ce and Digi­tal Skills, LUISS Uni­ver­si­ty Inter­na­tio­nal , Speaker
Ses­sion 1 : Mul­ti-Domain Ope­ra­tions : Inte­gra­tion and Inte­ro­pe­ra­bi­li­ty Chal­len­ges, Speed of Deci­sion and Tech­no­lo­gy-Dri­ven Solutions
From Con­cept to Capa­bi­li­ty : Acce­le­ra­ting NATO’s Tran­sfor­ma­tion to Mul­ti-Domain Operations
Col. Miet­ta Groe­ne­veld, Direc­tor, NATO Com­mand and Con­trol Cen­tre of Excel­len­ce , Speaker
Mul­ti-Domain Ope­ra­tions : A Holi­stic, Inte­gra­ted Approach to Modern Warfare
Cri­sti­na Cabal­le Fuguet, Vice Pre­si­dent, IBM Glo­bal Govern­ment, Defen­se & Intel­li­gen­ce , Speaker
Leo­nar­do Solu­tions Ena­bling Mul­ti Domain Operations
Rober­to Bac­chi, Mul­ti Domain C2 Mana­ger, Leo­nar­do , Speaker
From Sto­ve­pi­pes to Speed : Har­nes­sing AI-Dri­ven Com­mand and Con­trol to Achie­ve Mul­ti-Domain Superiority
Geor­ges Stra­chan-Heyes, Direc­tor of Ope­ra­tions and Head of Gro­wth (Euro­pe), One­brief , Speaker
Ena­bling Mis­sion Advan­ta­ge : Sove­rei­gn, AI-Powe­red Col­la­bo­ra­tion for Secu­re Mul­ti-Domain C2
Jason Blais, VP Pro­duct & Pro­gram Mana­ge­ment, Mat­ter­mo­st , Speaker
CEMA, MDO, CJADC2 : rede­fi­ning the OODA loop in the infor­ma­tion space
Dr Ful­vio Arre­ghi­ni, Head of Glo­bal Busi­ness, info­das gmbh , Speaker
From the Core To The Edge : rug­ge­di­sed edge devi­ces as the new self-suf­fi­cient Mobi­le Data Cen­ters for maxi­mi­zing resi­lien­ce and inte­ro­pe­ra­bi­li­ty in Mul­ti-Domain-Ope­ra­tions (MDO)
Giu­sep­pe Magnot­ta, Asso­cia­te Prin­ci­pal Solu­tion Archi­tect, Red Hat , Speaker
Inte­ro­pe­ra­ble Defen­ce Eco­sy­stems : Ena­bling Mul­ti-Domain Ope­ra­tions Throu­gh ​‘Whe­re’
Dr. Uwe Jasnoch, EMEA Geo­spa­tial Direc­tor, Hexa­gon , Speaker
Mis­sion at Machi­ne Speed : Lea­ding the Shift from Manual to AI-Dri­ven Operations.
Cin­di Bro­thers, COO & Co-Foun­der, DUA­LI­TY SYSTEMS , Speaker
Awards Ceremony
Ses­sion 2 : Digi­tal Tran­sfor­ma­tion, Zero Tru­st, Cloud Archi­tec­tu­re and Data Dri­ven Operations
NATO Digi­tal Tran­sfor­ma­tion — Key Suc­cess Factors
Mr. Mar­co Cri­scuo­lo, Acting Depu­ty Assi­stant Secre­ta­ry Gene­ral and Direc­tor Stra­te­gy and Poli­cy, Cyber and Digi­tal Tran­sfor­ma­tion Divi­sion, NATO , Speaker
Data-Dri­ven Ope­ra­tions : Leve­ra­ging Ana­ly­tics and AI for Pre­dic­ti­ve Ope­ra­tions and Actio­na­ble Intelligence
Abir Ray, CEO, EXPRES­SION , Speaker
Zero Tru­st Imple­men­ta­tion in Defen­se Archi­tec­tu­res : Stra­te­gic Les­sons and Integration
Man­fred Bra­bec, Prin­ci­pal Architect/​CTO, Cisco GSSO EMEA , Speaker
Zero Tru­st Appli­ca­tion Access
Paul Sim­mons, Senior Account Exe­cu­ti­ve and Archi­tect, F5 GOVERN­MENT SOLU­TIONS , Speaker
Ephe­me­ral Part­ner Col­la­bo­ra­tion Envi­ron­men­ts (EPCE): Tac­ti­cal Zero Tru­st for Coa­li­tion Communications
Mar­qus Hut­chin­son, CTO, INTEL­LI­GENT WAVES , Speaker
Buil­ding a Skil­led Mili­ta­ry Cyber Work­for­ce : The SANS – Bri­tish Army Cyber Aca­de­my as a Stra­te­gic Model
Sha­rif Gard­ner, Head of Defen­ce & Mili­ta­ry, SANS Insti­tu­te , Speaker
Infor­ma­tion Advan­ta­ge at the Edge – Mul­ti-Modal Search in a Tac­ti­cal Form-Factor
Par­ker Horn­stein, Senior Solu­tions Archi­tect, US Army, ELA­STIC , Speaker
Ses­sion 3 : The Cyber Dimension
Prof. Anni­ta Laris­sa Scia­co­vel­li, PhD, Dr. — Prof. of Inter­na­tio­nal Law, Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty Spe­cia­li­st — Uni­ver­si­ty of Bari Aldo Moro
Ena­bling Digi­tal Tran­sfor­ma­tion in Cyber Ope­ra­tions Throu­gh Rea­li­stic, Intel­li­gen­ce-Dri­ven Training
Pavlos Kolios, Staff Pro­duct Mana­ger, HACK THE BOX , Speaker
Tran­sa­tlan­tic Trio CDX — Sha­ring the Bat­tle­field eXpe­rien­ce for Pre­pa­red­ness Acceleration
Mar­cel­lo Hinx­man-Alle­gri, Head of Mar­ke­ting & Busi­ness Deve­lo­p­ment, CYBER RAN­GES , Speaker
Mul­ti-Domain Tran­sfor­ma­tion : From Reac­ti­ve Defen­ce to Stra­te­gic Advantage
Danie­le Man­ci­ni, Field Chief Infor­ma­tion and Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty Offi­cer, FOR­TI­NET , Speaker
Vital Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty Skills Nee­ded Today
Glenn Her­nan­dez, Instruc­tor, IVY TECH COM­MU­NI­TY COL­LE­GE , Speaker
Il 2 otto­bre la Tech­net ha visto i salu­ti di :
Rear Admi­ral Mas­si­mo Espo­si­to, Ita­lian Navy (Ret.), Gene­ral Mana­ger, AFCEA Europe
La gior­na­ta ha visto alter­nar­si i seguen­ti contributi :
The Futu­re of Defen­ce in a Digi­tal World : The Need for Intel­li­gen­ce Collaboration
Mr. Kau­po Rosin, Direc­tor Gene­ral, Esto­nian Forei­gn Intel­li­gen­ce Ser­vi­ce , Speaker
Digi­ta­li­za­tion in the Con­text of Chan­ging Warfare
MGEN. Armin Flei­sch­mann, Com­man­der CID Sup­port For­ces and DCOS Capa­bi­li­ties CID Com­mand , Speaker
Digi­ta­li­za­tion in Ita­lian Pub­blic Admi­ni­stra­tion : some examples
Prof. Ales­san­dro Musu­me­ci, Pro­fes­sor of Inno­va­tion eco­no­my, Inter­na­tio­nal Uni­ver­si­ty of Rome , Speaker
Ses­sion 4 : Pre­pa­ring for the Future
The Impe­ra­ti­ve of Cryp­to­gra­phic Resi­lien­ce in the Quan­tum Era
Prof. Miche­le Mosca, Insti­tu­te for Quan­tum Com­pu­ting, Uni­ver­si­ty of Water­loo , Speaker
Bor­der­land Secu­ri­ty : A Living Lab Panel Discussion
Kathy Swa­ci­na, CIO, Sher­pa­Werx , Spea­ker Jark­ko Surak­ka, 1LT, Fin­nish Defen­se For­ces, and CEO Epi­no­va Oy , Speaker
Entan­gled Futu­res : AI, Cryp­to­gra­phy & Quan­tum Computing
Soe­nil Soe­be­dar, Foun­der and Cryp­to­gra­phy Spe­cia­li­st, SOE­BIT Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty Nether­lands , Speaker
Sol­ving the ​‘last-mile’ pro­blem : Resul­ts of the q‑stream PoC across the NATO//EU Mal­ta-Ita­ly QKD Sub­ma­ri­ne Fibre
Adrian Neal, CEO, QUSTREAM AG , Speaker
Pre­pa­ring for Q‑Day : The Quan­tum Threat and the Path to Quan­tum-Safe Security
Dr. Mar­co Pisto­ia, Ph.D, SVP of Indu­stry Rela­tions, IonQ , Speaker
AKRON C4SEC Solu­tions for Quan­tum Safe Mobi­le Hard­ware Encryption
Miche­le Cor­te­se, CEO, AKRON C4SEC Prof Anto­nio Cor­bo Espo­si­to, Head of the Scien­ti­fic Com­mit­tee, AKRON C4SEC , Speaker
Quan­tum-Safe Net­works : Ensu­ring Secu­ri­ty Beyond Quan­tum Threats
Giam­pao­lo Pana­riel­lo, CTO Net­work Infra­struc­tu­re, NOKIA , Speaker
Ses­sion 5 : Advan­ced Sur­veil­lan­ce, Spa­ce, Auto­no­mous Systems
Inno­va­tion and the Futu­re of Geo­spa­tial Intel­li­gen­ce at NATO HQ
Mr Giu­sep­pe Nobi­le, Head of Geo & Spa­ce Ser­vi­ces Sec­tion, NATO HQ , Speaker
From Secu­re Ground Cloud to Cogni­ti­ve Cloud in Orbit : A Stra­te­gic Leap for Euro­pean ISR
Mas­si­mo Zot­ti, Head of Govern­ment & Secu­ri­ty SBU, PLA­NE­TEK ITA­LIA s.r.l. , Speaker
Earth Intel­li­gen­ce Subor­bi­tal Platform
Fabri­zio Minei, Chief Busi­ness Offi­cer, SOLA­RIS SUBOR­BI­TAL Inc. , Speaker
Man­ned-Unman­ned Tea­ming (MUM‑T): How far can I tru­st my Team Mem­ber and on What is this Tru­st based ?
Lau­ra Sam­so Peri­con, Resear­cher & Spea­ker on Cyber, AI Ethics and Emer­ging Defen­ce Tech­no­lo­gies , Speaker
Ses­sion 6 : Sup­ply Chain Secu­ri­ty and Cri­ti­cal Infra­struc­tu­re Protection
Mr. Jonas Ceder­löf, Poli­cy Offi­cer, Euro­pean Commission
Pre-Emp­ti­ve Situa­tio­nal Aware­ness : Tur­ning Open-Sour­ce Signals into Actio­na­ble Ear­ly War­ning System for Hybrid, Cyber, and Phy­si­cal Threats
Dmy­tro Plie­sha­kov, CEO, OSA­VUL , Speaker
Cri­ti­cal Infra­struc­tu­re Protection
Ric­car­do Cafli­sch, Account Mana­ger Ita­ly, OPEN­VAS S.r.l. , Speaker
New Approach for Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty for Cri­ti­cal Infra­struc­tu­res — Pre­dic­ti­ve not reactive.
Aaron Fan­sler, CEO, FRON­TLI­NE CYBER SOLU­TIONS , Speaker
Pro­tec­ting your Sup­ply Chain Secu­ri­ty and Sta­bi­li­ty with CMMC.
Car­ter Schoen­berg, Chief Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty Offi­cer, Sound­Way Con­sul­ting, Inc. , Speaker
Ultra-resi­lient 5G/6G net­works desi­gned for high-demand defen­se applications
Artur Chmie­lew­ski, Head of Sales, IS-WIRE­LESS , Speaker
Ope­ra­tio­nal Impact and Digi­tal Tran­sfor­ma­tion Acce­le­ra­tion for Defen­se Moder­ni­za­tion using Dual Use 5G Open Radio Access Net­work Systems
Bill Grab­ner, SVP and GM, JMA Fede­ral , Speaker
FINAL CLO­SING REMARKS/FAREWELL
Rear Admi­ral Mas­si­mo Espo­si­to, Ita­lian Navy (Ret.), Gene­ral Mana­ger, AFCEA Euro­pe , Speaker

COSMO all’Afcea Tech­net Euro­pe 2025

In alto a sx : Rear Admi­ral Mas­si­mo Espo­si­to, Ita­lian Navy (Ret.), Gene­ral Mana­ger, AFCEA Euro­pe ; in bas­so da dx Miche­le Cor­te­se Con­si­glie­re AFCEA Naples, Mas­si­mi­lia­no Cane­stro Segre­ta­rio AFCEA Naples, Gen D.A. Miche­le Obal­la Capo di Sta­to Mag­gio­re Coman­do Logi­sti­co A.M., Gen. Gio­van­ni Savol­del­li Pedroc­chi Pre­si­den­te AFCEA Naples, Ten. Col. Miche­le Ser­ra, a dx Erich Stau­da­cher Past Gene­ral Mana­ger, AFCEA Euro­pe, Gen. Anto­nio Tan­gor­ra Pre­si­den­te Afcea Rome con Mas­si­mi­lia­no Canestro

Ing. Mas­si­mi­lia­no Canestro
AFCEA NAPLES CHAP­TER SECRETARY