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European Defence & Security Summit 2025

10-11 June

Egmont Palace, Brussels

Powering Up European Defence

The European Defence and Security Summit, co-organised by ASD, aims to prompt action on Europe’s future during a period of profound geopolitical change. 

Three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, war still rages on Europe’s eastern flank. Warnings that Moscow could expand its aggression beyond Ukraine are growing more urgent, and hybrid threats are quickly becoming a daily preoccupation. Meanwhile, conflicts elsewhere in the world generate far reaching consequences, reshaping the security landscape and further exacerbating global instability.

For Europe, this enduring state of crisis comes at a precarious moment. With the result of political developments across the Atlantic now clear, Europe must decide whether it is willing - and able - to take greater responsibility for its own security. A new European Parliament and Commission, as well as crucial budgetary and financial negotiations - amongst other key topics - will shape the bloc’s response. The coming years will reveal whether Europe can assert itself as a strategic actor, transforming current challenges, threats and hostilities into opportunities to take proactive leadership and achieve long-term security.

Among the speakers

Andrius Kubilius
EU Commissioner for Defence & Space
Hadja Lahbib
EU Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management
Marta Kos
EU Commissioner for Enlargement
Nadia Calviño
President, European Investment Bank
Theo Francken
Minister of Defence, Belgium
General Seán Clancy
Chairman, European Union Military Committee
Martin Pfister
Head of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport, Swiss Confederation
Gert Jan Koopman
Director General, DG ENEST
Micael Johansson
President and CEO, Saab
Rob Murray
CEO, DSR Bank Development Group
Jaap van Etten
CEO, Datenna
José Vicente de los Mozos
CEO, Indra
Camille Grand
Distinguished Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)
Fabrice Pothier
CEO, Rasmussen Global
Oleksandr Kamyshin
Advisor to President Zelenskyy on Strategic Affairs, Ukraine
Michael Shurkin
Associate Fellow in Military Sciences, RUSI
Andrea Palasciano
Foreign Policy and Defence Correspondent, Bloomberg
Jan Pie
Secretary General, ASD
Yaroslav Trofimov
Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent, Wall Street Journal
Rafal Modrzewski
CEO, ICEYE
Jürgen Ehle
Rear Admiral Upper Half (Ret.), Senior Advisor, KPMG Defence
Hugues Lavandier
Senior Partner, Head of Aerospace & Defence, EMEA, McKinsey & Company
Rodrigo da Costa
Executive Director, EU Agency for the Space Programme
Ekaterini Kavvada
Director for Secure and Connected Space, DG DEFIS, European Commission
Herald Ruijters
Deputy Director-General and Head of Task Force for SAFE, DG DEFIS, European Commission
Jon Koski
Managing Director NGC International Inc & European Director for Europe / NATO, within Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems (NGAS)
Rear Admiral Ignacio Cuartero Lorenzo
Director for Concepts and Capabilities, EU Military Staff
François Arbault
Director of Defence Policy and Defence Industrial Programmes, DG DEFIS, European Commission
Olivier Lemaitre
Secretary General, ASD Eurospace
Bart Groothuis
Member of the European Parliament
François-Xavier Bellamy
Member of the European Parliament
Costas Mavrides
Member of the European Parliament
Hannah Neumann
Member of the European Parliament
Sean White
Director for Industry, Synergies and Enablers, European Defence Agency
Cosmin Dobran
Director for Peace, Partnerships and Crisis Management, European External Action Service
Wouter Beke
Member of the European Parliament
David Luengo
Director Head of Brussels Office, Indra; Chairman of the Security Business Unit, ASD
Nicolás Pascual de la Parte
Member of the European Parliament
Niclas Herbst
Member of the European Parliament
Guntram Wolff
Senior Fellow, Bruegel
Andrey Novakov
Member of the European Parliament
Michał Szczerba
Member of the European Parliament
Robbie Boyd OBE
Brigadier General (Ret.)
Barbara Gallo
Head of Division for Hybrid Threats and Cyber, EEAS
Arunas Vinciunas
Head of Unit for Ukraine Support and Military Mobility, DG DEFIS, European Commission
Daniel Seidel
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, LiveEO
Daniel Fiott
Head of the Defence and Statecraft Programme, Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy
Tobias Cremer
Member of the European Parliament
Marcos Perestrello
President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly; Member of the Portuguese Parliament
Gustaf Winroth
Deputy Head of Unit for Defence Technologies, DG DEFIS, European Commission
Benedikta Von Seherr-Thoss
Managing Director for Peace, Security and Defence, European External Action Service
Edit Komaromi
Team Leader for Hybrid Threats, DG DEFIS, European Commission
Olga Khoroshylova
Advisor to the Minister for Strategic Industries, Ukraine
Fabio Liberti
Policy Officer for Defence Industry and Market Policy, DG DEFIS, European Commission
Neil Beet
Leader of International Government Organizations and National Security, Amazon Web Services
Nicolas Guillermin
Senior Policy Officer for Secure Connectivity and Space Surveillance, DG DEFIS, European Commission
Gueorgui Ianakiev
Team Leader for Defence Market, DG DEFIS, European Commission
Alexandre Monéger
Head of the Cyber and Hybrid Policy Section, NATO
Paola Tamma
Correspondent, Financial Times
Teri Schultz
EU/NATO Reporter

Check the 2025 Agenda

Our mission statement

Our mission is twofold: we aim to bring politics and business together in order to provide them with an opportunity to debate and pursue their common goals, giving a voice to all sides of the debate. The other priority of EBS is to provide European institutions with a platform where they can place their top priorities in the spotlight and advance the development of new pieces of legislation through discussion with a variety of actors and stakeholders.

Arnaud Thysen
Director General

They trust us

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