This conference will be held on the 22nd and 23rd February in Vienna, Austria. This must-attend event will once again lead the way in providing the latest overview of in-theatre tactical communications, national roadmaps, technology, NATO and ISAF interoperability and industry support.

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MDC 2012 will allow delegates to discuss and debate important issues such as NATO's steps towards interoperable mobile deployable communications, the current technology being deployed and what solutions industry are providing for the end user, as well as the communications experiences and needs from the perspective of emergency services, charities and first responders. Networking opportunities with key decision makers from the military and industry will also be available to attendees.

Delegates will also have the chance to participate in an interactive workshop, Satellite & Satellite-Hybrid Communications Networking Capability and Civil-Military Inter- Agency Collaboration, on 21st February. This half-day Workshop will offer attendees the opportunity to fully appreciate the implications for established military communications networking practice of the increasing collaboration of military infrastructures and capabilities with civilian agencies engaged in non-conflict related deployments.

To view the conference agenda and full speaker line-up, please scroll down...

Day One — February 22nd

• 8.30 Registration & Coffee
• 8.50 Chairman's Opening Remarks—Nigel Beer, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting Group
• 9.00 NATO Deployable CIS from the JAPCC Perspective
• 9.40 Information Services — Training for Operations Captain Martin Murray, SO3, Land Warfare Centre
• 10.20 Morning Coffee
• 10.50 SDR Standardization Approach for Commercial, Public Safety and Military Domain — Lieutenant Colonel Carlo Zammariello, Software Defined Radio Principal Officer, European Defence Agency
• 11.30 Realizing the Promise of Current and Future Mobile Networks
• 12.10 Networking Lunch Sponsored by Cisco
• 1.25 The Implementation of Tactical UK Comms Within Helmand Province—Major Simon Gray, 30 Commando Information Exploitation Group, Royal Marines
• 2.05 Securing Commercial SATCOM Networks — Jackson Kemper, Vice President, Iridium Communications
• 2.45 Afternoon Tea
• 3.15 Resilient, Mobile Satcom for the Warfighter — Keith Norton , Managing Director, Paradigm
• 3.45 Resilient, High Data Rate Communication in Tactical Environment: Needs, Challenges, and Potential Solutions — Dr. Bharat Doshi, Director, Johns Hopkins University
• 4.25 Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

Day Two — February 23rd

• 8.30 Registration and Coffee
  
• 8.50 Chairman's Opening Remarks — Nigel Beer, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting Group
• 9.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Integrated and Deployable Communications for Rapid Response - A EUCOM Perspective — Brigadier General Gregory Brundidge , Director , USEUCOM
• 9.40 The Challenges of Communications Interoperability and Standardisation Across NATO — Colonel Jörg Dronia, Joint Branch Chief, NATO Standardisation Agency
• 10.20 Morning Coffee
• 10.50 Interoperability During Uncertain Times — Commodore (R) David Burton, Chief Technology Officer, NC3A
• 11.30 Deployable Communications — The Maritime Challenge Commander Nigel Chandler, Fleet Communications Officer, Ministry of Defence, UK
• 12.10 Networking the Theatre — Patrick Heuline , Satcom & Tactical Networks Head of Marketing, Thales Communications & Security
• 12.50 Networking Lunch
• 1.50 Mobile-Deployable CIS in Support of EU Operations — Colonel Teodor Aldea, IT Security Branch Chief, European Union Military Staff
• 2.30 Czech CIS Teaching and Training — Colonel Vlastimil Maly, Head of Communication and Information Systems Dept, University of Defence, Czech Republic
• 3.10 Afternoon Tea
• 3.30 Connecting Soldiers to Digital Applications (CSDA) in the US Army — Michael McCarthy, Director of Operations and Program Manager, Brigade Modernization Command, US Army
4.10 Securing Worldwide Coverage within Satcom (VSAT) Solutions (Subject to Confirmation)
• 4.50 Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

Register today at www.mobiledeployable.com.

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