Programme // Strategic Panel Discussion
The Questions
That Matter
Senior leadership, industry and experts on the trends, policy and capability questions that define where the sector is headed — opening with seven high level panels, then going deep by domain.
01 // High Level Panels
Seven Panels
From Lessons to Capability
What are the lessons emerging from recent conflicts about the changing character of warfare, and what do they demand from India's Armed Forces, technology ecosystem and defence industrial base?
Space as the Enabling Layer
Can India see, navigate, time and communicate from orbit—and reach orbit on its own engines—without foreign cooperation at the moment of conflict?
Propulsion Sovereignty
How can India build sovereign propulsion capabilities across the full spectrum of aerospace and strategic platforms—from fighter aircraft, transport and other airborne platforms to UAVs, autonomous systems and space vehicles—covering aero-engines, electric and hybrid power systems, and rocket propulsion, while developing the critical components, materials, design capabilities, testing infrastructure, manufacturing scale and industrial base required for sustained defence and strategic applications?
From Sensing to Decision
How can India transform its existing but often fragmented ISR and communications capabilities into an integrated, interoperable architecture that can sense, identify, connect and enable decisions at operational tempo—while ensuring sovereign control over the sensors, data, algorithms, networks and communications technologies that underpin battlefield advantage?
From Unmanned Platforms to Autonomous Weapon Systems
How can India design, secure, power and mass-produce autonomous systems at the speed and scale demanded by emerging warfare—and build sovereign control over the technologies that make them effective?
Ethics and Humanitarian Dimensions in Weapons Development (ICRC)
How can next-generation weapon systems, integrating AI and other emerging technologies, balance military effectiveness with human control, ethical responsibility, humanitarian principles, privacy, and the prevention of unintended harm?
Maritime Supply Chains and Strategic Connectivity
How can India build commercially viable, resilient and strategically secure maritime supply chains linking India to the rest of the world and the increasing opportunities from more efficient and shorter routes such as Chennai-Vladivostok corridor, the Arctic/Northern Sea Route etc. create for ports, shipping, energy, manufacturing, logistics and India's defence-industrial ecosystem?
02 // Industry Panels
Domain Tracks
Four domains, each run as focused tracks taking the conversation from market and technology through to production, supply chain and export.
Space Industry: From Indigenous Capability to a Sovereign Space-Defence Ecosystem
Track 1
- > Space-Defence Market
- > Space-Based ISR
- > SATCOM
- > Secure Space Communications
- > PNT
- > Space Situational Awareness
- > Responsive Launch and Small-Launch Systems
- > Space Propulsion and Critical Technologies
Track 2
- > Ground Segment and Space Infrastructure
- > From Prototype to Production Scale
- > Design Sovereignty and Critical Components
- > Space Supply Chains: Integrating MSMEs and Startups
- > Financing Space-Defence Innovation
- > Space Security and Resilience
- > Building an Export-Oriented Indian Space Industry
From Sensors to Secure Networks: Building India's Sovereign Information-Warfare Ecosystem
Track 1
- > Evolving ISR Market
- > Electro-Optical, Infrared & Hyperspectral Systems
- > Radars
- > SIGINT, ELINT & Electronic Intelligence
- > AI-Enabled ISR and Sensor Fusion
- > From Data to Decision
- > Tactical Communications & Software-Defined Radios
- > Battlefield Networks & Tactical Datalinks
Track 2
- > Secure SATCOM and Beyond-Line-of-Sight Communications
- > EW & Communications Resilience
- > Cybersecurity of Defence Systems
- > Indigenous Cryptography & Secure Information Systems
- > Sovereignty over Algorithms, Data & Processors
- > Integrating Startups, MSMEs and Primes
- > Scaling from Technology to Global Capability
From Drones to Autonomous Capability: Building an Indian Industrial Ecosystem for the Next Generation of Warfare
Track 1
- > Growing Defence Drone Market
- > From UAVs to Autonomous Systems
- > Combat Drones & Loitering Systems
- > Swarm Technologies & Collaborative Autonomy
- > Multi-Domain Autonomous Systems
- > AI, Computer Vision & Edge Autonomy
- > Propulsion for Autonomous Systems
- > Batteries, Power Systems & Energy Density
Track 2
- > Building Reliable and Production-Ready Platforms
- > Cybersecurity of Drones and Autonomous Platforms
- > Communications, Navigation & EW Resilience
- > Scaling Production for Mass Deployment
- > Integrating Startups, MSMEs and Defence Primes
- > From Indian Innovation to Global Defence Product
Maritime Supply Chain: Building India's Strategic Connectivity from Chennai to Vladivostok and the Arctic
Track 1
How can Indian industry build commercially viable, resilient and strategically secure maritime supply chains connecting India to the rest of the world, for eg: with Vladivostok and the Arctic Northern Sea route, while creating new opportunities for ports, shipping, logistics, energy, manufacturing and defence-related supply chains?
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