Oracle Defence Tech Summit Agenda

Allied nations must have full sovereign control over their critical technology infrastructure. However, governments and mission owners often face a critical tradeoff: cloud capability vs. operational independence. This panel will explore how Western technology providers can align their technology frameworks to preserve national control over data, workloads, and security policies, while still offering the benefits of shared innovation and collective defence capabilities. Learn how Oracle’s fully featured, alliance-grade cloud services deliver full data sovereignty and resilience.

Modern military operations are being reshaped by a fundamental shift—from platform-centric to data-centric warfare. In this new paradigm, the ability to collect, process, fuse, and act on data in real time is becoming a decisive advantage across all domains: land, air, sea, cyber, and space. This panel will explore how emerging technologies are disrupting traditional operational models and enabling faster, more-informed decision-making at every echelon.

The traditional model for using cloud services in the defence sector has been to tap public hyperscale services for performance and innovation, while relying on on-premises cloud for assurance, sovereignty, and security. This model often meant accepting a performance penalty for sensitive workloads.

That model is no longer tenable. As software, data, and AI become central to operational advantage, on-premises cloud must shift from being primarily a secure hosting environment to becoming a high-performance platform for digitalisation. This session will explore why national security agencies should consider taking a portfolio approach in deploying cloud capabilities for sovereign missions. This approach includes optimizing the strengths of public cloud and on-premises air-gapped environments.

NATO’s mission has expanded as Russian threats have proliferated into the grey zone and on the frontlines. In this session we will discuss the direct threat of having a common border with Russia, increased hybrid challenges, the political environment surrounding the West’s support of Ukraine, and the response of individual nations within the alliance. We’ll explore how technology can best assist in meeting the threat and enhancing deterrence.

Modern military operations are increasingly defined by the scale and integration of data and the speed with which it can be collected and analysed. AI is transforming data-driven decision-making, enabling commanders to act faster and with greater precision across domains. However, challenges around data governance, interoperability, and trust remain critical barriers. This panel will explore how defence organisations can operationalise AI while maintaining sovereign control, resilience, and security.

In a fast-moving defence technology landscape defined by dual-use technologies, competitive advantage depends on who can adopt, integrate, and scale capabilities quickly. Conventional narratives—U.S. innovation, Chinese imitation, European regulation—mask the real drivers of outcomes: time-to-field, industrial capacity, standards, and system interoperability. This discussion will examine where the old assumptions break down, what actually determines success in practice, and what leaders should prioritize when making technology investment, procurement, and partnership decisions.

Force readiness depends on the ability to connect people, materiel, funding, supply chains, and operations with the speed and assurance modern missions demand. Fragmented technology improvements can improve individual functions, but they rarely deliver the visibility, resilience, or agility defence organisations need at enterprise scale.

This session will examine how defence leaders can take an integrated, full-stack approach to technology modernisation in a sovereign environment—strengthening workforce readiness, supply chain resilience, sustainment, procurement, financial stewardship, and operational decision-making.

This panel will explore how financial capital is shaping the future of deterrence and operational readiness across the transatlantic defence ecosystem. The conversation will highlight how venture capital, private equity, and government funding mechanisms are influencing what gets built, scaled, and fielded—and on what timelines. It will tackle the practical challenges of aligning capital with mission needs: navigating procurement barriers, supporting small and non-traditional market entrants, bridging the “valley of death,” and ensuring interoperability across Allied forces. Panelists will share perspectives on how to better connect innovators, primes, and end users to move promising technologies from concept to capability.

In this panel, we will explore how a unified, secure, and globally deployable technology foundation is reshaping modern defence operations. As adversaries accelerate adoption of AI, cyber, and autonomous capabilities, defence leaders must leverage platforms that deliver innovation at scale while meeting the strictest security and sovereignty requirements. Oracle’s Everything Everywhere approach enables seamless access to mission-critical capabilities across domains and environments, so organisations can run workloads with the same performance, security, and functionality wherever the mission requires. Join this discussion to understand how platform-driven data integration is becoming a decisive advantage in national security.