Oracle Defence Tech Summit 2026
Join Oracle, our partners, and members of the global defence community in Brussels as we discuss how technologies support the mission and showcase how Oracle and our partners are driving decision advantage.
This is how we win.
Countdown to 25 June 2026
Registration is now open
You’re invited to join us at the annual Oracle Defence Tech Summit in Brussels, Belgium. During this one-day event, members of the global defence community will join Oracle experts and partners to explore how advanced technologies can help the defence sector drive modernisation and address critical challenges. We’re calling on mission owners, tech innovators, integrators, operators, and other defence community members to join the conversation and showcase their innovative solutions. Because here at Oracle, supporting the mission is at the core of what we do.
Featured speakers
Paul Jenkinson
CEO and Co-Founder, Whitespace
Paul Jenkinson is CEO and Co-Founder of Whitespace, the UK’s sovereign AI company for Defence and National Security. He leads the development of Collective, a sovereign AI operating system that enables secure, governed AI across cloud, edge and air-gapped environments. His focus is on moving AI from experimentation into real-world operational deployment with government and defence partners.
Doug Russell
Global Aerospace and Defence Lead, Cohere
Doug Russell is a 23 year Canadian Armed Forces veteran and leader in the defence innovation space. With extensive operational experience and deployments in eastern Europe, Afghanistan, and the Middle East, Doug most recently built a transformative digital program for the Canadian Armed Forces that delivered advanced technology to the tactical edge, enabling both decision advantage and operational outcomes. Now leading Cohere’s Aerospace and Defence initiatives, he leverages this experience to scale Cohere’s models and solutions into the Aerospace and Defence sector.
Ivan Zhang
Co-Founder, Cohere
Ivan Zhang is a co-founder at Cohere, the security-first enterprise AI company. At Cohere, Ivan oversees key technical product development and is closely involved in the company’s public sector and government customers. Prior to co-founding Cohere alongside Aidan Gomez and Nick Frosst, Ivan founded for.ai (now Cohere Labs), Cohere’s research lab. Ivan also worked in biotech and MLOps space as a software engineer and studied at the University of Toronto.
See what’s happening
Explore our agenda, packed with opportunities to learn and make connections. (Details are subject to change.)
Thursday, 25 June
The mission matters. Join the conversation.
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