Our technical conference programme remains one of the biggest draws of ITEC and expands annually with new speakers and conference material, keeping the comprehensive content to date.  

With over 100 international training technology experts, across three theatres and including our keynote theatre, ITEC remains the global leading event dedicated to defence training technology, bringing together the largest gathering of professionals, industry, and military experts together to discuss advances to secure operational supremacy.   

Our conference speakers offer valuable insight into the technical and operational themes set by our dedicated committee members. 

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Getting ahead of the threat

The pace of technological and tactical change means today's advantage can be tomorrow's vulnerability. The 2027 ITEC theme addresses how military forces and the wider defence enterprise must anticipate emerging threats rather than simply respond to them, shaping training and education so that readiness is built ahead of the operational curve, not behind it. 

This is not about matching adversary capability. It's about outpacing it. 

Forces must build mission preparation and training pipelines, synthetic environments, and human performance foundations that let their personnel adapt faster than the threat evolves. Through themes of outpacing the drone threat, the human advantage and cognitive edge, connectivity by design and workforce readiness, ITEC discussions accelerate readiness and decision advantage from the individual operator through to joint and coalition force integration. 

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New Horizons Keynote Theatre

The New Horizons Theatre, positioned as ITEC’s keynote, signifies a move to focus the event on the technologies and training needed for the future to best get ahead of the threat. This theatre will bring together senior military leaders, policy makers and industry, through keynote addresses, panels and technical 
presentations to address how training must not only keep pace or react to threats but to get ahead. Sessions here will confront the pace of technological change directly, from the drone and counter-UAS challenge reshaping the contested battlefield, to the workforce and capability decisions needed to build readiness faster than adversaries can adapt. This theatre focuses on the big picture; what are the actual demands of the training enterprise to outpace the threat, from the operator through to coalition force integration.

Adaptive Edge Theatre

The Adaptive Edge Theatre examines the synthetic training infrastructure that makes adaptation possible at speed and scale. Sessions focus on interoperable simulation environments, Live Virtual and Constructive integration, systems of systems and the standards, validation and governance that build trust in synthetic training across services, domains and coalition partners. If getting ahead of the threat depends on training environments that can evolve as fast as the threats itself, this is where that infrastructure is built.  

Human Performance Theatre

The Human Performance Theatre puts people in the centre of readiness. Sessions explore how training and simulation build the cognitive edge personnel need to out-think and outpace emerging threats: judgement, trust, adaptability and decision-making under pressure and human-machine teaming. As systems grow more complex, this theatre argues that the ultimate advantage remains human; this advantage must be trained deliberately, not assumed.