Undersea Defence Technology 2027
6 April 2027 – 8 April 2027
SEC Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
UDT Europe 2027 is a three-day exhibition and conference dedicated to undersea defence technology, taking place at the SEC Event Campus in Glasgow, Scotland from 6 to 8 April 2027. It brings together military end-users, ministries of defence, technology suppliers, academia and industry professionals from the international naval community. The 2027 conference theme is 'Undersea defence in the hybrid age', with technical sessions across a keynote theatre and three further theatres covering sensors, platforms and autonomous vehicles, operational effectiveness and innovation.
60 sessions · 60 speakers
Organiser (1)
Speakers (60)
- Orhan Öztürk Software Development Team Lead, Naval Unmanned Systems, SİSAM – Strategic and Unmanned Systems Research Center, Sefine
- Gijs van der Velden MX3D
- Ahmet Günhan Aydın Artificial Intelligence Engineer, ASELSAN
- Alan Anderson BSc Subsea Robotics Project Manager, Oceaneering International
- Alan Felstead FCIEH Head of Technology- Human Factors and Integration, BAE Systems
- Alex Walchester CEng MEng MRINA Senior Naval Architect, BMT
- Alexandre Stregner Amphitrite
- Andrew Munday Global Technology Director, Babcock International
- Anthony Greening MA, MBA Senior Maritime Consultant, Freelance (Inbetween Roles)
- Baptiste Hamel Research engineer, Naval Group
- Barış Yumak Systems Engineer, ASELSAN
- Benjamin Salter CEng FIET Naval Sales Director, GE Vernova Power Conversion & Storage
- Brendan Hyland CEO, Ocean Infromation Services Ltd
- Catriona Gilmour Marine Engineer, BMT
- Chris Minto CEng, CPhys, MInstP, MIET Director, Indeximate Ltd
- Chris Nelson Senior Data Scientist, Indeximate Ltd
- Chris Tucker Sonar Systems Subject Matter Expert, SEA
- Christian Reinicke Urruticoechea Scientist, TNO
- Daniel Denning Innovation Manager, Viper Innovations
- Daniel Weil Managing Director, TICQ
- David Powell MIET Engineering Business Development Director, Magnomatics Limited
- David Shutt Business Development Manager, Qinetiq
- Didier Cavallera Research engineer, Naval Group
- Doug Theobald CSC Executive Vice President - Europe, Middle East and Africa (EVP-EMEA), Acacia Systems Ltd
- Ebru Koçdor Naval Platforms Software Engineer, SİSAM
- Elena Boesenberg Head of Digital Training and Media, TKMS
- Eric Starkweather Business Development Manager, Defense - USA, Deep Trekker Inc.
- Frederic Priesack Senior Manager, Wölfel Engineering GmbH + Co KG
- Guy Looker Commercial Director, Online Oceans Robotics
- Harriet Morley MSc, C.ErgHF Human Factors Technologist, BAE Systems
- Hikmet Dinçer Software Development Manager, Naval Unmanned Systems, SİSAM – Strategic and Unmanned Systems Research Center, Sefine
- Ian Duncan CEng Principal Naval Engineer, BMT
- Ioannis Papadopoulos Partner - Energy Systems Resilience and Strategic Services, DNV
- Jack Lines Process Engineer, Cavendish Nuclear
- Jake Rigby Head of Innovation & Research, BMT
- John Dunville CEng Senior Innovation Engineer, Babcock International
- Jonatan Scharff Willners CEO, Frontier Robotics
- Justin Sykes Director, Nordhal Defence
- Lei Titulaer Scientist, TNO
- Liam Flood Senior Sales Manager, KONGSBERG
- Marina Rantanen Modeer Director of Autonomy Strategy, Saab Naval Underwater Systems
- Mark Butler Vice President Capability, BMT
- Mark van der Post Student, TU Delft
- Martin Petré MSc systems engineer, SAAB
- Mehmet Ali Çavuşlu Chief Engineer, ASELSAN
- Miku Brodin-Laakso systems engineer, SAAB
- Mustafa Barış Emektar Artificial Intelligence Engineer, ASELSAN
- Mustafa Lütfi Civelek Director, Head of SİSAM, SİSAM – Strategic and Unmanned Systems Research Center, Sefine
- Pınar Şentürk Naval Platforms Software Engineer, SİSAM
- Robert O'Brien Chief Technical Officer, TKMS Sonartech Atlas Pty Ltd
- Salil Luesutthiviboon Scientist, TNO
- Sanjee Singla President, AI and Robotics, Saltenna
- Simon Maskell Chief Science Officer, Voyant
- Siobhan Banks Director Behaviour-Brain-Body Research Centre, Adelaide University
- Stephanie Millier TKMS Group
- Stian Hartman Scientist, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment
- Tania Berry Electrical Capability Lead, BMT
- Todd Smart CD BD Manager, CAE
- Tommaso Mannucci Scientist, TNO
- Yoran Yeh Scientist, TNO
Agenda
- Keynote 6 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- Powering Persistent Seabed Surveillance: Evaluating Americium‑241 for Decades‑Long Autonomous Undersea Sensor Networks 6 April 2027 · Theatre 2
- Seeing Is Believing: Perception-Driven Adaptive Underwater Autonomy 6 April 2027 · Theatre 3
- Mines don’t move, until they do: multi-pass change detection in SAS surveys 6 April 2027 · Theatre 1
- Silent Navigation and Beyond: Magnetic Sensing for Underwater Vehicles 6 April 2027 · Theatre 3
- What if we stopped designing mine neutralisers to survive? 6 April 2027 · Theatre 1
- From Endurance to Persistence: A Scalable Energy Architecture for Resident Undersea Systems 6 April 2027 · Theatre 2
- From Frigates to Autonomous Vehicles: Re-imagining Sonar for the Hybrid Naval Fleet 6 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- Impact of The Hybrid Navy on Maritime Autonomy 6 April 2027 · Theatre 3
- Advancing Submarine Specific Energy Storage Solutions 6 April 2027 · Theatre 2
- Detect, identify, neutralise: portable ROVs as a rapid-response layer for hybrid fleets 6 April 2027 · Theatre 1
- Detecting and Tracking the Unseen 6 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- Acoustic detection, classification, localisation, and tracking of UUVs using a sensor network: Results from a real-world trial 6 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- Small boat, big picture: multi-modal sensing for persistent maritime situational awareness 6 April 2027 · Theatre 1
- Hybrid Navies - How Far Could the Underwater Battlespace Change? 6 April 2027 · Theatre 3
- Developing innovative solutions for ASW USV propulsion systems 6 April 2027 · Theatre 2
- The Silent Revolution: Magnetically Geared Propulsion for XV Excalibur 6 April 2027 · Theatre 2
- Stay-on-Mission: Dual-Purpose Autonomous IMR and Security Patrol of Critical Undersea Infrastructure 6 April 2027 · Theatre 1
- Quiet Contacts in a Congested Domain: Cooperative Edge Intelligence Across Towed Arrays and Sonobuoy Fields 6 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- Designing the Undersea Hybrid Navy: ConOps to Concept 6 April 2027 · Theatre 3
- Hybrid Navy 6 April 2027 · Theatre 3
- MASS, SCALE, LOW COST will it achieve the right ASW Effect? 6 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- Finland – “superpower” of Naval mine warfare 6 April 2027 · Theatre 1
- PESCOFID consortium, 5 months on from OPEX 6 April 2027 · Theatre 2
- The Underwater Network 7 April 2027 · Theatre 1
- Where will the ocean hide or reveal a submarine to a sonar? 7 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- Human Factors Panel 7 April 2027 · Theatre 2
- Does the future of autonomy solve the workforce problem? 7 April 2027 · Theatre 3
- Tactical exploitation of the environment in an undersea hybrid battlespace 7 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- The Autonomous Ascent: Why USVs are Outpacing Submarines in the 6-D Battlespace 7 April 2027 · Theatre 3
- Time-dependent pathfinding for simulated ASW 7 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- From Platform-Centric to Capability-Centric Digital Training - Rethinking Training and Readiness for the Hybrid Undersea Force 7 April 2027 · Theatre 2
- A tool for multi-aspect assessment of autonomous capability 7 April 2027 · Theatre 1
- Towards Fast Optimization of Sonar Sensor Placement for Anti-Submarine Warfare 7 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- How do you task a submerged vehicle? Extending a STANAG 4817 surface swarm architecture undersea 7 April 2027 · Theatre 1
- Who is in Control-What does Meaningful Human Control mean for a Hybrid Navy 7 April 2027 · Theatre 2
- When Comms Go Quiet: Sharing Intent and Plan B Across Uncrewed Undersea Forces 7 April 2027 · Theatre 1
- Designing for Operational Advantage: Human–Autonomy Teaming Under Pressure in Undersea Operations 7 April 2027 · Theatre 2
- Jammers, decoys and the manoeuvre that matters: reinforcement learning for submarine survival 7 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- Beyond the Patrol: Redefining Critical Underwater Infrastructure Protection Through Embedded Mission Autonomy and Edge Intelligence 7 April 2027 · Theatre 3
- ASW Roundtable 7 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- Achieving the Hybid Navy - Maximising the Advantage of Industry - Roundtable 7 April 2027 · Theatre 3
- Human Factors Roundtable 7 April 2027 · Theatre 2
- The Underwater Network Roundtable 7 April 2027 · Theatre 1
- A National Centre for Marine Autonomy: Creating a trusted battlespace to accelerate the hybrid Royal Navy 8 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- Opportunistic Vessel Sensing and CUI Protection from Subsea Cables 8 April 2027 · Theatre 3
- Stress-Dependent Magneto-Mechanical Modelling for Closed-Loop Degaussing 8 April 2027 · Theatre 1
- Applications and Benefits of Using Remote Monitoring in the Dockyard Environment 8 April 2027 · Theatre 2
- Healing Cables in Place: Electrochemical Passivation Against Water Ingress to Sustain the Hybrid Undersea Fleet 8 April 2027 · Theatre 3
- Picking the Best - Accelerating Dual Use technology into Capability 8 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- Active Vibration Control for Acoustic Signature Reduction, Deception and Management 8 April 2027 · Theatre 1
- Intelligent Decision Making for Naval Decommissioning 8 April 2027 · Theatre 2
- Sixty Years of MAD Evolution: Operational Analysis of UAV-Based Magnetic Detection Across Four ASW Scenarios 8 April 2027 · Theatre 1
- Strategic Autonomy on Demand: Robotic 3D Metal Printing for Fleet Readiness 8 April 2027 · Theatre 2
- From Oilfield Sensor to Operational Effect: How Defence Primes Can Mobilise Undersea Innovation 8 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- From Detection to Attribution: Closing the Sensor-to-Decision Gap in Critical Undersea Infrastructure Protection 8 April 2027 · Theatre 3
- Control, Not (just) Detection: Measuring Operational Effectiveness in Critical Underwater Infrastructure Protection 8 April 2027 · Theatre 3
- Beyond Acoustic and Optical: Plasmonic Communications for the Undersea Battlespace 8 April 2027 · Theatre 1
- Technology Doesn't Create Readiness: Scaling Subsea and Maritime Capability for Defence 8 April 2027 · Keynote Theatre
- Maximising operational capability through the use of better materials; exploring the use of titanium in naval applications 8 April 2027 · Theatre 2