About the PLATH Intelligence Day
As every year on the day before the AOC Europe PLATH is inviting to Intelligence Day 2026. The specialist conference” is expected to attract more than 800 attendees from all over the world again. PLATH is looking forward to bringing the community together and to discussing the latest developments with the impulses from various expert contributions on selected topics.
The PLATH Intelligence Day is free to attend. You have to register for AOC Europe and add PLATH Intelligence Day to your registration in the process to participate.
Register for attendence hereHighlights from the PLATH Intelligence Day
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This year’s focus is on the theme ‘Closing the Gap – Meshed Unmanned EW Core’
In this short video, you can see some highlights from previous years.
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Agenda Intelligence Day
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Registration
Welcome coffee
08:30 -
Opening of the event & welcoming words
by Gregor Zowierucha, CEO PLATH and chairman Philip Sturley
09:30 -
Keynote: The Military Perspective on the Innovation Lab Ukraine
Colonel Matthias Puschnig, Federal Ministry of Defence, Special Staff Ukraine
09:45
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Closing the Gap in Critical Infrastructure Protection through CEMA-Enabled Unmanned Systems
Mario Behn, German Defence Technology Attaché in Kyiv
10:10 -
Rethinking Unmanned Air Systems for Modern Operations
AVILUS, Niclas Baehr, COO
10:30 -
"Electronic Warfare : a belated Western Awakening".
Emmanuel Sagorin, THALES
10:50 -
Coffee Break
Coffee, tea, snacks and networking
11:10 -
RF Convergence Enables Meshed Multi-Domain Reconnaissance
Taneli Riihonen, Tampere University
11:45 -
Closing the Gap – Meshed Unmanned EW Core
Heiko Fimpel, CTO PLATH
12:05 -
Panel discussion
All speakers of session 1 - moderated by Philip Sturley
12:30 -
Lunch Break & Networking
Time to connect
13:00
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Software defined threat detection and verification with aerial multi sensor systems
David Sonntag, WALARIS
14:00 -
Evolution of modern ELINT payloads for small UAVs
Andrian Buchi, Co-Founder and CTO QuadSAT
14:20 -
The Future of Land EW in Multi-Domain Warfare
Torben Brack, Hensoldt
14:40 -
Coffee Break
Time for a coffee or tea and networking
15:00 -
New challenges for MALE drones in multi-layer EW operations
Combined presentation of ELTA , ADAS, IAI, PLATH
15:30 -
Panel Discussion
All speakers of session 2 - moderated by Philip Sturley
16:10 -
Summary of the Day & Closing Words
by Gregor Zowierucha, CEO PLATH and chairman Philip Sturley
16:40
Last year, we once more broke the record with more than 800 participants which we saw with great pleasure. This year the AOC will take place in Helsinki and we are looking forward to seeing everyone there!Dr. Andreas Schwolen-Backes
PLATH GmbH & Co. KG, CEO
PLATH GmbH & Co. KG, CEO
Review PLATH Intelligence Day
After the success of the PLATH Intelligence Day in recent years, we have once again a particularly exciting agenda coming ahead with a lot of interesting speakers about our main topic "Closing the gap - Meshed Unmanned EW Core".Gregor Zowierucha
PLATH GmbH & Co. KG, CEO
PLATH GmbH & Co. KG, CEO
Rome, Italy in 2025
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The 14th PLATH Intelligence Day, held on May 6, 2025, in Rome, once again affirmed its role as a premier prelude to AOC Europe and as a pivotal event for experts in electronic warfare, signal intelligence, and security technology. With a record-breaking attendance of more than 800 participants from 45 different countries worldwide from government, defense, academia, and industry, the event marked a new high point in its history.
Oslo, Norway in 2024
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We look back on an exciting and successful PLATH Intelligence Day 2024.
In its 13th edition, the industry event once again broke the attendance record. More than 600 participants travelled to Oslo to discuss the latest developments in the run-up to the AOC Europe conference. This year, specialist presentations on the highly topical subjects of artificial intelligence and software-defined defence provided impetus.
Bonn, Germany in 2023
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More than 450 guests followed PLATH´s invitation to the Intelligence Day on 15 May 2023 in Bonn. For the 12th time PLATH brought together organisations and individuals from government, defence, industry and academia ahead of the conference and trade exhibition AOC Europe.
Have a look at the video to get an impression of our industry event ahead of the AOC Europe where twelve speakers updated us on latest developments in land-based intelligence in context of ISR, naval intelligence scenarios and also took a look into the future of the intelligence domain.