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Defense PPM Summit | London 2026
London, United Kingdom
- Dates
- Thu, 22 October 2026 – Fri, 23 October 2026
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Organizer
- Why Summits s.r.o.
- Cost
- paid
- Scale
- intimate
- Recurrence
- annual
- Format
- On-site
Market intel
Moderate pricingmedium confidence
This is a tightly curated, invitation-priced boutique summit with a hard cap of 80 delegates, designed to keep the room at C-suite and Director level.
- Confirmed Gold sponsors are PPM-software and data-analytics firms (cplace, Lumivero, Dataciders), reflecting the event's core focus on digital programme management tools for defence.
- No post-show attendance figures are available as this appears to be a new or inaugural edition of the defence-specific PPM series.
Notable exhibitors
cplace (collaboration Factory GmbH)LumiveroDataciders Group
AI-researched Thu, 20 August 2026. Estimates from public sources. Verify with the organizer.
Why it matters
With European defence budgets at historic highs, programme and portfolio management professionals face acute pressure to deliver capability faster and with greater governance rigour — making this one of the few senior forums specifically dedicated to defence PPM execution rather than technology or procurement.
- The deliberately small delegate cap (80) means decision-makers — not mid-level attendees — fill the room, creating high-density networking with programme directors and PMO heads who control major delivery budgets.
- For PPM-tooling vendors, digital-engineering firms, and consulting SMEs, it is a rare access point to the European defence programme leadership tier without the noise of a large trade show.
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About
The Defense PPM Summit London 2026 is a two-day boutique senior-executive conference subtitled the European Defence Project & Programme Leadership Summit, capped at 80 delegates.
- It convenes programme directors, PMO heads, supply-chain leaders, and digital engineering executives from European defence ministries, NATO, and industry primes to address delivery challenges across complex defence portfolios.
- Six core themes structure every session: strategic portfolio prioritisation, programme controls and schedule confidence, industrial capacity and supply-chain resilience, digital execution and AI, bid-to-contract governance, and PM capability development.
- The format combines keynotes, panel discussions, roundtables, workshops, and networking, running 09:00–17:30 each day.
Topics
C2 / Battle ManagementAIProcurementAutonomy & RoboticsLogistics
Who it's for
PrimesSMEsInstitutions
Funding behind this kind of event
Instruments open to companies based in United Kingdom, tracked with their call deadlines.
- NSSIF — National Security Strategic Investment FundHM Government with the British Business Bank
- UKDI — UK Defence InnovationUK Ministry of Defence
- UK Defence Innovation £20 Million Accelerated Contracts FundUK Ministry of Defence (MoD), via UK Defence Innovation (UKDI)
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