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EuropeConferences & summits
24–25 Nov 2026
European Air Defence Cost & Capability Summit 2026
Warsaw, Poland
- Dates
- Tue, 24 November 2026 – Wed, 25 November 2026
- Location
- Warsaw, Poland
- Organizer
- Why Summits s.r.o.
- Cost
- paid
- Scale
- intimate
- Recurrence
- one-off
- Format
- On-site
Market intel
Moderate pricinglow confidence
Why Summits is a Slovak commercial conference organiser (HQ: Bratislava) primarily active in pharma/life sciences PPM, now expanding into defence with a series of city-hopping summits.
- This Warsaw edition appears to be the first defence-focused air-domain event in the series; no post-show data or prior edition metrics exist.
- Confidence in attendance, exhibitor, and pricing figures beyond the published €2,399 delegate fee is low due to the event's inaugural status and the organiser's limited defence-sector track record.
Notable exhibitors
PlaniswareBAE Systems UKAustrian Armed ForcesSwiss ArmyUK Defence Solutions CentrePBN Invest Sp. z o.o.ABRIS Design GroupDefence Builder
AI-researched Thu, 20 August 2026. Estimates from public sources. Verify with the organizer.
Why it matters
With European defence budgets expanding sharply, Warsaw is a frontline hub for air-defence procurement decisions, making this summit a rare small-room forum for suppliers to engage directly with programme leads and government buyers on cost, acquisition speed, and co-production pathways.
- The agenda explicitly targets 'pilot projects, framework paths, test windows, co-production options and financing routes', offering SMEs and startups concrete entry points into European air-defence programmes.
- The intimate format — 30+ senior speakers, no large expo floor — means networking yields direct decision-maker access rather than booth traffic.
Registration
About
A two-day executive conference convening defence leaders, NATO representatives, government officials, and industry to address Europe's air and missile defence capability gap.
- The programme covers cost-per-engagement frameworks, layered defence architectures, C2 and sensor integration, and procurement reform, with keynotes, panel discussions, roundtables, and workshops.
- Speakers at the inaugural edition include representatives from the Austrian Armed Forces, BAE Systems UK, the Swiss Army, and the UK Defence Solutions Centre.
- The event is sponsored primarily by Planisware, a project portfolio management software provider.
Topics
Air & Missile DefenceC2 / Battle ManagementProcurementAirISR & Sensors
Who it's for
PrimesSMEsInstitutions
Funding behind this kind of event
Instruments open to companies based in Poland, tracked with their call deadlines.
- ARP — ARP Financing for the Defence Sector (Agencja Rozwoju Przemysłu)Industrial Development Agency (Agencja Rozwoju Przemysłu S.A.), Polish state development agency
- Chrobry S.A. – Equity Component of the Security and Defence FundChrobry S.A. (wholly owned by Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego), financed from the Polish Recovery and Resilience Plan (KPO)
- Credit for Manufacturing Dual-Use Products (Kredyt na wytwarzanie produktów podwójnego zastosowania)Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK), under the FENG programme
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