Day Two Agenda: 7th March 2013
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08.30 Coffee and Registration
09.00 Chairman’s Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Considerations for Future Laser Developments
09.10 Innovation and Experience - Rheinmetall’s High
Energy Laser Weapon Programs
Colonel Fabian Ochsner
Vice President Marketing and Product Management
Rheinmetall Air Defence,
Zurich Switzerland and Chief GBAD Air Operation Center Swiss Air Force and
Dr. Markus Jung
Vice President R&D Dierected Energy / Laser Systems
Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
10.10 Fibre Lasers and the Future of DES
Professor David Payne CBE*
Director
Optoelectronic Centre at the University of Southampton
10.50 Networking Coffee Break
Mapping the HPM Threat
11.20 Counter-DEW and the Work of the Georgia Tech
Research Institute
Dr Michael Cathcart
Georgia Tech Research Institute
12.00 HPM for the Modern Battlefield
Dr Michael Suhrke
Head of Business Unit Electromagnetic Effects & Threats
Fraunhofer Institute for Technological Trend Analysis
12.40 Networking Lunch
13.50 Directed Energy and Human Safety -
Bioeffects of HPM and EMP
Dr Märten Risling
Experimental Traumatology Unit
Karolinska Institutet
Law Enforcement and Criminal Use of Directed Energy
14.30 We Are Not Alone – Criminal and Malevolent use of
Laser Dazzlers
RAdml (Ret’d)Massimo Annati
Director
European Working Group on Non-Lethal Weapons
15.10 Networking Coffee Break
The Next Step? – The Future of Directed Energy Systems
15.40 Perspectives on the Military Deployment of
Non-Lethal Anti Personnel DE Weapons
Sjef Orbons
Senior Researcher
Netherlands MoD
16.20 Panel Discussion: Next steps - Moving DES from the Drawing Board to the Operational Field
Featuring Elizabeth Quintana
co-author of “When Will Directed Energy Weapons See the Light?” RUSI Journal, Jun 2011, Vol. 156
No. 3
17.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks