GICA 2026 Autumn Conference

Industrial Cooperation in a New Geopolitical Era

Nov 9 - Nov 11, 2026
EPIC SANA Lisboa Hotel, Av. Eng. Duarte Pacheco, 15, 1070-100, Lisboa – Portugal

Important Notice about Hotel Room Booking: After booking your room at EPIC SANA Lisboa, you will receive a separate email from the hotel requesting payment for one night to secure your reservation. Please exercise additional caution when reviewing any payment-related communication and verify that the request comes through an official SANA Hotels or EPIC SANA Lisboa channel before providing payment information. If you have any concerns about the legitimacy of a payment request, please contact the hotel directly or message privacy@sanahotels.com.

Schedule at a glance:

José Neves
President of the Board
AED Cluster Portugal
Coronel FAP (r) Armando V. Pomar Galdos
Director of Industrial and Social Compensation - Offset
Ministry of Defense, Peru
Simon Hufschmid
Head of Industrial Cooperations & Offsets
Swiss Federal Office for Defence Procurement- Armasuisse

Credit Where Credit Is Due: Rethinking Offset in Switzerland
Col. Dirk Declerck
Industrial Participation Coordinator
Belgian Defense - MOD
Michael Formosa
Managing Director
Renaissance Strategic Advisors

Europe’s Defence Reset - Connecting user, innovation and industry to meet the threat
Sonja Linskeseder
Deputy Managing Director
Austrian Industrial Cooperation & Aviation Technology (AICAT)

Motivation & Reasoning behind Industrial Cooperation in Austria
Paulus Vosbeek
CEO & Founder
QuinteQ Energy
Pyunghwa Kim
Director of Defense Industrial Cooperation
DAPA - South Korea

Direction of the ROK Government’s Offset (Defense Industry Cooperation) Policy
Ricardo Pinheiro Alves
Chairman
idD Portugal Defence
Abiel Mohlahlo
Director: National Industrial Participation Programme (NIPP)
Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC), South Africa
Joe Krapf
Industrial Development Country Manager
Lockheed Martin Corporation Missiles and Fire Control (MFC)
Marcos Perestrello
President
NATO Parliamentary Assembly
Júlia Jones
Researcher
Brazilian Naval War College

More Information Coming Soon!
Jenifer Levesque
Deputy Director, Industrial and Technological Benefits Policy
Defence Investment Agency (Canada)

Building Industrial Capacity: Canada's updated Approach to Defence Offsets
Inigo Guevara
Managing Director
Janes
Tariq Farwana
Chairman and CEO
StrateSphere
Tiago Silva Pereira
Managing Partner
Unobvious Solutions

From Offsets to Enduring Industrial Capability: Lessons from Portugal’s Merlin Programme for the Next Defence Investment Cycle
Mohamad Rafidi Mat Dahan
Chief Executive Officer
Technology Depository Agency Berhad (TDA)

If you are a GICA member, your primary contact will have received an access code to view the member-rate conference tickets. If you do not have this code and believe that you should be receiving this discount, please email info@gica.org for your access code. Enter this code under the “Enter access code or discount code” field below to see your member rate ticket option.

Attention SME members of AED Cluster Portugal: SME member companies of AED Cluster Portugal are eligible to receive discounted tickets for the Conference and Industry Training registration. Please contact joana.pereira@aedportugal.pt for more information and to obtain the discount code(s).

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