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GICA 2026 Spring Conference

Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future - Celebrating 40 Years of GICA

May 19 - May 21, 2026
1800 Presidents Street, Reston, VA 20190
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Schedule at a glance:

Daria Kravtsov
Director of ICA North America
Israeli Industrial Cooperation Authority

Incentive Model – Leveraging Industrial Cooperation Towards National Goals
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Gentry Stephens
Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force
Air Force, International Affairs (SAF/IA)

Closing Remarks: Leveraging Industrial Cooperation to Promote Burden Sharing and Collective Security
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Nick Ridgway
Assistant Head Strategy Development
UK MOD

Shaping the Future of UK Defence Industry: Our Journey to Industrial Cooperation
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Joe Costa
Director, Forward Defense
Atlantic Council

The Future Global Defense Industrial Order 
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Edwin Andres Martinez Galenao
Public Affairs Officer
Colombian Navy

Defense Offset Success Stories: The Colombian Navy’s CIDIAM Model
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Laura Cressey
Director, International Operations and Policy
Boeing

Offsets in a New Era of Security Cooperation
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Tim Tietgen
Head of Industrial Participation & Partnerships (EURAF)
Shield AI Inc

From No Brainer to Game Changer: Shield AI in Action in the Netherlands
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Joe Royce
Senior Policy Advisor
UK Ministry of Defence

Shaping the Future of UK Defence Industry: Our Journey to Industrial Cooperation
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CC. Ronald González
Offset Manager - Colombian Navy Officer
Colombian Navy

Defense Offset Success Stories: The Colombian Navy’s CIDIAM Model
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Alexander Berger
Director, Industry Engagement
Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, Australian Department of Defence

Australia - Partnering to generate meaningful capability
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Dr. Brian Hobbs
Founder
East-West Board LLC

American Offsets -The Presidential Exception
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Col(Ret). Kwanok Koh
Director General
Korea Research Institute for Defense Technology Planning and Advancement - KRIT

Faster Ways to Meet Korean Offset Obligations
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Jan Christiaan Dicke
Commissioner Military Production
Ministry of Economic Affairs

Industrial Participation in Highly Challenging Geopolitical Times - Opportunities (and threats) in strengthening Global Supply Chains and Scaling up
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Keith Webster
President, Defense and Aerospace Council & President, Federal Acquisition Council
U.S. Chamber of Commerce

America First Arms Transfer Strategy
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Adrian Zanescu
Senior Vice President- Strategic Subcontracting & Industrial Collaboration
Elbit Systems

The Next Era of Offset Leadership
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Dr. Oscar Borries
Director of Business Development, Chairman of the Board
TICRA

IC From an SME Perspective. The Official and the Real Story
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Ryan Wallace
Strategic Advisor
Lemay AI

AI Capability Development and Technology Transfer Through Offsets
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Scott Sevcik
EVP Aerospace & Defense
Roboze

Enabling Sovereign Local Manufacturing
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Jacob Gliemann Larsen
Director of Defense, Offsets & Co-founder
Empact

IC from an SME perspective. The official and the real story
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Kim Schofield
Managing Partner
KCII

Localization by Design: Integrating Industrial Strategy into Market Entry from Day One
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Miiko Peris
Director, Defense Industry Development Department
Ministry of Defence - Estonia
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Nathan S Harwood
Sr. Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Bell Textron Inc.

From Offsets to Intelligence: How AI Is Redefining Industrial Cooperation for the Next Contract
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José Neves
President of the Board
AED Cluster Portugal
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Online pre-conference registration is now closed. On-site tickets can be purchased via credit card at the registration desk.