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This year's high-level authoritative conference will examine the most critical challenges and opportunities facing the defence industry in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, North America and elsewhere. It will seek to answer three critical questions: What are the new technology requirements in an era of uncertainty and asymmetry? Given the inexorable acceleration of change, how will defence procurement become agile and innovative, and still be affordable? Against this background, how will governments maintain the capability to deliver programmes.