Berlin Defense Tech Forum

Join us for the Berlin Defense Tech Forum, co-organized together with Marienpark Berlin, the Resilience Technology Campus, as part of Berlin Defense Tech Week 2026

Europe needs stronger connections between builders, industry, investors, researchers, and decision-makers to turn ideas into deployed capabilities.

The Berlin Defense Tech Forum is not a traditional conference.

The Forum brings together founders, builders, investors, and ecosystem players. Expect talks delivering actual insight and networking with builders working directly on defense tech.

Selected EDTH alumni startups, university spin-offs, and project teams will have the opportunity to present their work during the Pitch Session.

Let’s bring together the people working on some of the most urgent challenges of our time!

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Agenda

13:00 – Doors Open

Registration, coffee & networking

14:00 – Opening Session & Welcome Remarks

Opening words from organizers and partners

14:15 – Keynote TBA

A strategic perspective on emerging defense technologies, industrial priorities, and where Europe needs to move faster.

14:45 – Panel: Evacuation Technologies in Drone-Contested Environments

Drones kill 10x more humans than humans with guns. Medical response needs to be 10x faster. Ukraine and Europe are developing digital triage systems to cope with increased patient loads caused by drone warfare. A frank discussion of the difficulties involved in building a cloud-based solution for medical evacuation.

Bohdan Manzhos, lead developer from the Innovation Unit of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.

Nils van Bruegel, lead developer from the Innovation Division of the Dutch Ministry of Defense.

Alexander Baasner, Chief Medical Officer and CTO of Samedi.

Moderated by Howard Hunt, Evacuation Medic, Founder and CEO of The AO

15:30 – Networking Break

Coffee and matchmaking

16:00 – Lightning Talk | From Prototype to Operational Capability: How Defense Innovation Reaches the Tactical Edge

Brax Kinsey, Capabilities Development Lead. SOCEUR Theater Edge Innovation Lab

16:15 – Lightning Talk | This is not e-commerce: How regulatory considerations impact your decision where to start your business and where to collect money from

Christopher Wolters, BLOMSTEIN

16:30 – EDTH Startup Pitch Session

Selected defense and dual-use teams present for 5-min pitch + 1 min Q&A

17:30 – Open Networking

Dedicated time for more conversations

Berlin Defense Tech Week 2026

Berlin Defense Tech Week brings together founders, engineers, operators, investors, policymakers, industry leaders, and military personnel from across Europe for a week of events focused on the future of defense and security.

Taking place during the final plenary week of the German Bundestag before the summer recess, it creates the density needed for meaningful collaboration, rapid feedback, and new partnerships across the European defense ecosystem.

Learn more: https://eurodefense.tech/berlin-2026/