Our technical conference programme remains one of the biggest draws of ITEC and expands annually with new speakers and conference material, keeping the comprehensive content to date.  

With over 70 international training technology experts, across three theatres and including our keynote theatre, ITEC remains the global leading event dedicated to defence training technology, bringing together the largest gathering of professionals, industry, and military experts together to discuss advances to secure operational supremacy.   

Our conference speakers offer valuable insight into the technical themes set by our dedicated committee members. Interested in attending our research-rich technical conference sessions and keynotes? 

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The 2026 conference focuses on the overarching theme of "Training technologically empowered forces".  

Informed by the UK’s Strategic Defence Review and aligned with European and global operational priorities, this year’s theme covers how military and the defence enterprise can continue to evolve training and education to deliver superior defence capabilities. This is simply not about keeping pace with technological innovation but instead leading it.

Modern forces must achieve digital superiority and capability for multi-domain operations across all ranks. Through ITEC’s technology-enabled training and simulation environments, the demands of immersing advanced technologies, including AI and machine learning, will drive rapid fluency in readiness from the individual through to joint force integration.

Join ITEC 2026 to explore how allied forces can train as unified, interoperable teams in active pursuit of operational advantage.

Adaptive Edge Keynote Theatre 

The future of defence training depends on adaptive, resilient, and forward-looking infrastructures. The Adaptive Edge Theatre explores how the defence training enterprise can evolve by drawing on best practices from across sectors, examining how emerging technologies, open architectures, and modern standards can integrate seamlessly with legacy systems to enhance readiness for the multidomain battlespace. It provides a space to investigate the architectures, interoperability frameworks, and data models that underpin scalable, connected training ecosystems supporting joint and allied operations, accelerating integration across domains, and enabling more agile, modular, and continuously upgradable training capabilities. 

Human Performance Theatre

The Human Performance Theatre examines how defence training can prepare people to operate at the speed of technology, across every rank and role. It explores the evolving demands placed on individuals and teams from cognitive resilience and rapid decision-making to cultivating trust in autonomous and AI-enabled teammates. This theatre investigates how forces can be rapidly trained and upskilled on the battlefield, adapting to both the technologies they employ and the technologies they confront. It also delves into themes such as human-machine teaming, competency-based training, performance assessment, and data-driven insights into training effectiveness, revealing how human capability can be strengthened for the modern operating environment. 

New Horizons Theatre 

As defence landscapes evolve at unprecedented speed, the New Horizons Theatre provides a platform for exploring the frontier of training innovation, where disruptive technologies, novel operating concepts, and unconventional solutions begin their journey into the defence training ecosystem. This theatre spotlights the technologies that sit before mainstream adoption as well as emerging capabilities set to shape the next decade of military readiness. New Horizons will challenge existing assumptions, and reveal new possibilities for how forces learn, adapt, and fight.