Presenting Companies

Defence Security Resilience

ANGOKA

Secure multi-domain mesh communication solution

ANGOKA delivers a multi-domain mesh communication solution purpose-built for robotics and autonomous systems. By decentralising secure connection creation and orchestration to the edge, and operating across multi-bearer, hybrid networks, ANGOKA eliminates the single point of failure inherent in centralised architectures, delivering cyber-resilient, mission-critical communication under the most degraded or denied conditions.

Presented by Yuri Andersson

Quantum hardware

Aquark

Compact cold atom systems for timing, navigation, comms and sensing

Aquark Technologies is a quantum hardware company developing compact cold atom systems for navigation, timing, communication, and sensing. Founded in 2021 it already builds deployable quantum devices, is a NATO DIANA company and is backed by the NATO Innovation Fund.

Presented by Andrei Dragomir

Critical infrastructure communications

CSignum

Wireless communications for inaccessible environments

CSignum develops wireless communications technology for environments where conventional radio cannot operate. Its patented platform enables secure, reliable transmission of data from underwater and underground assets, creating new capabilities for defence, critical infrastructure and environmental monitoring where existing technologies are limited.

Presented by John Nicholls

Defence Cyber Communications

CyberHive

Invisible sovereign post-quantum secure network

Hidden from attackers. Available to the mission. Defence is connecting more drones, sensors and autonomous platforms than ever – and every one of them multiplies the surface an adversary can see and hit. Encryption protects the data. It does not hide the network. CyberHive Connect does both. UK-built, sovereign, in service today. Every new node should add fighting power, not attack surface.

Presented by Sarah Blundell

Autonomy for defence

Delian

GPS-denied navigation for UAVs

Delian enables any UAV to navigate without GNSS. It specialises in low cost, high accuracy systems for deep strike missions. Delian has offices in Kyiv, London and Athens, and is backed by Europe's leading VCs.

Presented by Matthew Wright

Advanced Composite Materials

Helicoid Industries

Lighter, tougher, durable composite materials

Helicoid Industries is a UK/US advanced-composites IP and design company. Our core technology is a patented, bio-inspired helicoidal fibre architecture — a drop-in re-ordering of existing composite ply-books that makes defence composites over 40% tougher and 20% lighter, with no new materials, equipment or requalification. This increases mission agility and success across air, land, space and sea platforms.

Presented by Lorenzo Mencattelli

Defence and Aerospace

Hypersonix

Hypersonic scramjet propelled vehicles

Hypersonix Launch Systems is an Australian aerospace company developing reusable, hydrogen-fuelled scramjet engines and hypersonic vehicles for sustainable, affordable access to space and responsive launch. Our vision is: unlock new frontiers in hypersonic flight and novel pathways to space.

Presented by Matt Hill

Space and Energy

Magdrive

Space propulsion and battlefield power systems

Magdrive develops compact electric propulsion systems offering an unmatched combination of power and thrust to enable satellites and small spacecraft to manoeuvre without regret. The company launched its first prototype in 2025 and supplied its first defence customer in 2026. Our compact portable power electronics are scheduled for testing with the US military for adaptation for terrestrial battlefield use.

Presented by Mark Stokes

UK Sovereign AI

Mind Foundry

Machine learning for defence and national security

Mind Foundry is a UK sovereign AI company spun out of the University of Oxford, advancing capability across Defence and National Security. Mind Foundry's products and technical services enhance operations with connected intelligence by turning complex sensor data into trusted insights, accelerating decision-making and putting AI in human hands where it matters most.

Presented by Jasprit Kang

Defence Space Technology

NewOrbit

VLEO satellites for ISR and connectivity

NewOrbit Space is a UK satellite manufacturer opening Very Low Earth Orbit, the band below 300 km that delivers order-of-magnitude sharper imagery and stronger signals. Our NEO platform, powered by our in-house AURA propulsion, gives Defence sovereign, non-ITAR ISR, SAR, SIGINT and resilient communications. We host customer payloads today and sell dedicated VLEO satellites and constellations tomorrow.

Presented by Anatolii Papulov

Defence and Security

Nightball Technologies

Nightball CRIW® modular platform engineering service

The aim of Nightball's TRL 9, Cyber Resilient Integrated Workspace (CRIW®) modular platform engineering service is to automate the delivery of complex, enterprise platform delivery, reducing deployment timeframes. CRIW® was created to make the delivery of Secure by Design (SbD) services faster, predictable and efficient.

Presented by Sean O'Meara

Secure AI

Nquiring Minds

Secure AI for contested environments

NquiringMinds builds secure AI for mission-critical environments. Its Volt4 platform combines a secure distributed core (Volt), a synchronised data mesh (Synapse) and a verifiable AI-agent layer (Cortex), supporting everything from drone autonomy and multi-sensor fusion through to fully accountable, distributed combat systems. The technology has been proven in MoD and BAE Systems programmes and is now being deployed within the NATO Innovation Continuum

Presented by Nick Allott

Defence & Autonomy

NVISIQ

Passive perception, assured autonomy, denied environments

NVISIQ builds a passive, emission-free perception layer that turns the real world into decision-ready 3D data at kilometre range. Operating covertly at night, in adverse weather, and in GPS/GNSS-denied environments, it enables autonomy where existing systems fail. It feeds manned and unmanned autonomous compute platforms without replacing them, giving operators trustworthy, structured outputs. Certifiable, first-of-a-kind, proven across defence and civilian sectors.

Presented by Jeremy Acklam

The ocean's eyes and ears

Oshen

Oshen provides wide area ocean surveillance with data fused from constellations of monitoring robots on the ocean. Their robots, C-Stars, are a UK developed 1 metre size platform that acts as a swarm to provide acoustic and visual information at sea for months at a time. They have deployed their robots (C-Stars) into hurricanes for the US government and into the GIUK gap in mid-winter for the Royal Navy.

Presented by Anahita Laverack

Frontier Technology

Oxford Dynamics

Decision dominance and collaborative autonomy

Oxford Dynamics is transforming autonomy for uncertain environments by deploying novel frontier technology that knows when it's wrong. Founded in 2019, our technology is deployed across UK Defence and global commercial clients, and we hold strategic minority investment from BAE Systems.

Presented by Shefali Sharma

Advanced Manufacturing Robotics

Q5D Technologies

Robotics for automated wiring harness manufacture

Q5D is a UK advanced manufacturing company automating the production of wiring harnesses using robotics and digital manufacturing software. Our technology cuts labour by up to 90%, improves quality, shortens development cycles and enables onshoring of critical supply chains. It is a true dual-use platform, with major applications in automotive, defence, aerospace and industrial manufacturing.

Presented by Stephen Bennington

Disinformation Defence

Refute

AI counter-disinformation solution

Refute is the proprietary AI platform that helps governments and companies outpace their adversaries. Our responsive intelligence detects emerging disinformation campaigns before they fully manifest and delivers context-aware response strategies so organisations can act with speed and precision. By fusing data across open-source and social frontiers and tracing narratives as they evolve, Refute transforms threat intelligence into a unified platform that aligns internal teams on decisive action.

Presented by Thomas Garnett

Space Intelligence

Spaceflux

Spaceflux delivers trusted space intelligence for governments and defence. Using our global network of optical sensors and AI-powered analytics, we track, characterise and monitor satellites to provide actionable insights that strengthen space security, resilience and operational decision-making for allied nations.

Presented by Ingo Waldmann

Biosecurity Infrastructure

Untap Health

Wastewater pathogen early warning

Untap Health has built an autonomous biosecurity system that detects infectious disease within individual buildings before symptoms reveal an outbreak. Its patented, proprietary technology continuously analyses wastewater on site, providing near-real-time intelligence about an entire community without individually testing people or collecting personal data. Deployed across an estate, Untap creates a world-first, near-real-time map of infectious disease movement. Its deployments have already enabled customers to intervene earlier and prevent disease spreading between sites, protecting personnel and maintaining operational resilience. Untap Health is backed by the National Security Strategic Investment Fund and other leading defence-focused investors, and is already deployed across defence and other high-priority environments.

Presented by Claire Trant

New technologies for autonomous systems

Volander

Volander is pioneering the design and production of core technologies in uncrewed combat systems. All our technologies are designed ground up to operate in the most difficult electronic conditions; tailored for scale manufacture in the UK or customer countries.

Presented by Ross Drinkwater MBE

Autonomous Aviation

Windracers

Dual-use heavy-lift autonomous drone

Windracers engineers, manufactures and operates Windracers ULTRA, the world's most accomplished dual-use heavy-lift autonomous drone. With its proprietary flight and mission control systems, no dual-use heavy-lift drone has completed more customer missions than Windracers ULTRA and its world-leading capabilities: Range: 2,000 km; Payload: Over 150 kg; Endurance: Up to 15 hours; Service Ceiling: 5,200 m.

Presented by Simon Muderack