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NATO C2COE Conference, Rotterdam, November 9th–11th

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The 2026 NATO Command and Control Centre of Excellence (C2COE) Conference, Embracing Cross-Domain Command for NATO to Deter and Defend at Speed, takes place from 9 to 11 November 2026 at the World Trade Center in Rotterdam, followed by an invitation-only Focus Day on 12 November. The premise is direct. Adversaries are exploiting the seams between land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace, and they are compressing the time available to decide. Command structures built around single domains and deliberate planning cycles are being tested by threats that move across all of them at once.

Most Allied organisations now accept that multi-domain operations are the future. Yet the ability to actually command across domains, at speed and with unity of purpose, remains uneven. Some can integrate information, authority, and effects fast enough to deter. Others are still reconciling data and responsibilities after the moment to act has passed. This conference examines that gap. Over two days of moderated panels and hands-on workshops, military leaders, defence planners, academics, and industry experts will work through how command and control must evolve so that NATO can decide and act faster than those seeking to divide it.

At Kose Advisory, we are proud that our Founder and Chief Analyst, Koray Köse, will contribute across three sessions:

  • The Innovation Race: Keeping NATO C2 Ahead of the Threat (Roundtable, Tuesday 10 November, 13:30–15:00). As adversaries adapt and target C2 systems directly, the discussion turns to how the Alliance accelerates innovation, lowers barriers to adoption, and preserves decision advantage.

  • Breaking the Silos: Industry Solutions for Seamless C2 Interoperability (Tuesday 10 November, 15:30–17:00). A look at the technologies and approaches that integrate multiple C2 architectures, and how interoperability speeds decisions and strengthens operational effectiveness.

  • Coordinated Adversary C2 Attacks Across the Continuum of Competition (Panel, Wednesday 11 November, 11:00–12:30). An examination of how state adversaries synchronise cross-domain pressure below and above the threshold of armed conflict, and what NATO must do to anticipate, disrupt, and deny adversary C2 before coordinated aggression succeeds.

Across all three, the common thread is that command at speed depends on foundations that sit well beyond the battlespace. Industrial capacity, supply chain dependency, access to critical technologies such as semiconductors and AI, and the resilience of the defence industrial base all determine what commanders can realistically do when a crisis escalates, and they are exactly where adversaries probe first. Drawing on experience across defence, high-tech, and global value chains, and on participation in NATO’s 2030 Private Sector Dialogues, Koray brings the GeoTech perspective to these discussions: how geopolitical signals, technological dependency, and economic exposure become operational constraints, why adoption speed is as much an industrial and procurement question as a technical one, and how decision architecture must account for pressure applied long before the first shot. Contributing in this setting allows us to connect strategic and industrial realities to the question at the heart of the conference, how NATO builds the trust, interoperability, and decision speed needed to deter credibly and, if required, defend.

 
 
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