London Defence Tech Week is produced by Resilience Media, and features Resilience Conference, European Defence Tech Hackathon, and Future Forces Demo Day.
Defence Tech is now a critical agenda
London Defence Tech Week is designed to help people attend these important events by running them back to back over a week. Having the activities lead into each other will support a more coordinated ecosystem, more effective networking, and agendas that can be explored in different but related contexts.
In addition to the core events, we will be announcing other activities held throughout the week to create even more value for attendees visiting London. Innovation in defence and national security requires collaboration across a strong ecosystem. London Defence Tech Week will be the first of a series of clustered events run by Resilience Media to achieve this.
If you want to run an event during London Defence Tech Week or sponsor, please contact us.
September 26-28 | European Defence Tech Hackathon
Join over 150 innovators from across Europe for The European Defense Tech Hackathon, and spend a weekend tackling critical challenges and prototyping solutions that can save lives. With the European Defense Tech Hub, we’re building a network to accelerate proactive defense innovation in Europe and foster collaboration across borders. Register for EDTH London here.
September 29-30 | Resilience Conference
Resilience Conference was launched in 2024 and brings together international startups and investors with government, military, and the national security community to explore innovation in defence and security technology. Buy tickets to Resilience Conference 2025 here.
October 1-2 | Future Forces Demo Day
Future Forces Demo Day aims to increase end-user tech adoption by facilitating partnerships between startups that can fill emergent capability gaps and Primes who have programmes with the UK Ministry of Defence. Learn more here.
Applications for all of these events are subject to vetting for security reasons and to moderate numbers. The events are only open to citizens of Ukraine, NATO, EU, and AUKUS countries and their allies.
Background
London Defence Tech Week is the result of collaboration between Resilience Media and these other mission-driven initiatives. As founding teams, we are all working to support the greater use of technology in defence and national security to defend our democracies. We are each approaching different parts of this problem in unique ways, and it is clear to us all that partnering to coordinate our events will support this wider mission.
Last year at Resilience Conference, we hosted a breakout session for Future Forces Demo Day. We believe this is an important initiative and are pleased to see develop our collaboration with Richard Pass.
With our own background running TechCrunch Disrupt, we also ran the TechCrunch Hackathon for many years. We are great fans of hackathons as a means to network technologists with end users, to share military and security challenges with the tech sector, and to let people get creative around this important topic. We have written about the hackathons being run in Estonia, around Europe, and in the UK, all of which are great initiatives. We are pleased to welcome Jonatan Luther-Bergquist and Benjamin Wolba, from European Defence Tech Hackathon, here in London after a great run of hackathons around Europe, and again this is the result of a growing collaboration between us.
There are increasing numbers of events around defence tech. As advocates for this topic, we are pleased to see so much activity. We hope that by working together in this way and running the events through a single week, we make it easier for people to engage with these events. Collaboration is fundamental to our security, and London Defence Tech Week is an embodiment of that spirit.
