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Maximising Force Protection for Mounted Personnel
The SMi Group Proudly Present the 3rd Annual Conference on...
Future Armoured
Vehicles
Survivability
Future Armoured
Vehicles
Survivability 2017
14th-16th
NOV
Sponsored by
Chaired by:
Brigadier (ret) Ian Cameron-Mowat, Former Head of Force Protection,
Director, IMP Castle Associates Limited
Mr Donald Sando, Director, Capabilities, Development and Integration,
Manoeuvre Centre of Excellence, United States Army
Colonel William Nuckols, Director, Mounted Requirements Manoeuvre
Centre of Excellence, US Army
Lieutenant Colonel Paddy Bond, Commanding Officer, Armoured Trials
and Development Unit, British Army
Lieutenant Colonel Andy Simpson, SO1 Fighting Vehicle Systems,
Platforms Division, DSTL
Lieutenant Colonel Karl Heinz Boenke, Team Leader, Infantry Concepts
and Mobility, Army Concepts and Capabilities Development Centre,
German Army
Lieutenant Colonel Eike Sinzig, Team Leader, Infantry Concepts and
Mobility, Army Concepts and Capabilities Development Centre,
German Army
Lieutenant Colonel Gunter Chladek, Section Chief, Land, Joint
Electronic Warfare Core Staff, NATO
Professor Bryn James, Head of Armour and Protection, DSTL
Mr Guenter Fuchs, Head of Section, Indirect Protection, Bundeswehr
Technical Centre for Protective and Special Technologies
Mr Jeff Koshko, Associate Director, Ground Vehicle
SurvivabilityProtection, Tank Automotive Research, Development and
Engineering Centre, United States Army
Dr Carsten Weidner, Research Technology Coordinator, Signature
Management, Bundeswehr Technical Centre for Protective and Special
Technologies
Dr Hans Kariis, Deputy Director, Department of Signature Management and
Electro Optics, Swedish Defence Research Agency
Mr Alex Hansell, Survivability Lead, Warrior Capability Sustainment
Programme, Lockheed Martin UK
Dr Ing. Robert Bayer, Head of Department, Protection, Krauss Maffei
Wegmann
Mr Stefan Lischka, Managing Director, ARTEC GmbH
Mr Roger Sloman, Director, Advanced Blast and Ballistic Systems
Mr Kevin Sloan, International Business Development Manager, Soucy
Defense
Mr Christian Manthey Dipl. Ing., Technical Marketing Manager, UTC
Aerospace Systems
SENIOR MILITARY EXPERTS:
INDUSTRY LEADERS:
Gold Sponsor
Chairman:
Mr Ricolt Boeschoten MSc, Senior Test Engineer,
Explosives, Ballistics and Protection, TNO
Mr Jeff Koshko, Associate Director, Ground Vehicle
Survivability Protection, TARDEC, United States Army
Mr Richard Hooper, Principal Vetronics Engineer,
Platform Systems Division, DSTL
Major Paul Kozick, Combat Development and
Integration, Fires and Maneuver Integration Division,
United States Marine Corps
Doctor Stanislav Rolc, Chief of Materials Engineering
Division and Active Protection Lead, Czech Military
Research Institute
Mr Rami Sokolower, Armoured Combat Systems, IMI
Systems
Professor Elias Stipidis, Director, Vetronics Research
Centre
NEW TO
2017
14TH NOVEMBER:
ACTIVE PROTECTION SYSTEMS FOCUS DAY
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Dear Colleague,
It is with great pleasure that I invite you to join us at Future
Armoured Vehicles Survivability 2017, taking place from the
14th-16th of November, London.
As the only conference of its kind exclusively dedicated to this
fundamental component of our core manoeuvre capability,
Future Armoured Vehicles Survivability 2017 will be held with
the aim of developing protective solutions to the array of
contemporary threats posed to mechanised forces.
Future Armoured Vehicles Survivability will do so by providing
a platform for operational users, capability development and
industry to share current requirements and experience in platform
modernisation, enhancement of active/passive protection,
signature management, mobility and vehicle architectures.
Last year’s event saw over 150 like-minded individuals
convene in London to realise this common goal, with General
Dynamics, ARTEC, Rheinmetall, Nexter and Patria being just
some of the OEM technical leaders to lend their support.
The event provided an unrivalled insight into the technology
available for military applications.
This year’s conference agenda has been put together with
equal care, drawing on leading experts’ thoughts and
aspirations, to ensure the very best opportunities
to benchmark and learn from strategy and
engineering leaders.
I see this conference as the ideal platform for advancement
in this important area, and I would hope that we can extend
the debate to explore and push the boundaries. Only through
networking, sharing and learning with our peers can we develop
our approaches to capability development and delivery.
I urge you to join us in November 2017 to participate
alongside an array of likeminded international experts to
realise this common goal.
Yours Sincerely,
Brigadier (ret) Ian Cameron-Mowat
Former Head of Force Protection, Director
IMP Castle Associates Limited
Mr Donald Sando, Director, Capabilities,
Development and Integration, Manoeuvre Centre of
Excellence, United States Army
Colonel William Nuckols, Director, Mounted
Requirements Manoeuvre Centre of Excellence,
US Army
Lieutenant Colonel Paddy Bond, Commanding
Officer, Armoured Trials and Development Unit,
British Army
Lieutenant Colonel Andy Simpson, SO1 Fighting
Vehicle Systems, Platforms Division, DSTL
Lieutenant Colonel Karl Heinz Boenke, Team Leader,
Infantry Concepts and Mobility, Army Concepts and
Capabilities Development Centre, German Army
Lieutenant Colonel Eike Sinzig, Team Leader, Infantry
Concepts and Mobility, Army Concepts and
Capabilities Development Centre, German Army
Lieutenant Colonel Gunter Chladek, Section Chief,
Land, Joint Electronic Warfare Core Staff, NATO
Professor Bryn James, Head of Armour and
Protection, DSTL
Mr Jeff Koshko, Associate Director, Ground
Vehicle SurvivabilityProtection, Tank Automotive
Research, Development and Engineering Centre,
United States Army
Mr Guenter Fuchs, Head of Section, Indirect
Protection, Bundeswehr Technical Centre for
Protective and Special Technologies
Dr Carsten Weidner, Research Technology
Coordinator, Signature Management,
Bundeswehr Technical Centre for Protective and
Special Technologies
Dr Hans Kariis, Deputy Director, Department of
Signature Management and Electro Optics, Swedish
Defence Research Agency
This Year’s Speakers from the Military, Procurement and
Defence Research
Engage with survivability experts through
a series of focused panel discussions
Hear the very latest plans from senior land
capability development
Network with industry and military
leadership in the exhibition area
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3. FUTURE ARMOUED VEHICLES SURVIVABILITY 2017
PRE-CONFERENCE FOCUS DAY
Development and Integration of Active Protection Systems
9:00am - 5.10pm | 14th November 2017 | Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK
Chaired by Mr Ricolt Boeschoten, Senior Test Engineer, Explosives, Ballistics and Protection, TNO
An examination of the current operational environment indicates that future manoeuvre forces must be prepared to
fight and win in an increasingly high threat environment.
As seen even in ongoing counter-insurgency and hybrid conflicts, threats to the vehicle are increasing in both scope
and size. Traditional lightly armed combatants now have access to an increasing array of anti-armour capabilities, from
cost effective and lethal RPG 29, to the latest generation of anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM), capable of defeating most
of the passive protection available to today’s combat vehicles.
Simultaneously, the threat posed by high intensity conflict and near peer adversaries has never been more credible. With
both the protection and fire power of NATO’s combat vehicles now being challenged and even exceeded in certain areas,
proactive measures must be taken to ensure the highest level of protection possible for combat vehicles and their crews.
Taking place on November 14th and building on the fruitful discussion of active protection systems (APS) at last year’s
Future Armoured Vehicle’s Survivability 2016, SMi presents a focus day exclusively dedicated to this important capability
Drawing on the experience and recent activities of leading programme managers from the armed forces and national
defence research, the meeting will aim to deliberate national efforts to integrate APS into existing fleets, the architectures
necessary to support integration, efforts to ensure system safety, STANAG 4686 standardisation and much more
Importantly, the meeting will guarantee the support of technical experts from the leading solution providers, covering the
latest hard/soft kill systems, sensors, data processing, munitions and countermeasures
8.30 Registration Coffee
9.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Mr Ricolt Boeschoten, Senior Test Engineer, Explosives, Ballistics and
Protection, TNO
National Capability Development
9.10 An Update on the UK’s Approach to Developing an Active Protection
Capability for Mounted Close Combat Vehicles
• An overview of the requirement
• APS research and development carried out in the UK to date
• The UK Active Modular Integrated Protection System (MIPS) -
Applying Modular Open System Architecture (MOSA) principles to
Active Protection Systems
• Developing architecture standards that support development and
integration of new technologies
Mr Richard Hooper, Principle Vetronics Engineer, Platform Systems
Division, DSTL
9.40 US Army Vehicle Protection Suite
• Combat Vehicle Portfolio
• Current Capabilities
• Components of VPS
• Path Forward to Fielded VPS Technologies
Colonel William Nuckols, Director, Mounted Requirements Manoeuvre
Centre of Excellence, US Army
10.10 Active Protection System Test, Evaluation and Future Plans within the
USMC
• Analysis of the future high threat environment that manoeuvre forces
must be prepared to face
• Collaboration with the US Army to examine APS capability
• Feedback from the test and evaluation of the Trophy APS system
within the M1A1
• Options available and way forward toward a viable APS solution
Major Paul Kozick, Combat Development and Integration, Fires and
Maneuver Integration Division, United States Marine Corps
10.40 Morning Coffee
11.10 Survivability Protection — A Look into the Future
• Driving Requirements
• Paradigm Shift – APS is the first step
• Technology Progression
• Gaps and Opportunities
Mr Jeff Koshko, Associate Director, Ground Vehicle
SurvivabilityProtection, Tank Automotive Research, Development and
Engineering Centre , United States Army
11.40 Session Reserved for Sponsor
12.10 Lessons Learnt from the Development and Evolution of the Iron Fist Hard
Kill System
• Overview of the system and its evolution
• Capabilities and feedback from recent test and evaluation
• Potential for integration within combat vehicle architecture
Mr Rami Sokolower, Armoured Combat Systems, IMI Systems
12.40 Networking Lunch
Active Protection Standards and Safety
1.40 Czech Development of the Explosively Formed Axe Hard Kill APS
• The requirement for enhanced protection of the Pandur II combat
vehicle from RPG’s and ATGM’s
• An overview of the EFA system and sub-systems evolution and development
• The Czech testing of the system in keeping with STANAG 4686
• What were the challenges and findings from the evaluations?
Dr Stanislav Rolc, Chief of Material Engineering Division and Active
Protection Lead, Czech Military Research Institute
Dr Jan Krestan, Head of Department of Special Materials, Material
Engineering, Czech Military Research Institute
2.10 Further Development of Standards to assess Active Protection Systems
in Accordance with NATO STANAG 4686
• Performance Testing and Assessment of APS
• Assessment of Safety
• Collateral Damage Assessment with APS
• Integration Aspects with APS
Mr Morten Jensen, Chairman STANAG 4686, Danish Defence and
Acquisition Organisation
2.40 Session Reserved for Sponsor
3.10 Afternoon Tea
3.40 The Adventures and Maverick Israeli Path to Wide Scale Fielded
Combat Proven Active Protection System for Armoured Vehicles: The
Promising Future of Follow on Systems
• Time line of the technology development of the Israeli APS capabilities
• Main challenges and lessons learned from the integration, fielding
and operationally deployment of the APS
• What challenges till exist and how will Israel further develop the APS
capability in the future?
Lieutenant Colonel (name withheld for security reasons), Land Warfare
Survivability Technologies Expert,The Directorate for Defence Research
and Development, Israel Ministry of Defence
Vehicle Architectures Supporting Integration
4.10 Optimal Architectures to Support APS Integration: US Army Modular
Active Protection System (MAPS) Project
• Why a modular and open system architecture is the right choice
• An overview of the Modular Active Protection System (MAPS) Project
and its architecture
• Leveraging NDI systems
• Beyond APS
Mr Jeff Koshko, Associate Director, Ground Vehicle
SurvivabilityProtection, Tank Automotive Research, Development and
Engineering Centre , United States Army
4.40 DAS Architectures
• Requirements of DAS
• Potential architectures
• Feedback from collaboration with the UK MoD
Professor Elias Stipidis, Director, Vetronics Research Centre
5.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Focus Day
Mr Ricolt Boeschoten, Senior Test Engineer, Explosives, Ballistics and
Protection, TNO
TOPICS COVERED WILL INCLUDE:
• National efforts to integrate APS into
existing fleets
• The architectures necessary to support
integration
• Technical expertise from industry
leaders, covering the latest hard kill/soft
kill APS, threat detection/tracking and
countermeasures
• Efforts to ensure system safety and
minimise collateral damage
• STANAG 4686 standardisation
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Day One | 15th November 2017 www.favsurvivability.com
8.30 Registration Coffee
9.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Brigadier (ret) Ian Cameron-Mowat, Former Head of Force
Protection, Director, IMP Castle Associates Limited
Future Land Capability Development
9.10 Feedback from Recent and Ongoing Survivability Analysis
within the Armoured Trials and Development Unit
• An overview of the Structure, Role and Responsibilities of
ATDU
• User views on AFV Survivability, to include:
- Signature Management
- Active Protection
- Passive Protection
• Thoughts on how work in these areas may inform future
capability development
Lieutenant Colonel Paddy Bond, Commanding Officer,
Armoured Trials and Development Unit, British Army
9.50 Survivability Requirements for Mounted Close Combat:
Current and Future Priorities within the British Army
• Perceptions of the current operational environment and
the threats to land forces:
- Persistent and available ISTAR
- Long range precision fires
- Proliferation of anti-armour weapons
- Near peer capability
• The ‘so what’ for Science and Technology research on
behalf of the British Army
• The ‘so what’ for the British Army’s vehicle programmes
Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Simpson, SO1 Fighting Vehicle
Systems, Platform Systems Division, DSTL
10.30 Morning Coffee
11.00 The US Army’s Next Generation Combat Vehicle
• US Army Operational Concept
• Multi-domain Battle Concept
• Maneuver Force Modernization Strategy
• Combat Vehicle Modernization Strategy
• Next Generation Combat Vehicle
Mr Don Sando, Director, Capabilities Development and
Integration, Manoeuvre Center of Excellence, United States
Army
11.40 USMC Ground Combat and Tactical Vehicle Overview
Mr Kurt Koch, Combat Vehicle Requirements, Combat
Development and Integration Fires and Maneuver
Integration Division, United States Marine Corps
12.20 Networking Lunch
Survivability Technology
1.20 Panel Discussion
Industry Survivability Developments and Optimal Approaches
to Co-operation with the End User
• An update from solution providers: What are the respective
key areas of activity and priorities within the survivability
domain?
• Optimising and streamlining co-operation with the end
user: From the definition of requirements to effective
practices for trials and development
• Interactive question and answer session
Brigadier (ret) Ian Cameron-Mowat, Former Head of Force
Protection, Director, IMP Castle Associates Limited
Dr Ing. Robert Bayer, Head of Department, Protection, Krauss
Maffei Wegmann
Mr Alex Hansell, Survivability Lead, Warrior Capability
Sustainment Programme, Lockheed Martin UK
Mr Stefan Lischka, Managing Director, ARTEC GmbH
2.00 ABBS’s Active Mine Protection Systems (AMPS™) Technology
Update
• Latest test results of full AMPS™ protection suite dealing
with global acceleration, floor shock, and belly plate
deformation
• Global market developments
• Future technical developments
Mr Roger Sloman, Director, Advanced Blast and Ballistic
Systems
2.30 Composite Rubber Track: Operate at Reach, Lower Logistic
Need and Fight for Longer
• An overview of the composite rubber track system
• Survivability benefits:
- Noise vibration (troops fight for longer)
- Durability maintainability
- Vehicle weight manoeuvrability
- Ammunition electronics
- Low logistic support life cycle costs
• Challenges for integration and maintainability
Mr Kevin Sloan, International Business Development
Manager, SOUCY DEFENSE
3.00 Afternoon Tea
3.30 Survivability Approaches within ARTEC: Current and Future
Capability Development within Boxer
• Modularity within the platform
• Current survivability technology
• Future plans for technology insertion
Mr Stefan Lischka, Managing Director, ARTEC GmbH
Signature Management and Stealth
4.10 Optimizing Signature Management for Vehicles: Perspectives
of the Bundeswehr Technical Centre for Protective and
Special Technologies
• The role of the Bundeswehr Technical Centre for Protective
and Special Technologies
• Managing signatures and minimizing the chances of
detection:
- Thermal
- Visual
- Radar
Mr Gunter Fuchs, Head of Section, Indirect Protection,
Bundeswehr Technical Centre for Protective and Special
Technologies
Dr Carsten Weidner, Research Technology Coordinator for
Signature Management, Bundeswehr Technical Centre for
Protective and Special Technologies
4.50 Signature Management and Camouflage for Combat
Vehicles
• Camouflage and signature management for the combat
vehicle
• New threats in the modern battle space from the
proliferation of advanced sensors
• Integrated survivability; combination of several protection
measures
• Evaluation methods for camouflage, experimental and
simulation based
• Military utility assessment of signature management
Dr Hans Kariis, Deputy Research Director, Department of
Electro-Optical Systems, Swedish Defence Research Agency
5.30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
Brigadier (ret) Ian Cameron-Mowat, Former Head of Force
Protection, Director, IMP Castle Associates Limited
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8.30 Registration Coffee
9.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Brigadier (ret) Ian Cameron-Mowat, Former Head of Force
Protection, Director, IMP Castle Associates Limited
Future Land Capability Development
9.10 Strategies for Future Development of Armoured Vehicle
Survivability within the German Army
• Perception of the current and future operational
environment and its associated threats
• Doctrine and concepts of operation as a starting point for
protecting soldiers and vehicles
• Protected mobility within the Bundeswehr:
- Light Wheeled Combat Vehicles
- BOXER
- PUMA
• Future plans for growth potential within the vehicle fleet
Lieutenant Colonel Eike Sinzig, Team Leader, Infantry
Concepts and Mobility, Army Concepts and Capabilities
Development Centre, German Army
Lieutenant Colonel Karl Heinz Boenke, Team Leader, Infantry
Concepts and Mobility, Army Concepts and Capability
Development Centre, German Army
9.50 United States Marine Corps Development of Future
Amphibious Protected Mobility
• An overview of the marine corps current capabilities and
feedback from operations
• Bridging the gap: Planned and ongoing upgrades to the
AAV for the enhancement of survivability to the platform
• Requirements for the future Amphibious Combat Vehicle
(ACV)
• Countering dilemmas such as weight vs mobility and
weight vs amphibious capability
Lieutenant Colonel Mark Brown, Armoured Requirments,
United States Marine Corps
10.30 Morning Coffee
11.00 Survivability — Fire Protection on Board of Military Vehicles
• All vehicles deployed in asymmetric warfare situations are
targets
• Fires starting in unprotected areas led to loss of crew and
destruction of vehicle
• Properly designed and tested fire suppression has
saved lives and bought time for first responders to assist
embarked crew to egress
Mr Christian Manthey Dipl. Ing., Technical Marketing
Manager, UTC Aerospace Systems
11.40 Passive Protection Configuration Management
• Passive protection requirements
• Modularity to support protection
• Managing vehicle configuration
Professor Bryn James, Head of Armoured Protection, DSTL
12.20 Networking Lunch
Operational Requirements and Future Threats
1.20 Panel Discussion
How Experience from Previous Operations and the
Emergence of New Threats will Shape Armoured Vehicle
Doctrines and Technology
• Current challenges to mechnised forces conducting
ongoing and future counter insurgency missions
• Considering requirements for the conventional domain
and current capability gaps when compared to near peer
actors
• Balancing unconventional vs conventional threats
• Question and answer session
Brigadier (ret) Ian Cameron-Mowat, Former Head of Force
Protection, Director, IMP Castle Associates Limited
Mr Don Sando, Director, Capabilities Development and
Integration, Manoeuvre Center of Excellence, United States Army
Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Simpson, SO1 Fighting Vehicle
Systems, Platform Systems Division, DSTL
Lieutenant Colonel Eike Sinzig, Team Leader, Infantry
Concepts and Mobility, Army Concepts and Capabilities
Development Centre, German Army
Lieutenant Colonel Gunter Chladek, Section Chief, Land,
Joint Electronic Warfare Core Staff, NATO
2.00 Considering the Importance of the Electromagnetic
Spectrum for Armoured Vehicle Survivability
• JEWCS perspective of the future role of EW in the land
domain
• EW jamming capability as a key means of protecting the
vehicle from improvised threats
• Measures for EW signature management and securing of
C4I/C2 systems within the vehicle
Lieutenant Colonel Gunter Chladek, Section Chief, Land,
Joint Electronic Warfare Core Staff, NATO
2.40 Afternoon Tea
Infantry Fighting Vehicle Survivability
3.10 Delivering High Levels of Protection within the PUMA Infantry
Fighting Vehicle
• Platforms high level of blast and ballistic protection:
Approaches to developing the modular system
• The Multifunctional Self-protection System MUSS (softkill
protection system against guided missiles)
• Potential for integration of hard kill active protection
systems within the platform
• Managing platform weight and size: What is the potential
for growth of survivability systems?
Dr Ing. Robert Bayer, Head of Department, Protection, Krauss
Maffei Wegmann
3.50 WCSP — A Pragmatic Approach to Integrating Survivability
Techniques Technologies
• Threats in theatre
• A pragmatic approach to providing protection
• Maintaining an ability to upgrade against emergent
threats
Mr Alex Hansell, Survivability Lead, Warrior Capability
Sustainment Programme, Lockheed Martin UK
4.30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
Brigadier (ret) Ian Cameron-Mowat, Former Head of Force
Protection, Director, IMP Castle Associates Limited
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WHAT HAVE PAST ATTENDEES SAID ABOUT FUTURE ARMOURED VEHICLES SURVIVABILITY?
Very useful and has given us
food for thought, plus industry
contacts to follow up on
Armoured Trials and Development Unit, British Army
A good mix of end users and industry
supply chain. More intimate and easier
to network than the traditional large defence
shows. Attendee’s understand the needs
and functionality of SME solutions.
Positive and genuine interaction
experienced over the 2 days
Pleora Technologies
Very good, this forum has become
really close and useful for a large
number of organisations and nations
involved in vehicle survivability.
It has become a real community
DSTL
This was the 3rd time joining Smi’s event.
This event is the best so far. Content is very
good You may think about making this a
3-day event next year. Longer exhibition and
more time to network would be very nice
Turkish Ministry of Defence
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Future Armoured Vehicles Survivability returns once more to proactively discuss
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Future Armoured Vehicles Survivability invites not only programme managers,
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also ensures the senior engineers, chief scientists and platform managers from the
leading solution providers are present.
This uniquely technical focus will aim to further cover the core areas of survivability
in detail, exploring the latest vehicle architectures, passive protection and armour,
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FUTURE ARMOURED VEHICLES 2016
BREAKDOWN OF COUNTRIES ATTENDED:
Bulgaria
Canada
Czech Republic
Finland
France
Germany
Israel
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Singapore
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom
USA
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8. FUTURE ARMOURED VEHICLES SURVIVABILITY
14th-16th November 2017, Copthorne Tara Hotel London Kensington, UK
4 WAYS TO REGISTER
FAX your booking form to +44 (0) 870 9090 712
PHONE on +44 (0) 870 9090 711
ONLINE at www.favsurvivability.com
POST your booking form to: Events Team, SMi Group Ltd,
1 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7XW, London, UK
If you have any further queries please call the Events Team on tel +44 (0) 870 9090 711 or you can email them at events@smi-online.co.uk
Payment: If payment is not made at the time of booking, then an invoice will be issued and must
be paid immediately and prior to the start of the event. If payment has not been received then
credit card details will be requested and payment taken before entry to the event. Bookings within
7 days of event require payment on booking. Access to the Document Portal will not be given
until payment has been received.
Substitutions/Name Changes: If you are unable to attend you may nominate, in writing, another
delegate to take your place at any time prior to the start of the event. Two or more delegates may
not ‘share’ a place at an event. Please make separate bookings for each delegate.
Cancellation: If you wish to cancel your attendance at an event and you are unable to send
a substitute, then we will refund/credit 50% of the due fee less a £50 administration charge,
providing that cancellation is made in writing and received at least 28 days prior to the start of
the event. Regretfully cancellation after this time cannot be accepted. We will however provide
the conferences documentation via the Document Portal to any delegate who has paid but is
unable to attend for any reason. Due to the interactive nature of the Briefings we are not normally
able to provide documentation in these circumstances. We cannot accept cancellations of
orders placed for Documentation or the Document Portal as these are reproduced specifically to
order. If we have to cancel the event for any reason, then we will make a full refund immediately,
but disclaim any further liability.
Alterations: It may become necessary for us to make alterations to the content, speakers, timing,
venue or date of the event compared to the advertised programme.
Data Protection: The SMi Group gathers personal data in accordance with the UK Data Protection
Act 1998 and we may use this to contact you by telephone, fax, post or email to tell you about
other products and services. Unless you tick here we may also share your data with third parties
offering complementary products or services. If you have any queries or want to update any of
the data that we hold then please contact our Database Manager databasemanager@smi-
online.co.ukorvisitourwebsitewww.smi-online.co.uk/updatesquotingtheURNasdetailedabove
your address on the attached letter.
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Our Reference D-152
DELEGATE DETAILS
Please complete fully and clearly in capital letters. Please photocopy for additional delegates.
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Payment must be made to SMi Group Ltd, and received before the event, by one of
the following methods quoting reference D-152 and the delegate’s name. Bookings
made within 7 days of the event require payment on booking, methods of payment
are below. Please indicate method of payment:
UK BACS Sort Code 300009, Account 00936418
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I cannot attend but would like to Purchase access to the following Document
Portal/Paper Copy documentation. Price Total
Access to the conference documentation
on the Document Portal £499.00 + VAT £598.80
The Conference Presentations – paper copy £499.00 - £499.00
(or only £300 if ordered with the Document Portal)
Register by 30th June for a £300 discount
Register by 29th September for a £100 discount
EARLY BIRD
DISCOUNT
VAT at 20% is charged on the attendance fees for all delegates. VAT is also charged
on Document portal and literature distribution for all UK customers and for those EU
Customers not supplying a registration number for their own country here.
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Please contact me to book my hotel
Alternatively call us on +44 (0) 870 9090 711,
email: events@smi-online.co.uk or fax +44 (0) 870 9090 712
DELEGATE DETAILS
Terms and Conditions of Booking
PAYMENT
VAT
DOCUMENTATION
VENUE
Copthorne Tara Hotel London Kensington,
Scarsdale Place Kensington London, United Kingdom W8 5SR
CONFERENCE PRICES GROUP DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE
I would like to attend: (Please tick as appropriate) Price VAT Total
Military, Government and Public Sector Pricing:
Conference Focus Day £1,498.00 + VAT £1,797.60
Conference only £899.00 + VAT £1,078.80
Focus Day only £599.00 + VAT £718.80
COMMERCIAL ORGANISATIONS/DEFENCE INDUSTRY
Conference and Focus Day £2398.00 + VAT £2,877.60
Conference only £1,499.00 + VAT £1,798.80
Focus Day Only £899.00 + VAT £1078.80
PROMOTIONAL LITERATURE DISTRIBUTION
Distribution of your company’s promotional
literature to all conference attendees £999.00 + VAT £1198.80
The conference fee includes refreshments, lunch, conference papers, and access to
the Document Portal. Presentations that are available for download will be subject to
distribution rights by speakers. Please note that some presentations may not be available
for download. Access information for the document portal will be sent to the e-mail
address provided during registration. Details are sent within 24 hours post conference.