Euan Wells

Noise & Vibration Engineer, QinetiQ

Euan Wells is a noise and vibrations engineer working in Rosyth for QinetiQ.

With a degree from Heriot-Watt university in electrical and electronic engineering, Euan worked down in Farnborough for 2 years as part of a graduate scheme with QinetiQ covering roles such as battery experimentation, military experimentation and advanced stealth materials.

Dale Smith

Noise & Vibration Engineer, QinetiQ

Dale Smith is a Noise & Vibration Engineer, working at QinetiQ since 2022, prior to this he held a number of research positions in academia. Dale holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Manchester and an MEng in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Glasgow.

Robbie Glachan

Noise and Vibration Engineer, QinetiQ

Robbie Glachan is a Noise & Vibration Engineer, working at QinetiQ since 2017, previously he studied Mechanical Engineering at Heriot Watt University 2012-2017, he also achieved an MSC in Data Science and AI with the University of Liverpool 2021-2022

Youri Linden

Senior System Engineer, Material and IT Command Netherlands

Youri Linden has a diverse background in maritime engineering and system automation. Since 2021, he has served as a Senior System Engineer Automation at the Netherlands Material and IT Command, where he identifies software requirements aimed at enhancing operational efficiency and crew support. Prior to his current role, Youri spent three years as the Head of the Marine- and Weapons Engineering Department aboard the Air Defense and Command Frigate HNLMS De Ruyter. He holds a Master's degree from Delft University of Technology, with his thesis focusing on NO-emission prediction in diesel engines.

Bart-Peter Smit

Business Consultant, CGI Netherlands BV

Bart-Peter is a Situational Awareness and decision support specialist at CGI Netherlands, and has been involved with the Royal Netherlands Navy for over 4 years. He has an innovative drive and seeks to bring agility and precision to critical decisions taken aboard navy vessels, using Human Factors, traditional IT and AI.

Jonathan Maas

AI Consultant, CGI Netherlands BV

Jonathan is AI consultant, trainer, and AI Practice Expert Lead in CGI Netherlands, and has been involved with the Royal Netherlands Navy in the past 2 years to design and deliver custom-tailored Generative AI solutions. With a background in data science and AI research, Jonathan drives various endeavors to stimulate AI literacy and proficiency at CGI.

Captain Nitin Agarwala

Senior Fellow, Centre for Joint Warfare Studies

Captain (Dr) Nitin Agarwala, a serving naval officer, has experienced various facets of a warship as a user, designer, inspector, maintainer, a policymaker, a teacher and a researcher. He has authored over 80 articles, papers, book chapters and two books. He was a Research Fellow at the National Maritime Foundation from 2017- 2019 and is presently a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies and a Visiting Faculty at the Naval War College, Goa and the Centre for Maritime Studies at the University of Mumbai.

Commodore Rakesh Rana

Indian Navy Veteran

Commodore (Dr) R K Rana, an Indian Navy veteran with 33 years of illustrious career on board warships, dockyards, training, research, staff, design and indigenous product development organisation. He was part of the design team designing the first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier and Corvettes in the Indian Navy. A four-year stint with the world’s oldest and renowned Classification Society, Lloyd's Register, has provided him a global experience. He is presently, an Honorary Senior Advisor at the Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer of IIT Delhi, where he helps startups and faculty to connect with the Military. He is also a distinguished member of the Apex Advisory Committee (R&D) of Tehri Hydropower Development Company India Limited, India

Aseem Gosain

Founder & CEO, Vidyutm Mobility

Aseem Gosain is a Gold Medallist alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Class of 2018 (Electrical engineering and Power electronics). He is an engineer-entrepreneur who founded an electric vehicle components startup, Vidyutm, and is currently working as a Consulting Sr. Data Scientist and Applied AI Engineer with a focus on ecommerce recommender systems, information extraction and sequence modelling.

Joshua Riley

Senior AI Research Specialist, BMT

Joshua Riley is a Senior AI Research Specialist at BMT. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning) from The University of York and worked as part of its Assuring Autonomy Research Group.  Over his career in AI, he has contributed to a myriad of works and research projects. 

Dr Eshan Rajabally

Maritime Autonomy Technology Lead, BMT

Eshan Rajabally is the Maritime Autonomy Technology Lead at BMT. Here he acts as authority on autonomy enabling technologies, identifying and seeding related BMT consultancy and other service offerings. Eshan is a chartered engineer with over twenty years of experience in research and innovation, technology development, and demonstrator prototyping.