Autonomy in the Joint Military Battlespace 2026 |
Date: October 6-8, 2026 Location: Land Forces 2026 (Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre) AAUS' Autonomy in the Joint Military Battlespace 2026 conference will take place on Wednesday 7th October, 2026 as an associated conference for the Land Forces Exposition at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. Autonomy in the Joint Military Battlespace aims to promote engagement between defence and defence industry on the evolving use of autonomy and uncrewed systems for defence applications. It will feature presentations and discussion panels on relevant, topical issues as well as look at the opportunities and challenges facing the autonomous defence sector. |
Conference Themes
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Event Format The Land Forces exhibition will take place over three days with the AAUS conference being held on Wednesday 7th October, 2026. Your registration will also include the opportunity to attend the networking drinks event which will follow the conference on the 7th, offsite, between 5.30-7.30pm. Location to be advised closer to the event. |
Registration - opening June 2026 All registrations will go through the official Land Forces website as either a trade visitor or a defence visitor. Once you have selected either of these you will then be able to input your details and then select to attend the AAUS Autonomy in the Joint Military Battlespace event. |
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Program
Wednesday 7 October Conference, Boulevard Auditorium, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre |
| Time | Activity / Presentation | Presenter |
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| 0900 | Doors Open | |
| Session 1: | ||
| 0930 | Welcome | Moderator: Andrew Crowe (AAUS President) |
| 0940 | Keynote presentation | ASCA |
| 1000 | Project Camel Train: Hauling! | Keirin Joyce (RAAF) |
| 1020 |
Keynote presentation |
Captain Thomas Gash (UAS Program Office, Victoria Barracks) and Captain Andrew Dunn-Lobban (RAS Cell, Land Combat College) |
| 1040 | Keynote Presentation - Defence | TBC |
| 1100 | Morning Tea | |
| Session 2: | ||
| 1130 | Defence SA Session Welcome | Moderator: Ian Spencer (Defence SA) |
| 1135 | Drones in Modern Warfare: From Myths to Operational Reality | Dr Oleksandra Molloy (UNSW, ADFA) |
| 1155 | Build with Ukraine: Connecting Australia's industry with Battlefield Innovation | Myroslav Popovych (Ukrainian Council of Defence Industry) |
| 1215 | Three Years in Ukraine: What Flying V-BAT in the World's Most Contested Airspace Taught Us | Mark Palmer (Sheild AI) |
| 1235 | The critical need for better alignment between Defence and sovereign industry | Ben Westgarth (Department 13) |
| 1255 | ||
| 1315 | Lunch | Melbourne Foyer, Hotel Realm |
| Session 3: | ||
| 1415 | Session Introduction | Moderator: Cameron Devries |
| 1420 | From Platform to Effect: Uncrewed Surface Vessels impacting Future Joint Operations | Andrew Hawke (EPE Trusted to Protect) |
| 1440 | Adapting AI Toward Asymmetric Advantage: The Case for AI-enabled Battlefield Decision Support | Dr Austin Wyatt (RAND) |
| 1500 | Interoperable protocols and architectures for distributed autonomous collaborative UAS swarming: where to from MAVLink? | Jonathan Dansie (Defence Science and Technology Group) |
| 1520 | 3D Vision-Based Positioning for Autonomous Aerial Platform Navigation and Human-in-the-Loop Reconnaissance Missions | Kara Kramer (Vantor) |
| 1540 | Operational viability of artificial intelligence for real-time mine-like-object detection and geolocation | Tim Grabert (Nova Systems) |
| 1600 | Conference Close | |
| 1605 | Conference Finish | |
| 1800 - 2000 | Networking Event | Perth CBD |
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