As NATO navigates an increasingly contested, interconnected, and digitized global environment, maintaining Decision Advantage is more critical than ever. Operating effectively across all domains - land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace - now depends on our ability to command, control, and connect in real time, across institutions and borders, with experts at the forefront of their fields.

The Alliance Concept for Cross-Domain Command provides the framework for the required adaptation to sustain Decision Advantage. Effective command of Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) depends on enhanced interoperability, standardisation and the urgent integration of change, across people, processes and technology. The conference will explore the following key themes aimed at accelerating NATO C2 Transformation today:

1. People: How can we accelerate the cultural shift required of our current and future leaders, to command effectively in MDO? This includes fostering human interoperability, a cross-domain mindset, trust, innovation, creativity and technical proficiency.
    
2. Processes: What lessons should we learn from current conflicts and operations for future HQs and C2 structures? How can we advance toward a secure, modular, and interoperable digital foundation that supports distributed and resilient dispersed decision-making?
    
3. Technology: How do we make MDO consultation and collaboration a reality - creating innovation ecosystems where defense, industry, academia and government work together to keep us secure in the continuum of competition? How can we ensure secure data sharing across nations and actors? How can we accelerate the implementation of AI in decision-support? How can we build trust in our partners? These challenge-driven partnerships enable faster scaling, open experimentation, and improved operational and infrastructure resilience.

These themes will be brought to life in the continuum of competition through practical use cases on the protection of critical infrastructure in the Port of Rotterdam and the NATO mission Baltic Sentry, and by lessons learned in Ukraine on data sharing, analysis and decision-making.

Join our event
The 2025 NATO C2 Conference, supported by the Canadian Joint Warfare Centre, is a high-level event that showcases the latest developments in Command & Control.  It brings together subject matter experts from military, academia, industry and government alongside NATO and national commanders.  

By convening experts and warfighters, both on stage and in the audience, the NATO C2COE continues to build the C2 expert community and foster collaboration among all actors. All efforts and effects dedicated toward Accelerating NATO C2 Transformation to Deter and Defend - today and tomorrow.

Registration
This webpage will guide you through the different registration steps. Please note that, as this is an invite-only event, your registration application will be approved by our team prior to payment. When approved, a new message will be sent to complete your registration and payment, after you will receive a confirmation by email on the address provided by you.

Should you have any questions, please contact us at: C2COE.conference@mindef.nl.