EU launches new drone alliance with Ukraine

Hear from Niall Greenwood, Co-Founder of Neuron Innovations, as he shares the company’s commercial journey and the steps that led to its selection for the NATO DIANA 2026 Challenge Programme. The session will explore how Neuron identified and secured the opportunity, the impact it is having on the business, and the lessons learned along the way. The webinar will also examine Neuron Innovations’ specialisation in AI-enabled solutions and its focus on the NATO DIANA Challenge area of “Secure Edge Infrastructure for Autonomous Communication and AI Coordination”. What the webinar will cover - How Neuron Innovations identified and secured the NATO DIANA opportunity. - The commercial impact of the programme and key lessons from the journey so far. - Practical advice for SMEs looking to engage with NATO DIANA and similar defence innovation programmes. Speaker Niall Greenwood, Co-Founder, Neuron Innovations Live Q&A included: You will have the opportunity to ask Niall about applying to NATO DIANA, navigating the commercial journey as an SME, and developing technologies for defence.

From innovation to deployed capability: inside SYOS Aerospace's scale-up SYOS Aerospace is a UK SME building uncrewed systems across air, land, sea and subsurface domains. Working through spiral development, capability built alongside operators and refined through in-field feedback, SYOS has delivered more than 150 uncrewed surface vessels to Ukraine, where its SM300 is proven in operational environments. SYOS CEO Sam Vye joins DSEI Gateway to unpack what that scale-up actually took, and what the Defence Investment Plan's uncrewed pivot means in practice for SMEs across the supply chain.