NATO-NSPA Belgian Industry Day

Défense
Belgium

21/04/26

Does your company operate in any of the following sectors: Intelligent autonomous systems; Structures, spare parts, materials, protective elements for land and air vehicles; Space defence? Take part in the Belgian contact day with NSPA and meet its buyers. Join us in Arlon on 21 April!

About

In collaboration with Flanders Investment and Trade (FIT) and the Wallonia Export and Investment Agency (AWEX), hub.brussels is organising a day of contacts with the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) in the following sectors on Tuesday 21 April 2026 at the Van der Valk hotel in Arlon: Intelligent autonomous and unmanned systems; Structures, spare parts, materials, protective elements for land and air vehicles; Space defence. This event will enable you to explore many avenues, including a chance to discover the opportunities that NAPS offers your company, find out how to become a supplier, and approach the buyers responsible for the three sectors listed above.

NSPA is NATO’s procurement agency, serving 32 member countries and working with more than 60,000 companies supplying goods and services to its five main procurement programmes:

Acquisition
Life Cycle Management
Support to Operations
Central Europe Pipeline System
NATO Airlift Management

Program

08:30-09:00	Welcome coﬀee	Hôtel Van der Valk, route de Longwy 596 – 6700 Arlon
09:00-09:15	Belgian Opening Remarks	Belgian Ministry of Defence
09:15-09:30	NSPA Keynote Address	NSPA General Manager
09:30-10:00	General Overview of NSPA	Céline Danielli (TBC)
10:00-10:20	How to do business with NSPA	Cheney Boutilier
10:20-10:45	Vendor Registration	Laura Dominguez Rodriguez
10:45-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-11:30	NMCRL Overview	NMCRL team
11:30-11:45	Q&A
11:45-12:15	General strategic direction of Belgium’s defence	Belgian Ministry of Defence (TBC)
12:15-13:30	Networking lunch
13:30-13:45	Strategic roadmap for Walloon defence sector	TBC
13:45-14:00	Strategic roadmap for Flemish defence sector	TBC
14:00-14:15	The Brussels defence sector	TBC
14:15-14:30	Intelligent unmanned autonomous systems – Presentation LQ	LQ Programme Manager (TBC)
14:30-14:45	Structures, spare parts, materials, protection elements for land and air vehicles – Presentation LA	LA Programme Manager (TBC)
14:45-15:15	Space4Defence – Presentation LD & Presentation Q	LD Programme Manager (TBC) & someone from Q directorate (TBC)
15:15-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-17:00	B2B meetings	In 3 different rooms
17:00-17:15	Closing remarks	TBC
17:15+	Networking cocktail	TBC

Practical info

The mission will start at 8:30 and finish around 17:15 at the Van der Valk hotel in Arlon.

If you wish to stay at the Van der Valk hotel the day before the event, please book directly with the hotel (no group bookings), tel.: +32 (0)63 23 32 22.

15 rooms for the night of 20/04 have been reserved for our event until 14/04. The price for an overnight stay in a standard single room with breakfast is €150 (excluding tourist tax).

Please quote this code when making your booking: LUX-GR-000351.

Registration

Your registration via hub.brussels constitutes a request for your company to participate.
On the basis of the information provided in the registration form, NSPA will select the Belgian companies to be invited.
Selected companies will be informed and irrevocably enlisted one week before the event at the latest.
If you are selected, you agree to take part in the entire programme.