Europe & Africa Regional Committees

NDTA Europe & Africa Region Workshop 2024 

3 June 2024, Parc Hotel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!!

In collaboration with the NATO Support & Procurement Agency, we are excited to announce the next NDTA Europe & Africa Workshop is scheduled for 3 June 2024.

The 2024 Workshop intends to capture the same success as the NDTA Europe and Africa Regional Committee Meetings held this past January in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Government and Industry will have an invaluable in-person opportunity to re-engage and deepen partnerships and better understand the EUCOM and AFRICOM current challenges; discuss solutions and ideas for future collaboration. This will be a full day catered event that includes lunch. We’re also setting up an optional dinner.

The Europe and Africa Regional Committees (Airlift, Surface, and Sea & Port Operations) are working closely with DoD to identify the most challenging problem sets faced in the two regions. The concept for this workshop is that participants will discuss these challenges with their organizations and partners, then arrive at the Workshop ready to offer additional insights, challenges and recommendations.

Agenda

Please see the agenda for the NDTA Europe and Africa Region Workshop here.

Registration

NDTA membership is NOT required for registration. However, discounted registration fees are available for NDTA members. First time government and military members get their first year of membership for free! If you would like to join and become an NDTA member, click here.

To register for the event, you will be required to have an NDTA account profile. If you already have an NDTA profile, upon selecting the registration link below, you will be asked to enter your email address and your password. If you have forgotten your password, you can reset it, then you will be taken directly to the registration page. If you do not already have an account profile, you will be asked to Create an account and then be taken directly to registration.  There is no fee to set up an account.

Details and a link to register can be found here.

If you have any difficulty registering or accessing NDTA’s registration platform, please contact events@ndtahq.com.

Sponsorship

Sponsorship packages are available! All sponsorship packages and pricing are available here. We will have space for sponsors to set up booths this time! If you are interested in taking up this unique sponsorship opportunity, please contact Jerry Nickerson at jerry.nickerson@dhl.com.

After reviewing the sponsorship package information, please click here to purchase a sponsorship. You must be an approved purchaser on behalf of your organization. You will be asked to provide your account information including your email address and password when trying to purchase. If you do not have an account, or you have an account and are not authorized to purchase, please contact events@ndtahq.com.

Hotel

The conference will be held at the Parc Hotel Alvisse. We have obtained incredible preferred room rates compared to normal local rates – €111 per night including breakfast. Don’t miss out – reserve your room quickly!  Be sure to reserve before April 22 using the code NDTA24 at this secured booking link to access the discounted rate.

The conference will be held at the Parc Hotel. We’ve been able to obtain incredible preferred room rates compared to normal local rates. Don’t miss out – reserve your room quickly! Be sure to reserve under NDTA24.

Parc Hotel Alvisse
120 Route d’Echternach
L-1453 Luxembourg
+ 352 43 56 43
+ 352 43 69 03
info@parc-hotel.lu

If you have any questions regarding the program, registration or the agenda, please contact:

Jason Trubenbach President, Europe & Africa Region National Defense Transportation Association Jason.trubenbach@crowley.com  Phone: +49-176-2475-9286 WhatsApp: +49-176-2475-9286

Fiona Slabbekoorn President, BENELUX Chapter National Defense Transportation Association Fiona.slabbekoorn@maersk.com Phone: +31 629404062 WhatsApp: +31 622461432

 

On 19 September 2019, Mr. Jerry Nickerson and Mr. Jason Trubenbach had an opportunity to brief the NATO Transport Group on the NDTA and the recent establishment of the Europe and Africa Regional Committees.  Prior to their briefing, Mr. Nickerson and Mr. Trubenbach were able to listen to the discussions and noticed how remarkably similar the challenges/issues were to the discussions two weeks ago at the Europe/Africa Regional committees meeting.  The briefing provided an introduction to NDTA, highlighting its non-political, non-profit, educational mission in support of national security.  The key takeaways included:

• Challenges in communication and understanding between civil – military – government – industry of requirements and capabilitie
• The NATO Transport Group is interested in learning from the NDTA community how to coordinate with stakeholders, share possible solutions to problems, and understand capacities and contracts of/with industry
• There are few organizations in Europe that provide similar capabilities of the NDTA (the representative from Finland was the only one to identify a similar org, the National Emergency Support Agency)
• The Transport Group proposed to their members that NDTA be granted “Observer Status” at their future meetings; it was further proposed that the Transport Group establish a new category in their charter for “experts” that include members from NDTA/industry
• Mr. Nickerson and Mr. Trubenbach were invited to participate in the next Inland Surface Transport meeting in Feb 2020 in Bonn
• Mr. Nickerson and Mr. Trubenbach invited all member nations to work with NDTA in the future and requested that they take the information back to their respective nations and share it with their national industry stakeholders
• Finally, Mr. Nickerson and Mr. Trubenbach discussed the NDTA Europe/Africa team taking on a broader understanding and address of the NATO security issues as they directly impact U.S. national security (and NDTA’s charter).