4 Insights from the European Defence Innovation Forum 2025

Yesterday we joined leaders, innovators, and defence stakeholders at the European Defence Innovation Forum (EDIF) in The Hague – a platform focused on accelerating strategic cooperation, innovation, and resilience in Europe’s defence sector.

Key insights we took away:

1. Industry in times of war – Europe must move from talking to doing: plug & play solutions, fast adoption, and urgent innovation.

2. NATO’s message was clear: peace through strength. Threats from Russia will be met with overwhelming force, and NATO must remain stronger, smarter, and united.

3. Technology domains shaping the future of warfare: cyber, aerospace, and quantum computing.

4. Ukraine’s frontline innovation – they act fast, test fast, and scale cheap solutions that can damage high-value assets (hundreds of millions). Europe needs to learn from this urgency-driven model.
   

   

   
   

For us at Touchwaves, this was a strong reminder: human performance is the decisive factor in modern defence, it’s mission-critical.

We’re proud to be part of the conversation on how we can strengthen human–machine collaboration, making operators sharper, safer, and more resilient.

👉 Let’s keep building Europe’s defence future – faster, together.