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She was talking about the need for two things, good people, but also all of industry working together

and not just having the big players win all of the contracts.

It's all about collaboration and the NATO Edge Conference was fantastic for that.

This episode was recorded on the occasion of a tech conference organized by NATO in Belgium called The Edge.

This event provides an exhibition space for system vendors and providers, but more importantly, there are presentations and

breakout sessions covering all aspects of information technology and opportunities working with

this defense organization. This year, cybersecurity was a bit dominating.

My guest today is Craig Smith from LA International.

His special knowledge about NATO and the conference itself, also his personal relationship

network, makes this conversation really valuable for people having interest in NATO and the Edge Conference. Let's welcome Craig Smith.

Here with me is Craig Smith from LA International.

Hello Craig, welcome here.

Hi, Greg, thanks.

It's very nice of you that you came to see us in the CyberPud EU next episode around the NATO Edge Conference.

So we've known each other for, I guess, almost two years.

I know that you are working very much together with NATO and their agencies.

And I'm really interested in your experiences regarding NATO Edge itself for first and any for the audience, interesting info around this topic would be very valuable from you.

So would you introduce yourself a bit?

Yeah, so my name is Craig Smith, as you say, from LA International. We are, I'm one of the senior account managers for our company who have been working with NATO for over,

probably over 15 years now.

Predominantly, we were a subcontractor on something called the SSC framework of supply of consultants, mainly into NCA, but it branched out into other departments and other projects

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