Traditionally, defence and dual-use products are built as premium, long-lasting hardware. In an ever-faster threat landscape, multi-year development cycles are no longer feasible.

This talk shows how modern, end-to-end processes compress defence product development from years to months. Drawing on 100+ startup and corporate projects, it shows how cross-functional teams unite industrial design, mechanical engineering, electronics, firmware and UI/UX to build premium connected hardware at software speed.

We address how to align complex hardware timelines, agile sprints and fragile supply chains to launch connected defence devices on time and on budget by using parallel validation, rapid prototyping from cardboard and 3D printing to production-like units, and early i ...