Dimitrios Kottas (Delian Alliance Industries) to speak at RAAIS 2025

On building a new AI defense prime in Europe.

The Research and Applied AI Summit (RAAIS) is a community for entrepreneurs and researchers who accelerate the science and applications of AI technology. In the run up to our 9th annual event on June 13th 2025 in London, we’re running a series of speaker profiles to shed more light on what you can expect to learn on the day!

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Dimitrios is the CEO and founder of Delian Alliance Industries. Prior to founding the company, he contributed to the development of perception systems for autonomous technologies at Apple’s Special Projects Group. His academic research, focusing on sensor fusion and navigation in GPS-denied environments for mobile robotics, has been cited over 1.4k times, reflecting its impact in the field. Delian Alliance Industries is a defense technology company focused on autonomous systems for situational awareness and anti-access/area denial (A2/AD).

At RAAIS 2025, Dimitrios will share insights at the cutting edge of AI and autonomy in defense. Drawing from his experience in both industry and research, he will explore how emerging technologies are transforming the way machines perceive, navigate, and make decisions in high-stakes environments. His work at Delian sits at the frontier of applied autonomy — building systems that operate reliably in GPS-denied, adversarial, and complex settings where traditional approaches break down.

As the race to develop AI-native defense infrastructure accelerates globally, Dimitrios brings a perspective grounded in both rigorous engineering and real-world deployment. His talk will consider the technical, strategic, and ethical dimensions of next-generation autonomous systems, and how they are shaping the future of situational awareness and deterrence.