Dr. Kristina Soukupova, the founder and President of DefSec Innovation Hub, is a long time defense consultant operating at the highest levels with the government and military. With a PhD from the Department of War Studied, King’s College London, her primary area of expertise is advising major international corporate and government clients on defense and security innovation, procurement as well  as corporate strategies and their implementation. Kristina has a long history working with NATO and her DefSec Innovation Hub is part of the NATO Innovation Network. She designed and led many innovative educational programs for both military and civilian audiences and contributed to strategic documents on both national and NATO level. Most recently Kristina acquired a license to open a Czech Chapter of FightClub, a gaming experimentation group seeking to improve the efficacy of warfighting through civil-military cooperation.