Speaker · Argentina Space 2026
Gustavo Emiliano Fauez
Founder, CEO & President of Roca Defense & Systems
Founder, CEO and President of Roca Defense & Systems, an international R&D holding group with operations in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and the United States. He authored the Cognitive Defense doctrinal framework and designed SUPGOD, a cognitive fusion platform for autonomous systems, and drives Programa ONA for persistent maritime domain awareness through space observation and artificial intelligence. He is a member of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF).
November 11, 12 and 13, 2026 · Salta Convention Center
About
Gustavo Emiliano Fauez is the founder, Global CEO and President of Roca Defense & Systems, a defence and dual-use technology holding group based in New York with a presence across the Americas. His focus is designing systems that bring multi-source intelligence —synthetic aperture radar (SAR), intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and geospatial intelligence (GEOINT)—, command-and-control architectures and autonomous response layers into a single operational framework, moving from detection to decision to action in minutes.
At Roca he leads programmes in autonomous maritime systems, drones, maritime domain awareness, counter-drone defence and advanced manufacturing, including the ONA Programme and the SUPGOD platform, and coordinates the company's industrial base in Buenos Aires Province, which manufactures components for unmanned systems. He is the founding director of Drone Valley, a training and technology development platform for drones and autonomous systems based in Jalisco, Mexico. Earlier, he built an extensive track record as an entrepreneur in international trade and franchising across Mexico, the United States and Europe.
On the program
- C4ISR doctrine, space domain and national security
- Defense roundtable · Sovereignty, defense, GEOINT and telecommunications
Career highlights
- Founder, Global CEO and President, Roca Defense & Systems
- Strategic partner, Roca Defense & Systems Argentina, industrial base for unmanned systems (since 2024)
- Founding director, Drone Valley, Mexico (since 2025)
- Founder and director of international trade companies in Mexico, the United States and Ireland (since 2015)
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