Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / Show Serge Da Deppo - Founder, NATO Innovation Hub - Human Sciences Project Officer, NATO Transformation Command
Serge Da Deppo is Founder of the NATO Innovation Hub, and Human Sciences Project Officer, at NATO Transformation Command (https://www.act.nato.int/). The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 28 European countries and 2 North American countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. NATO constitutes a system of collective security, whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. The NATO headquarters are located in Haren, Brussels, Belgium, while the headquarters of Allied Command Operations is near Mons, Belgium. The Innovation Hub is the community where experts and innovators from everywhere collaborate to tackle NATO challenges and design solutions, and is the engine of the NATO Innovation Network, federating national entities leveraging open innovation and agile development. From 1990-2007, Mr. Da Deppo spent time in a variety of roles in the Belgian military, including platoon leader, training officer, Senior Officer Course Instructor, and International Defense Planning Officer. Mr. Da Deppo has a Master of Arts (M.A.) Military Applied Sciences from Belgium's Royal Military Academy and a degree in Advanced Military and Operational Studies from The Royal Higher Institute for Defense.