Eva Sula is an independent defence and digital capability strategist working at the intersection of operational capability, AI integration, interoperability, cybersecurity, and modern deterrence. Her work focuses on how defence organisations can transition from fragmented legacy systems and isolated innovation efforts into integrated, scalable, and operationally relevant capability.
She brings a rare combination of public sector, defence, cybersecurity, and emerging technology experience across government, industry, and NATO-aligned innovation ecosystems. Eva previously served as Chief Information Security Officer for the Estonian Ministry of Education and for the Estonian government cloud, contributing to national-level cybersecurity, cloud governance, resilience, and digital transformation initiatives. Earlier in her career, she worked with both Microsoft and Cisco across the Baltic region on secure cloud adoption, hybrid infrastructure, cybersecurity, and public sector digital modernisation.
Her work today increasingly focuses on defence transformation across all operational domains, including the adoption and integration challenges surrounding AI, autonomous systems, multidomain operations, C4ISR, data architectures, and operational interoperability in contested environments. She is particularly known for connecting technological realities with operational, organisational, procurement, and policy constraints, helping defence stakeholders move beyond experimentation toward deployable and sustainable capability. Eva actively works across the defence innovation ecosystem, supporting collaboration between startups, SMEs, primes, policymakers, accelerators, and operational end users. She contributes to NATO-aligned defence innovation activities, including mentoring and advisory roles connected to dual-use and emerging technology programmes and European defence accelerators.
Her areas of focus include digital resilience, cyber defence, hybrid threats, operational adaptation, information advantage, and the evolving security dynamics of the Baltic Sea and wider JEF region, particularly in relation to Russian hybrid warfare, contested infrastructure, electronic warfare, and the increasing convergence of digital and kinetic operations. Eva is a regular speaker, moderator, writer, and contributor on topics including AI in defence, interoperability, operational integration, digital sovereignty, defence innovation adoption, and the future of European and transatlantic security.