Cybersecurity

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CYBERSECURITY: The fifth domain

APRIL 15-16, 2021 

DAY 1 AGENDA

DAY 2 AGENDA

DAy 1: Thursday, April 15, 2021

WELCOME REMARKS

  9:00 - 9:30 AM

   

 
 

FLORIDA LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR JEANNETTE NUÑEZ

DR. ERIC EISENBERG, Dean, College of Arts and Science, ßÙßÇÂþ»­

LTG TERRY WOLFF, USA, RET., Director, National Defense University Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies

OPENING KEYNOTE: CYBERSECURITY AND THE GREAT POWERS

  9:30 - 10:15 AM

 

 

 

10:15 - 10:30 AM

GEN PAUL M. NAKASONE, Commander, U.S. Cyber Command, and Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service

HON MIKE MCCONNELL, VADM, USN, RET., former Director of National Intelligence and the NSA; currently Executive Director, Cyber Florida

BREAK

PANEL: THE CYBER THREAT

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

MODERATOR: MICHAEL E. O'HANLON, Director of Research-Foreign Policy, Co-Director - Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, The Brookings Institution

FRED KAPLAN, author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

HON MIKE ROGERS, former Chair of U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and Chairman, 5G Action Now

HON LESLIE IRELAND, Member, Board of Directors of Citigroup and The Stimson Center, and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury

LUNCHEON ADDRESS

12:00 - 12:30 PM

SENATOR MARK WARNER (D-Va), Chair, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

SENATOR MARCO RUBIO (R-Fl), Vice Chair, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

PLENARY SPEAKER

 12:30 - 1:15 PM

 

LTGEN DENNIS CRALL, USMC, Director for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers Cyber and Chief Information Officer, Joint Staff

PANEL: OUR RESPONSE OPTIONS

1:15 - 2:45 PM

 

 

 

 

 

2:45 - 3:00 PM

MODERATOR: JERRY BESSETTE, Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

THOMAS C. WINGFIELD, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy

DR. ISAIAH WILSON, President, Joint Special Operations University

JAN TIGHE, VADM, USN, RET., former Commander, Fleet Cyber Command

BREAK

PLENARY SPEAKER

  3:00 - 3:45 PM

REAR ADMIRAL MICHAEL STUDEMAN, USN, Director, J2, U.S. Info-Pacific Command

PANEL TRACK 1: THE GREAT CYBER TALENT COMPETITION

  3:45 - 5:00 PM

MODERATOR: DR. RON SANDERS, former Associate Director of National Intelligence/Human Capital; currently Staff Director, Cyber Florida

DR. EMAN EL-SHEIKH, Associate Vice President, Center for Cybersecurity, University of West Florida

ANGELA BAILEY, Chief Human Capital Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security     

JOHN TAFLAN, Deputy Director for Workforce Support, National Security Agency

RODNEY PETERSEN, Director, National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, NIST

PANEL TRACK 2: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

  3:45 - 5:00 PM

MODERATOR: TERRY THOMPSON, Adjunct Instructor in Cybersecurity, Johns Hopkins University

DR. GOLFO ALEXOPOULOS, Professor and Director of  the ßÙßÇÂþ»­ Russia Institute

BEHNAM BEN TALEBLU, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Demoncracies

DR. BARNETT S. KOVEN, Training Director, Near-peer Competition Lead Researcher, ND Counterterrorism Lead Researcher, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland

DEVIN ELLIS, Policy & Research Program Director, ICONS Project, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland

DAY 2: FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2021

 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

  9:00 - 9:30 AM

MAJ GEN ALEXUS G. GRYNKEWICH, USAF, Director of Operations, U.S. Central Command

PRESIDENT STEVEN C. CURALL, PHD, President, ßÙßÇÂþ»­

PLENARY SPEAKER

  9:30 - 10:15 AM

 
10:15 - 10:30 AM

ANDREW HALLMAN, Senior Advisor, Central Intelligence Agency, former Principal Executive in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence

 BREAK

PANEL TRACK 1: THE THREAT TO OUR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

10:30 - 12:00 PM

MODERATOR: BRIAN FONSECA, Director, Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, Florida International University

ANDY ZOLPER, SVP, CISO & Head of Technology Infrastructure, Raymond James Financial

HON KAREN EVANS, Chief Information Officer, Department of Homeland Security

ERIC SILAGY, President and CEO, Florida Power & Light

PANEL TRACK 2: THE TECHNOLOGICAL HORIZON

10:30 - 12:00 PM

 

 

 

  

MODERATOR: PAT GORMAN, Executive Vice President, Cybersecurity Futures Practice Lead, Booz Allen Hamilton

BETH MEINERT, Vice President, Director, Center for Government Effectiveness & Modernization, MITRE

BRIAN MURPHY, CEO and Founder, ReliaQuest

DR. FRANCIS J. GAVIN, Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs

LUNCHEON ADDRESS

12:00 - 12:30 PM GEN RICHARD D. CLARKE, USA, Commander, U.S. SOCOM

PLENARY SPEAKER

12:30 - 1:15 PM

ADM CRAIG S. FALLER, USN, Commander US Southern Command

PANEL: THE FUTURE OF CYBER CONFLICT

1:15 - 2:45 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

2:45 - 3:00 PM

MODERATOR: PETER SINGER, Senior Strategist and Fellow, New America Foundation, and author of Cyberwar and Burned-In

GEN KEITH ALEXANDER, USA, RET., former Director of the National Security Agency; currently Co-CEO, Founder and President of IronNet Cybersecurit

LTGEN MICHAEL GROEN, USMC, Director, DoD Joint Artificial Intelligence Center

CHRIS INGLIS, former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency; currently Distinguished Visiting Professor in Cyber Security Studies, U.S. Naval Academy

BREAK

CLOSING KEYNOTE: CYBERSECURITY AND THE GREAT POWERS REVISITED

3:00 - 3:45 PM GEN K. FRANK MCKENZIE, USMC, Commander, U.S. Central Command

CLOSING PANEL: CYBERSECURITY AND STRATEGIC DETERRENCE

3:45 - 5:00 PM

MODERATOR: FRANK CILLUFFO, Member of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission and Director, McCrary Institute for Cybersecurity, Auburn University

HON MIKE MCCONNELL, VADM, USN, RET., former Director of National Intelligence and the NSA; currently Executive Director, Cyber Florida

HON MICHAEL CHERTOFF, former Secretary of Homeland Security, currently President and CEO of the Chertoff Group

LTGEN DENNIS CRALL, USMC, Director for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers Cyber and Chief Information Officer, Joint Staff