GNSI Tampa Summit

Tampa Summit 3 Agenda

Day 1 (March 5)
9:00am Conference Introduction
Adib Farhadi, PhD
Associate Professor, Faculty Director of Executive Education, University of South Florida
9:10am Welcome Remarks
General (Ret) Frank McKenzie
Executive Director, Global and National Security Institute and Center for Florida Cybersecurity (Cyber Florida)
9:15am Featured Speaker
Congresswoman Laurel Lee (video)
Florida, 15th District
9:20am Keynote Speaker
Vice Admiral Brad Cooper
Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)
10:15am Panel 1 Discussion
How  Artificial Intelligence is Transforming National Security

Moderator:
Carolyn Davidson, PhD
Associate Dean, National Defense University / GNSI Non-Resident Fellow

Panelists:
Lieutenant General (Ret) John Shanahan
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for New American Security (CNAS)

Damon Woodard, PhD
Director of the Florida Institute for National Security, University of Florida

Schuyler Moore, PhD
Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)
11:15am Featured Speaker
Kathleen Hicks, PhD (video)
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
1:00pm Featured Fireside Chat
The Honorable Kirstjen Nielsen
Former Secretary of Homeland Security

General (Ret) Frank McKenzie
Executive Director, GNSI and former Commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)
1:50pm Panel 2 Discussion
Artificial Intelligence and the Great Power Competition

Moderator:
Andrew Whiskeyman, PhD
Associate Professor, College of Information and Cyberspace
National Defense University and GNSI Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Panelists:
Lieutenant General (Ret) John Bansemer
Director, CyberAI Project and Senior Fellow, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

Julian Mueller-Kaler
Director, Strategic Foresight Hub, Stimson Center

Daniel Remler
Policy Advisor, Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology, U.S. Department of State
3:15pm

Panel 3 Discussion
The Role of AI-Powered Disinformation in Conflict


Moderator:
Joshua Scacco, PhD
Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Communications, University of South Florida

Heather Ashby, PhD
Associate Director, Disruptive Technologies and Artificial Intelligence, United States Institute of Peace

Mark Abdollahian, PhD
CEO, ACERTAS

Day 2 (March 6)
9:00am Introduction and Welcome
Adib Farhadi, PhD
Associate Professor, Faculty Director of Executive Education
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9:05am Welcome Remarks
Prasant Mohapatra, PhD
Provost and Chief Academic Officer, ßÙßÇÂþ»­
9:10am Keynote Speaker
General Bryan Fenton
Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)
9:50am Roundtable 1
Data Dominance and its Effect on Artificial Intelligence

Moderator:
David Oakley, PhD
Academic Director, Global and National Security Institute

Panelists:
Alexandra Seymour
Staff Director,Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee with the House Homeland Security Committee

John Turner
Acting Deputy Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (DCDAO) for Policy

Roberto Gonzáles, PhD
Professor of Anthropology, San Jose State University
10:55am Panel 4 Discussion
Small States' Perspective on AI and Global Security

Moderator:
Golfo Alexopoulos, PhD
Director, Institute for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida

Panelists:
Joel Brynielsson, PhD
Research Director, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)

Peter Bovet Emanuel
PhD Researcher, Swedish Defense University, Centre for Special Operations Research

Major Juha Kukkola, PhD
Associate Professor, Finnish Defence Forces

Vilma Luoma-aho, PhD
Professor and Vice Dean, School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä
1:45pm

Breakout Sessions (Track 1)
Europe, Russia and AI-Enabled Security Threats
Moderator:
Golfo Alexopoulos, PhD
Director, Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida 

Breakout Sessions (Track 2)
Medical Integration of Artificial Intelligence
Moderator: 
Dr. Haru Okuda
Executive Director, USF Health, Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS)

Panelists:
Aleksandra Karolak, PhD
Assistant Member, Department of Machine Learning, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Dr. Andrew Borkowski, MD
Chief AI Officer, VA Sunshine Network

Dr. Nishit Patel, MD
Professor, Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, Univesity of South Florida, Vice President and Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Tampa General Hospital

Breakout Sessions (Track 3)
Artificial Intelligence Simulation / Wargame
Moderator:
Walter Kulzy
Senior Operations Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University

Breakout Sessions (Track 4)
AI: What's Next?

Moderator:
Robert Hammond, PhD
Director for the Center of Marketing and Sales Innovation, ßÙßÇÂþ»­

3:00pm Breakout Sessions (Repeat of First Session)
Day 3 (March 7)
9:00am Introduction and Welcome
Adib Farhadi, PhD
Associate Professor, Faculty Director of Executive Education
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9:05am Welcome Remarks
Dr. Eric Eisenberg
Senior Vice President, University-Community Partnerships, ßÙßÇÂþ»­
9:10am Keynote Speaker
Craig Martell, PhD
Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
9:35am

Panel 5 Discussion
Applying Artificial Intelligence in Industry

Moderator:
John LIcato, PhD
Assistant Professor, College of Science and Engineering, ßÙßÇÂþ»­

Panelists:
Leslie Babich
Director, SOFWERX

Todd Borkey
Executive VP and Chief Technology Officer, Huntington Ingalls Industries

Peter Yu, JD
Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director, Center for Law and Intellectual Property

Jags Kandasamy
CEO, Latent AI

11:15am

Panel 6 Discussion
How Can Tampa Bay Take a Leadership Role in AI Innovation?

Moderator:
Chris Hunter
Chief Legal Officer, IWP Family Office

Panelists:
Adriana Avakian
Found/CEO, The IncLab

11:50am

Research Quick Shots with Prospective PhD Students

Daeun Lee (candidate)
Learning Co-Speech Gesture for Multimodal Aphasia Type Detection

Stephen Steinle (candidate)
Applications of Cognitive Modeling in Multifactor Authentication

Nicolas Bustos (candidate)
FT-CycleGAN: a Novel, Frequency-Based Loss Function for Visual-and-IR Image Translation to Boost Multimodal Object Detection

Mehrsa Mashhadi (candidate)
The Impact of Using Data Fusion with Synthetic Images on Multimodal Object Detection

Dr. Paul Hungler (candidate)
Intelligent Dynamically

1:30pm

Keynote Discussion
Prasant Mohapatra, PhD
Provost and Chief Academic Officer, ßÙßÇÂþ»­

Ylli Bajraktari
President/CEO
Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)

2:00pm

Roundtable 2
Developing the Future AI Workforce

Moderator:
Matthew Mullarkey, PhD
Founder/Director of the Doctor of Business Administration, Muma College of Business, ßÙßÇÂþ»­ / GNSI Non-Resident Fellow

Panelists:
Avik Batra
Managing Director, Accenture Song

Angela Cough
Senior Advisor, Digital Talent, Chief Digitial and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO)

Joe Partlow
Chief Technology Officer, ReliaQuest

Eric Vogelpohl
Chief Technology Officer, Presidio

Sharon Daniels
Senior Leader, Arria NLG

Denis Edwards, DBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Kforce