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Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Time
Location
10:00 am – 7:00 pm
INDEPENDENCE FOYER
1:00 – 1:05 pm
Dana Hudson, Chair, NDIA SO/LIC Division
Gen Hawk Carlisle, USAF (Ret), President & CEO, NDIA  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
1:05 – 1:30 pm
Representative Scott Taylor, U.S. House of Representatives, (R-VA-2)  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Moderator: Daniel Cabel, Special Operations Liaison, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Tambrein Bates, Director, SOFWERX
Brooke Pyne, ODTA, Tech Transfer, Naval Surface Warfare Center
John Lazar, Director, Rapid Reaction Technology Office (Invited)
Shane Shaneman,Director, Strategic Government Research & Engagements, Carnegie Mellon University (Invited)  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Andrew Knaggs, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
3:00 – 3:30 pm
REGENCY FOYER
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Moderator: MG Patrick Higgins, USA (Ret), Vice President, Business Development, Goldbelt Inc.
Andrew Knaggs, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism
BGen Dennis Crall, USMC, Principal Deputy Cyber Adviser, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Jen Edgin, Deputy Commandant (DC-I) Intelligence Chief Technology Officer
 
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
4:30 – 5:00 pm
Owen West, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict
Dana Hudson, Chair, NDIA SO/LIC Division  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
5:00 – 6:30 pm
INDEPENDENCE BALLROOM
6:30 pm
LTG Paul Ostrowski, USA, Principal Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) and Director of the Army Acquisition Corps
ADM Eric Olson, USN, (Ret) Rylander Awardee
VADM Joseph Maguire, USN (Ret), DeProspero Awardee
 
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Time
Location
7:00 am – 5:00 pm
INDEPENDENCE FOYER
7:00 – 8:00 am
REGENCY BALLROOM FOYER
8:00 – 8:05 am
Dana Hudson, Chair, NDIA SO/LIC Division  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
8:05 – 8:35 am
Representative Michael Waltz, U.S. House of Representatives, (R-FL-6)  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
8:35 – 9:05 am
James Smith, SES, Acquisition Executive, U.S. Special Operations Command  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
9:05 – 11:00 am
Moderator: LCDR Jeff Williams, USN (Ret), President and CEO, Strategos Consulting, LLC
COL Joel Babbitt, USA, Program Executive Officer – SOF WARRIOR
Margaret McCaskey, Program Executive Officer – Special Reconnaissance, Surveillance & Exploitation
Col Melissa Johnson, USAF, Program Executive Officer – Fixed Wing  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
9:30 am – 4:00 pm
INDEPENDENCE BALLROOM
11:00 – 11:30 am
INDEPENDENCE BALLROOM
11:30 – 12:30 pm
Moderator: RADM Brian Losey, USN (Ret), Partner, Shield AI
Nina Berry, Ph.D., Joint Improvised Defeat Organization (Invited)
Mike Kramer, Ph.D., Joint Improvised Defeat Organization, Technology and Strategy Branch
Shane Shaneman,Director, Strategic Government Research & Engagements, Carnegie Mellon University (Invited)
Nick Wager, Ph.D., Defense Threat Reduction Agency  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
12:30 – 1:30 pm
INDEPENDENCE BALLROOM
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Moderator: Jared Ross, Vice President, CALIBRE Systems, Inc.
Honorable Michael Lumpkin, Senior Vice President, Leidos
Patty Deuster, Ph.D., MPH, CNS, Professor & Director, Consortium for Health & Military Performance (CHAMP)
Kevin C. O'Connor, D.O., FAAFP, Director of Executive Medicine, The GW Medical Faculty Associates
Phil Wagner, M.D., Founder & CEO, Sparta Science  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
2:30 – 3:30 pm
Moderator: Chris Royse, Senior Director, Business Development, MRI Global
Greg Isbill, Nuclear Engineer, Leidos Intelligence Solutions
Kenneth Myers, Senior Vice President, National Security Solutions PAE
Robert Peters, National Defense University  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
3:30 – 4:00 pm
INDEPENDENCE BALLROOM
4:00 – 4:30 pm
Annette Totten, Director of the National Counterproliferation Center, ODNI (Invited)  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
4:30 – 5:00 pm
LTG Michael Nagata, USA, Director, Strategic Operational Planning, NCTC (Invited)  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
Thursday, February 7, 2019

Time
Location
8:00 am – 12:00 pm
INDEPENDENCE FOYER
8:00 – 11:00 am
INDEPENDENCE BALLROOM
8:00 – 9:00 am
INDEPENDENCE BALLROOM
9:00 – 9:05 am
Dana Hudson, Chair, NDIA SO/LIC Division  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
9:05 – 9:35 am
Lisa Sanders, Director, Science & Technology, U.S. Special Operations Command  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
9:35 – 10:35 am
Moderator: Lisa Sanders, Director, Science & Technology, U.S. Special Operations Command
Charles Perkins, Ph.D., Principal Deputy for Emerging Capability & Prototyping
Patricia Herndon, Director, Special Warfare and Expeditionary Systems Department
CAPT Cesar G. Rios, USN, Deputy Director, Navy Digital Warfare Office-OPNAV 951
CDR James Clark, USN, Strategic Capabilities Office SOF Program Manager  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
10:35 – 11:00 am
INDEPENDENCE BALLROOM
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Moderator: LTC Mark Owens, USA (Ret), Executive Vice President, Business Development, True Velocity
AVM Alan Clements,Head Australian Defence Staff (Washington) and Australian Defence Attaché
COL Magne Rodahl (NOR), Norwegian Military and Assistant Defense Attaché
Col Bryan Cannady, USAF, Chief Innovation Officer (& Founder), Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF
12:00 pm
Dana Hudson, Chair, NDIA SO/LIC Division  
REGENCY BALLROOM EF