Great Power Competition

Rhea Law (Welcome Speaker), President, University of South Florida

Dr. Eric Eisenberg (Welcome Speaker), Interim Provost and Senior Vice President, University of South Florida

David Lamm, (Welcome Speaker), Acting Director Near East and South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies

General (Ret) Frank McKenzie (Keynote Speaker), Executive Director, Global and National Security Institute

Rear Admiral Nicholas Homan (Welcome Remarks), Director of Intelligence, USCENTCOM

Brigadier General (Ret) Peter Zwack (Keynote Address and Q&A), Global Fellow at The Kennan Institute 

Gregory Ryckman (Plenary Speaker), Deputy Director for Global Integration, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Jeff Aiton (Moderator), J2 Strategic Competition Director, CENTCOM

Dr. Nathan Barrick (Panelist), Deputy Chief of Strategy and Analysis, SOCOM

Colonel (Ret) Tom Wilhelm (Panelist), Director U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Officer

Dr. Maria Snegovaya (Panelist), Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Mike Cleary (Panelist), Strategic Competition Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Dr. Yoshiko Herrera (Panelist), Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Todd Veazie (Moderator), Director of Strategic Multilayer Assessment, The Joint Staff, Pentagon

Major General Kevin Leahy (Panelist), Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command Central

Dr. Hal Brands (Panelist), Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

Dan Blumenthal (Panelist), Director of Asia Studies, American Enterprise Institute

Dr. June Teufel Dreyer (Panelist), Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami

Lieutenant General Dimitri Henry (Plenary Speaker), Director for Intelligence, Joint Staff (J2)

Quinton DuBose (Moderator), Strategic Competition Program, J2, U.S. Central Command

Major General Sean Salene (Panelist), Director, Strategy, Plans and Policy, U.S. Central Command

Dr. Dawn Murphy (Panelist), Professor of International Security Studies, U.S. Air War College

Grant Rumley (Panelist) , Goldberger Fellow, The Washington Institute

Dr. Lawrence Reardon (Panelist), Professor of Political Science, University of New Hampshire

Major General David Doyle (Plenary Remarks), Chief of Staff, U.S. Central Command

Matthew McInnis (Moderator), Senior Fellow, Institute for the Study of War

Daniel Tobin (Panelist), Deputy Director of China Studies, National Intelligence University

Emily de la Bruyere (Panelist), Senior Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy

Dean Cheng (Panelist), Senior Research Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

Peter Mattis (Panelist), Special Competitive Studies Project, U.S. Naval Institute

Dr. Randy Larsen (Featured Speaker), Associate Dean, Office of Research and Scholarship, University of South Florida

Tom Waters (Session Lead), Assistant Director of Startups, University of South Florida