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Day 1: March 24, 2026
Time	Item
8:00am	Registration and Check In
9:00am	Conference Welcome Jim Cardoso Senior Director, GNSI
9:10am	Welcome Remarks Moez Limayem President, University of South Florida
9:20am	Keynote Remarks General (Ret) Frank McKenzie Executive Director, GNSI and former Commander, USCENTCOM
9:55am	Panel 1 Discussion: Nuclear Deterrence and the Golden Dome: Will They Keep the Peace? Manolis Priniotakis (Facilitator) Senior Non-Resident Fellow, GNSI and CEO, Intelligence & National Security Directions, LLC Gregory Weaver (Panelist) Senior Associate (Non-Resident), Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS Maura Burns (Panelist) Strategic Advisor, Babel Street and former COO, CIA Elaine Bunn (Panelist) Senior Advisor (Non-Resident), Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS Kingston Reif (Panelist) Senior International and Defense Researcher, RAND Corporation
11:05am	Morning Break
11:15am	Fireside Chat: Nuclear Iran and North Korea Mohsen Milani, PhD Founding Executive Director, Center for Strategic & Diplomatic Studies, USF The Honorable Christopher Hill Former U.S. Ambassador to Korea, former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
11:45am	Lunch
1:00pm	Keynote Remarks General (Ret) John Hyten Former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, former Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, Senior Principal Advisor, Elara Nova
1:30pm	Student TED Talk-Style Presentations Tad Schnaufer II, PhD (Facilitator) Strategy & Research Manager, GNSI, University of South Florida
2:10pm	Afternoon Break (runs concurrently with below Student Roundtable)
2:15pm	(Student Event) Careers in National Security Roundtable Maura Burns (Panelist) Strategic Advisor, Babel Street and former COO, CIA Amy Nelson, PhD (Panelist) Senior Fellow, Lab Director, Future Security Scenarios Lab Seong-Hyon Lee, PhD (Panelist) Senior Fellow, George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations Brig. General Jerry Glass (Panelist) Deputy Director for Operations (National Joint Operations / IntelligenceCenter / Alternate), J3, Joint Staff Kingston Reif (Panelist) Senior International and Defense Researcher, RAND Corporation
2:45pm	Panel 2 Discussion: Nuclear Weapons on the Battlefield? Michael Miller, PhD (Facilitator) Laboratory Fellow, Technical Director Nuclear Nonproliferation, Idaho National Laboratory Michael Dudas (Panelist) Nuclear Weapons Expert Namrata, Goswami, PhD (Panelist) Professor of Space Security, Johns Hopkins University Amy Nelson, PhD (Panelist) Senior Fellow, Lab Director, Future Security Scenarios Lab
4:00pm	Day 1 Wrap Up Jim Cardoso Senior Director, GNSI
4:15pm	Conference Networking Reception (open to all attendees)

Day 2: March 25, 2026
Time	Item
8:00am	Registration and Check In
9:00am	Day 2 Welcome and Introduction Jim Cardoso Senior Director, GNSI
9:10am	Keynote Remarks / Fireside Chat Featuring opening remarks from The Honorable Franklin Miller, followed by questions and discussion with General (Ret) Frank McKenzie The Honorable Franklin Miller Principal at Scowcroft Group, Former Special Assistant to the President, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Policy, Fromer Senior Director, Defense Policy & Arms Control, National Security Council General (Ret) Frank McKenzie Executive Director, GNSI and Cyber Florida, former commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)
10:10am	Morning Break
10:30am	Panel 3 Discussion: Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Peter Garretson, PhD (Facilitator) Senior Fellow in Defense Studies, American Foreign Policy Council Patrycja Bazylczyk (Panelist) Associate Director and Associate Fellow, Missile Defense Project, CSIS Adam DeMella (Panelist) Principal, ADG Strategies, LLC Michael Miller, PhD (Panelist) Laboratory Fellow, Technical Director Nuclear Nonproliferation, Idaho National Laboratory Robert Hanson (Panelist) Associate Program Manager for National Security Infrastructure, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:45am	Lunch
1:00pm	Breakout Sessions Session 2 (Room 3709): The Golden Dome: Reality or Fiction? Facilitator: Manolis Priniotakis, Senior Non-Resident Fellow, GNSI and CEO, Intelligence & National Security Directions, LLC Sessions 3 (Room 3704): On the Nuclear Brink: Ukraine Facilitator: Lachlan Mackenzie, Associate Fellow, Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS Session 4 (Room 2703): On the Nuclear Brink: Taiwan Facilitator: Joseph Rodgers, Deputy Director, Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS Session 1 (Room 3711): Bilateral Influence Capacity Index (BICI)/Security Analysis Innovation Lab (SAIL) Facilitator: Adib Farhadi, PhD Associate Professor, Faculty Director of Executive Education and Faculty Advisor GNSI, University of South Florida
2:15pm	Afternoon Break
2:30pm	Panel 4 Discussion: China and North Korea: Evolving Nuclear Threats and Responses (J3I) Tad Schnaufer II, PhD (Facilitator) Strategy and Research Manager, GNSI, University of South Florida Hanbyeol Sohn, PhD (Panelist) Professor, Department of Strategic Studies Director, Center for Nuclear/WMD Affairs, Korea National Defense University (KNDU) Youngjoon Lee, PhD (Panelist) Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida Jongseok Woo, PhD (Panelist) Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida
3:20pm	Afternoon Break
3:30pm	Panel 5 Discussion: Is it a 3-Body or 9-Body Problem? Seong-Hyon Lee, PhD (Facilitator) Senior Fellow, George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations Joseph Rodgers (Panelist) Deputy Director, Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS Hanbyeol Sohn, PhD (Panelist) Professor, Department of Strategic Studies Director, Center for Nuclear/WMD Affairs, Korea National Defense University (KNDU) Sylvia Mishra (Panelist) Director of Nuclear Policy, Innovation and Catastophic Risk, Institute for Security and Technology Lu Makinde, PhD (Panelist) Nuclear Weapons Counterproliferation Expert
4:30pm	Closing Remarks General (Ret) Frank McKenzie Executive Director, GNSI, University of South Florida

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