GNSI Tampa Summit
Speakers
Here's the list of currently confirmed speakers. We'll continue to recruit the best, most dynamic experts for our event. Speakers, agenda and speaker time slots are subject to change at any time.
Mark Abdollahian, PhD (Panelist), CEO, ACERTAS
Golfo Alexopoulos, PhD, (Moderator), Director, Institute of Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida
Heather Ashby, PhD (Panelist), Associate Director, Disruptive Technologies and Artificial Intelligence, United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
Lieutenant General (Ret) John Bansemer (Panelist), CyberAI Project and Senior Fellow, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)
Todd Borkey (Panelist), Executive VP and Chief Technology Officer, Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII)
Peter Bovet Emanuel (Panelist),
PhD Researcher, Swedish Defense University, Centre for Special Operations Research
Vice Admiral Brad Cooper (Keynote Speaker), Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)
Angela Cough (Panelist), Senior Advisor, Digital Talent, Chief Digitial and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), U.S. Department of Defense
Sharon Daniels (Panelist), Senior Leader, Arria NLG
Carolyne Davidson (Moderator), Associate Dean, Administration and Outreach, College of International Security Affairs at National Defense University
Triparna de Vreede, PhD (Panelist), Associate Director, School of Information and Management, University of South Florida
Denis Edwards, DBA (Panelist)
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Kforce
Eric Eisenberg, PhD (Welcome Remarks), Senior Vice President University-Community Partnerships, University of South Florida
Adib Farhadi, PhD (Conference Host), Faculty Director for Executive Education, University of South Florida
General Bryan Fenton (Keynote Speaker), Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)
Roberto González, PhD (Panelist)
Professor of Anthropology, San Jose State University
Robert Hammond, PhD (Panelist), Director for the Center of Marketing and Sales Innovation, University of South Florida
Todd Helmus, (Panelist)
Senior Behavioral Scientist, Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Kathleen Hicks, (Featured Speaker),
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
(via prerecorded video)
Chris Hunter (Moderator), Chief Legal Officer, IWP Family Office
Jags Kandasamy, (Panelist),
CEO, Latent AI
Aleksandra Karolak, PhD (Panelist), Assistant Member, Department of Machine Learning, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Major Juha Kukkola, PhD (Panelist),
Associate Professor, Finnish Defence Forces
Walter Kulzy (Moderator), Senior Operations Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University
The Honorable Laurel Lee (Welcome Speaker), Congresswoman, Florida 15th District
John Licato, PhD (Moderator), Assistant Professor, Founder of Advancing Machine and Human Reasoning (AMHR) Lab, University of South Florida
Vilma Luoma-aho, PhD (Panelist),
Professor and Vice Dean of Education, University of Jyväskylä
Craig Martell (Featured Speaker),
Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, United States Department of Defense
General (Ret) Frank McKenzie (Featured Speaker), Executive Director, GNSI
Prasant Mohapatra, PhD (Welcome Speaker), Provost, University of South Florida
Schuyler Moore (Panelist), Chief Technical Officer, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)
Julian Mueller-Kaler (Panelist), Director, Strategic Foresight Hub, Stimson Center
Matthew Mullarkey, PhD (Moderator), Director/Founder, Doctor of Business Administration at the Muma College of Business, University of South Florida
Kirstjen Nielsen (Keynote Speaker), former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
David Oakley, PhD (Moderator), Academic Director, GNSI
Dr. Haru Okuda, MD (Moderator),
Executive Director, USF Health, CAMLS
Chief Executive Officer, USF Health Professions Conferencing Corporation
Dr. Nishit Patel, MD (Panelist), Professor, Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery in the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, Vice president and Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Tampa General Hospital
Joe Partlow (Panelist), Chief Technology Officer, ReliaQuest
Daniel Remler (Panelist),
Policy Advisor, Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology
Joshua Scacco, PhD (Moderator),
Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Department of Communication, University of
South Florida
Alexandra Seymour (Panelist), Staff Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee with the House Homeland Security Committee
Lieutenant General (Ret) John Shanahan (Panelist), Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for New American Security (CNAS)
John Turner (Panelist),
Acting Deputy CDAO for Policy, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO)
Eric Vogelpohl (Panelist), Chief Technology Officer, Presidio
Andrew Whiskeyman, PhD (Moderator), Associate Professor, College of Information and Cyberspace, National Defense University (NDU)
Damon Woodard, PhD (Panelist), Director, Florida Institute for National Security, Professor, University of Florida
Peter Yu, JD (Panelist)
Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director, Center for Law and Intellectual
Property, Texas A&M University
This is an attribution conference, meaning it will be live-streamed and recorded. Attribution for comments and content from this conference may be used by GNSI or any individual or organization for later distribution in the form of online postings, videos, printed materials, case studies, recaps and other reports.