Main Stage Sessions
All times ET and subject to change
Editorial The Air Force's Future Makers: How Top Scientists Are Shaping the Technology Breakthroughs of Tomorrow
A look at the future of U.S. Air Force research and development. One of America's top scientists sits down with us to talk hypersonic rockets, sixth-generation fighter jets, autonomous swarms, novel materials, artificial intelligence, and merging all of those together to create new all-domain defense capabilities for the era of great power competition.
Dr. Timothy Bunning
Chief Technology Officer
Air Force Research Laboratory
Patrick Tucker
Technology Editor
Defense One
Editorial CENTCOM Leaps Ahead: Innovation from Sand to Sea
U.S. Central Command has become a hotbed for focused innovation and experimentation in areas such as collaborative autonomy. We'll discuss how the command is pairing operators with innovators to develop new tools and capabilities faster and how great power competition is a factor not just in Asia and Europe but on the ground across Central Command, along with many other urgent concerns.
Schuyler Moore
Chief Technology Officer
U.S Central Command
Andrew Moore
Advisor on AI, Robotics, Cloud Computing, and Data Analytics
U.S Central Command
Patrick Tucker
Technology Editor
Defense One
Sponsored BLUF on Commercial Technology: A view into imperatives, adaptations, and innovations
Defense One sits down with Kevin Fogarty, chief technology officer of Leidos Defense Group, to discuss what the military must derive from commercial technology, how to rapidly achieve integrated benefits, and why continuous innovation is more important than ever in today’s environment.
Kevin Fogarty
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Defense Group
Leidos
Laurie Diamond
Associate Publisher & VP, Defense Group
Defense One
Editorial Arming the New Europe
As Russian forces attack Ukraine, European leaders want to expand their defense budgets and industrial bases. Hear what Poland needs to meet the demand and what member states need to build a collective defense for the new NATO.
Tomasz Szatkowski
Ambassador to NATO
Poland
Kevin Baron
Executive Editor
Defense One
Sponsored Underwriter Session - Pluralsight
Prepare your workforce to fill the roles, and responsibilities required to win the fight in cyberspace. More than a point in time, learn how to evaluate the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to get the job done in a constantly evolving threat landscape.
Aaron M. Rosenmund
Director of Security Research and Curriculum
Pluralsight
Daniela Fayer
Publisher
Defense One
Editorial Battlefield Report Card: How Ukrainian Forces Under Fire Are Winning With Technology
A look at how Ukrainian forces are using digital tools, consumer technology, and rapid innovation to achieve asymmetric parity with a much larger force. We'll also talk about how Russia is adapting its forces and the lessons there for NATO and allied militaries.
Samuel Bendett
Adviser
CNA Strategy, Policy, Plans and Programs Center (SP3)
Nataliia Kushnerska
Chief Operations Officer
Brave1, Ukraine
Alex Bornyakov
Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation for IT industry development
Ukraine
Sam Skove
Staff Reporter
Defense One
Sponsored Disrupting Data—the First Stage of the Data Revolution. A Talk with Booz Allen’s Ki Lee
Booz Allen’s Ki Lee discusses how a decentralized approach to data coupled with ubiquitous internet can accelerate the evolution from a digital to a cognitive age.
Ki Lee
Senior Vice President
Booz Allen
Closing Keynote: Securing Air Superiority: CENTCOM's Tech Innovation
Hear from Air Forces Central Command on the fast-moving air operations in the Middle East and how CENTCOM is exploring new technologies in intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and autonomy to secure air dominance in a new era.
Lt. Gen. Alex Grynkewich
Commander
Air Forces Central Command
Marcus Weisgerber
Global Business Editor
Defense One
Main Stage Sessions
All times ET and subject to change
Registration + Breakfast
Registration begins at 8:00am in the Atrium of the Ronald Reagan Building.
Welcome Remarks
Welcome to the 8th annual Defense One Tech Summit!
Daniela Fayer
Publisher
Defense One
Sponsored Welcome Remarks by OpenText
Hear from Keith Nelson, OpenText's Industry Senior Strategist for Global Public Sector kick off today's Defense One Tech Summit.
Keith Nelson
Industry Senior Strategist, Global Public Sector
OpenText
Editorial Opening Remarks: Defense One
Opening remarks by Defense One's technology editor, Patrick Tucker.
Patrick Tucker
Technology Editor
Defense One
Editorial Managing the Monster: Setting Rules and Expectations for Emerging Tech in National Security
As artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies enter mainstream awareness, the U.S. government has been working on policies and partnerships to take advantage of this new technology. We'll explore how the U.S. is working to leverage emerging technology for a new era of security, the guardrails it's building to make sure public interests and oversight are in place, and the threat posed by AI in the hands of autocratic regimes.
Charles Luftig
Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Policy and Capabilities
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Michael Horowitz
Director, Emerging Capabilities Policy Office
Department of Defense
Patrick Tucker
Technology Editor
Defense One
Editorial What Europe Needs Right Now
New threats and NATO's expansion are driving European solutions for next-generation capabilities. In this exclusive interview with Estonia's permanent secreatary of the ministry of defense, learn about new ways members are colloborating on technology development and procurement to build deterrent capabilities faster.
Kusti Salm
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defense
Estonia
Kevin Baron
Executive Editor
Defense One
Coffee & Networking Break
Refill your coffee & meet us back for the next session in 15 minutes!
Sponsored Session presented by Elite Underwriter, MarkLogic|Progress
A discussion about industry’s impressions and abilities to respond to Government transformation, modernization, and cloud migration as they engage with the multiple layers in the IT Enterprise and understanding Bespoke/Open source/COTS/GOTS as it pertains to Software and Data.
Bill Washburn
Federal Chief Program Officer (CPO)
MarkLogic
Daniela Fayer
Publisher
Defense One
Editorial The New Defense Startup
How are defense companies taking advantage of new digital technologies like virtual twinning and distributed manufacturing to scale up delivery of new capabilities, and what lessons about logistics and battlefield innovation are they drawing from Ukraine?
Lt. Col. Bryan Ralston
Autonomy Prime Lead and a Flight Test Engineer
AFWERX
Lauren Williams
Senior Editor
Defense One
Editorial Big Breakthrough Bets: Inside the Defense Department's Most Ambitious Tech Efforts
Hypersonics, next-generation swarming, artificial intelligence, quantum sensing, encryption and computing, and all-domain command and control: Hear from a top Defense Department official on the challenge and opportunity in these criticial technologies and the path forward to world-changing breakthroughs.
Maynard Holliday
Deputy CTO
Department of Defense
Patrick Tucker
Technology Editor
Defense One
Sponsored Network Transformation in Action: An Industry Use Case, Opportunities for DOD
TDM networks are becoming increasingly costly to maintain and operate. Hear how Verizon modernized its high-traffic network and how DOD can continue to embrace digital transformation to drive mission success. This roadmap will help agencies navigate the complexities of existing networks and implement cost-effective strategies for TDM migration.
Lamont Copeland
Director of Federal Solutions Architecture
Verizon Business Group
Jim Westdorp
Chief Technologist
Ciena Government Solutions, Inc.
Laurie Diamond
Associate Publisher & VP, Defense Group
Defense One
Lunch & Networking
Grab lunch & network with your peers!
Sponsored A Foundational Approach to Cybersecurity Autonomy
How a solid attack response framework enabled by AI services can streamline and strengthen enterprise security.
Paul Beckman
Chief Information Security Officer
ManTech
Jeff (J.D.) Jack
General Manager, Public Sector Cybersecurity
Google
J David Britt
Director of Technology, Defense Sector
ManTech
Editorial The Pentagon's Plan to Attract and Scale Private Capital for National Security
A discussion about how the Pentagon can align private sector money more effectively to win strategic competition against China.
Jason Rathje
Director, Office of Strategic Capital
Department of Defense
Patrick Tucker
Technology Editor
Defense One
Editorial Mad About China
Lawmakers want everyone from the Pentagon to the private sector to compete with China. Will they? How far should tech and industry leaders be willing to go?
Dmitri Alperovitch
Co-Founder and Chairman
Silverado Policy Accelerator
Geo Saba
Chief of Staff
Representative, Ro Khanna
Ann E. Kowalewski
Professional Staff Member
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Kevin Baron
Executive Editor
Defense One
Sponsored Tuning Technical Capabilities to Meet the Needs of Future MPEs
The modernization of national defense is in a period of rapid advancement that binds partners and coalitions together through data like never before. The path forward relies on what the Pentagon calls Mission Partner Environments. MPEs allow the U.S. military to communicate, collaborate, and share sensitive or classified information securely and in real-time. In this main stage session, GDIT’s MPE luminary and Special Operations Forces veteran Eric Tapp explains how the future of MPEs involve data centricity, Zero Trust, and a transport agnostic architecture that delivers flexible and interoperable Command and Control (C2) systems to coalition partners.
Eric Tapp
Business Development, Defense Division
GDIT
Hans Hollister
Vice President & General Manager, Air & Space Forces, Defense Division
GDIT
George Jackson
VP of Events
GovExec
Editorial Emerging Tech in Defense Acquisition: Navigating and Transforming the DOD's Acquisition Landscape
Two of the nation's most innovative new defense businesses shed light on the Pentagon's efforts to modernize the way it buys and builds. How will trends in information technology, AI, and other aspects of emerging tech change the Defense Department's approach to acquisition? Where is DOD still getting in its own way, and what are the lessons the department can learn from Ukraine, where innovation is happening in combat?
John Serafini
CEO
HawkEye 360
Biz Peabody
Chief of Staff
Shield AI
Tony Frazier
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Public Sector Earth Intelligence
Maxar
David Spirk
Senior Counselor
Palantir Technologies
Marcus Weisgerber
Global Business Editor
Defense One
Editorial Up and Away: How Space is Reshaping the Battlefield
Launch is getting cheaper and new satellite constellations are proliferating, but how secure is U.S. dominance of space? Experts and officials discuss what new technologies the United States needs, and how they plan to deter and defeat today’s threats.
Gen. David Thompson
Vice Chief of Space Operations
Space Force
Todd Harrison
Managing Director
Metrea Strategic Insights
Patrick Tucker
Technology Editor
Defense One
Cocktails & Networking
Thank you for attending the 8th annual Defense One Tech Summit. We invite you to enjoy refreshments & cocktails in the Atrium!
