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Speakers & Panel Sessions

 

Featured Speakers

 

Wednesday, March 4

8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Plenary Address
SMA Jack Tilley, USA (Ret.)
former Sergeant Major of the Army

 

Wednesday, March 4
Noon - 1:30 p.m.

Luncheon with Keynote Speaker *

LTG Frank Kearney III, USA
Deputy Commander
U.S. Special Operations Command

 

Wednesday, March 4
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Global Information Grid (GIG 2.0)

VADM Nancy Brown, USN

Director, Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems (J-6)
The Joint Staff

 

Wednesday, March 4

5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Gala Dinner*
A Taste of Tampa - Cigars & Salsa

Keynote Address

GEN Peter J. Schoomaker, USA (Ret.)
former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command
35th Chief of Staff, U.S. Army

 

Thursday, March 5
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Presidential Cyber Initiative

Lt Gen Harry D. Raduege, Jr., USAF (Ret.)

Chairman, Center for Network Innovation, Deloitte & Touche LLP

former Director, Defense Information Systems Agency

 

Thursday, March 5
Noon - 1:30 p.m.

Luncheon with Keynote Speaker *

LTG Carroll F. Pollett, USA
Director
Defense Information Systems Agency

 

Thursday, March 5

3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Keynote Address

MG Jay W. Hood, USA
Chief of Staff

U.S. Central Command

 

 

Panel Sessions

Wednesday, March 4

9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

C4 Panel Session - Breaking Down Barriers: Enabling a True Enterprise Network

The C4 panel will be led by the CENTCOM J6, BG Mark Bowman, to address Strategic Reposturing Initiatives, specifically discussing how to fight through the barriers in the networks between information sharing and network security to enable a true enterprise network. While the panel will remain unclassified, expert speakers and audience engagement will help to make the discussions meaningful. Specific initiatives to be discussed will include C4 Infrastructure, C2 On-the-Move, Network Operations, Joint Enterprise Services, and Coalition/Inter-Agency Information Sharing. These initiatives will be discussed within the context of providing the "so what" capabilities these initiatives provide the warfighter.

Moderator:
BG Mark S. Bowman, USA
J6, U.S. Central Command

Panelists:
LTC Sam Anderson, USA

Commander, 112th Signal Battalion (Special Operations) (Airborne)

Lt Col Russ Smith, USAF
Deputy Commander, Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE)

Group Captain Ian Vellely, United Kingdom, Royal Air Force
Deputy Director, USCENTCOM J2

 

Thursday, March 5

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Intelligence Panel - Breaking Down Barriers by Flattening Networks

This panel will address Global War on Terror (GWOT) activities, specifically discussing how the Intelligence Community (IC) and Special Operations Forces (SOF) have flattened networks to better target terrorist organizations and pathways. While the panel will remain unclassified, expert speakers and audience engagement will help to make the discussions meaningful. Specific initiatives to be discussed will include the National Security Agency's (NSA's) Real Time Regional Gateway (RTRG) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA's) e-GEOINT web services and initiatives with full motion video to support enhanced targeting and to provide critical bandwidth for tactical to strategic to tactical data movement. These initiatives will be discussed within the context of providing the "so what" capabilities these networking collaborations provide at the user-level.

 

Moderator:
Mr. Konrad Trautman
Director of Intelligence, J2
U.S. Special Operations Command

Panelists:

MG John DeFreitas III, USA
Deputy Director for Analysis and Production
SIGINT Directorate
National Security Agency

 

LTG David P. Fridovich, USA
Director, Center for Special Operations

U.S. Special Operations Command

BG Brian Keller, USA
Military Executive
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

 


Thursday, March 5

2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

IT Challenge to Industry

Mr. Doug Richardson, US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), will discuss how the command leverages commercial-off-the-shelf technology to meet the information sharing needs of Special Operations Forces (SOF). His remarks will focus on the need for IT companies to invest in research and development projects that apply to SOF mission areas. Mr. Donn Westerhoff, the Chief Technology Officer for USCENTCOM J6, will discuss the IT challenges of operating in a satellite-based environment.

Mr. Doug Richardson
Program Executive Officer for Special Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Exploitation
U.S. Special Operations Command

Mr. Donn Westerhoff
Chief Technology Officer
U.S. Central Command

 

 

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