Agenda

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Registration 
Room 1B

2:00 – 2:10 p.m.

Welcome and Symposium Overview
LTG Bob Wood, USA (Ret.), Executive Vice President, AFCEA International

Sandra A. Brown, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Research and Distinguished Professor, University of California-San Diego

2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Emerging Technologies
Room 1B

Overview: The Emerging Technologies panel will highlight emergent technologies in the fields of robotics, data analytics, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and health sciences.  These categories were chosen to showcase what is taking place within the Southern California region and how it impacts government, industry, and academia.

Moderator:

- RADM Michael C. Bachmann, USN (Ret.), Ph.D., Vice President for Enterprise Solutions, Scientific Research Corporation (Confirmed)

Panel Members:

- Henrik I. Christensen, Ph.D., Qualcomm Chancellor’s Chair of Robot Systems, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, San Diego  (Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) (Confirmed)

- LTG Ed Cardon, USA (Ret.), former Commanding General, Army Cyber Command and, Director U.S. Army Business Office of Transformation (Confirmed)

- Raj Minhas, Ph.D., Vice President and the Director of Interactive and Analytics Laboratory at PARC (Expertise (IA)) (Confirmed)

- Larry Smarr, Ph.D., Founding Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Health Sciences (HS)) (Confirmed)

3:45 – 4:00 p.m.

Networking Break

Marine Corps Perspective on Enhanced Warfighting Technologies
Room 1B

Overview: The mission of the Marine Corps includes warfighting “from the sea” as well as land based operations.  As a result, new technologies are constantly needed to support operations in all domains – air, land, sea, space, and cyber.  Cyber Operations, in particular, present a variety of challenges for both the Corps and all other elements of the Department of Defense.  General Crall has unique qualifications to discuss these challenges as a distinguished operational leader in the Marine Corps and, now, a senior policy leader in the Department.  He is tasked to find solutions to these challenges in his position as the Deputy Principal Cyber Advisor to the Secretary of Defense.

Speaker:
BGen Dennis Crall, USMC (Confirmed)
Deputy Principal Cyber Advisor, Office of the Secretary of Defense

4:45 – 5:00 p.m.

Closing Remarks and Transition to a Networking Reception
LTG Bob Wood, USA (Ret.), Executive Vice President, AFCEA International 

5:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Networking Reception
City Side Corridor