Great Power Competition
GPC3 Agenda
3rd Great Power Competition Conference
University of South Florida
Virtual Event
April 15-16, 2021
9:00 - 9:30 AM |
WELCOME REMARKS FLORIDA LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR JEANNETTE NUÑEZ DR. ERIC EISENBERG, Dean, College of Arts and Science, University of South Florida LTG TERRY WOLFF, USA, RET., Director, National Defense University Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies |
9:30 - 10:15 AM |
OPENING KEYNOTE: CYBERSECURITY AND THE GREAT POWERS GEN PAUL M. NAKASONE, Commander, U.S. Cyber Command, and Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service HON MIKE MCCONNELL, VADM, USN, RET., former Director of National Intelligence and the NSA; currently Executive Director, Cyber Florida |
10:15 - 10:30 AM | BREAK |
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
PANEL: THE CYBER THREAT MODERATOR: MICHAEL E. O'HANLON, Director of Research-Foreign Policy, Co-Director - Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, The Brookings Institution FRED KAPLAN, author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War HON MIKE ROGERS, former Chair of U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and Chairman, 5G Action Now HON LESLIE IRELAND, Member, Board of Directors of Citigroup and The Stimson Center, and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury |
12:00 - 12:30 PM |
LUNCHEON ADDRESS SENATOR MARK WARNER (D-Va), Chair, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence SENATOR MARCO RUBIO (R-Fl), Vice Chair, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence |
12:30 - 1:15 PM |
PLENARY SPEAKER LTGEN DENNIS CRALL, USMC, Director for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers Cyber and Chief Information Officer, Joint Staff |
1:15 - 2:45 PM |
PANEL: OUR RESPONSE OPTIONS MODERATOR: JERRY BESSETTE, Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton THOMAS C. WINGFIELD, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy DR. ISAIAH WILSON, President, Joint Special Operations University JAN TIGHE, VADM, USN, RET., former Commander, Fleet Cyber Command |
2:45 - 3:00 PM | BREAK |
3:00 - 3:45 PM |
PLENARY SPEAKER REAR ADMIRAL MICHAEL STUDEMAN, USN, Director, J2, U.S. Info-Pacific Command |
3:45 - 5:00 PM |
PANEL TRACK 1: THE GREAT CYBER TALENT COMPETITION MODERATOR: DR. RON SANDERS, former Associate Director of National Intelligence/Human Capital; currently Staff Director, Cyber Florida DR. EMAN EL-SHEIKH, Associate Vice President, Center for Cybersecurity, University of West Florida ANGELA BAILEY, Chief Human Capital Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security JOHN TAFLAN, Deputy Director for Workforce Support, National Security Agency RODNEY PETERSEN, Director, National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, NIST |
3:45 - 5:00 PM |
PANEL TRACK 2: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES MODERATOR: TERRY THOMPSON, Adjunct Instructor in Cybersecurity, Johns Hopkins University DR. GOLFO ALEXOPOULOS, Professor and Director of the University of South Florida Russia Institute BEHNAM BEN TALEBLU, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Demoncracies DR. BARNETT S. KOVEN, Training Director, Near-peer Competition Lead Researcher, ND Counterterrorism Lead Researcher, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland DEVIN ELLIS, Policy & Research Program Director, ICONS Project, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland |
9:00 - 9:30 AM |
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS MAJ GEN ALEXUS G. GRYNKEWICH, USAF, Director of Operations, U.S. Central Command PRESIDENT STEVEN C. CURALL, PHD, President, University of South Florida |
9:30 - 10:15 AM |
PLENARY SPEAKER ANDREW HALLMAN, Senior Advisor, Central Intelligence Agency, former Principal Executive in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
10:15 - 10:30 AM | BREAK |
10:30 - 12:00 PM |
PANEL TRACK 1: THE THREAT TO OUR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE MODERATOR: BRIAN FONSECA, Director, Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, Florida International University ANDY ZOLPER, SVP, CISO & Head of Technology Infrastructure, Raymond James Financial HON KAREN EVANS, Chief Information Officer, Department of Homeland Security ERIC SILAGY, President and CEO, Florida Power & Light |
10:30 - 12:00 PM |
PANEL TRACK 2: THE TECHNOLOGICAL HORIZON MODERATOR: PAT GORMAN, Executive Vice President, Cybersecurity Futures Practice Lead, Booz Allen Hamilton BETH MEINERT, Vice President, Director, Center for Government Effectiveness & Modernization, MITRE BRIAN MURPHY, CEO and Founder, ReliaQuest DR. FRANCIS J. GAVIN, Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs
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12:00 - 12:30 PM |
LUNCHEON ADDRESS GEN RICHARD D. CLARKE, USA, Commander, U.S. SOCOM |
12:30 - 1:15 PM |
PLENARY SPEAKER ADM CRAIG S. FALLER, USN, Commander US Southern Command |
1:15 - 2:45 PM |
PANEL: THE FUTURE OF CYBER CONFLICT MODERATOR: PETER SINGER, Senior Strategist and Fellow, New America Foundation, and author of Cyberwar and Burned-In GEN KEITH ALEXANDER, USA, RET., former Director of the National Security Agency; currently Co-CEO, Founder and President of IronNet Cybersecurit LTGEN MICHAEL GROEN, USMC, Director, DoD Joint Artificial Intelligence Center CHRIS INGLIS, former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency; currently Distinguished Visiting Professor in Cyber Security Studies, U.S. Naval Academy |
2:45 - 3:00 PM | BREAK |
3:00 - 3:45 PM |
CLOSING KEYNOTE: CYBERSECURITY AND THE GREAT POWERS REVISITED GEN K. FRANK MCKENZIE, USMC, Commander, U.S. Central Command |
3:45 - 5:00 PM |
CLOSING PANEL: CYBERSECURITY AND STRATEGIC DETERRENCE MODERATOR: FRANK CILLUFFO, Member of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission and Director, McCrary Institute for Cybersecurity, Auburn University HON MIKE MCCONNELL, VADM, USN, RET., former Director of National Intelligence and the NSA; currently Executive Director, Cyber Florida HON MICHAEL CHERTOFF, former Secretary of Homeland Security, currently President and CEO of the Chertoff Group LTGEN DENNIS CRALL, USMC, Director for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers Cyber and Chief Information Officer, Joint Staff |