Great Power Competition
GPC5 Speakers
5th Great Power Competition Conference
University of South Florida
April 28-29, 2022
Virtual Event
Dr. Ron Sanders (Conference and Day 1 Overview), Staff Director, Cyber Florida: The Florida Center for
Cybersecurity
Senator Marco Rubio (Welcoming Remarks)
Senator Rick Scott (Welcoming Remarks)
Florida LT GOV Jeanette Nunez (Welcoming Remarks)
VADM Jan Tighe (Panelist), former Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information
Warfare and Director, Naval Intelligence, and former Fleet Commander,
U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. Tenth Fleet
Peter Singer (Moderator), Author and New America Senior Fellow
Dr. Michael O’Hanlon (Moderator), Director of Research - Foreign Policy,
Brookings Institution
HON Michael Chertoff (Segment Keynote), Co-founder & Executive Chairman, The Chertoff Group; former Secretary of Homeland Security
ADM James M. Loy (Panelist), Senior Counselor, The Cohen Group; former Deputy
Secretary of Homeland Security
Frank Cilluffo (Moderator), Director, McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, Auburn University; former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush for Homeland Security
HON Ronald S. Moultrie (Segment Keynote), Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security
John McLaughlin (Panelist), Former Acting Director and Deputy Director, Central
Intelligence Agency
Michael Allen (Moderator), Managing Director & Partner, Beacon Global Strategies
Gen Michael Hayden USAF, Retired (Closing Keynote Address), Principal, Strategic Advisory Services, The Cohen Group
Cathy Lanier (Panelist), Senior Vice President, Chief Security Officer, National Football League; former Chief, Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia
Michael P. Downing (Panelist), Chief Security Officer, Oak View Group; former
Commanding Officer, Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau,
Los Angeles Police Department
HON Jen Easterly (Segment Keynote), Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Eric Silagy (Panelist), CEO, Florida Power & Light (FPL)
Christopher Ling (Panelist), Independent Consultant