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Tampa Summit 3 Agenda

Day 1 (March 5)
9:00am	Conference Introduction Adib Farhadi, PhD Associate Professor, Faculty Director of Executive Education, University of South Florida
9:10am	Welcome Remarks General (Ret) Frank McKenzie Executive Director, Global and National Security Institute and Center for Florida Cybersecurity (Cyber Florida)
9:15am	Featured Speaker Congresswoman Laurel Lee (video) Florida, 15th District
9:20am	Keynote Speaker Vice Admiral Brad Cooper Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)
10:15am	Panel 1 Discussion How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming National Security Moderator: Carolyn Davidson, PhD Associate Dean, National Defense University / GNSI Non-Resident Fellow Panelists: Lieutenant General (Ret) John Shanahan Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for New American Security (CNAS) Damon Woodard, PhD Director of the Florida Institute for National Security, University of Florida Schuyler Moore, PhD Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)
11:15am	Featured Speaker Kathleen Hicks, PhD (video) U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
1:00pm	Featured Fireside Chat The Honorable Kirstjen Nielsen Former Secretary of Homeland Security General (Ret) Frank McKenzie Executive Director, GNSI and former Commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)
1:50pm	Panel 2 Discussion Artificial Intelligence and the Great Power Competition Moderator: Andrew Whiskeyman, PhD Associate Professor, College of Information and Cyberspace National Defense University and GNSI Non-Resident Senior Fellow Panelists: Lieutenant General (Ret) John Bansemer Director, CyberAI Project and Senior Fellow, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) Julian Mueller-Kaler Director, Strategic Foresight Hub, Stimson Center Daniel Remler Policy Advisor, Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology, U.S. Department of State
3:15pm	Panel 3 Discussion The Role of AI-Powered Disinformation in Conflict Moderator: Joshua Scacco, PhD Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Communications, University of South Florida Heather Ashby, PhD Associate Director, Disruptive Technologies and Artificial Intelligence, United States Institute of Peace Mark Abdollahian, PhD CEO, ACERTAS

Day 2 (March 6)
9:00am	Introduction and Welcome Adib Farhadi, PhD Associate Professor, Faculty Director of Executive Education University of South Florida
9:05am	Welcome Remarks Prasant Mohapatra, PhD Provost and Chief Academic Officer, University of South Florida
9:10am	Keynote Speaker General Bryan Fenton Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)
9:50am	Roundtable 1 Data Dominance and its Effect on Artificial Intelligence Moderator: David Oakley, PhD Academic Director, Global and National Security Institute Panelists: Alexandra Seymour Staff Director,Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee with the House Homeland Security Committee John Turner Acting Deputy Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (DCDAO) for Policy Roberto Gonzáles, PhD Professor of Anthropology, San Jose State University
10:55am	Panel 4 Discussion Small States' Perspective on AI and Global Security Moderator: Golfo Alexopoulos, PhD Director, Institute for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida Panelists: Joel Brynielsson, PhD Research Director, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) Peter Bovet Emanuel PhD Researcher, Swedish Defense University, Centre for Special Operations Research Major Juha Kukkola, PhD Associate Professor, Finnish Defence Forces Vilma Luoma-aho, PhD Professor and Vice Dean, School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä
1:45pm	Breakout Sessions (Track 1) Europe, Russia and AI-Enabled Security Threats Moderator: Golfo Alexopoulos, PhD Director, Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida Breakout Sessions (Track 2) Medical Integration of Artificial Intelligence Moderator: Dr. Haru Okuda Executive Director, USF Health, Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) Panelists: Aleksandra Karolak, PhD Assistant Member, Department of Machine Learning, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Dr. Andrew Borkowski, MD Chief AI Officer, VA Sunshine Network Dr. Nishit Patel, MD Professor, Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, Univesity of South Florida, Vice President and Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Tampa General Hospital Breakout Sessions (Track 3) Artificial Intelligence Simulation / Wargame Moderator: Walter Kulzy Senior Operations Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Breakout Sessions (Track 4) AI: What's Next? Moderator: Robert Hammond, PhD Director for the Center of Marketing and Sales Innovation, University of South Florida
3:00pm	Breakout Sessions (Repeat of First Session)

Day 3 (March 7)
9:00am	Introduction and Welcome Adib Farhadi, PhD Associate Professor, Faculty Director of Executive Education University of South Florida
9:05am	Welcome Remarks Dr. Eric Eisenberg Senior Vice President, University-Community Partnerships, University of South Florida
9:10am	Keynote Speaker Craig Martell, PhD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
9:35am	Panel 5 Discussion Applying Artificial Intelligence in Industry Moderator: John LIcato, PhD Assistant Professor, College of Science and Engineering, University of South Florida Panelists: Leslie Babich Director, SOFWERX Todd Borkey Executive VP and Chief Technology Officer, Huntington Ingalls Industries Peter Yu, JD Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director, Center for Law and Intellectual Property Jags Kandasamy CEO, Latent AI
11:15am	Panel 6 Discussion How Can Tampa Bay Take a Leadership Role in AI Innovation? Moderator: Chris Hunter Chief Legal Officer, IWP Family Office Panelists: Adriana Avakian Found/CEO, The IncLab
11:50am	Research Quick Shots with Prospective PhD Students Daeun Lee (candidate) Learning Co-Speech Gesture for Multimodal Aphasia Type Detection Stephen Steinle (candidate) Applications of Cognitive Modeling in Multifactor Authentication Nicolas Bustos (candidate) FT-CycleGAN: a Novel, Frequency-Based Loss Function for Visual-and-IR Image Translation to Boost Multimodal Object Detection Mehrsa Mashhadi (candidate) The Impact of Using Data Fusion with Synthetic Images on Multimodal Object Detection Dr. Paul Hungler (candidate) Intelligent Dynamically
1:30pm	Keynote Discussion Prasant Mohapatra, PhD Provost and Chief Academic Officer, University of South Florida Ylli Bajraktari President/CEO Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)
2:00pm	Roundtable 2 Developing the Future AI Workforce Moderator: Matthew Mullarkey, PhD Founder/Director of the Doctor of Business Administration, Muma College of Business, University of South Florida / GNSI Non-Resident Fellow Panelists: Avik Batra Managing Director, Accenture Song Angela Cough Senior Advisor, Digital Talent, Chief Digitial and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) Joe Partlow Chief Technology Officer, ReliaQuest Eric Vogelpohl Chief Technology Officer, Presidio Sharon Daniels Senior Leader, Arria NLG Denis Edwards, DBA Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Kforce