GNSI Tampa Summit

Mark Abdollahian, PhD (Panelist)
CEO, ACERTAS

Golfo Alexopoulos, PhD(Moderator)
Director, Institute of Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida

Heather Ashby, PhD (Panelist)
Associate Director, Disruptive Technologies and Artificial Intelligence, United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

Adriana Avakian (Panelist)
Founder and CEO, TheIncLab

Leslie Babich (Panelist)
Director, SOFWERX

Lieutenant General (Ret) John Bansemer (Panelist)
CyberAI Project and Senior Fellow, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

Ylli Bajraktari (Keynote Speaker) President and CEO, Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)

Avik Batra (Panelist)
Managing Director, Accenture Song

Todd Borkey (Panelist)
Executive VP and Chief Technology Officer, Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII)

Peter Bovet Emanuel (Panelist)
PhD Researcher, Swedish Defense University, Centre for Special Operations Research

Dr. Andrew Borkowski, MD (Panelist)
Chief AI Officer, VA Sunshine Network

Joel Brynielssen, PhD (Panelist)
Research Director, Swedish Defense Research

Vice Admiral Brad Cooper (Keynote Speaker)
Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)

Angela Cough (Panelist)
Senior Advisor, Digital Talent, Chief Digitial and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), U.S. Department of Defense

Sharon Daniels (Panelist)
Senior Leader, Arria NLG

Carolyne Davidson (Moderator)
Associate Dean, Administration and Outreach, College of International Security Affairs at National Defense University

Triparna de Vreede, PhD (Panelist)
Associate Director, School of Information and Management, University of South Florida

Denis Edwards, DBA (Panelist)
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Kforce

Eric Eisenberg, PhD (Welcome Remarks)
Senior Vice President University-Community Partnerships, University of South Florida

Adib Farhadi, PhD (Conference Host)
Faculty Director for Executive Education, University of South Florida

General Bryan Fenton (Keynote Speaker)
Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)

Roberto González, PhD (Panelist)
Professor of Anthropology, San Jose State University

Robert Hammond, PhD (Panelist)
Director for the Center of Marketing and Sales Innovation, University of South Florida

Todd Helmus, PhD (Panelist)
Senior Behavioral Scientist, Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Kathleen Hicks, PhD (Featured Speaker)
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

Chris Hunter (Moderator)
Chief Legal Officer, IWP Family Office

Jags Kandasamy (Panelist)
CEO, Latent AI

Aleksandra Karolak, PhD (Panelist)
Assistant Member, Department of Machine Learning, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Major Juha Kukkola, PhD (Panelist)
Associate Professor, Finnish Defence Forces

Walter Kulzy (Moderator)
Senior Operations Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University

Congresswoman Laurel Lee (Welcome Speaker)
Florida 15th District

John Licato, PhD (Moderator)
Assistant Professor, Founder of Advancing Machine and Human Reasoning (AMHR) Lab, University of South Florida 

Vilma Luoma-aho, PhD (Panelist)
Professor and Vice Dean of Education, University of Jyväskylä

Craig Martell, PhD (Featured Speaker)
Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, United States Department of Defense

General (Ret) Frank McKenzie (Featured Speaker)
Executive Director, GNSI

Prasant Mohapatra, PhD (Welcome Speaker)
Provost, University of South Florida

Schuyler Moore (Panelist)
Chief Technical Officer, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)

Julian Mueller-Kaler (Panelist)
Director, Strategic Foresight Hub, Stimson Center

Matthew Mullarkey, PhD (Moderator)
Director/Founder, Doctor of Business Administration at the Muma College of Business, University of South Florida

Kirstjen Nielsen (Keynote Speaker)
former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security

David Oakley, PhD (Moderator)
Academic Director, GNSI

Dr. Haru Okuda, MD (Moderator)
Executive Director, USF Health, CAMLS
Chief Executive Officer, USF Health Professions Conferencing Corporation

Dr. Nishit Patel, MD (Panelist)
Professor, Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery in the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, Vice president and Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Tampa General Hospital

Joe Partlow (Panelist)
Chief Technology Officer, ReliaQuest

Daniel Remler (Panelist)
Policy Advisor, Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology

Joshua Scacco, PhD (Moderator)
Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Department of Communication, University of South Florida

Alexandra Seymour (Panelist)
Staff Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee with the House Homeland Security Committee

Lieutenant General (Ret) John Shanahan (Panelist)
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for New American Security (CNAS)

John Turner (Panelist)
Acting Deputy CDAO for Policy, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO)

Eric Vogelpohl (Panelist)
Chief Technology Officer, Presidio

Andrew Whiskeyman, PhD (Moderator)
Associate Professor, College of Information and Cyberspace, National Defense University (NDU) and GNSI Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Damon Woodard, PhD (Panelist)
Director, Florida Institute for National Security, Professor, University of Florida

Peter Yu, JD (Panelist)
Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director, Center for Law and Intellectual Property, Texas A&M University