CDAO Defense & Security
Speakers

Lieutenant General Melvin “Jerry” Carter
Deputy Commandant for Information
US MARINE CORPS

Morgan Adamski
Executive Director
US CYBER COMMAND

William Dunlap Jr.
Deputy Chief Information Officer for Information Enterprise
US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Charles Forte
Chief Information Officer
UK MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Dr. Robert Moser, SES
Director, Information Technology Laboratory
US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER

Khoi Nguyen, SES
Command Acquisition Executive and Director for the Cyber Acquisition and Technology Directorate (J9)
US CYBER COMMAND

Dr. Robert Sadowski, SES
Chief Roboticist
US ARMY DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER

Brigadier General Bryan L. Babich
Director Mission Command Center of Excellence
US ARMY

Brigadier General C. Ryan Gunst
Senior Staff Intelligence Officer, Joint Staff Intelligence Directorate
US JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF

Thomas J. Lawhead
Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategy, Integration and Requirements
US AIR FORCE

Colonel Ryan T. Hayde
Commander, 505th Wing
US AIR FORCE

Caroline Bellamy
Chief Data Officer
UK MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Colleen Laughlin
Senior Vice President & Partner
WASHINGTON OFFICE

Bharat Patel
Product Lead, Project Linchpin - Sensor AI
US ARMY

Laura Guay
AI Technical Director, Air Combat Command CDAO
US AIR FORCE

Rachael Martin
Maven Office Director
NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

Colonel Nathan Iven
Acting Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Cyber and Data (SF/S6)
US SPACE FORCE

Colonel Kristin Saling
Director of Innovation, Army Talent Innovation Directorate
US ARMY

Colonel Scott Ruppel
Director, DAF/MIT AI Accelerator
US AIR FORCE

Alexis Bonnell
Former Chief Information Officer and Director of the Digital Capabilities Directorate
US AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY

Colonel Gabriel Arrington
Director of Operations, 618th Air Operations Center
US AIR FORCE

Graham Plaster
Director
NAUTILUS

Joshua Marcuse
Senior Associate, Wadhwani AI Center
CSIS

Wiliam 'Mac' McHenry
Senior Advisor to the Director and Intelligence Community Lead
DEFENSE INNOVATION UNIT

Cynthia Kaiser
Deputy Assistant Director, FBI
FBI

Matthew Willis, PhD
Director, Army Innovations
US ARMY

Dr. Delester Brown Jr., CDAO, NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU
CDAO
NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU

Professor Kristan J. Wheaton
Professor of Strategic Futures
US ARMY WAR COLLEGE

Michaela Mesquite
Former Deputy IC Chief AI Officer and Augmenting Intelligence using Machines (AIM) Group Chief
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Samuel Bendett
Advisor
Center for Naval Analyses

Commander Jonathan White
Cloud and Data Branch Chief, Infrastructure Services Division
US COAST GUARD