CDAO Defense & Security
2025 Speakers
Lieutenant General Jerry Carter
Deputy Commandant for Information
US MARINE CORPS
Charles Forte
Chief Information Officer
UK MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
Tyler Saltsman
Co-Founder & CEO
EDGERUNNER AI
Brigadier General Antwan Dunmyer, Sr.
Director Mission Command Center of Excellence
US ARMY
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
Mark Gorak
Director of the Cyber Academic Engagement Office and Principal Director for Resources & Analysis, Office of the Chief Information Officer
US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Commodore Rachel Singleton MBE
Head of Defence AI Centre
UK MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
Tony Bland
Maven Chief Engineer
NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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
Michaela Mesquite
Former Deputy IC Chief AI Officer and Augmenting Intelligence using Machines (AIM) Group Chief
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Commander Jonathan White
Cloud and Data Branch Chief, Infrastructure Services Division
US COAST GUARD
Roman Jankowski
Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Officer
US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Lieutenant Colonel Blair Wilcox
Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Strategic Land Power and Futures
US ARMY WAR COLLEGE
Rob King
3x Federal CDO
Timothy Ditter
Senior Research Scientist
CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES
Jarrod Vawdry
Field Chief Data Scientist
DOMINO DATA LABS
Frederick “Trey” Coleman
Chief Product Officer
RAFT
Terry Dorsey
Sr. Data Architect and Evangelist for North America
DENODO
Alex Hannagan
Maven’s Senior Acquisition Manager
NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Eftychis Gregos-Mourginakis
Co-Founder and COO
Kibu
Bryan Lane
Founder
DATA XD
Frederick “Trey” Coleman
Chief Product Officer
RAFT
Greg Bridges
Director of Disclosure
US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY