CDAO Defense & Security
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