Convening to Act

Day One - 27 March 

• 8:00 – 8:55 Registration and Continental Breakfast 
• 8:55 - 9:00 Welcome: Mr. George Barnes, NCF Board Chairman, Former Deputy Director, National Security Agency; Ms. Laura Nelson, President & CEO, National Cryptologic Foundation (NCF)
• 9:00 – 9:20 Opening Keynote: Mr. Dave Imbordino, Deputy Director, Engagement & Policy, National Security Agency (NSA) 
• 9:20 – 9:40 Industry Keynote: Mr. Phil Venables, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Google Cloud
   
• 9:40 – 10:30 Setting the Stage for AI  
  Moderator – Mr. Vinh Nguyen, Chief Responsible AI Officer, NSA 
  Panelists: Dr. Allison Curran, Assistant DNI for S&T, ODNI; Dr. Matthew Gaston, Director, Artificial Intelligence Division, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute (CMU SEI); Mr. Nick Hull, Deputy to the Commander of the Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), USCYBERCOM
   
• 10:30 – 10:50 Break 
   
• 10:50 – 11:15 NSA’s Lessons Learned from a Decade of AI Adoption: Mr. Vinh Nguyen, Chief Responsible AI Officer, NSA 
   
• 11:15 – 11:45 AI Start-up Panel 
  Moderator:  Mr. John Lee, Architect, In-Q-Tel (IQT) 
  Panelists:  Mr. Eiso Kant, CTO & Founder, Poolside; Mr. Joe Laws, CEO, Trase; Ms. Ashley Vaughan, Head of Government Relations, Dreadnode; Ms. Jessica Souder, Director of Government & Defense, Protect AI
   
• 11:45 – 1:00 Lunch (Flexible) Topics to be discussed at multiple tables
    TOPIC: Promoting Trustworthy National Security AI, Mr. Thomas "TD" Stuck, Director, Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Transparency, NSA
    TOPIC: Transparency and interoperability in National Security applications, Mr. Jason Greene, Technical Director, CLPT, NSA
    TOPIC: AI Benchmarking, Testing & Evaluation, Ms. Amy Oliver, Policy Officer, NSA 
    TOPIC: AI Talent Development, Dr. Graig Sauer, Chief Data Scientist, NSA 
    TOPIC: AI Governance System Standards and Technologies, Mr. John Marshall, AI Lead, Directorate of Capabilities, NSA
    TOPIC: AI Acquisition, Ms. Sabra Horne, Vice Chair, Entrepreneur-in Residence, BMNT
    TOPIC: Cybersecurity Issues Impacting AI Adoption, Mr. Matt Kemph, Vice-President, Mission Partnership Operations, In-Q-Tel
   
• 1:00 – 1:50 Lightning round with Q&A (10 minutes per with 10 min. Q&A)  
    AI security and assurance, Dr. David Silberberg, Chief AI Architect for Cyber Operations, JHU/APL 
    Security and Reliability for LLMs, Dr. Shannon K. Gallagher, Senior ML Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University
    Mitigating National Security Risks with Continuous Advancement of Language Models: Securing the Future, Dr. Paul Rodrigues, Chief AI Officer, Microsoft 
   
• 1:50 – 2:15 Break 
   
• 2:15 – 3:10 Accelerating AI Adoption Panel 
  Moderator: Mr. Vinh Nguyen, Chief Responsible AI Officer, NSA
  Panelists: Mr. Phil Venables, CISO, Google Cloud; Dr. Paul Rodrigues, Chief AI Officer, Microsoft; Dr. Matthew Gaston, Director, Artificial Intelligence Division, CMU SEI; Ms. Kim Faltemier, Senior Product Director, Two Six Technologies. 
   
• 3:10 – 3:30 Break 
   
• 3:30 – 4:15 Future of AI Acquisition Panel 
  Moderator:  Mr. Michael Barbino, Contracting and Acquisition Innovation Lead, NSA
  Panelists: Dr. Michael Hind, Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM; Ms. Kate Zimmerman, Generative AI Innovation Center Lead, Amazon Web Services (AWS); and Mr. Luke Travis, Program Manager, Defense Innovation Unit (DIU).
• 4:15 – 4:55 Future of AI in National Security Panel 
  Moderator: Mr. Jamil Jaffer, Founder and Executive Director of the National Security Institute at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, and Paladin
• Panelists: Mr. Chris Inglis, former National Cybersecurity Director, and former Deputy Director, NSA; Ms. Kate Zimmerman, Generative AI Innovation Center Lead, AWS; Mr. Jason Clinton, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Anthropic; Ms. Lili Davoudian, Director National Security Group, Security, Microsoft
   
• 4:55 – 5:00 Closing comments by NCF 
• 5:00 – 6:00 Cocktail Hour - 5th Floor
• 6:00 – Guests proceed across the hall to the ballroom for dinner 
• 6:10 – Welcome Remarks - Mr. George Barnes, Chairman of the Board, NCF, former Deputy Director, NSA
• 6:20 – Prepared remarks by Gen Timothy D. Haugh, USAF, Commander, US Cyber Command; Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service
• 6:30 – Seated Dinner 
• 7:15 - Fireside Chat Introduction - Mr. Craig Abod, CEO, Carahsoft
• 7:20 – 8:00 Q&A with Gen Timothy D. Haugh, USAF, Commander, US Cyber Command; Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service and Mr. Matt Tait, CEO, ManTech

Day Two – 28 March 

• 8:00 – Registration and Continental Breakfast 
• 9:00 – 9:10 Opening Comments 
• 9:10 – 9:50 GEN Paul Nakasone, USA, (Ret), Founding Director, Institute of National Security, and Ms. Michèle Flournoy, Co-Founder WestExec Advisors; Moderated by Ms. Suzanne Kelly, CEO and Publisher, The Cipher Brief
   
• 9:50 – 10:20 –DoD/USIC AI Officer Panel 
  Moderator: Mr. Vinh Nguyen, Chief Responsible AI Officer, NSA 
  Panelists: Ms. Lakshmi Raman, Director of Artificial Intelligence, CIA; Ms. Shari Rozen, Chief Data & Artificial Intelligence Officer, ODNI; and Dr. Emma Hague, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, DOE
• 10:20 – 11:00 State of AI Threats and Security Panel 
  Moderator: Ms. Tahira Mammen, Chief, AI Security Center, NSA 
  Panelists: Mr. Matt Knight, CISO, OpenAI; Mr. Jason Clinton, Chief Information Security Officer, Anthropic; and Mr. Mark Ryland, Director, AWS Security
   
• 11:00 – 11:20 Break 
   
• 11:20 – 12:00 Lightning round with Q&A (10 minutes per USG SME / 10 min. Q&A)  
  Dr. J.R. Rao, Fellow and CTO, Security Research, IBM
  Lt. Gen. John Bansemer, USAF, (Ret), CyberAI Project Director & Sr. Fellow CSET, Georgetown University
  Ms. Gentry Lane, CEO, CTO, & Founder, Nemesis Global, Inc.
• 12:30 – 12:45 Closing Comments, NCF and NSA
• 12:45 - Boxed lunches available for attendees. Attendees can enjoy lunch in the conference room or take their lunch to go.  

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