2018 Featured Speakers
Senior Leader Keynote Speakers and Panel Members.
Senator Martin Heinrich
(D-NM)
Co-Founder DE Caucus, Member Senate Armed Services Committee
Senator Mazie K. Hirono
(D-HI)
Member Senate Armed Services Committee
Representative Jim Langevin
(D-RI)
Member House Armed Services Committee
Representative Doug Lamborn (R-CO)
Member House Armed Services Committee
Representative Mike Rogers
(R-AL)
Member House Armed Services Committee
Representative Tim Ryan
(D-OH)
Member House Appropriations Committee
Dr. Nadia Schadlow
Deputy National Security Advisor
Honorable Michael D. Griffin
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
General Robin Rand, USAF
Commander, Air Force Global Strike Command and Commander, Air Forces Strategic Air, U.S. Strategic Command
Lieutenant General R. Scott Williams
Commander, 1 AF (Air Forces Northern) and Commander, Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region
Rear Admiral David J. Hahn
Chief of Naval Research, Director, Innovation, Technology Requirements, and Test and Evaluation
Brigadier General Kevin Huyck
Deputy Director of Operations, Headquarters North American Aerospace Defense Command
Mr. Elbridge Colby, SES,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategy and Force Development
Mr. Jeffrey S. White, SES
Principal Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology)
Mr. Keith Englander, SES
Director for Engineering, Missile Defense Agency
Mr. Thomas Lockhart, SES
Director, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory
Mr. J. Scott Norwood, SES
Strategic Effects Director to the Commander, US Army Pacific
Dr. George Ka’iliwai
Director, Resources and Assessment Directorate Headquarters, US Pacific Command
Dr. Azar S. Ali, SES
Chief Scientist for Pacific Air Forces, US Pacific Air Force
Colonel Rey Q. Masinsin
Director, Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate
Dr. Gary DeBell
Founder and Managing Member, MLD Technologies, LLC
Mr. Scott Keeney
Founder and Chief Executive Office, nLIGHT
Dr. Vincent D. Mattera
President and CEO, II-VI
Mr. Mark McElhinney
President, Lasertel
Horacio Rozanski
President and Chief Executive Officer, Booz Allen Hamilton
Thomas G. Mahnken
President and Chief Executive Officer, CSBA
Henry “Trey” Obering
Executive Vice President, Directed Energy Innovation Services Officer
Ambassador Eric Edelman
Counselor, CSBA
Captain Jon Totte
Chief, Office of Specialized Capabilities, US Coast Guard
Colonel Dennis Wille
Senior Space Operations Officer, Operations Directorate, US Army Europe
Mr. Richard W. Glitz
Technical Director, Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization
Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey G. Erts
Chief of Experimentation and Wargames Branch at Fires Battle Lab, US Army
Dr. William Cooper
Hybrid Defense of Restricted Airspace (HyDRA) Study Director, Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory
Ms. A. Adele Ratcliff
Director of Manufacturing Resiliency & Assurance & International Manufacturing & Innovation
Mr. Ronald J. Flatley
Program Officer for the Solid State Laser Technology Maturation (SSL-TM) Program at the Office of Naval Research, Code 35
Mr. Ryan Hoffman
Program Officer in the areas High Power Radio Frequency (HPRF) and High Power Microwave (HPM) Weapons for the Office of Naval Research, Code 35
Dennis Gibson
Senior Vice President, Pacific Rim, Booz Allen Hamilton
Mark Gunzinger
Senior Fellow, CSBA
Tom Pfeifer
Executive Vice President, Defense, Booz Allen Hamilton
Dr. David Stoudt
Senior Executive Advisor and Engineering Fellow for Directed Energy
Dennis Via
Senior Executive Advisor and Defense Fellow, Booz Allen Hamilton
Bryan Clark
Senior Fellow, CSBA
Mara Motherway
Head of Government Relations, Booz Allen Hamilton
Patrick “Jim” Potter
Principal/Director, Directed Energy Innovation
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