Defense Innovation Network Summit

Meet our Speakers

We've gathered some of the top experts in the field to discuss this topic. With years of experience between them, they're well-equipped to offer invaluable insights and perspectives.

Rear Admiral Fred Byus USN (Ret.)

Prior Chief Oceanographer, United States Navy

Nicolas Chaillan CEH CISSP

Chief Software Officer, United States Air Force

VAdm Joseph Dyer USN (Ret.)

Prior COO, iRobot

Christy Monaco

Chief Ventures Officer, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

LTC Mark Owens USA USSOCOM (Ret.)

Chief Strategy Officer, True Velocity

LtCol. Joseph Shusko USMC (Ret.)

Founder, Marine Corps Martial Arts Center of Excellence, United States Marine Corps

Stacy Swider

Director, SBIR Center of Excellence at UMass Lowell Research Institute

Brad Aldridge

Senior Educational / Technology Analyst, USAF Squadron Officer School

Scott Barnes

Co-Founder & Managing Director, Capture Collective, Inc.

Jesse Blunt

Founder, Tried & True Tattoo

Dr. N. Adam Brown MD, MBA, FACEP

President of Emergency Medicine, Envision Physician Services

John Casano

Serial Entrepreneur + Warfighter Problem Solver, Strike Labs

Robin Champ

Chief, Enterprise Strategy Division, United States Secret Service

Anita Chandra Dr.P.H.

VP and Director, Social and Economic Well-Being, RAND

Jason Chen

Innovation Accelerator, AFWERX

Jay Crossler

Partner, COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition

Jesus Cuartas

Federal Emergency Manager and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University

Craig Cummings

Co-Founder and General Partner, Moonshots Capital

Hon. Rodney Davis (R-IL)

Congressman, U.S. Congress

Paul De Lia

Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group

Peter Dixon (USMC)

CEO, Second Front

Kristina Drye

Strategic Communications Manager, Giant Oak, Inc.

Col. Wayne Dudding USA (Ret.)

Chief Executive Officer, OLGS, Inc. (One Less Gold Star)

Maggie Feldman-Piltch

Founder, #NatSecGirlSquad

Sheldon Fernandez

Chief Executive Officer, DarwinAI

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Talks

CI/CD Pipelines for DevSecOps with Hybrid Cloud

13 March 2020, 04:00 PM

Brainstorming / Hot Seat: Earning my first SBIR Grant

13 March 2020, 06:15 PM

Using Extended Reality (xR) — Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) for Officer PME

13 March 2020, 07:30 PM

Elevating Defense Innovation Through Startup Technology Transitions

13 March 2020, 10:00 PM

Defense Innovations from Public Private Partnerships: The Power of the Future Tech Forum

14 March 2020, 01:00 PM

PANEL - Expeditionary Entrepreneurship: building informal capacity in disaster zones (inc'l COVID-19 response) plus startups with Jesus Cuartas (JB) and Jesse Levin

14 March 2020, 04:00 PM

The Innovation of Combat Training (The journey from Warfighter Lethality, to Character Building in Martial Arts, to Functional Fitness and Unit Readiness)

14 March 2020, 07:00 PM

Modernization of the Military Industrial Complex from a Small Arms Perspective

14 March 2020, 08:00 PM

Plane Spotting: Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) for Aircraft Surveillance

15 March 2020, 01:00 AM

DevSecOps: How did DoD move to Kubernetes and Istio?

19 March 2020, 12:00 PM

Underwater Innovation: A Sailor's Perspective

19 March 2020, 01:30 PM

Building It Better: My Lessons from Disruptive Innovation (This prior Army Officer's HET invention has 3X the torque of any competing electric motor.)

19 March 2020, 02:00 PM