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

Daniel Finkenstadt

Professor in Enterprise Sourcing, Naval Postgraduate School

Ryan "FOBS" Graves

Technology Development Manager, BAE Systems - FAST Labs

Lori Frantzve

CEO, E3Tek

Michael Fraser MSc CS

CEO and Chief Architect, Refactr

Helio Fred Garcia

President, Logos Consulting Group

Eri Gentry

Co-Founder, Negative

Alex Gorsuch

CTO, Ascent Integrated Technology

Beni Gradwohl, Ph.D.

Co-Founder & CEO, Cognovi Labs

Corinne Hancock

Chaos Coach, MPL

Rob Handfield

Executive Director, Supply Chain Resource Cooperative - NC State University

Dave Harden

Founder, The Outpost

Brad Hunstable

CEO & Co-Founder, Linear Labs, Inc.

Bryan Ingram

President, Meta Alliance Group

Tito Jankowski

Co-Founder, Negative

Stephanie L. Jaros

Director of Research, DoD Counter-Insider Threat Program, Defense Personnel and Security Research Center (PERSEREC)

Eric Jenkusky

Launch CEO & Co-Founder, Matrix Meats

Emily Jerger

Senior Project Engineer, MxD

Capt. Michael Kanaan USAF

Director of Operations, USAF / MIT Artificial Intelligence Accelerator

Kevin Kane

Co-Founder & CEO, AMBIT, INC.

Warren Katz

Managing Director, Air Force Accelerator [Powered by TechStars]

Kevin Landtroop JD, LLM

Vice President of Defense, Capital Factory

Jesse Levin

Senior Cultural Chameleon, Tactivate

Russ Long

Chief Executive Officer, Long Capture

Dave Lutian

Founder & CEO, SolarFlexes

Nino Marcantonio

Deputy Director, Defense Technology Innovation Program LLC

Capt. Jon Margolick USMC

Director, Centers for Adaptive Warfighting - NavalX

Dr. Benjamin Miller PhD

Economist, RAND Corporation

Dr. Piers Nash

CEO, Sympatic

Rachel Olney

CEO, Geosite

Geoff Orazem

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Eastern Foundry

Prescott Paulin

President, 300 Below, Inc.

Mara Pillinger

Policy Manager, O'Neill Institute For National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University

Morgan Polotan

Principal, Comcast Ventures

Chris Przybyszewski

Executive Vice President, U.S. Biologic

Josh Quenga

Defense Consultant

Dr. Jason Rathje PhD

Partner, AF Ventures

Shawn Rhodes

Chief Executive Officer, Shoshin Consulting

Kyle Rice

Chief Technology Officer, SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2)

Jack Saba

Founder, Bequall

Ricky Sahu

CEO, 1up Health

Andrew Schmahl

Partner & Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group

Toni Scribner

Director of Learning Sciences and Technology Studio, USAF Squadron Officer School

Dr. Ava Shamban

Celebrity Doctor and Lead Dermatologist, AVA MD

Raj Sharma

Founder & CEO, Public Spend Forum

LtCol. [Dr.] Philip Shields USAF

Logistics Officer, Clear Gene, LLC

Lt Col Jake Sotiriadis USAF, Ph.D.

Chief, Strategic Foresight and Futures Analytics, AFWIC / HQ USAF

Dr. Marina Theodotou PhD

People, Change and Culture - Workflow Learning, Defense Acquisition University

Dr. "TOGA" Jason Trew PhD

Dean of Academic Affairs, USAF Squadron Officer School

Lito Villanueva (Prior JSOC JCU CTR)

CEO/CTO, Litocorp

Kym Wehrle

Director of Engagement, MxD

Scott Weiner

Founding Board Member, The Hay Institute

John Wilczynski

Executive Director, America Makes at NCDMM

Taylor Wilkerson

Principle Health Systems Engineer, MITRE

Debra Zides PMP

Defense Acquisition & Policy, MITRE

Talks

13 March 2020, 04:00 PM

CI/CD Pipelines for DevSecOps with Hybrid Cloud

13 March 2020, 06:15 PM

Brainstorming / Hot Seat: Earning my first SBIR Grant

13 March 2020, 07:30 PM

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

13 March 2020, 10:00 PM

Elevating Defense Innovation Through Startup Technology Transitions

14 March 2020, 01:00 PM

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

14 March 2020, 04:00 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, 07:00 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, 08:00 PM

Modernization of the Military Industrial Complex from a Small Arms Perspective

15 March 2020, 01:00 AM

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

19 March 2020, 12:00 PM

DevSecOps: How did DoD move to Kubernetes and Istio?

19 March 2020, 01:30 PM

Underwater Innovation: A Sailor's Perspective

19 March 2020, 02:00 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, 03:00 PM

Growing Meat at the Tactical Edge: How Food Innovation May Sustain Our Forward Based Operators

19 March 2020, 05:00 PM

Rapid Innovation and Tech Scouting

19 March 2020, 07:00 PM

Pitching the Government: How to Win Big!

19 March 2020, 09:00 PM

Extreme Makeover: Innovation Edition

19 March 2020, 10:00 PM

Lessons Learned: Hiring the right startup cofounders

19 March 2020, 11:00 PM

Automating the tourniquet: how high-tech meets low-tech on the battlefield

20 March 2020, 12:00 AM

Lessons, Challenges and Recommendations on Delivering Commercial Innovation to the Defense Community

20 March 2020, 01:00 AM

Radiation Exposure Solutions with Biodosimetry

31 March 2020, 03:00 PM

Leadership on complex problems: tools to set your teams free

31 March 2020, 05:00 PM

Creating A Pivot Point In A COVID-19 World: Leveraging Change Without Sacrificing Performance

31 March 2020, 07:00 PM

Leadership Communication and COVID-19

01 April 2020, 07:35 PM

Break Through: The Do's and Don't of Launching a Startup Amidst a Crisis

01 April 2020, 08:05 PM

Break Through: Building Solutions in a Rapidly Changing Environment

02 April 2020, 01:00 PM

Ventilators, Respirators and PPE - A Physician's Insight on What is Needed

02 April 2020, 02:00 PM

COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition Update

02 April 2020, 03:00 PM

America Makes - Leading Efforts for COVID-19 Materials Sourcing, Design and Manufacturing

03 April 2020, 12:00 AM

New Contracting and Grant Vehicles for COVID-19 Solutions

03 April 2020, 04:00 PM

Lethality, Readiness, and Resiliency: COVID-19 and Force Planning

03 April 2020, 05:00 PM

The Future of Supply Chain Risk Management in Light of COVID-19

03 April 2020, 06:00 PM

Designing a 3D Printed Mask for Hospitals and Submitting via America Makes / VA Innovation for Testing and Evaluation

03 April 2020, 06:30 PM

DarwinAI: Using Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks to find COVID-19 via Chest X-Rays

03 April 2020, 08:00 PM

Rapid Fundraising for COVID-19 Solutions

03 April 2020, 09:00 PM

Funding Relief and Forgivable Loans for Businesses Impacted by COVID-19

03 April 2020, 09:30 PM

The Economic Impact of COVID-19 and what RAND is doing to help

03 April 2020, 10:00 PM

AFVentures and "Overcome COVID-19" Funding Opportunities

10 April 2020, 03:00 PM

Thinking beyond the shut-down, restarting defense manufacturing

10 April 2020, 06:00 PM

COVID-19 Suppliers, Inventory and Contracts

10 April 2020, 06:30 PM

Empowering Airman & Family Wellbeing AFWERX Challenge Funding Overview

10 April 2020, 07:00 PM

Scouting for Optimal COVID-19 Grant Funding

10 April 2020, 11:00 PM

Local Response: Human Security Approaches to COVID-19

17 April 2020, 03:00 PM

FHIR Enabled Data Connectivity For COVID-19

17 April 2020, 05:00 PM

Your transformation from managing to leading during COVID-19 and beyond

22 August 2020, 05:00 PM

The Prism of Artificial Intelligence

22 August 2020, 07:00 PM

Why China has a secret stake in half of the world's VPN market

22 August 2020, 08:00 PM

Caging Your Data: The future of privacy in data processing

22 August 2020, 09:00 PM

The Aftermath of a Black Sky Event

22 August 2020, 10:00 PM

Controlling digital high ground for Asymmetric Warfare

24 August 2020, 03:00 PM

Accelerated Market Intelligence to Reduce Barriers to Entry

24 August 2020, 04:00 PM

Developing impactful product / solution innovations

24 August 2020, 06:00 PM

Future Space and the Entrepreneurial Intersection

24 August 2020, 08:00 PM

Emotion AI + behavioral psychology: predict intent and change outcomes

24 August 2020, 10:00 PM

Building a Culture of Futures-based Thinking in National Security

24 August 2020, 11:00 PM

Thrive in Chaos

25 August 2020, 12:00 AM

FILM PREMIERE: Shaping the Future of Ammunition

25 August 2020, 04:00 PM

Roadblocks to Public-Private Partnerships for Rapid Development of Innovative Technologies

25 August 2020, 05:00 PM

Leveraging Scenario Based Planning for Strategic Foresight

25 August 2020, 06:00 PM

SBIR Innovation: Satellite + AI Tracking of Wildlife Diseases for Warfighter Impact

25 August 2020, 07:00 PM

The Cavalry Isn’t Coming - DoD’s Threat Lab and its Mission to Serve the Enterprise

25 August 2020, 08:00 PM

Innovation Isn't Just About The Spark

25 August 2020, 09:00 PM

Leveraging VC Funding for DoD Startups

25 August 2020, 11:00 PM

Engineering Lean Warfighter-Focused Innovation

26 August 2020, 12:00 AM

Solution Development

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