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.

Emily Jerger

Senior Project Engineer, MxD

Kym Wehrle

Director of Engagement, MxD

Andrew Schmahl

Partner & Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group

Scott Weiner

Founding Board Member, The Hay Institute

Geoff Orazem

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Eastern Foundry

Mara Pillinger

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

Paul De Lia

Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group

Jason Chen

Innovation Accelerator, AFWERX

Ricky Sahu

CEO, 1up Health

Kevin Kane

Co-Founder & CEO, AMBIT, INC.

Dr. Piers Nash

CEO, Sympatic

Josh Quenga

Defense Consultant

Lori Frantzve

CEO, E3Tek

Rachel Olney

CEO, Geosite

Beni Gradwohl, Ph.D.

Co-Founder & CEO, Cognovi Labs

Robin Champ

Chief, Enterprise Strategy Division, United States Secret Service

Chris Przybyszewski

Executive Vice President, U.S. Biologic

Stephanie L. Jaros

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

Christy Monaco

Chief Ventures Officer, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Capt. Michael Kanaan USAF

Director of Operations, USAF / MIT Artificial Intelligence Accelerator

VAdm Joseph Dyer USN (Ret.)

Prior COO, iRobot

Bryan Ingram

President, Meta Alliance Group

Lt Col Jake Sotiriadis USAF, Ph.D.

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

Corinne Hancock

Chaos Coach, MPL

Morgan Polotan

Principal, Comcast Ventures

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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