AFCEA Washington DC Cybersecurity Technology Summit 2024 | AFCEA Washington DC | 24 October 2024 | Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel, 2800 S Potomac Ave, Arlington, VA 22202, USA

The summit is a gathering for executives from government, military, and defense industries to discuss the intensifying competition between world powers. This year's Summit will cover a range of exciting topics, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, cloud services, supply chain security, and Zero Trust architectures to name a few. 2024 is emerging as a pivotal year for the future of AI, as governments, researchers, and enterprises seek to establish how this evolutionary leap in technology can be most practically integrated into our everyday lives.

With cyber threats on the rise, adversaries are targeting the US through influence operations, data breaches, and attempts to infiltrate government networks and weapon systems. Incidents such as the SolarWinds cyberattack and the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline negatively impact the country's economic security and demonstrate potential threats to national security.

The summit, aims to shape strategies to fortify cybersecurity in an era of geopolitical complexities.

The key objectives of the summit are to:

• Foster collaboration: Encourage collaboration between government, military, academia, and defense industry leaders to counteract cyber threats within the dynamics of great power competition.
• Analyze the threat landscape: Provide a comprehensive overview of the current cybersecurity threat landscape, focusing on emerging threats and evolving attack vectors.
• Showcase innovative technologies: Highlight technologies and solutions that can provide a strategic advantage in the cyber domain and align with the imperatives of great power competition.

At the summit, attendees will dive deeper into the challenges that the DoD must overcome and the people, processes, and technology that must be in place to truly compete, deter, defend, and fight in cyberspace.

2024 Speakers

MODERATORS:

Scott "Monty" Montgomery
VP Federal, Island

Liz Hampton
Vice President, Beacon Global Strategies

Whitney McNamara
Vice President, Beacon Global Strategies

Shaleen Braley
VP, Program Management Office Government Defense and Intelligence, Oracle Government Defense and Intelligence

PANELISTS:

Rachael Martin
Director, Project Maven (SES), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Bharat Patel
Director, Project Linchpin - Sensor AI, Army PEO IEW&S

Alee Long
Deputy Program Manager for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC), Department of Defense (DoD)

Pete Burr
Deputy Assistant Commissioner, AAS

Mike Attachi
Deputy Client Executive, AAS Innovation

Jim Ghiloni
Deputy Client Executive, AAS Army

Joel Rogero
Deputy Client Executive, AAS Air Force / Navy / Space Force

Sam Gray
Vice President of Strategic Engagements, Second Front Systems

Mac McHenry
Intelligence Community Lead, Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)

Jeremy S. Werner, PhD, ST
Chief Scientist, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), Strategic Initiatives, Policy, and Emerging Technologies (SIPET)

Bill Newhouse
Cybersecurity Engineer & Project Lead, National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, NIST

Greg Touhill
Ret. Brigadier General, Director, CERT Division, Software Engineering Institute

Phil Stupak
Assistant National Cyber Director, Office of the National Cyber Director

Nitin Natarajan
Deputy Director, CISA

Evan J. Ward
Chief, Industrial Liaison Division, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition Integration (SAF/AQX)

Ms. Cheri Benedict
Senior Cyber Advisor for Cybersecurity and Supply Chain, Executive Office of the President

Dr. Chase Cunningham, PhD
Renowned Cybersecurity and Zero Trust Expert

Leo Taddeo
CEO and President, Appgate

LTC (r) John Quigg
Senior Staff Member, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL)

Jeff Cornelius
EVP, Cyber-Physical Security, Darktrace

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

David McKeown
Deputy DoD Chief Information Officer for Cybersecurity (DCIO(CS)), Department of Defense

2024 Sponsors

PANEL SPONSORS:
• Aws
• Fortress
• IBM
• Four Inc

REGISTRATION SPONSORS:
• Cooper River Family of Companies
• Oracle Cloud

COFFEE BREAK SPONSOR:
• Dell Technologies

LANYARD SPONSOR:
• Carahsoft

LUNCH SPONSOR:
• BlackBerry Cybersecurity

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Snowflake
• Ask Sage

SILVER SPONSOR:
• GDIT

SMALL BUSINESS SPONSORS:
• Four Points Technology
• Hyertek
• Vertosoft