CDAO Advantage DOD 2024 | National Conference Services, Inc | 20 February 2024 | Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009, USA

We invite key data leaders and developers from government, industry, and academia to join us to discuss and build the future of cutting-edge data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) — guiding the enablement of the U.S. military’s enduring decision advantage.

This event presents many opportunities for engagement:

• Determine viable use of LLMs for the Department of Defense (DoD) and industry
• Explore the future of data analytics and AI in the DoD through open conversation
• Present ideas to address CDAO’s challenges in talent management, policy, and beyond
• Network with your fellow thinkers and doers
• Discuss solutions to technically advance the DoD

This session will bring together stakeholders in a classified setting to discuss yield, test & evaluation, protection measures, and countermeasures to address risks and threats.

2024 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Craig Martell
Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, Department of Defense

Dr. William Streilein
Chief Technology Officer, Chief Digital and AI Office, Department of Defense

Honorable Kathleen Hicks
Deputy Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense

SPEAKERS:

Mr. Alexandr Wang
Founder and CEO, Scale AI

Dr. Andrew Moore
Founder, Lovelace AI

Dr. David Barnes
Chief Artificial Intelligence Ethics Officer, US Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center

Dr. Stuart Battersby
Chief Technology Officer, Chatterbox Labs

Mr. Michael Brasseur
Chief Strategy Officer, Saab, Inc.

Dr. Beat Buesser
Senior Research Scientist, IBM Research Europe - Zürich

Mr. Neeraj Chandra
Special Advisor to the Chief Scientist, U.S. Air Force

Ms. Jinyoung Englund
Chief Strategy Officer, Algorithmic Warfare (AW), CDAO

Dr. Kathleen Fisher
Office Director, Information Innovation Office (I2O), DARPA

Dr. Shannon Gallagher
Machine Learning Research Scientist and Team Lead, CMU SEI

Mr. Bryce Goodman
Chief Strategist for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Department of Defense’s Innovation Unit

Ms. Ashley Gray
Principal AI/ML Solutions Architect, Parsons

Mr. Matt Knight
Head of Security, OpenAI

Ms. Heather MacDonald
Advisory Manager, Deloitte

Dr. David Markowitz
Chief Data and Analytics Officer, and Deputy Chief Information Officer, United States Army

Ms. Rachael Martin
Director, Maven Office, NGA

Mr. Mike Mattarock
Technical Director, AI Mission and Engagement

Colonel Sean McGee
Chief, Integrated Operations Division, The Joint Staff

Brigadier General Michael McGinley
Mobilization Assistant to the Commander, Air Force Research Laboratory

Ms. Amber Mills
Associate Manager for Programs and Research, Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy

Ms. Rachel Murphy
Performance Analytics (Pulse) Engagement and Implementation Lead, CDAO

Ms. Margaret (Margie) Palmieri
Principal Deputy Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Officer, Department of Defense

Dr. Scott Papson
Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Mr. Brynt Parmeter
Chief Talent Management Officer (CTMO), Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness, Department of Defense

Mr. Bharat Patel
Product Lead, Project Linchpin

Dr. Srini Ramaswamy
Vice President – Emerging Technology, iWorks

Mr. Shyam Sankar
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Palantir Technologies

Ms. Jennifer Schofield
Director General, Data, Analytics and Information Management, Department of National Defence

Mr. David Talby
Chief Technology Officer, John Snow Labs

Dr. Matthew Turek
Deputy Director, Information Innovation Office (I2O), DARPA

Dr. Nathan VanHoudnos
Senior AI Security Research Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute

Mr. John Turner
Acting Deputy Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (DCDAO) for Policy, Department of Defense

Mr. Andrew Peppler
Policy Analyst, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office

Dr. Gary Marcus
Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University

Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth
Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

2024 Sponsors

PRINCIPAL LEVEL:
• Booz Allen

DIAMOND LEVEL:
• C3.ai
• Denodo
• Google for Government
• Leidos
• Techolution

GOLD LEVEL:
• Government Acquisitions
• Parsons
• Primer
• SAIC
• Scale

SILVER LEVEL:
• BlueHalo
• FedLearn
• Intellectual Point