TechNet Indo-Pacific 2025 | AFCEA International | 28 October 2025 | TBA, Honolulu, HI

Join us at this event, the largest event of its kind in the Indo-Pacific Rim which focuses on the regional issues military leaders have identified. This including full spectrum cyber operations as adversaries leverage cyberspace to conduct operations below the threshold of conflict.

2024 Past Speakers

Ryan Gilhooley
Senior Director of Federal Sales, Four Inc.

CW5 Aaron Anderson, USA
Chief Warrant Officer of the Army, Headquarters Department of the Army

Kurt Andrews
5G Initiative Principal Investigator, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam

CAPT Ron Arellano, USN

Edward Argenta
Portfolio Manager, Non-invasive Physiological Monitoring, Department of Defense, Chemical and Biological Defense Program

Roman Arutyunov
Co-Founder and SVP, Products, Xage Government Solutions

John Baase
Program Manager - Identity, Credential, and Access Management Branch, PEO Cyber Defense Information Systems Agency

LtCol Charlie Bahk, USMC
1st Marine Division G-6, I MEF

Ed Barnabas
Vice President and Indo Pacific CTO, Booz Allen Hamilton

MG James "Jay" B. Bartholomees, USA
Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Pacific

COL Richard Becker, USA
Director, G3, 311th Signal Command (Theater)

Christopher Betz
Federal Chief Technology Officer, Omnissa

Michael Blake
Technical Fellow, Owl Cyber Defense

Marc Boswell
Business Development Manager, Red Hat

Gordon Bradley
Technical Director, DISA Joint Interoperability Test Command

BG Katherine M. Braun, USAR
J2 Mobilization Assistant to the Director, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

COL Andrew Brokhoff, USA
Brigade Commander, 516th Signal Brigade

CMSgt Ricardo Cabezas, USAF
Senior Enlisted Leader, J6, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

CW5 Yuri Camesi, USA
Senior Technical Advisor, G6, I Corps

Brian Campo
Acting Assistant Commandant for C4IT, U.S. Coast Guard (CG-6)

Paul "P-cap" Capili
Security Engineer

Michael Cardenas
Chief Technology Officer, MC3 Technologies

Vanessa Chadwick
Chief, Command and Control/Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C2/ISR) Branch (JTC1), Defense Information Systems Agency

Cort M. Chambers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity, Hawaii Pacific University; Cybersecurity Program Chair, College of Professional Studies, Hawaii Pacific University

COL Jason Chung, USA (Ret.)
Co-Chair, Hawai'i Defense Alliance (HDA); Vice President, Military Affairs Council, Chamber of Commerce Hawai'i

Trey Coleman
Chief Product Officer, RAFT

Col Trey Coleman, USA (Ret.)
Chief Product Officer, Raft

Jimmie Collins
Chief of Planning and Operations, State of Hawai'i Office of Homeland Security

VADM Blake L. Converse, USN
Deputy Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet

Cheryl A. Cross
Workforce Development Councilwoman & Executive Board Member, State of Hawai'i; Senior Consultant, Inkinen

Col Eric Crowell, USAF
Deputy Director, Communications and Cyber Operations (A6), U.S. Pacific Air Forces

Mike De Leon
Solutions Architect, SealingTech

Paul Deakin
Principal Solutions Engineer, F5

Tara Dean
Senior Account Director, Government, CompTIA

Grant Deffenbaugh, PhD, CISSP, CCSP
Cybersecurity Research Scientist, Software Engineering Institute

John Doyle
Founder & CEO, Cape

CW5 Jason Dunn-Potter, USA (Ret.)
Senior Executive - Solutions Architect, Intel Corporation

LTC Dustin Durst, USA
Commander, 78th Signal Battalion

CMSgt Kenneth Eason, USAF
U.S. Pacific Air Forces

COL Vito Errico, USA
Director, U.S. Army Software Factory

Rebecca Fair
SVP Information Advantage, Two Six Technologies

Tim Faulkner
President and CEO, Faulkner Consulting and Analytics, Inc.

Dwayne Florenzie
Cyber Senior Project Manager and Technical SME, Defense Innovation Unit

Meridith A. Fonseca
Chief Data Officer, USARPAC

CDR William Fox, USN
Maritime Intelligence Operations Center Director, U.S. Pacific Fleet

Richard (Rich) Franko
Federal Account Director, USSOCOM and USINDOPACOM, Microsoft Federal

Capt Ryan Fraser, Ph.D., USAF
Deputy Director, Department of the Air Force Zero Trust (ZT) Functional Management Office (FMO)

Andria Gagnon
Federal Account Manager, Banyan Networks

Lt Col Paul (Gu$) Garcia, HIANG
Chief of Technology and Innovation, 613th Air Operations Center

Brandon Glover
Deputy Chief, Hybrid Cloud Broker, DISA J9 Hosting and Compute

Brian K. Goodger
Director, NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC)

Brian Green
Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

Rob Groat
Executive Vice President of Technology and Strategy, SMX

Frank Gutierrez
Senior Solutions Architect, Elastic

ERIC HIGGINBOTTOM
IT Solutions Manager, Customer Strategic Solutions Division (CSSD), General Services Administration

RDML Tracy L. Hines, USN
Deputy Director of Global Space Operations, U.S. Space Command

Col Toby Hlad, USMC
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command J63

Tung Ho
Director of Exovera's Center for Intelligence, Research, and Analysis, Exovera

Katherine Hsiao
Executive Vice President & Head, Health and Life Sciences, Palantir Technologies

Col Lawrence (Sonny) Hussey, USMC
Assistant Chief of Staff G39 and G6, U.S. Marine Forces Pacific

Jaron Hyer
Consulting Systems Engineer, Iron Bow

Mica Imamura
Chief Executive Officer, Armatus

Jacques Jarman
Chief Growth and Federal Operations Officer, Edge Total Intelligence

Loren A. Johnson
Chief, J2 Director's Action Group, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

Rich Johnson
Senior Sales Engineer, Zscaler

Thomas (TJ) Johnson
Senior Principal Engineer, Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity

COL Alton J. Johnson, USA
Deputy Chief of Staff, G6, U.S. Army Pacific

LTC Terry Joiner, USA
Commander, 30th Signal Battalion, 516th Signal Brigade

Ian Kalin
CEO and Co-Founder, TurbineOne

Herb Kelsey
Project Fort Zero Team Lead and Industry CTO Government, Dell Technologies

Alison King
VP of Government Affairs, Forescout

Matthew Koehr
Acting General Manager/President and Chief Solution Engineer, Xage Government Solutions

Capt Timothy Kokotajlo, USAF
Cloud Program Manager, DISA J9 Hosting and Compute

Jennilyn P. LaBrunda, CISSP
Cybersecurity Advisor (Guam, CNMI, And AS), Region 9, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Terumi C. Laskowsky
Security Consultant and Instructor, Pathfinders Japan Ltd.

LTG Susan S. Lawrence, USA (Ret.)
President and Chief Executive Officer, AFCEA International

Wade Lehrschall
Distinguished Architect, Iron Bow

Lt Gen Laura L. Lenderman, USAF
Deputy Commander, Pacific Air Forces, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii; Deputy Theater Air Component Commander to the Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

Christopher Ling
CEO, Ericsson Federal Technologies Group

LTC Izabella Lundy, USA
Battalion Commander, 307th Signal Battalion, 516th Signal Brigade

Rick Macchio
Consulting Systems Engineer, CommScope

Pamela McComas
Solutions Architect, General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)

Daniel McCormick
SME, Wearables, JPEO - Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense

Dave McDonald
CIO/N5/N8 Plans, Programs and Requirements Director, Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific (NCTAMSPAC) - NNE Pacific

Brad Medairy
Executive Vice President, Cyber, Booz Allen Hamilton

Theresa Melvin, Ph.D., JD
Global Field CTO - HPC/AI, Aerospike

RADM Will Metts, USN (Ret.)
CEO, Metts Consulting Enterprise

Jesse Mills
Division Chief of Strategy, Plans, and Automations, DISA Joint Interoperability Test Command

LTC Tabber Mintz, USA
Director, Regional Cyber Center- Pacific (RCC-P)

LTG John B. Morrison, Jr., USA
Deputy Chief of Staff, G-6, U.S. Army

Gary Morrow
Technical Advisor, 4th Estate Division (JTB), Defense Information Systems Agency

Chris Murphy
Former Science and Technology Advisor, U.S. Pacific Fleet

Christopher Murphy
INDOPACOM Embed, Defense Innovation Unit

Col Kevin (Astro) Murray, USMC (Ret.)
Chief Technology Officer, United States Marine Corps

Kekai Namauu, DBA
CEO, Namauu Technological & Industrial

Benjamin "Ben" Needles
Chief Technology Officer, J2, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

LtCol Brandon Newell, USMC (Ret.)
Founder, DCI Next

Lam Nguyen
Chief Scientist, DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3)

Lucian Niemeyer
CEO, Building Cyber Security

Jay Nusbaum
Systems Engineer Infrastructure, CommScope

Kristen O'Connor, Ph.D.
Director, Physical Research, Development and Acquisition Directorate, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Chemical and Biological Defense)

Al Ogata
President, CyberHawaii

Marilynn (Mo) Oliver
President, Honu Solutions Group

Frank J. Pace
Administrator, Office of Homeland Security, Hawaii Department of Law Enforcement

Col Dick Palmieiri, USAF (Ret.)
President, AFCEA Hawaiʻi

ADM Samuel J. Paparo, USN
Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

Curt Parker
Lead Engineer, Naval Identity Services, Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic

Thomas Perry
Chair, AFCEA International Small Business Committee

BG Ray Phariss, USA
Commanding General, 311th Signal Command (Theater)

Gloriel "Ray" Pia
Chief Data and AI Officer, U.S. Pacific Air Forces

CAPT Erik Pittman, USN
Director, N6, U.S. Pacific Fleet

Adam Prem
Global Lead, Defense and Security Mission Solutions, ServiceNow

Kristian Pura
Managing Director, NOW Group and Trusted Network Alliance

Matthew (Matt) Quinn
Joint Operational Edge (JOE) Product Owner, DISA J9 Hosting and Compute

Col Jason P. Quinter, USMC
Commanding Officer, Marine Air Control Group 38

RADM Sean P. Regan, USCG
District Commander, Fourteenth Coast Guard District

Joshua Reiter
Deputy Principal Cyber Advisor (PCA), Department of the Navy

David Restione
Special Advisor, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Chemical and Biological Defense), Chief Technology Officer, JPEO - Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense

Adam Ringel
OCONUS Cloud User Experience Chief, DISA J9 Hosting and Compute

Stephen Ringo
Primary API Federal Systems Architect, Akamai Technologies

Col Joshua H. Rockhill, USAF
Commander, 688th Cyberspace Wing

WO1 Stephen Rupapere, NZDL
Deputy Senior Enlisted Leader, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

John Sahlin
Vice President, Cyber Solutions - Defense, General Dynamics Information Technology

Arian Salgado
Solutions Architect, Red Hat

Steve Samoranski
Director, Technology, Federal Defense and Intelligence, IBM

Andy Sauer
CEO and Co-founder, Sentinel Blue

CSM Jason Schmidt, USA
Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army Pacific

Gina Scinta
Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies

Emma Sharrock
Culture First Project and Change Leader, Agile Enterprises

Dale Shigekane
DoD Joint Account Technology Strategist, Microsoft Federal

Robert Sholtis
Chief Information Officer and Deputy A/CS G39 and G6, U.S. Marine Forces Pacific

MCPO Greg Slusher, USCG
Fourteenth Coast Guard District

Hoke Smith
Vice President, Cybersecurity, Nuix USG

Russ Smith
Field CTO, ZScaler

BG Michael L. Smith, USA
Director, J6, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

CAPT Kenny G. Smith, USN
Deputy MOC- Director, FleetCyber

James A. Stanger, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Evangelist, CompTIA

COL Christopher Stauder
Commander, Army Cyber Protection Brigade, USA

Adam Stevens
Director, Apex Logic

Keith Strini
Chief Technical Strategist, DOD/IC, Dell Technologies

COL Keith Vanyo, USA
U.S. Special Operations Command Pacific

Steve Vogelsang
Chief Technology Officer, Nokia Federal

F. Michael von Fahnestock, Ph.D.
Senior Program Director, Science and Technology, U.S. Indo Pacific Command

Col Jared C. Voneida, USMC
Commander, Defense Information Systems Agency Regional Field Command Pacific

Col Nathan P. Vosters, USSF
Director of Requirements, Resources, and Programs (S8), Space Forces Indo-Pacific

Brett Walkenhorst, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer, Bastille

Kathryn Wang
CEO, Ctrl+Alt+Defeat.io

Col Erick Welcome, USAF
USFK J6, Center for Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance

Andrew Whelchel
Lead Solutions Engineering, Federal, Saviynt

Richard Williams
Technical Director, N6, U.S. Pacific Fleet

Brig Gen Mike Winkler, USAF (Ret.)

Mr. Robert L Wolborsky
Chief Engineer, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

MG Garrett Yee, USA (Ret.)
Vice President and General Manager - Army and Defense Agencies, General Dynamics Information Technology

Michael Young
Senior Principal Solutions Architect, Elastic

CSM Walter Zajkowski, USA
Command Senior Enlisted Leader, Special Operations Command Pacific