2024 Homeland Security Summit | Potomac Officers Club
RegisterWHAT
Monumental changes and developments across the global geopolitical landscape in recent years have played a key role in shaping the United States’ homeland security strategies and priorities. Protecting our homeland from evolving threats is top of mind for the U.S. government in this particularly complex era of defense and security. As competition intensifies between the world’s major players, new pacing challenges, vulnerabilities and security concerns are uncovered. Join the Potomac Officers Club’s Annual Homeland Security Summit to learn more about the country’s most significant threats and what’s being done to thwart them.
Speakers
Scott Ariotti
Senior Program Manager
Capgemini Government Solutions
Gary Barber
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
LMI
Bridget Bean
Executive Director
U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
VADM Retired Sean Buck
President
National Training and Simulation Association
James Burd
Chief Privacy Officer
U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Steven Cash
Deputy Chief Intelligence Officer (Acting), Executive Director, Intelligence Enterprise Program Office (IEP)(Acting)
Office of Intelligence & Analysis
Dana Chisnell
Executive Director for the Customer Experience Directorate
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Valerie Cofield
Chief Strategy Officer
U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Brian Durden
Sr. Solutions Architect
Rancher Government Solutions (RGS)
Oksana Fiedler
Vice President, National Security
Acuity, Inc.
Matt Gilkeson
Chief Technology Officer / Chief Data Officer (Executive Director Technology and Data)
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Michael Hardee
Chief Architect, Law Enforcement and Justice
Red Hat
Lisa MacDonald
Director, Identity Capabilities Management Division Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Sunil Madhugiri
Chief Technology Officer
Office of Information Technology [OIT]
Phil Miller
Senior Vice President, Law Enforcement & Judiciary Programs
Procentrix
David Mussington
Executive Assistant Director for Infrastructure Security
U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Sarah Nolbaum
Program Manager
Highlight Technologies
Janet Pence
Acting Director, CBP Experience
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
Joshua Powell
Deputy Chief AI Officer, Office of the Commissioner
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
Michael Prado
HSI Dep Asst Dir, Cyber
Homeland Security Investigations
Ryan Riccucci
Division Chief
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Bob Ritchie
Chief Technology Officer
SAIC
Kristin Ruiz
Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Chief Information Officer
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Timothy Schaad
VP, FEDCIV Technology Directorate
ManTech
Harley Ray Shuler
HSI Assistant Director, Innovation Lab
Homeland Security Investigations
Agenda
| 7:00am | 8:00am | Networking Reception |
| 8:00am | 8:05am | Welcome & Opening Remarks |
| 8:05am | 8:45am | Opening Keynote: Bridget Bean |
| 8:45am | 9:20am | Morning Keynote |
| 9:20am | 9:50am | Networking Break |
| 9:50am | 10:50am | Panel A: Finding Workforce Efficiencies through AI/ML Implementation: Gary Barber (Moderator), Mike Hardee, Josh Powell and Mike Prado |
| 9:50am | 10:50am | Panel B: The Role of Real Time 3D Simulation to Transform the Homeland Mission Enterprise: Scott Ariotti (Moderator), VADM (Ret.) Sean Buck, David Mussington, Timothy Schaad, Harley Ray Shuler |
| 10:50am | 11:00am | Break |
| 11:00am | 12:00pm | Panel A: DHS's New AI Corps: Phil Miller, Matt Gilkeson |
| 11:00am | 12:00pm | Panel B: Addressing the Data Problem to Prepare the Enterprise for AI: Ryan Riccucci |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Networking Lunch |
| 1:00pm | 2:00pm | Panel A: Transforming Government Operations: Achieving Efficiency through Hyperautomation and IT Modernization: James Burd, Valerie Cofield, Oksana Fiedler (Moderator), Sunil Madhugiri and Bob Ritchie |
| 1:00pm | 2:00pm | Panel B: Case Studies of Successful CX Initiatives: Dana Chisnell, Brian Durden, Sarah Nolbaum (Moderator), Janet Pence and Kristin Ruiz |
| 2:00pm | 2:30pm | Networking Break |
| 2:30pm | 3:05pm | Afternoon Keynote |
| 3:05pm | 3:40pm | Closing Keynote: Lisa MacDonald (Invited) |
| 3:40pm | 3:50pm | Closing Comments |
