2023 Speakers
Program Chairman
Major Gen (USAF-ret) James Poss
CEO, ISR Ideas
Former Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters
U.S. Air Force
Keynotes
The Honorable Nickolas Guertin
Director, Operational Test & Evaluation
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Eric J. Soskin
Inspector General
Department of Transportation
Troy A. Miller
Acting Commissioner
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Senior Government & DoD CUAS Guest Speakers
Julian James Atencio
CUAS Program Manager
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ryan M. Berry
Manager, UAS Security Division (AXE-U00)
Office of National Security Programs and Incident Response (AXE), Security and Hazardous Materials Safety (ASH), FAA
Yegor Dubynskyi
Deputy Minister
Digital Transformation of Ukraine
Talwyn Haley
ATO, System Operations Security C-UAS Team Manager Detection and Mitigation
FAA
Col Jonathan Hester
Requirements and Capabilities Division Chief
Requirements and Capabilities (R&C) Division
Lt. Col. Pavlo Khazan
C4ISR Group Commander
Armed Forces of Ukraine
Kevin Lovett
Training Integrator
Joint Counter Small Unmanned
Aircraft Systems Office
Kate McKenna
Director of Government & International Relations
Ukraine's Army of Drones/ United24
Christopher J. Mulkins
Director of Homeland Security
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
L. Scott Parker
Chief, UAS Security Branch, Office of Security Programs, Infrastructure Security Division
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Jim Patterson, Jr.
Manager, Airports (ARP) UAS Detection and Mitigation Program
FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center
Colette Peters
Director
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Colin Ross
Attorney Advisor, Office of Law & Policy, National Security Division
U.S. Department of Justice
Dr. Sean Ross
Air Force Lifecycle Management Center (AFLCMC)
LTC Paul Santamaria, USA
Product Manager for Medium Caliber Ammunition (PM MAS)
Joint Program Executive Office for Armaments and Ammunition
Scott Shyne
Chief of the Information Warfare Division
Air Force Research Laboratory
Lucian Sikorskyj
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention
Office of Strategy, Policy and Plans, DHS
Maj General Daniel Simpson, USAF
Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, National Intelligence Manager – Aviation
DJ Smith
Technical Surveillance Agent, Unmanned Aerial Systems Program Coordinator, High Tech Crimes Division/Bureau of Criminal Investigations
Virginia State Police
Matthew Smith
Supervisory Special Agent, Team Leader, FBI counter-UAS Research, Test, Training, and Evaluation efforts
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Timothy Tyler
Deputy Chief of Police Services
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
Special Industry Legal, Commercial Guest Speakers and Panelists
Dr. Heath Berry
Senior Vice President, Group Manager, Electronic Systems and Cyber Technologies
Radiance Technologies
Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield Jr.
Chairman Emeritus, Board of Directors and Distinguished Fellow
Henry Stimson Center
Shawn S. Bullard
Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS)
Specialist in Disruptive Technologies – Policy Integration – Future Risk Assessment
Founder
Duetto Group
Ron Clark
Acting Senior Director
WestExec Advisors
Former Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security and Former White House National Security Council Director
Ron Dauk
Program Manager
Boeing Directed Energy Systems
Karen DiMeo
CEO
AERODiMEO
Lisa Ellman
Partner
Hogan Lovells
Executive Director
Commercial Drone Alliance
Casey Flanagan
President & Co-Founder
AeroVigilance
Luke Fox
CEO & Founder
WhiteFox Defense Technologies, Inc.
David Hochhauser
General Manager, The Americas
Sentrycs
Mark McKinnon
Partner
Fox Rothschild LLP
Jonathan Rupprecht
Esquire
Rupprecht Law
Patrick “Mike” Shortsleeve
VP DoD Strategic Development
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
Mary-Lou Smulders
Chief Marketing Officer
Dedrone
Jeffrey Starr
Chief Marketing Officer
D-FEND Solutions
