Speakers
Co-Chairs
Dr. Mark Joel Lewis
President & CEO Purdue Applied Research InstituteDr. Rodney Bowersox
Deputy Director, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Senior Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering, Holder, Ford Motor Co. Design Professorship I Regents Professor, Executive Director University Consortium for Applied HypersonicsChristopher Collins, SES
Executive Director, Developmental Test Eval, and Assessment Office of the Undersecretary of Defense Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E))Rear Admiral Stephen Tedford
USN, Program Executive Officer Unmanned Aviation and Strike WeaponsCAPT Shea S. Thompson
USN, Commodore Surface Development Squadron ONE (CSDS 1)DoD & Government Speakers
Dr. James Weber
Principal Dir., for Hypersonics Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Modernization) (OUSD (R&E))Lieutenant General (USA-ret) Neil Thurgood
SVP AndurilDr. Knox Millsaps, SES
Head, Division of Aerospace Science, Air Warfare and Weapons, Naval Air Warfare and Weapons ONRDr. Joseph Jewell
John Bogdanoff Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics College of Engineering Purdue UniversityDr. Brandon Chynoweth
Research Assistant Professor Purdue UniversityIndustry & Academia
Andrew Carter
Senior Director, Strategy Anduril IndustriesAndrew Capodieci
Director of Robotics Neya SystemsRay Chaney
San Diego Chapter Board member Gary Sinise FoundationDr. Maia Cook
Director, Human-Autonomy Integration & Chief Scientist Pacific Science & EngineeringDr. Nick Ernest
Chief AI Architect Thales USALt Col (USA-ret) Jerry L. Frazier, Jr.
Managing Partner & Director,Integrated Air and Missile Systems Amalgam Defense Solutions, LLC