MORNING BREAKFAST BRIEF

with John McLaughlin

Description: Communication is key when facing a crisis or executing a long-term goal. Find out how the CIA runs its Morning Threat Brief with former Acting Director John McLaughlin.

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FIRESIDE CHAT: RISKS TO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Introduction by Cipher Brief CEO & Publisher Suzanne Kelly

- General Michael Hayden, Chair, Cipher Brief Cyber Advisory Board

- Thomas Fanning, CEO, Southern Company

Description: Despite years of warnings and known vulnerabilities, the U.S. electric grid remains one of the most concerning targets for terrorist’s intent on having a means to take it down. Now, as news of a new cyber threat emerges, are the public and private sectors doing enough to overcome the threat?

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THE PRIVATE SECTOR OPS CENTER

- Robert Dannenberg, Former Managing Director, Global Security, Goldman Sachs

- Paul Kolbe, Director of Global Intelligence, BP
- Robert Richer, CEO, Uptima

Description: There are no ‘private’ CIA’s, so businesses that operate around the globe need to efficiently gather, assess and act on information to protect their employees and assets. Crises are won by the amount of preparation that goes into them. In this new age of information, how do professionals get actionable information faster?

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FIRESIDE CHAT: FUELING INNOVATION THROUGH LEADERSHIP

Introduction by Cipher Brief CEO & Publisher Suzanne Kelly

- Susan M. Gordon, Deputy Director, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
- Thomas Tull, Founder, TULCO, Former Chairman and CEO of Legendary Entertainment

Description: Susan M. Gordon, Deputy Director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, and Thomas Tull, engage in a Fireside chat focused on best leadership practices in the public and private sectors and the importance of Innovative thinking in both leadership and national security.

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THE TERRORIST THREAT: A CIPHER BRIEF THREAT REPORT BREAKOUT

Led by Cipher Brief CEO & Publisher Suzanne Kelly

- John Bennett, Former Director of CIA’s National Clandestine Service
- Alex Bolling, Former Member of the Senior Intelligence Service, CIA’s Directorate of Operations

- Mitch Silber, Former Director of Intelligence Analysis, NYPD

Description: There is no relief in sight for those fighting the scourge of terrorism. Over the past year, terrorists carried out horrific attacks from Manchester to Kabul to Orlando, using weapons ranging from complex explosives to a simple knife or a truck. As pressure is applied to ISIS in Iraq and Syria, our experts warn more attacks are inevitable. So – what does the West focus on to harden its defenses? Or is this the new normal?

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LUNCHEON KEYNOTE with General Jack Keane

The Real Global Threats to Business

Description: Join the first General to be tapped as Secretary of Defense by the Trump Administration and a current Advisor to key national security leaders, as he walks us through the global landscape of threats and issues impacting the national security of the United States and hear his thinking on how the U.S. needs to prioritize them.

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INTERVIEW: AN INSIDER’S TAKE ON INNOVATION IN DoD

A Conversation with former Navy Secretary Ray Mabus
Led by Kimberly Dozier, Senior National Security Correspondent & Global Affairs Analyst, The Daily Beast & CNN

Description: How can the U.S. Department of the Navy manage multi-pronged threats while maintaining freedom of navigation in the South China Sea and fighting the Global War on Terror – all while the budget process in Washington appears broken for the foreseeable future? Former Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus discusses the challenges facing the Department of the Navy.

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GREAT POWER POLITICS: A CIPHER BRIEF THREAT REPORT BREAKOUT

Led by Cipher Brief CEO & Publisher, Suzanne Kelly

- Michael Sulick, Former Director, CIA’s National Clandestine Service
- Alasdair Gordon, Former Senior National Security Officer, Australian Government

- Emile Nakhleh, Former Senior Intelligence Service Officer, CIA

Description: With Russia at Europe’s borders, a rising China with its eye on global leadership, a disintegrating nation-state order and rise of new state and non-state actors in the Middle East, the United States finds itself mired in partisan and sectarian politics. Washington’s confused relationship with both Beijing and Moscow affects its relationships around the world. What comes next?

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RESETTING THE BATTLEFIELD ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

A CIPHER SPEED-ROUND BRIEFING

- Robert Griffin, CEO, Ayasdi
- Tim Estes, Founder & President, Digital Reasoning
- Doug Wise, Former Deputy Director Defense Intelligence Agency

Description: Despite dramatic fears of a Skynet-type system that thinks for itself, the reality is that AI hasn’t taken off until recently. To understand where it’s going, we start with the five pillars that machine learning is based on. Armed with the basics, we explore what people think versus what AI can actually do today and then focus attention on how the Department of Defense has been thinking about leveraging the potential. Join us for a discussion of what’s moral, effective, and legal when it comes to Artificial Intelligence.

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CYBER THREATS: INFORMATION OPERATIONS, SECURITY AND PRIVACY

A CIPHER SPEED-ROUND BRIEFING
Led by Matt Devost, Managing Director, Accenture Security & CEO, FusionX

- Thomas Donahue, Research Director, Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center

- Nils Puhlmann, Co-Founder, Cloud Security Alliance
- Randy Sabett, Vice Chair, Privacy & Data Protection Practice, Cooley

Description: Government and businesses find themselves equally at risk from cyber attack. Hear directly from both entities as we explore how the nexus of Information Operations, Security, Privacy and Liability is becoming the blueprint for how we need to think about and address current and future cyber threats.

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SIDEBAR SEMINARS

GIVING ALL & GIVING BACK

- John McLaughlin, CIA Officer’s Memorial Foundation

- Jeanine Hayden, National Military Families Association

- David Kramer, Special Operations Care Fund

Description: While Members of the Military, Spies and Special Operators are out executing national security missions, dedicated professionals back home work to provide services to the fallen, the injured, and their families. Spend a few minutes hearing about the mission and the meaningful ways in which people are giving back.

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THE AUTHOR’S ROOM BOOK SIGNING LOUNGE

Sponsored by The International Spy Museum

- General Michael Hayden, Playing to the Edge

- Michael Morell, The Great War of Our Time
- Michael Sulick, American Spies
- Max Brooks, World War Z

Description: Mingle with the Authors and pick up a signed book compliments of The International Spy Museum.

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THE ‘RED CELL’ COCKTAIL HOUR

featuring Author, Max Brooks

Description: The U.S. Government has turned to novelists for years to engage in ‘Red Cell’ exercises, or be a part of ‘Red Teams’ to help think more imaginatively about future threats and their origins. Come share a cocktail with Max Brooks, the Author of ‘World War Z’ and hear how he uses creative innovation strategies to help The Atlantic Council and West Point’s Modern War Institute ‘imagine’ future threat scenarios.

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DINNER / A CANDID CONVERSATION

WITH MICHAEL MORELL

Description: The Twice-Acting Director of the CIA who was with George W. Bush on 9/11 and was widely expected to be Director of CIA under a Hillary Clinton Presidency breaks down the global threats and how Washington must come together to face them.