Registration is now open for the fifth annual Intelligence Studies Project Symposium. The event is free and open to the public, however, advance registration is required to attend each session. Please plan to arrive early to secure your seat. Registration does not guarantee admission.
This year's symposium "Intelligence in Transition" will feature a keynote address by Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Susan Gordon.
This event is co-sponsored by the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the Clements Center for National Security, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
AGENDA
8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. | Arrival and Registration
SESSION I
9:15 a.m. — 9:30 a.m. | Welcome Remarks
Stephen Slick, Director of the Intelligence Studies Project
9:30 a.m. — 10:45 a.m. | Strategic Warning, with Opening Remarks by Amy McAuliffe, National Intelligence Council Chair
Moderator: Robert Hutchings, Walt and Elspeth Rostow Chair in National Security and Professor of Public Affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs
Matthew Travis, Deputy Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Dennis Wilder, Former National Security Council Senior Director for East Asian Affairs
Philip Bobbitt, Director of the Center for National Security at Columbia Law School
10:45 a.m. — 11:00 a.m. | Break
11:00 a.m. — 12:00 p.m. | Law Enforcement Responses to New Threats, An Interview with John Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, by Ellen Nakashima, National Security Reporter at The Washington Post
12:00 p.m. — 12:30 p.m. | Lunch
Buffet lunch provided for participants and registered guests
SESSION II
12:30 p.m. — 1:45 p.m. | Intelligence in Transition, remarks by Susan Gordon, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
Introduction by Admiral (Ret.) Bobby Inman, LBJ Centennial Chair in National Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs
Discussion moderated by Stephen Slick, Director of the Intelligence Studies Project
1:45 p.m. — 3:00 p.m. | Emerging Threats, Technology Challenges and Institutional Change, with opening remarks by Christopher Krebs, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director (invited)
Moderator: Robert Chesney, Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law
Michelle Van Cleave, Former National Counterintelligence Executive
Samantha Ravich, Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Michael Daniel, Former Special Assistant to the President and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator
John Carlin, Former Assistant Attorney General for National Security
3:00 p.m. | Symposium Adjourns