Past event: Special Operations Summit

Supporting the Mission of the Global SOF Warrior

Join more than 150 fellow Special Operations professionals from over 80 different organizations to discuss and identify opportunities to strengthen local, regional, and global trust through interagency and partner cooperation. This year’s main focus will be building and enabling a globalized Special Operations community in order to win the current fight.

Benefit from the best opportunity of the year to:

• Discuss current and future requirements and top priorities of USSOCOM
• Identify new technologies and applications for SOF operators
• Unwrap joint efforts with the shared goal of winning the current fight
• Learn about the newest advancements and acquisition priorities in special operations technology given the constantly-evolving environment and priorities

Why attend?

• Discuss hot topics and understand the SOCOM 2020 roadmap
• Network and exchange knowledge with Special Operations professionals
• Meet distinguished military and government leaders, gain knowledge on how to address regional contingencies and threats to stability
• Build new partnerships by attending our exclusive cocktail reception and networking breaks

Topic Background: SOF are elite military units with specialized training and equipment that can infiltrate hostile land, sea, or air territory to conduct a variety of often-classified operations. As threats to international security constantly evolve, so do the needs of the elite warriors tasked with defeating them. The SOF network is becoming more globalized than ever before. Leading the war against violent extremism, across the full spectrum of missions, SOF warriors pave the way for America and its allies to enjoy freedoms and security.

 

“Maintain the high quality of presenters and subject matter as 2012. This was a good lineup of speakers!”
Tom Eberhard, ESRI

“It was well done. Subject content and speakers were a good mix.”
Stan, L-3 STRATIS

“Number of practitioners with real working experience.”
Gary Ackerman, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism

2013 Speaker Lineup

• Garry Reid SES, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense, Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, U.S. Department of Defense
• Major General Thomas Trask USAF, Director, Force Structure, Requirements, Resources and Strategic Assessments, U.S. Special Operations Command
• Rear Admiral Brian Losey USN, Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command
• Brigadier General Sean Mulholland USA, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command - South
• Rear Admiral P. Gardner Howe USN, Commander, Special Operations Command - Pacific
• Dale Ormond SES, Director, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command
• Dr. Brian Maher SES, President, Joint Special Operations University
• Brigadier General Clayton Hutmacher USA, Commanding General, U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command
• Colonel James Cardoso USAF, Director, Global Mission Support Center, U.S. Special Operations Command
• Colonel David SanClemente USAF, Air National Guard Advisor, U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command
• Ambassador Alberto Fernandez, Coordinator, Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, U.S. Department of State
• Colonel Gregory Wilson USA, Special Operations Chair, Co-Director of CORE Lab, Naval Postgraduate School
• Beth Cole, Director, Office of Civilian-Military Cooperation, U.S. Agency for International Development
• LTC Joseph Hitt Ph.D, Program Manager, Defense Sciences Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
• Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Macias USAF, PM, Special Operations Liaison Officer, U.S. Special Operations Command
• Ray Buettner Ph.D, Director, Field Experimentation, Naval Postgraduate School
• Col Vincent Goulding USMC (Ret), Director, Experiment Division, Marine Corps Warfighting Lab
• Craig Archer, Identity Superiority Manager, PEO - SRSE, U.S. Special Operations Command
• Kalev Sepp Ph.D, Senior Lecturer, Deparment of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School
• Michael Harper Ph.D, Associate Director, Expeditionary & Irregular Warfare, Office of Naval Research
• Richard Fisher, Senior Fellow, Asian Military Affairs, International Assessment and Strategy Center
• Marty Irvine, Science Advisor, Commander Submarine Forces
• Andrea Dew Ph.D, Co-Director, Center on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups, U.S. Naval War College
• Oleg Yakimenko Ph.D, Director, Autonomous Systems Engineering and Integration Lab, Naval Postgraduate School
• Ambassador John Herbst, Director, Center for Complex Operations, National Defense University
• Walter Andrusyszyn Ph.D, Director, National & Competitive Intelligence, Florida State University
• Christopher Gunderson Ph.D, Department of Information Science, Naval Postgraduate School
• Kevin Merrigan, VP Business Development, DoD, General Dynamics C4 Systems
• Wesley Rhodes Ph.D, Director, Network Science Research Center, IBM Corporate Strategy
• Peter Henderson, Vice President, Thinklogical
• Colon Miller, Military Operations, Volga-Dnepr Unique Air Cargo

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