Registration & Networking

Opening Remarks

Hiring and Training Tomorrow’s Cyber Workforce
In order to strengthen the government’s cyber profile, agencies are prioritizing innovative hiring and reskilling practices to recruit new talent and arm current talent with the best resources. During this panel discussion, we’ll discuss new initiatives like the Cyber Reskilling Academy, the Government Effectiveness Advanced Research Center (GEAR Center) and other programs designed to hire, train and retain cyber talent in the federal government.

• Jim Cook, VP, Strategic Engagement and Partnerships, MITRE
• Travis Hoadley,Senior Advisor, Office of Chief Human Capital Officer, Department of Homeland Security
• Tonya Ugoretz, Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) for the Cyber Readiness, Outreach, and Intelligence Branch, FBI 
• Moderator: Frank Konkel, Executive Editor, Nextgov

Metrics-Driven Security: What You Need to Know
A Session Presented by Our Underwriter CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike’s 2019 Global Threat Report details how adversaries take an average of 1 hour and 58 minutes to turn initial access into an environment, into a full security incident. Measuring and understanding this “Breakout Time,” is central to designing a responsive and realistic security program. This is a crucial window to stop the breach – but is not the only metric you need to know. When an attack is in progress, you have on average of one minute to detect it, 10 minutes to understand it and one hour to contain it. Is your organization ready to meet the 1-10-60 Rule challenge? Learn the key steps you can take to improve your organization’s ability to rapidly detect, investigate and remediate threats; as well as the best practices for preventing, detecting in less than 1 minute, analyzing in less than 10 minutes, and responding in less than 60 minutes to stop adversaries

• Rob Sheldon, Head of Technology Strategy, Public Sector, CrowdStrike

One-on-One Interview

• Representative Stephanie Murphy, (D-FL), United States Congress
• Moderator: Jack Corrigan, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov

Industry Perspective: Combating Cyber Threats
A Session Presented by Our Underwriters

• Sean Frazier, Advisory CISO-Federal, Duo Security
• Travis Ruebelmann, Principal Solutions Engineer, Cloudera
• Moderator: Daniela Fayer, Publisher, Defense One

Fact vs. Fiction: How the Government is Changing Information Verification
What are agency leaders doing to verify fact from fiction? During this conversation, we’ll explore government initiatives and proposed legislation to detect deepfakes and verify information and identities.

• Lindsay Gorman, Emerging Technology Fellow, Alliance for Securing Democracy
• Dr. Shuowen Hu, Team Lead, Intelligent Perception Branch, CCDC Army Research Laboratory
• JD Maddox, Senior Technology Advisor, Global Engagement Center, Department of State
• Moderator: Brad Peniston, Deputy Editor, Defense One

A Session Presented by our Underwriter HP Federal 

• Tommy Gardner, Chief Technology Officer, HP Federal
• Moderator: Andrew Werner, Vice President of Business Development, Government Executive Media Group

Will the Future be Safer? Looking Ahead to Tomorrow’s Cyber Landscape
From monitoring cyber activity from countries abroad to the changing tools we use to defend our systems to strengthening network mechanisms to respond to threat intelligence, this conversation will look to the future to examine tomorrow’s cyber landscape. We’ll sit down with government experts and think tank leaders to discuss election security, cyber hunting, software defined networks, artificial intelligence and offensive cyber activity from China, North Korea and Russia.

• Mark Bristow, Director, NCCIC Hunt and Incident Response Team, National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, Department of Homeland Security
• Jonathan Lee, Deputy Chief, Risk Management, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• Nick Marinos, Director, Information Technology and Cybersecurity Team, Government Accountability Office
• Moderator: Jack Corrigan, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov

Closing Keynote 

• Grant Schneider, Special Assistant to the President, Federal Chief Information Security Officer, Senior Director for Cybersecurity Policy, National Security Council

Closing Remarks