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MONDAY, JUNE 15

2:00 P.M. Keynote Remarks

Samuel J. Gordy, General Manager, Chief Strategy Offi cer,

Public and Federal Market, IBM Corporation

2:30 P.M. AI and the Future of Work: Creating an Adaptable Workforce

3:15 P.M. Tech Talk 1 – Artifi cial Intelligence in Radiology:

Lessons Learned Over the Past 30 Years

3:30 P.M. Questions and Answers

TUESDAY, JUNE 16

2:00 P.M. Keynote Remarks

Ben Snively, Principal Solutions Architect in Data Science,

Amazon Web Services

2:30 P.M. AI in Content Bias


WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17

2:00 P.M. Tech Talk 2 – Computers Who Understand You

2:30 P.M. AI in Professional Sports

3:15 P.M. Tech Talk 3 – Challenges and Opportunities in Autonomous Navigation


THURSDAY, JUNE 18

2:00 P.M. Protecting AI Inventions: Current Issues and Best Practices

2:45 P.M. Tech Talk 4 – Challenges and Solutions for AI Adoption at Scale

3:00 P.M. The Race for Leadership in AI


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Principal Solutions Architect in Data Science,

Amazon Web Services

Questions and Answers

Tech Talk 2 – Computers Who Understand You

AI in Professional Sports

Tech Talk 3 – Challenges and Opportunities in Autonomous Navigation


Protecting AI Inventions: Current Issues and Best Practices

Tech Talk 4 – Challenges and Solutions for AI Adoption at Scale

The Race for Leadership in AI



Brad Antle, Antle AdvisorsF. Brett Berlin, GMU

Pat Biltgen, PerspectaJames Casey, GMU

Catherine Castro, Marka StrategiesJennie Doran, Noblis

Liza Durant, GMUHedeer El Showk , Lore.ai

Deanna Giersmann, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLPGraham Gillen, Accenture

Todd Haymore, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLPRodney Lusk, FCEDA

Alene Metcalf, Public Sector 360Billy Mitchell, FedScoop

Charles Onstott, SAICTara Pritchett, AccentureAnne Rosenblum, FCEDA

Laura Roth, Dovel TechnologiesCarl Schlier, Oblon

Tom Solitario, Tom Solitario LLCTom Woteki, Virginia TechNathan Jahncke, Lore.ai

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

SAMUEL GORDYGeneral Manager, Chief Strategy Officer Public and Federal Market, IBM Corporation

Samuel (Sam) Gordy joined IBM in January 2016 as General Manager, U.S. Federal and Government Industries. In this capacity, he leads the development and delivery of IBM’s products, services and solutions to help all U.S. federal agencies take advantage of the innovations driven by analytics, cloud, security and cognitive systems. Gordy brings to IBM 30 years of experience in key areas, including cybersecurity, analytics and enterprise information systems.

Before joining IBM, Gordy served as Group President of the Integrated Systems Group within the National Security Sector of Leidos, which spun off from SAIC. In this role, Gordy led a $1.3 billion business with more than 3,800 employees. From 1991 to 2013, he held technical analysis, program management, and line management roles at all levels of SAIC, including Senior Vice President and Deputy General Manager for the Integrated Systems Group and Vice President and Operations Manager for the Geospatial-Intelligence Engineering and Development Operation.

Gordy received a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an MBA from George Washington University.

BEN SNIVELYPrincipal Solutions Architect in Data Science, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Ben Snively is a Principal Solutions Architect in Data Science at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He specializes in solutions built using big data, analytics, and machine learning technologies. Previously, Snively was an engineer and architect on various public sector and government projects, where he built solutions leveraging these technologies.

Snively holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a master’s in computer engineering from University of Central Florida.


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MONDAY, JUNE 15AI and the Future of Work: Creating an Adaptable Workforce2:30 p.m.

A robust pipeline of talent with expertise in AI is essential for national security and economic growth. At the epicenter for AI tech talent demand, leadership from Commonwealth Universities discuss challenges and novel approaches to developing a resilient, adaptable, AI ready-workforce.

Moderator:

Kelly Demaitre, Chief Human Resources Officer

Dovel Technologies

Kelly Demaitre works closely with Dovel Technologies’ executive team, line operations and functional teams to align Human Resources (HR) initiatives to meet strategic business objectives. She has more than 20 years of experience in supporting, developing and leading HR organizations. Her primary responsibilities include overseeing and driving talent acquisition, health and welfare benefits, and talent management. Additionally, Demaitre will be responsible for developing and implementing people and culture strategies across the company to attract and retain talent who thrive on solving highly complex customer challenges.

Demaitre brings a long track record of designing employee pro-grams for professional services organizations including CACI, Federated IT, EXELIS, and Booz Allen Hamilton. In these roles, she has routinely been recognized for her ability to proactively partner with business leaders to meet workforce challenges by driving the organizational effectiveness of HR programs.

Demaitre holds a Bachelor of Science, Human Resources Management from the University of Maryland. She is a member of the Society for Human Resources (SHRM); an executive advisory board member for George Mason University, Professional Writing & Communications; and a speaker and presenter for HR Alliance programs.

Panelists:

Irma Becerra, President, Marymount UniversityDr. Irma Becerra took office as the seventh President of Marymount University in Arlington, Va., on July 1, 2018. In her first six months in the role, she launched the university’s new strategic plan, “Momentum,” which will guide the university over the five-year period from 2019 to 2024. The plan calls for Marymount to achieve national and international recognition for innovation and commitment to student success, alumni achievement and faculty and staff excellence.

After just one year as President, Dr. Becerra has already introduced several initiatives with long-lasting effects in support of Marymount’s mission and vision for the future. This

includes adding market-driven academic programs that priori-tize career preparation, acquiring The Rixey luxury apartment building next door to Marymount’s Ballston Center and improving the university’s IT infrastructure through the implementation of the state-of-the-art enterprise resource planning application, Workday.

Dr. Becerra is known for expanding educational access for students and keenly targeting programming to meet societal needs and changing demographics. Her academic career, both as student and professional, has blended mathematics, engineering and systems thinking and processes in her studies, teaching and administrative leadership. An educator who began her career in the private sector and the holder of four patents and copyrights, Dr. Becerra is an ardent advocate for a STEM-educated workforce and holds the mindset of a trained scientist and seasoned entrepreneur.

She earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Miami and went on to become the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Florida International University (FIU).

Prior to Marymount, she served as Provost and Chief Academic Officer at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Fla., and also spent three decades at FIU in a variety of positions that include Vice President, Vice Provost, Entrepreneurship Center Director and tenured professor in Management Information Systems. She founded FIU’s Knowledge Management Lab and led major projects as principal investigator at the National Science Foun-dation, NASA and the Air Force Research Lab. She was also a Sloan Scholar at MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research.

Dr. Becerra has authored four books and numerous journal articles in the areas of knowledge management and business intelligence. Her original research has also spanned such areas as enterprise systems, disaster management and IT entrepreneurship, making her a sought-after speaker and presenter both in the U.S. and internationally.

Anne Kress, President, Northern Virginia Community CollegeAnne M. Kress is the sixth president of Northern Virginia Community College, a role she began in January 2020. She has more than 25 years of experience in higher education, having served as a tenured faculty member in English, department chair, associate vice president, provost, and president at community colleges in Florida, New York, and now, Virginia.


Kress focuses on the role NOVA plays in assuring meaningful and equitable access to educational and economic opportunity; connecting students to transformational, high quality programs; building innovative industry and community partnerships; and increasing philanthropic support of student success.

Kress serves on the board of the American Association of Community Colleges and on work groups affiliated with the American Council of Education, Association of Community College Trustees, and Opportunity America. Kress is a board member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce; she is an immediate past director/trustee of the New York Power Authority and Canal Corporation, SUNY Research Foundation, Upstate New York Regional Advisory Board of the New York Federal Reserve, and was co-chair of New York Governor Cuomo’s Regional Economic Development Council.

Kress earned two bachelor’s degrees, in Finance and English; a master’s degree in English; and a doctorate in Higher Education Administration, all from the University of Florida. She has been honored by her alma mater, as well as by Phi Theta Kappa, the New York State Senate, Rochester YWCA, American Association of University Women, the Rochester Women’s Council, the Rochester Business Journal, and the Rochester Technology and Manufacturing Association, among others.

Anne Holton, President, George Mason UniversityOn Aug. 1, 2019, Anne Holton became the seventh president of George Mason University; the former Virginia Secretary of Education is the first female president in Mason history.Since May 2017, Holton has served as a Mason visiting profes-sor in the Schar School of Policy and Government and the Col-lege of Education and Human Development. In addition to her work as visiting professor researching education, social welfare and urban policy, Holton is a visiting Fellow at Mason’s Center for Education Policy and Evaluation.

After earning her law degree at Harvard, Holton worked as an attorney for low-income families from 1985 to 1998 with the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society. She then served as a judge on the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court for the city of Richmond from 1998 to 2005, including a stint as chief judge from 2000 to 2003.

As Virginia’s First Lady from 2006 to 2010, Holton consulted on national foster care reform with the Annie E. Casey Foundation Child Welfare Strategy Group and later directed Great Expecta-tions, a Virginia Foundation for Community College Education program.

When serving as Virginia’s Secretary of Education from 2014 to 2016, Holton worked to increase Virginia’s investment in public education, to promote innovation and teaching and learning in state schools, and to ensure every student has a successful pathway to the future, particularly children who live in poverty.Anne Holton’s awards include Outstanding Woman of the Year in Law from the YWCA of Richmond in 2006 and the Annie E.

Casey Foundation Families for Life Award of Distinction in 2008. In 2017, Governor Terry McAuliffe appointed her to the Virginia Board of Education.

Holton, a Roanoke, Va., native, graduated magna cum laude from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Interna-tional Affairs in 1980 and earned her law degree from Harvard in 1983.

Peggy Agouris, Provost, William & MaryAs the university’s chief academic officer, Agouris is responsible for all academic and research programs, academic budgets, in-stitutional planning, space allocation and faculty development. She co-chairs the university’s strategic planning and business innovation committees.

Originally from Athens, Greece, Agouris received her engineer-ing degree from the National Technical University of Athens, and her master’s and doctoral degrees from The Ohio State University. As an undergraduate, she also received a degree in classical music and piano from the Greek Conservatory. Before joining William & Mary she served at George Mason as dean of the College of Science, chair of the Department of Geogra-phy and Geoinformation Science and as a professor of remote sensing and spatial informatics. Before joining the faculty of George Mason, Agouris worked for the University of Maine as an assistant professor and then associate professor in the now named School of Computing and Information Science, and as a postdoctoral research associate for the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering with the Swiss Fed-eral Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. She has also worked with the private sector, serving as principal investigator on technology transfer projects. As a scholar, Agouris has pub-lished more than 100 papers in numerous academic outlets, with more than 2,600 citations to date.

At George Mason, Agouris oversaw one of the university’s most active research units. In 2018 alone, the College of Science accounted for almost a third of George Mason’s total research expenditures and nearly half of its indirect revenue. The college included 13 departments and programs, 20 research centers and nearly 80 degree programs. In 2017, the College of Science led George Mason’s largest research proposal to date, which was funded by the federal government with an initial budget of $40 million. During her tenure as dean, Agouris was also credited with creating new cross-cutting academic programs, increasing the diversity of the faculty body by almost 40 per-cent and assembling a diverse leadership team for her college comprising more than 60 percent women and under-represent-ed populations.


MONDAY, JUNE 15Tech Talk 1 - Artifi cial Intelligence in Radiology: Lessons Learned Over the Past 30 Years 3:15 p.m.

The radiology community has been developing computer aided diagnosis (CAD) tools over the past 30 years before artifi cial intelligence hype. Recent publications reported that the commercial CAD products used for digital mammograms provided no statistically signifi cant benefi ts over the performance of radiologists. Conversely, a CAD system for lung cancer screening showed a signifi cant improvement in accuracy and effi ciency. The research and investments are increasing on the use of AI tools for a wide range of radiology applications. In spite of the explosive amount of interest in the use of AI for medical imaging, and highly specu-lative stories in the press, clinical adoption and commercial success of these AI tools remains elusive.

In this presentation we will highlight how imaging AI products are developed and tested for FDA. FDA approval however does not assure clinical and commercial success. We will summarize remaining issues of wider adoption of this potentially power technol-ogy.

Speaker:

Seong K. Mun, PhD, Professor and Director Arlington Innovation Center; Health Research Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA

Seong K. Mun, PhD is a professor and director of Arlington Innovation Center: Health Research at Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA and engaged in research in artifi cial intelligence in medicine, health informatics, medical imaging, and prostate cancer.

Dr. Mun is founding President and CEO of Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) which was established by the Department of Veterans Aff airs in 2011 as a not-for-profi t organization to promote open source innovations in health IT.

During the 80s and 90s, Dr. Mun was at Georgetown University Medical Center as Director of Imaging and Information Systems (ISIS) Center, where he championed the development of fi lmless radiology (a.k.a. PACS), global teleradiology, telemedicine, medical robotics, combat casualty care, and global disease surveillance. During that period of over 20 years, he obtained grants and contracts exceeding $100 millions as the principle investigator. At Georgetown for 12 years, he also served as Associate Vice President of Georgetown Medical Center, and manage congressional relations for the University by working with the Offi ce of Federal Relations.

He received General Thurman Award for Excellence in Advanced Medical Technologies for his contribution in combat casualty care research for the US Army. He received PhD in physics from State University of New York, and completed NIH medical physics fellowship at the Department of Radiology, University of Colorado Medical School.


TUESDAY, JUNE 16AI in Content Bias2:30 p.m.

During this panel, the various dimensions of “bias” and the role “AI” plays in content bias will be discussed. This is a hot topic in media and, unfortunately, a lot of the media has created confusion around the meanings of ‘bias’ and ‘artifi cial intelligence,’ with ‘bias’ being portrayed as something bad. Usually this is because the media is using a pretty narrow term for ‘bias’ in the demographic and social sense.

People often blame algorithms for bias, when in reality the whole system needs to be studied to understand the ways in which bias may be introduced since algorithms are only one part of that system.

Setting aside that in the mathematical sense that ‘bias’ is how machine learning works, bias can be good and bad. This creates ethical, policy, regulatory, legal and social issues. Two primary concerns many people have are around the use of AI where bias is of chief concern is in military and law enforcement applications.

Moderator:

Charles Onstott, SVP and CTO, SAIC

Charles Onstott is the SVP and Chief Technology Offi cer for SAIC. He is responsible for driving SAIC’s technology strategy which emphasizes development of solutions and strategic alliances across a broad portfolio of technology capabilities, including information technology, training and simulation, advanced analytics, hardware and platform integration, and logistics and supply chain. He oversees SAIC’s research and development, strategic alliances, product management capabilities, and the SAIC Fellows Program. During his 25 years in the technology industry, Onstott has been a successful innovator and served in many capacities, including technical leadership, general management, and executive roles.

Prior to his role as SAIC’s CTO, Onstott was an SVP and Service Line Manager for SAIC’s services in key emerging technologies, Cloud, Cyber and Data Science. Under his leadership SAIC signifi cantly grew its capabilities and revenues in these services, including expanding SAIC’s cyber practice in to new areas and customers, signifi cantly growing SAIC’s cloud computing business across an array of customer markets, and leading the development of SAIC’s capabilities in Data Science and analytics. Onstott drove the productizing of many of SAIC’s services in these areas in order accelerate growth and to provide more eff ective services to customers. In his current capacity of CTO, he is leading the adoption of this approach across SAIC’s entire portfolio.

Early in his career, he was the Chief Technologist for SAIC’s Inte-grated Services Management Center (ISMC) which was SAIC’s most successful IT service delivery organization. He was responsible for overall technology leadership as well as program portfolio management. He has developed IT infrastructure solutions that support more than 400,000 users worldwide in multiple industries with a focus on Federal Civilian agencies and DoD. He has managed numerous IT service and data center consolidation projects, IT service

transition projects, and IT operations programs. These projects produced signifi cant cost savings in systems development and maintenance while improving overall customer satisfaction.

As an early advocate for cloud computing, Onstott was on the forefront of developing SAIC’s capabilities in cloud computing, including providing executive oversight in 2011 for SAIC’s implementation of its own Enterprise Private Cloud. Onstott was instrumental in packaging the solution and methodology for helping SAIC’s customers in their own journeys to cloud computing. In 2013, he established SAIC’s Enterprise Solutions Lab which is a hybrid cloud used for research and development and is a cloud computing center of excellence. More recently, he has been focused on developing SAIC’s capabilities in X as a Service delivery.

Onstott has long been fascinated by the American experience of living at the intersection of advanced technology, rapid innovation, and a generally religious culture. He has two teenagers who help him stay on top of bleeding-edge technology and challenge his thinking on privacy issues. In his spare time, he works hard not to come in last place in Mountain Bike endurance races.

Panelists:

Patrick Grother, Scientist, NISTPatrick Grother is a scientist at the National Institute of Standards in Technology responsible for biometric algorithm evaluation, and biometric performance testing standardization. He leads the Face Recognition Vendor Tests, the Face-In-Video Evaluation and the Iris Exchange projects which constitute the world’s largest independent public tests of biometric algo-rithms. The results provide quantitative support to developers, end-users, and policy makers faced with algorithm selection, performance adequacy assessment, and procurement specifi cation. Grother’s current research interests relate biometric failure analysis, image quality, demographic


effects, and scalability. He co-chairs NIST’s biannual International Face Performance Conference (IFPC) on measurement, metrics, and certification. He also assists several US Government agencies in biometrics performance assessment and standardization. Since 2018, Grother has served as the chairman of the ISO/IEC/JTC 1 Subcommittee 37 on Biometrics where he has edited seven performance testing and data interchange standards. He received the IEC 1906 Award in 2009 and the ANSI Lohse IT Medal in 2013.

Chuck Cohen, Vice President, NW3C, The National White Collar Crime CenterChuck Cohen is Vice President for Strategic and International Initiatives at NW3C, The National White Collar Crime Center. He is a Professor of Practice in the Indiana University Bloomington Department of Criminal Justice, where he has taught since 2003. Cohen serves as an Auxiliary Detective with the Indiana University Police Department, providing technical assistance and giving him statewide police authority.

Cohen is a retired Indiana State Police Captain, where he served for over 25 years. He was most recently the Commander, Intelligence and Investigative Technologies. In this capacity, Capt. Cohen was responsible for the cybercrime, electronic surveillance, technical services, and Internet crimes against children units along with overseeing the department’s overt and covert criminal intelligence functions. Cohen was the Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center Executive Director and Indiana Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Commander.

Cohen’s formal education includes a Master of Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University and an undergraduate degree from Indiana University with a double major in Criminal Justice and Psychology. He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Economic Crime Forensic Examiner.

Cohen speaks internationally on topics including the implications of online social networks in criminal investigations and criminal intelligence gathering, cybercrime, online fraud, money laundering, corruption investigations, and the investigation of skilled criminal offenders. He has trained investigators and analysts on five continents.

Cohen testified to the 114th Congress in 2016 as a subject matter expert on encryption. He was a member of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Summer Hard Problem Program in 2008, 2009, and 2010. He sits on the IACP Cyber Crime & Digital Evidence Committee and serves as an Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies Cyber Crime Committee Subject Matter Expert. Cohen is a charter member of the International Association of Cyber & Economic Crime Professionals.

He is a published author, including peer‐reviewed material and a cover article for Police Chief Magazine. Chuck was featured on

the cover of the National White Collar Crime Center’s Informant magazine and a feature guest on the syndicated radio program “The Badge” on SiriusXM. He was a subject matter expert for a Fox nationally syndicated show regarding criminal activity in online dating sites and for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s national news regarding criminal activity in Virtual Worlds.

Dr. Steve Kramer, Chief Science Officer, Kung FU AIDr. Steve Kramer is a computational physicist and data science entrepreneur with 27+ years of post-PhD experience in data science, research, software, and business management. As of January 2020, Dr. Kramer is the Chief Scientist at KUNGFU.AI.

He earned a PhD in physics in the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Kramer has extensive research experience spanning data mining, machine learning, anomaly detection, bot/cyborg detection, clustering, network graph analysis, deep learning, artificial intelligence, spatiotemporal forecasting, predictive analytics, social media analytics, and pattern discovery/recognition. In 2014, he patented a robust method for dynamic anomaly detection based on chaos theory. Dr. Kramer spoke at Data Day Texas in 2014 and 2018 and at Data Day Seattle in 2016. Since 2011, he has served as a program committee member and reviewer for the ACM KDD and IEEE Security and Intelligence Informatics conferences. He recently acted as the Principal Investigator on two subcontracts for automated machine learning and counter-spearphishing under DARPA’s Information Innovation Office.


WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17Tech Talk 2 - Computers Who Understand You2:00 p.m.

Computers can now understand what you say and write like never before. Learn how this is possible and how it will transform everything and expand the reach of machine learning to functions which were previously thought impossible.

Speaker:

Paul Nelson, Innovation Lead for Accenture Applied Intel-ligence, Accenture

Paul Nelson was an early pioneer in the fi eld of text retrieval and has worked on search engines for over 30 years. He was the architect and inventor of RetrievalWare, a ground-breaking natural-language based statistical text search engine which he started in 1989 and grew to $50 million in annual sales worldwide. RetrievalWare is now owned by Microsoft Corporation. Nelon served as the chief architect at Search Technologies until their acquisition by Accenture in July 2017, and is now Innovation Lead with Accenture’s Applied Intelligence group.


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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17AI in Professional Sports2:30 p.m.

Can Artificial Intelligent create a competitive advantage in professional sports? From enhancing the Fan experience, to improving player safety, IoT coupled with AI technologies is changing the landscape of professional sports and stadium design. Listen to a discussion of how AI can impact our favorite pastimes.

Moderator:

Brad Antle, CEO, Antle Advisors

Brad Antle is the CEO of Antle Advisors, a consultancy that helps small and midsize businesses properly position for growth and to improve operational efficiency to increase enterprise value. Having evaluate over 400 companies for acquisition and closed on 16 transactions, he helps companies prepare to prepare prior to any sale or exit, to achieve the best results. Most recently Brad was the co-founder of Salient CRGT which resulted from the merger of Salient and CRGT in 2015. Antle has over three decades of experience as a leader in developing and delivering information technology (IT) solutions at GE, Lockheed Martin, and SI International. As President & CEO, negotiated the sale of SI International (NAS-DAQ: SINT) to SERCO NA in December 2008. In August 2009 formed Salient Federal Solutions, to build a mid-tier, differentiated federal information technology and engineering solutions business exercising an acquisition and organic growth strategy. Antle served in the U.S. Navy for 30 years Active & Reserve, retiring with the rank of Captain. Antle is active in numerous community and business organizations and is the past Chair of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), and past Chair of the Virginia Veterans Services Foundation Board.

Panelists:

Richard (Dick) Darden, Distinguished Engineer and Digital Human Evangelist, North America Government, IBMRichard (Dick) Darden serves as chief engineer of IBM’s Data and AI Expert Labs and Learning North American Government division. Under these roles, he is responsible for the overall technical delivery for IBM’s Data and AI programs for North American government clients. He also serves as IBM’s Digital Human Evangelist promoting the use of digital human technology to improve the human-machine interaction.

Darden has more than 23 years of experience leading North American industry conversations in the areas of enterprise AI, fieldable two-way speech–to-speech translation systems, performance engineering, security, and communicating the business value of technical solutions to clients.

Earlier roles at IBM included serving as chief architect for top federal government defense agencies, including the U.S. Joint

Forces Command, the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Navy, on such programs as the DoD Business Enterprise Archi-tecture and Navy Enterprise Automated Information System.

Prior to his career in information technology, Darden served as a U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Junior Officer aboard the nuclear ballistic missile submarine, USS James Madison (SSBN 627 Blue), and as Chief Engineer aboard the nuclear fast attack submarine, USS Seahorse (SSN 669).

Darden is an accomplished and awarded international speaker, including at SAP Sapphire, i2 Planet (top 5 presentation), IBM Think, and IBM PLTE (most downloaded presentation)

Darden holds a Master’s degree in operations research from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Adam Heintz, SVP Business Intelligence, Monumental Sports and EntertainmentAdam Heintz is Senior Vice President of Business Intelligence at Monumental Sports and Entertainment. In this position, he oversees all strategy and analytics efforts across ticket sales, corporate partnerships, executive suites, and marketing for each of the organization’s properties.

Previously, Heintz served as president of ONOSYS, a subsidiary then owned by LivingSocial which was successfully guided to an industry partner. Additionally, he has served in leadership positions across several business lines at LivingSo-cial and Orbitz Worldwide, primarily in the e-commerce space. Heintz earned a B.B.A. from Ohio University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago focusing on strategic management, marketing, and economics.

Dan Waldschmidt, Co-CEO, EDGY Inc.Dan Waldschmidt is Co-CEO of EDGY Inc., a highly-focused, invite-only, business strategy execution company based out of Silicon Valley. Waldschmidt doesn’t just talk about leveling up, he’s obsessed with it. He is devoted to helping his clients break through to their next level of revenue success. Dan has a passion for sports. In fact, he is a record-setting ultra-runner. His past experience in sports includes Spartan Race, NFL, and others, which has given him expert knowledge and insights into the sports vertical, allowing him to propel his clients through to the next mile marker faster.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17Tech Talk 3 - Challenges and Opportunities in Autonomous Navigation3:15 p.m.

Advancements in reliable navigation and mapping rest to a large extent on robust, effi cient and scalable understanding of the surrounding environment. The success in recent years have been propelled by the use using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for capturing geometry and semantics of environment from video and range sensors.

Jana Kosecka will discuss challenges of deploying these systems in real-world settings and outline some strategies for jointly optimizing perception and decision making algorithms in the context of elementary navigation tasks. The presented explorations open interesting avenues for control of embodied physical agents and general strategies for design and development of general purpose autonomous systems.

Speaker:

Jana Kosecka, Professor, Department of Computer Science, George Mason University

Jana Kosecka is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, George Mason University. She has over 100 publications in refereed journals and conferences and is a co-author of a monograph titled Invitation to 3D vision: From Images to Geometric Models. Her general research interests are in Computer Vision and Robotics. In particular she is interested in acquisition of static, dynamic and semantic models of environments by means of visual sensing, autonomous driving, object recognition, scene parsing and human-robot interaction.

past experience in sports includes Spartan Race, NFL, and others, which has given him expert knowledge and insights into the sports vertical, allowing him to propel his clients through to the next mile marker faster.


THURSDAY, JUNE 18Protecting AI Inventions: Current Issues and Best Practices2:00 p.m.

The IP panel will discuss current issues with and best practices for obtaining IP protection for AI inventions. The panel will address protecting the various aspects of AI inventions such as the AI engine, training methods, and data sets. For example, how does current law treat ownership of AI-generated inventions and content? The panel will also discuss AI IP policy at the US Patent and Trademark Office and their recent efforts regarding the regulation of AI and information gathering on how to promote the patenting of AI inventions.

Moderator:

Jim Daniel, Chief Legal Officer, ICF International

Jim Daniel serves as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary for ICF. In this role, he serves as counsel to senior management and the board of directors, oversees all legal and regulatory matters for ICF, and manages the company’s legal, compliance, and internal audit functions.

Prior to joining ICF in 2013, Daniel held positions as general counsel and corporate secretary at Serco Inc. and SI International, and he served as in-house counsel for The University of Memphis.Daniel holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Tech.

Panelists:

Charles Kim, Director, Office of Petitions, USPTOCharles Kim currently serves as the Director of the Office of Petitions at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Office of Petitions reviews and decides petitions, requests, and related inquiries, regarding the filing of patent applications, revival of abandoned applications, reinstatement of expired patents, withdrawal of patent applications from issue, small entity entitlement, review of previous decisions of the Technology Centers, suspension of regulations, and questions not specifically provided for by regulations.

Prior to working at the Office of Petitions, Kim served for two years as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy. Kim also previously served as a Supervisory Patent Examiner in Technology Center 2100—Computer Architecture and Software. Kim has a BS degree in Electrical Engi-neering from Rutgers University and received his JD degree from George Washington University Law School.

Sean O’Connor, Professor, George Mason University Scalia School of LawSean O’Connor, noted innovation law scholar, is a Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Center for Protection of Intellectual

Property (CPIP) at George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School.

He was previously Boeing International Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle. His research focuses on intellectual property and business law with regard to start-ups and commercializing technology and arts innovation. His teaching and law practice specialize in transactions and the strategic role of the general counsel. O’Connor received his law degree from Stanford Law School, a master’s degree in philosophy from Arizona State University, and a bachelor’s degree in history from University of Massachusetts.

Sameer Gokhale, Partner, OblonSameer Gokhale is a partner in the Oblon firm’s Electrical Patent Prosecution group. He prosecutes patents for a diverse clientele from all over the world in electrical and mechanical fields, including printing and copying technology, semiconduc-tors and semiconductor manufacturing, display systems, digital rights management, audio and video encoding, network security, and personal electronic devices. Additionally, as a wireless industry patent attorney, he has prosecuted patents for wireless communications technologies.

Gokhale is a knowledge leader at Oblon in the legal topics of functional claiming and statutory subject matter. He has given several presentations on how recent changes in U.S. patent law impact patent prosecution and patent enforceability related to computer-based technologies, with an emphasis on emerg-ing technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing, Big Data, Blockchain, and all aspects of Industry 4.0.

Prior to joining Oblon, Gokhale served as a Patent Examiner in display systems art at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). During that time, he reviewed patent applications related to liquid crystal display (LCD) drivers, plasma display drivers, and display input devices. He now draws upon this experience to expedite the patent prosecution process for his clients.


THURSDAY, JUNE 18Tech Talk 4 - Challenges and Solutions for AI Adoption at Scale2:45 p.m.

Over the past fi ve years, techniques like computer vision and machine learning for military planning have made great strides, but signifi cant technical, operational, and psychological barriers to widespread adoption remain. This presentation provides a provocative exposition of some of the key challenges to orientation in an environment of massive disinformation, democratized social media, pervasive sensors, and exploding data volumes. We frame modern AI challenges using John Boyd’s OODA (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) Loop model and highlight key questions that must be answered to move technology forward. This presentation references numerous (and humorous) examples of AI-gone-wrong in the modern literature and highlights approaches and techniques to solve real-world problems.

Speaker:

Patrick Biltgen, Director of Analytics, Perspecta

Patrick Biltgen is the Director of Analytics at Perspecta. He leads research and development eff orts for machine learning, artifi cial intelligence, modeling, and Internet-of-Things (Iot) capabilities. Biltgen holds a bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has supported data fusion and modeling eff orts for multiple defense and intelligence clients. In 2016, Dr. Biltgen published Activity-Based Intelligence: Principles and Applications, the fi rst unclassifi ed textbook on this contemporary intelligence tradecraft. He is the recipient of the 2017 Neil Armstrong Award of Excellence, the 2018 Intelligence and National Security Alliance Edwin Land Award, and the 2014 National Intelligence Integration Award.


2017 Neil Armstrong Award of Excellence, the 2018 Intelligence and National Security Alliance Edwin Land Award, and the 2014


THURSDAY, JUNE 18The Race for Leadership in AI3:00 p.m.

The race for global leadership in AI has already started. But what does leadership mean in the context of AI? What’s at stake, what are the different strategies, and how are they being implemented? This panel explores the planning and implementation of national AI policies in the U.S. and around the world. The discussion will also cover issues related to innovation, adoption, and commercialization of AI as well as the potential challenges of taking different approaches.

Moderator:

Billy Mitchell, Editor-in-chief, FedScoop

Billy Mitchell leads FedScoop’s editorial direction and an award-winning team of reporters in providing breaking news and analysis on the ways technology is transforming the operations and services of the federal government. Mitchell also regularly covers developments around the use of IT at the White House, the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs, among other agencies.

His expertise in the federal government IT space has been featured in various media outlets, including a segment on cybersecurity and facial recognition used by government agencies in a public radio station, and multiple Washington D.C. government technology-related broadcast segments.

Billy has a Master of Arts degree in magazine journalism from New York University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication focused on electronic and print journalism from Virginia Tech.

Panelists:

Chris Dain, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, British EmbassyChris Dain has worked for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office for over 15 years, having covered Africa, conflict prevention and counter-terrorism in London with postings in Moscow, Brussels and New Delhi. As Director of the US Science & Innovation Network, Dain is based at the British Embassy in Washington leading a team across the US with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, emerging tech, clean growth and health security. Although not a scientist by background, Dain has significant experience of working on wider UK prosperity and security – including climate change in Russia, trade and investment in North India and across Departments in London.

Meg King, Strategic and National Security Advisor to the Wilson Center’s CEO & President, Coordinator of the Science and Technology Innovation Program, Director, Wilson Center’s AI Lab for Congressional StaffMeg King is the Strategic and National Security Advisor to the Wilson Center’s CEO and President, as well as the

Coordinator of the Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP). Previously, she was an international project manager for the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.

From 2008 to 2011, she was senior legislative assistant to the Chair of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment. She began her career as a research assistant for the Homeland Security Project at the Center for the Study of the Presidency.

She is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Women in International Security Network.

Michael Nelson, Senior Fellow and Director, Technology and International Affairs, Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceMike Nelson directs the Carnegie Endowment’s Technology and International Affairs Program, which helps decisionmakers understand and address the impacts of emerging technologies, including digital technologies, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence.

Prior to joining Carnegie, he started the global public policy office for Cloudflare, a startup that has improved the performance and security of more than 10 million websites around the world. Nelson has also served as a principal technology policy strategist in Microsoft’s Technology Policy Group and before that was a senior technology and telecommunications analyst with Bloomberg Government. In addition, Nelson has been teaching courses and doing research on the future of the internet, cyber-policy, technology policy, innovation policy, and e-government in the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program at Georgetown University.

Before joining the Georgetown faculty, Nelson was director of internet technology and strategy at IBM, where he managed a team helping define and implement IBM’s next generation internet strategy. He has served as chairman of the Information, Communication, and Computing Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, serves as a trustee of the Institute for International Communications, and was selected to be a “Global Leader of Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum.


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