DOUG BECK, Director, Defense Innovation Unit; Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense // GENERAL BRYAN FENTON, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command // MICHÈLE FLOURNOY, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors; Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense // Moderator: // COURTNEY KUBE, NBC News Pentagon Correspondent, NBC News
GENERAL ANTHONY COTTON, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command // JIM RISCH, U.S. Senator for Idaho // Moderator: // DAVID SANGER, White House and National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
DAVID CAMERON, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Affairs, United Kingdom // Moderator: // JENNIFER GRIFFIN, Chief National Security Correspondent, Fox News
JOHN PODESTA, Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation // Moderator: // JIM SCIUTTO, Anchor and Chief National Security Analyst, CNN
ELIZABETH ECONOMY, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University // ADMIRAL LINDA FAGAN, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard // ROB WITTMAN, U.S. Representative for Virginia’s First District // Moderator: // PETER SPIEGEL, U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times
KEOKI JACKSON, Senior Vice President, National Security, MITRE // MARA E. KARLIN, Assistant Secretary for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, U.S. Department of Defense // ELIZABETH ROSENBERG, Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, U.S. Department of the Treasury // Moderator: // PETER SPIEGEL, U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times
AARON DAVID MILLER, Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace // SHIBLEY TELHAMI, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland // Moderator: // MARY LOUISE KELLY, Host, All Things Considered, NPR
JON FINER, Principal Deputy National Security Advisor, National Security Council // Moderator: // NICK SCHIFRIN, Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
MEGAN RISTINE BELLINGHAM, Business Information Security Associate, Bridgewater Associates // MATTHEW PEPPERS, Security Data Analyst // KELLY PIAZZA, Associate Professor of Political Science, U.S. Air Force Academy // KEOME ROWE, Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State // CARISSA SMITH, Vice President of Government Relations, FOX // Moderator: // NIAMH KING, Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum
BRENDAN BOYLE, U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's Second District // PAULA DOBRIANSKY, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Belfer Center; Vice Chair, Scowcroft Center for Strategy & Security, Atlantic Council // CONSTANZE STELZENMÜLLER, Director, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution // Moderator: // SUSAN GLASSER, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
ANNE NEUBERGER, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies // ANJA MANUEL, Executive Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum // Moderator: // RYAN HEATH, Global Technology Correspondent, Axios
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