Digital Transformation in Defence:
Webinar Series

2021

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Meet the Speakers

Q1 Confirmed Speakers

Michael Powell
Cyber Representative – North America, UK Defence & Security Exports, DIT,
British Embassy Washington

Suranga Wickramasekera
Business Development Manager
Pitch Technologies Ltd

Chris Poole
Digital SME, Government, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

Dr. Alexander Kott
Chief Scientist
U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Tarek Abdelzaher
Director, IoBT REIGN
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Mary Lee
Mathematician
RAND Corporation

Chad Gray
Cybersecurity and Privacy Principal
PwC US

Kurt Fields
Director, Emerging Technology Advisory
PWC

Miguel Smart
Partner
Strategy&, part of the PwC network (formerly Booz & Company)

James (Rusty) Rentsch
Vice President, Technical Operations and Standards
Aerospace Industry Association

Jean-Paul Buu-Sao
Lately Senior Architect at Exostar
Consultant

Ric Green MSc MIET MINCOSE
Land Open Systems Architecture, Land Equipment
DE&S – UK Ministry of Defence

Lt Col (USMC) Brandon Newell
Director, SoCal Tech Bridge, NavalX
U.S. Department of Navy

Tony White
Chief Technology Officer - Land (Precision Control Systems)
Ultra Electronics Group

Andrew Hartigan
Vice President, Aviation
Innovative Defense Technologies

Doug Brown
Head of Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Guild
Capita

Craig Gottlieb
Managing Director, Aerospace and Defense
Accenture

Jason Rios
Sr Vice President & General Manager, Aerospace
Sentient Science Corporation

Steven Roemerman
Chairman and CEO
Lone Star Analysis

Dr. Bill Lewis
Former Director of the Aviation Development Directorate of AMRDEC
Tennessee Technical Test Team

Shannon Parker
Senior Manager of Business Development for Government Services
Boeing

Brandon Johnson
Digital Product Strategy Leader
Bell Flight

Jordan Garrett
Digital Twin and Edge Solutions Lead
Dell Technologies

Peter Shultz
Senior Manager, FVL Digital Systems
Bell Flight

Alexander Stephenson
Editor
Defence IQ

Lieutenant Colonel Arnel David
Cofounder
UK Fight Club

Early Q2 Confirmed Speakers

Anika Binnendijk
Political Scientist
RAND Corporation

Tim Marler
Senior Research Engineer
RAND Corporation

Randy Brown
VP & Division Manager
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA)

Matthew Bennett
Technical Director
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA)

Dean Hoover
Systems Engineering Section Manager/Virtual Systems
Raytheon

Lieutenant Colonel Roberto Baldisserri
Deputy Director and Chief of the Concept Development and Experimentation Department
Italian Joint C-M/M UAS Centre of Excellence

Dr. Claudio Palestini
Officer, Counter Terrorism Section, Emerging Security Divisions, NATO
PM, NATO Counter UAS Working Group

Dr. Christian Coman
Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
NCIA

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