2011 Speakers

 
         
Janet Napolitano
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
 

Admiral Eric Olson
Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM)

 

Daniel Benjamin
Ambassador-at-Large, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Department of State

         
         
 Paul Stockton
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs, Department of Defense
   John Pistole
Assistant Secretary, Transportation Security Administration
  Gen. Douglas Lute
Deputy National Security Advisor
         
         

Michael Chertoff
former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security 

 

Michael Leiter
former Director, National Counterterrorism Center

 

Adm. (Ret.) Dennis Blair
former Director of National Intelligence

         
         

Steve Hadley
Former White House National Security Adviser

 

 

Gen. (Ret.) Michael Hayden
former Director, Central Intelligence Agency; former Director, National Security Agency

 

John McLaughlin
former Deputy and Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency

         
       

Fran Townsend
former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

 

Ira Rosen
Producer, "60 Minutes,"
CBS News

 

His Excellency Eklil Hakimi
Ambassador to the United States for the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
         
         

Cofer Black
Former Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Department of State; former Director, CIA Counterterrorist Center

  Charlie Allen
Former Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis,
Department of Homeland Security; Principal, The Chertoff Group
  Jane Harman
Former Representative
36th Congressional District of California
President, CEO, and Director
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
         
         

Chris Taylor
CEO, Mission Essential Personnel
Chairman, Justice Services International

  Douglas Baker
Co-Founder, Managing Director, Monument Capital Group LLC;
former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Border and Transportation Security Policy, Homeland Security Council
 

P.J. Crowley
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
General Omar N. Bradley Chair in Strategic Leadership

 

         
         

Richard Barrett
Coordinator, United Nations Al-Qaida Taliban Monitoring Team

 

Joseph Cirincione
President, Ploughshares

 

His Excellency Abdullah Alsaidi
former Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to the United Nations

         
         
Stuart Levey
Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Department of the Treasury
 

Juan Zarate
former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for Combating Terrorism

 

Marc Nathanson
Chairman, Mapleton Investments; Co-Chair, Homeland Security Advisory Council for Los Angeles County

         

 

 

Anthony Romero
Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
 

Gilles de Kerchove
European Union Counter-Terrorism Coordinator

 

Lieutenant General Guy C. Swan III, Commanding General, United States Army North, Department of Defense

         
         

Paul MacMillan
Chief of Police, Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Transit Police Athority 

 

Stephen E. Flynn
President, Center for National Policy

 

Thomas Pagnani
Managing Director, Capital One Bank

         
         
Alberto Gonzales
former Attorney General of the United States former White House Counsel
  Peter Bergen
Co-Director, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative, New America Foundation
  John Yoo
former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice
         
         
Robert Gallucci
President, John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation; former Dean, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
  William Bratton
Former Commissioner, NYPD; former Chief, LAPD
  Barbara Sude
Senior Political Analyst, RAND Corporation; former al-Quaeda analyst, CIA
         
          
Gary Berntsen
former Commander, CIA forces in Eastern Afghanistan
 

Marc Pearl
President and CEO, Homeland Security & Defense Business Council

 

Richard Ben-Veniste
former 9/11 Commissioner

         
         
Dr. Kathleen L. Kiernan
CEO, Kiernan Group Holdings; Director, Board of Directors, i2
  Eric Bonabeau
CEO and Chief Scientific Officer, Icosystem
  Jack Lichtenstein
Vice President for Governmental Affairs and Public Policy ASIS
         
         
Mati Kochavi
CEO, AGT International;
Chairman, 3i-MIND
  Dr. Stephen Kosslyn
Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
  Carie Lemack
Co-Founder, Global Survivors Network; Executive Producer, Killing in the Name
         
       

Daniel Prieto
Vice President and Practice Lead, Public Sector Strategy & Innovation
IBM


 

Donald Kusser
Assistant Port Director, Tactical Operations, Los Angeles – Long Beach Seaport, CBP, Department of Homeland Security

 

Megan Garcia
Fellow, Nuclear Security Initiative, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

         

 

     

Owen Monaghan
Assistant Chief, Transit Police, New York Police Department

 

Stephen L. Caldwell
Director, Homeland Security and Justice Issues, Government Accountability Office

 

Jon Ramsey
Executive Director, Counter Threat UnitSM (CTU), Dell SecureWorks

         
         

Larry Willis
Director, Suspicious Behavior Detection Programs, Human Factors/Behavioral Analysis Division, Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security

 

Devin Talbott
Vice President, D.E. Shaw

 

Chief Michael Fisher
Chief, U.S. Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security

         
         
Brian Michael Jenkins
Senior Advisor to the President, RAND Corporation; Research Associate, Mineta Transportation Institute
  David Cole
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
 

Kristen Saloomey
Al Jazeera

         
       

 

Eric Schmitt
The New York Times
  Tom Herring
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, AeroVironment, Inc.