2016 Aspen Security Forum
July 27 - 30, 2016 | Aspen, CO
A Chat with the Secretary
Speaker: Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security
Moderator: Thom Shanker, Assistant Washington Editor, The New York Times
Central Command: At the Center of the Action
Speaker: Joseph Votel, Commander, U.S. Central Command
Moderator: Richard Engel, Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News
The Russian Bear on the Prowl
Speaker: Heather Conley, Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic, CSIS
Speaker: Elissa Slotkin, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Moderator: Massimo Calabresi, Deputy Washington Bureau Chief and Senior Correspondent, TIME Magazine
Africa: the Next Hotbed of Terrorism
Speaker: Jennifer Cooke, Director, Africa Program, CSIS
Speaker: Carter Ham, President, Association of the U.S. Army
Speaker: Cyril Sartor, Deputy Assistant Director for Africa, CIA
Moderator: Eric Schmitt, National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
Cyber's Role in America's Security Arsenal
Speaker: John Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security
Speaker: Michael Daly, Chief Technology Officer, Cybersecurity and Special Missions, Raytheon
Speaker: Steve Grobman, Chief Technology Officer, Intel Security Group
Speaker: Vinny Sica, Vice President, Defense and Intelligence Space Ground Solutions, Lockheed Martin
Moderator: Evan Perez, Justice Correspondent, CNN
Directing National Intelligence
Speaker: James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence
Moderator: Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN
The Great Mideast Crackup: the Inevitable Comes to Pass
Speaker: Lukman Faily, Ambassador of Iraq o the U.S.
Speaker: Shibley Telhami, Nonresident Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution
Moderator: Peter Bergen, National Security Analyst, CNN
The New Normal?
Speaker: William Bratton, Commissioner, New York City Police Department
Speaker: Robert Griffin, General Manager, Safer Planet, IBM Analytics
Speaker: Peter Neffenger, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration
Speaker: Michael Steinbach, Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Moderator: Shane Harris, Senior Intelligence and National Security Correspondent, the Daily Beast
Pacta Sunt Servanda
Speaker: Frank Klotz, Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security and Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration
Speaker: Cliff Kupchan, Chairman and Eurasia Practice Head, Eurasia Group
Speaker: Bernadette Meehan, former Spokesperson, National Security Council
Speaker: Danielle Pletka, Senior Vice President for Foreign and Defense Policy, AEI
Moderator: Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
War Without End: Counterterrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Speaker: Ryan Crocker, former Ambassador of the U.S. to Afghanistan
Speaker: Hamdullah Mohib, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the U.S.
Speaker: Rizwan Sheikh, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Pakistan in Washington, D.C.
Moderator: Kim Dozier, Contributing Writer, the Daily Beast
The Security State
Speaker: Karen Greenberg, Director, Center on National Security, Fordham University School of Law
Speaker: Elisa Massimino, President and CEO, Human Rights First
Speaker: John Negroponte, former Director of National Intelligence
Speaker: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Moderator: Ken Dilanian, Intelligence and National Security Reporter, NBC News
Seeing Around Corners: the Intelligence Professional's Challenge
Speaker: S. Leslie Ireland, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Intelligence and Analysis
Speaker: John Scarlett, former Chief, British Secret Intelligence Service
Speaker: Gregory Treverton, Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Moderator: Brian Bennett, National Security and Intelligence Reporter, The Los Angeles Times
A Candid Conversation with the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Speaker: John Brennan, Director, CIA
Moderator: Dina Temple-Raston, Counterterrorism Correspondent, NPR
Intelligence-Led Cyber Security: Operating Globally While Balancing Risk and Speed
Speaker: Jay Healey, Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative, Atlantic Council
Speaker: Sean Roche, Associate Deputy Director for Digital Innovation, Central Intelligence Agency
Speaker: Patrick Walsh, Senior Vice President, iSight Partners; General Manager, ThreatSPACE
Moderator: Ryan Lizza, Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker
From Pyongyang to Brussels -- Frying Pan to Fire?
Speaker: Curtis Scaparrotti, Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander, U.S. European Command
Moderator: David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, The Washington Post
Countering Violent Extremism
Speaker: Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management, Facebook
Speaker: Ed Royce, Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Speaker: George Selim, Director, Office for Community Partnerships, Department of Homeland Security
Speaker: Jessica Stern, Fellow, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health
Moderator: Noah Shachtman, Executive Editor, the Daily Beast
Peril on the 38th Parallel
Speaker: Jane Harman, President, Director, and CEO, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Speaker: Jean H. Lee, Global Fellow, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Speaker: Katharine Moon, SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies, the Brookings Institution
Moderator: Gordon Chang, Columnist, the Daily Beast
ISIL and Al Qaeda: Lethal One-Upmanship
Speaker: Brett McGurk, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL
Speaker: Nicholas Rasmussen, Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Moderator: David Sanger, National Security Correspondent and Senior Writer, The New York Times
Europe in Crisis
Speaker: Gilles de Kerchove, Counterterrorism Coordinator, European Union
Speaker: Marie Harf, Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Strategic Communications, Department of State
Speaker: Peter Westmacott, Former Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the United States
Speaker: Peter Wittig, Ambassador of Germany to the United States
Moderator: Michael Crowley, Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent, POLITICO
The Fight for Geopolitical Supremacy in the Asia Pacific
Speaker: Jonathan Pollack, Senior Fellow, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Brookings Institution
Speaker: David Shear, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs
Moderator: Gordon Lubold, Pentagon Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Congress and the War on Terror
Speaker: Adam Schiff, Ranking Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; US Representative (D-CA)
Moderator: Greg Miller, National Security Correspondent, The Washington Post
The View from the West Wing
Speaker: Lisa Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Moderator: Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute